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1,857,051 | "…Man has an unprecedented control over the world and everything in it. And so, whether he likes it or not, what happens next is very largely up to him." He notes that when he spoke those words he could have had no idea that man might have unleashed forces that are now altering the Earth's climate. The naturalist highl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7564445 | 1,855,983 |
933,189 | Likewise, railroads changed the style of transportation. For the common person in the early 1800s, transportation was often traveled by horse or stagecoach. The network of trails along which coaches navigated were riddled with ditches, potholes, and stones. This made travel fairly uncomfortable. Adding to injury, coach... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=587997 | 932,697 |
225,620 | Nano materials are used in a variety of, manufacturing processes, products and healthcare including paints, filters, insulation and lubricant additives. In healthcare Nanozymes are nanomaterials with enzyme-like characteristics. They are an emerging type of artificial enzyme, which have been used for wide applications ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=868108 | 225,504 |
852,449 | Soldiers of an Infantry Brigade Combat Team received the first APMI cartridges in March 2011, with plans to field them in all seven deployed IBCTs within six months. The first shell was fired on 26 March by Company C, 1-506th Infantry, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, which landed four meters from the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6805466 | 851,995 |
2,053,521 | Scientists have begun to study how billions of bacteria, fungi and other microbes living in the stomach and intestines of humans affect our health for the last few decades. What we eat determines which of these microorganisms thrive, and the composition of the intestinal flora has a great influence on other parts of ou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60770250 | 2,052,339 |
1,884,483 | The entry of the United States into the war in late 1941, however, brought a significant period of change to the College, with eighty-five acres of its land and the majority of its buildings being transferred in March 1942 to the United States Army for hospital purposes. The 153rd Station Hospital occupied the site bri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44321024 | 1,883,402 |
228,316 | Researchers have used OCT to produce detailed images of mice brains, through a "window" made of zirconia that has been modified to be transparent and implanted in the skull. Optical coherence tomography is also applicable and increasingly used in industrial applications, such as nondestructive testing (NDT), material t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=628583 | 228,199 |
1,591,304 | In the second round, Georgetown met the region's tenth seed, No. 23 Davidson, the winner of 23 straight games, led by junior point guard Stephen Curry, a future National Basketball Association star. Before defeating Gonzaga in the first round two days earlier, Davidson had not won an NCAA tournament game in 39 years, b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14518554 | 1,590,409 |
1,747,905 | Science fiction prototyping has a number of applications. The most obvious is for product innovation, in which the two earliest examples are Intel's 21st Century Robot (an open innovation project to develop a domestic robot) and Essex University's eDesk (a mixed-reality immersive education desk) both of which were intr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42519513 | 1,746,919 |
92,357 | Current trends in treating the disorder include medications for symptom-based treatments that aim to minimize the secondary characteristics associated with the disorder. If an individual is diagnosed with FXS, genetic counseling for testing family members at risk for carrying the full mutation or premutation is a criti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53142 | 92,316 |
1,405,721 | In the past, physicians have traditionally hand-written or verbally communicated orders for patient care, which are then transcribed by various individuals (such as unit clerks, nurses, and ancillary staff) before being carried out. Handwritten reports or notes, manual order entry, non-standard abbreviations and poor l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2021968 | 1,404,931 |
2,055,996 | Humans are strongly visually oriented. We like information in the form of pictures and are able to integrate many different kinds of data when they are presented in one or more images. It seems natural to seek a way of directly imaging the sediment-water interface in order to investigate animal-sediment interactions in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14917968 | 2,054,813 |
1,516,158 | She continued her education intending to study mathematics, astronomy and physics at Swarthmore College. However, Richardson instead graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a bachelor's degree in philosophy and a minor in physics in 1962 before she pursued graduate work in philosophy at Harvard University. Meanwhile she was able... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11502437 | 1,515,306 |
1,731,619 | The central thesis is, that harm reduction is not only a social concept, but also a biological one. More specifically, evolution does not make moral distinctions in the selection process, but utilizes a cannabis-based approach, seen from the oldest pollen, where "Cannabis" and "Humulus" diverged between 18.23 mya and 2... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20853174 | 1,730,643 |
1,917,001 | The International Medical Faculty of Osh State University is a higher educational establishment in the south of Kyrgyzstan. More than 2202 foreign students study at the faculty and 151-teaching staff works at the 6 departments of IMF. 10 Doctors of Medical Science, 29 Candidates of Sciences, 2 Ph.D., 2 Honored Doctors,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12800364 | 1,915,902 |
1,917,004 | The International Medical Faculty of Osh State University is a higher educational establishment in the south of Kyrgyzstan. More than 2202 foreign students study at the faculty and 151-teaching staff works at the 6 departments of IMF. 10 Doctors of Medical Science, 29 Candidates of Sciences, 2 Ph.D., 2 Honored Doctors,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12800364 | 1,915,905 |
1,603,243 | Current biological anthropology suggests that similarities in structures in the brain can, to an extent, be compared with certain aspects of behavior as their roots. However, it is difficult to quantify exactly which neuron connections are required for advanced function as opposed to basic reactionary cognitive operati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12185843 | 1,602,342 |
23,593 | Kurt Lewin taught at Cornell from 1933 to 1935 and is considered the "father of social psychology". Norman Borlaug taught at the university from 1982 to 1988 and is considered the "father of the Green Revolution", being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Congressional Gold Medal, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 | 23,584 |
1,885,820 | In 1908, Chamberlin was hired to lead the Biology Department at Brigham Young University (BYU), a university owned and operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), during a period which BYU president George H. Brimhall sought to increase its academic standing. LDS College professor J. H. Pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3997448 | 1,884,738 |
159,100 | The first Titan II launch, Missile N-2, was carried out on 16 March 1962 from LC-16 at Cape Canaveral and performed extremely well, flying downrange and depositing its reentry vehicle in the Ascension splash net. There was only one problem: a high rate of longitudinal vibrations during first stage burn. While this did ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=841594 | 159,018 |
746,886 | Ostrom's early work emphasized the role of public choice on decisions influencing the production of public goods and services. Among her better known works in this area is her study on the polycentricity of police functions in Indianapolis. Caring for the commons had to be a multiple task, organised from the ground up ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5033761 | 746,490 |
1,852,637 | Sutherland's home life meant a lot to him, it was a home of affection and culture, every member of it excelled in either literature, music or art. In July 1882 Sutherland was offered the position of superintendent of the School of Mines, Ballarat, but it was too far from his home and the public library, and the offer w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2422389 | 1,851,575 |
1,890,763 | In her later years, Stoney suffered from ill health, largely attributed to her over-exposure to radiation in her work. It was reported that she had X-ray dermatitis of her left hand, a painful skin condition associated in modern times with radiation therapy as a treatment for cancer. Stoney moved to the south coastal t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43034967 | 1,889,680 |
646,915 | In 1938 the institute, despite its relative poverty, built a biochemical division and another one dedicated to cellular pathology, whose direction was entrusted to the hands of Boivin (who went on to discover endotoxins that are contained in the germ's body and are freed after its death). During the same period, Andre ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=866902 | 646,575 |
1,580,257 | American Science and Engineering Inc, (AS&E) is an American manufacturer of advanced X-ray equipment and related technologies, founded in 1958 by Martin Annis, PHd. Annis asked George W. Clark to join him in starting his company. Their primary work in the beginning was as a developer for NASA. Annis brought on as Chair... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29027538 | 1,579,367 |
708,216 | The distinctive forms of the flakes were originally thought to indicate a wide-ranging Levallois culture resulting from the expansion of archaic "Homo sapiens" out of Africa. However, the wide geographical and temporal spread of the technique has rendered this interpretation obsolete. Adler "et al." further argue that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1323044 | 707,847 |
1,813,307 | In addition to the MCI indexed defined above, there are also two other variations of the MCI. The QMCI (Quantitative Macroinvertebrate Community Index) and the SQMCI (Semi-Quantitative Macroinvertebrate Community Index). Both MCI and QMCI are widely used in countries like New Zealand. The combination of widespread use ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51406305 | 1,812,273 |
185,262 | There have been many studies linking race to increased proximity to particulate matter, and thus susceptibility to adverse health effects that go in tandem with long term exposure. In a study analyzing the effects of air pollution on racially segregated neighborhoods in the United States, results show that "the propor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30876688 | 185,165 |
774,000 | Melioidosis is found in all age groups. For Australia and Thailand, the median age of infection is at 50 years; 5 to 10% of the patients are under 15 years. The single most important risk factor for developing melioidosis is diabetes mellitus, followed by hazardous alcohol use, chronic kidney disease, and chronic lung ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=471444 | 773,584 |
1,968,282 | During (1977–84) Clayton resided part-time annually at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg as Humboldt Prize awardee, sponsored by Till Kirsten. Annual academic leaves from Rice University facilitated this. There he joined the Meteoritical Society seeking audience for his newly published theoreti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36061850 | 1,967,152 |
1,183,789 | According to Robert W. Scharstein from the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Alabama, the mathematics used in the third edition is just enough to convey the subject and the problems are valuable teaching tools that do not involve the "plug and chug disease." Although students of electrical engin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58203281 | 1,183,163 |
1,900,107 | During his career, Seyfarth's work appeared in magazines and journals and in the advertisements of various architectural supply firms. The extent to which this was done is not entirely known, but articles by Eleanor Jewett (1892–1968), art critic for the "Chicago Tribune" ("Cape Cod Architecture seen in B.L.T.'s Home" ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24940492 | 1,899,019 |
1,285,682 | Seasonal hunger was common in pre-colonial and early colonial times, and gave rise to several coping strategies such as growing secondary crops like millet or sweet potatoes in case the maize crop failed, gathering wild food or relying on support from family or friends. In a purely peasant economy, farmers grow food pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14543243 | 1,284,982 |
915,083 | In 2017, researchers at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia were able to further develop the extra-uterine system. The study uses fetal lambs which are then placed in a plastic bag filled with artificial amniotic fluid. The system consist in 3 main components: a pumpless arteriovenous circuit, a closed sterile flui... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1473331 | 914,602 |
282,662 | The John Calhoun Baker University Center, which opened in January 2007, is named after the 14th president of the university. The facility replaced the original Baker Center located on East Union Street across from College Green and serves as the hub of campus activity. Electronic maps and virtual university e-tours, av... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=483329 | 282,509 |
1,660,868 | Possible causes include changes in palaeogeography or tectonic activity, a modified nutrient supply, or global cooling. The dispersed positions of the continents, high level of tectonic/volcanic activity, warm climate, and high CO levels would have created a large, nutrient-rich ecospace, favoring diversification. Ther... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18288753 | 1,659,934 |
653,995 | Theory of mind requires the collaboration of functionally related regions of the brain to form the distinction between self and other mental states and to create a comprehensive understanding of those mental states so that we may recognize, understand, and predict behavior. In general the theory of mind process is medi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14158261 | 653,651 |
262,799 | The science of conserving fossil remains was in its infancy, and new techniques had to be improvised to deal with what soon became known as "pyrite disease". Crystalline pyrite in the bones was being oxidized to iron sulphate, accompanied by an increase in volume that caused the remains to crack and crumble. When in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=228798 | 262,660 |
439,745 | Linux on IBM Z gives the flexibility of running Linux with the advantages of fault-tolerant mainframe hardware capable of over 90,000 I/O operations per second and with a mean time between failure (MTBF) measured in decades. Using virtualization, numerous smaller servers can be combined onto one mainframe, gaining some... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33589774 | 439,531 |
1,329,555 | Presently, NEIST is a full-fledged multidisciplinary research institution having research areas like Advanced Computation and Data Science, Medicinal Chemistry, Natural Products Chemistry, Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Biotechnology, Infectious disease, Communicable and Non-communicable disease, Medicinal, Aromatic and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17938085 | 1,328,827 |
82,657 | The Navy committed to the $15 billion (2003) program in advance of rigorous analysis or clearly defined purpose, appearance, or survivability. Proponents typically pointed to its speed, asymmetric littoral threats, and impact on the U.S. shipbuilding industry. The LCS suffered from requirements creep, adding more missi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=460005 | 82,623 |
503,103 | Once the idea was initially accepted, a number of people went to work. Human factors specialist Frances Mount began to develop the rationale and operational scenarios for the "Cupola", and got considerable support from Chief Astronaut John Young and Shuttle Commander Gordon Fullerton. Charles Wheelwright, who had defin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=739132 | 502,845 |
1,815,033 | Distributed Operations is a form of maneuver warfare where small, highly capable units spread across a large area of operations will create an advantage over an adversary through the deliberate use of separation and coordinated, independent tactical actions. DO units will use close combat or supporting arms to disrupt ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5757585 | 1,813,999 |
1,582,081 | In Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4) Volume 1, released in October 2017, entitled "Climate Science Special Report" (CSSR), researchers reported that "it is extremely likely that human activities, especially emissions of greenhouse gases, are the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=352597 | 1,581,191 |
1,926,371 | To survive and infect other hosts, "E. invadens" must form a carbohydrate rich cyst. The chemical makeup and of formation of the cyst is of paramount importance to scientists all around the world because detailing this could lead to treatment development. Studies investigating cyst wall composition have shown that the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44779596 | 1,925,267 |
484,917 | Under the supervision of Paul Weiss while earning his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago, Sperry became interested in neuronal specificity and brain circuitry and began questioning the existing concepts about these two topics. He asked the simple question first asked in his Introduction to Psychology class at Oberlin: ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=102958 | 484,668 |
2,056,041 | Even with these limitations SPI can be an extremely powerful analytical, reconnaissance, and monitoring tool. Sediment-type maps have often been constructed by retrieving grab or core samples followed by days or weeks of laboratory-based processing. After an SPI device is lowered into the sediment and the image recorde... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14917968 | 2,054,858 |
1,618,665 | S-nitrosylation is precisely targeted, reversible, spatiotemporally restricted and necessary for a wide range of cellular responses, including the prototypic example of red blood cell mediated autoregulation of blood flow that is essential for vertebrate life. Although originally thought to involve multiple chemical ro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31710978 | 1,617,750 |
2,056,071 | The goal was to obtain the greatest imaging area in the smallest cylindrical volume using a consumer flatbed scanner. Typical flatbed scanners image an area of about 220 x 300 mm (660 cm), so a system had to be found which could be reconfigured to fit inside a sealed transparent capsule. There are two basic imaging met... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14917968 | 2,054,887 |
2,067,466 | "Percina jenkinsi" has been federally listed as endangered throughout its range with critical habitat on August 5, 1986. A recovery plan was completed on June 20, 1986. At their Knoxville nonprofit, Conservation Fisheries, INC. (CFI) J.R. Shutes and Pat Rakes are trying to keep this rare species alive. The Conasauga Ri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12620539 | 2,066,275 |
774,453 | On the other side of the argument, economists contend that no surplus value was generated from labour activity or from commodity markets in the socialist planned economies; they therefore claim that there was no exploiting class, even if inequalities existed. Since prices were controlled and set below market-clearing l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43069513 | 774,037 |
944,293 | The qualifications for prospective astronauts had been a point of contention after the creation of NASA in 1958. The proposition for astronauts to have a background as a pilot was a logical choice, specifically test pilots with a disposition to train and learn to fly new craft designs. The consensus sought jet test pil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4054350 | 943,791 |
376,993 | Jennifer Doudna was born February 19, 1964, in Washington, D.C., as the daughter of Dorothy Jane (Williams) and Martin Kirk Doudna. Her father received his Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Michigan, and her mother, a stay-at-home parent, held a master's degree in education. When Doudna was seven years... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36836014 | 376,798 |
1,516,787 | Ibrahim López García (Cabure, 1925 – Maracaibo, 1994). A visionary like few formed in civil engineering, exerted for many years the teaching and the investigation in the Central University of Venezuela and the University of Zulia. His practice was based on a careful observation of nature, its surprising structures and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29302481 | 1,515,935 |
749,992 | During the year 2000, an unusual meeting took place with a next door neighbor (Francis 'Frank' Smith) of the then HMAS "Stirling" Naval Base commander. He was an Aircraft Maintenance Engineer (originally trained at Government Aircraft Factories Fisherman's bend) who had been aware of the fluid dynamics issues of the Co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=810758 | 749,594 |
120,639 | To date, the longest human occupation of space is the International Space Station which has been in continuous use for . Valeri Polyakov's record single spaceflight of almost 438 days aboard the Mir space station has not been surpassed. The health effects of space have been well documented through years of research con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28431 | 120,590 |
1,443,078 | Fay Kellogg (1871–1918) learnt her architectural skills with a German tutor who taught her drafting, at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, and by working with Marcel de Monclos in his Paris atelier. She had hoped to study at the École des Beaux-Arts but as a woman was refused admission. As a result of her efforts, howeve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35552352 | 1,442,265 |
1,015,624 | In 2013, Lockheed Martin began to lay off workers at the Fort Worth, Texas plant where the F-35s were being assembled. They said that revised estimates indicated that the costs of refitting the 187 aircraft built by the time testing concludes in 2016 would be lower than feared. The GAO's Michael Sullivan said that the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54719700 | 1,015,101 |
1,149,564 | Cahokia, Pre-Columbian North Americas largest civic center north of Mexico, produced some of the finest and most widely spread ceramics. Pottery from the Cahokia site was especially fine, exhibiting smooth surfaces, very thin walls, and distinctive tempering, slips and coloring. Archaeologists have recorded how these q... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28080740 | 1,148,957 |
162,195 | There was also a systemic malaise in British industry, which was famously inefficient and opposed to innovations. Tony Judt described the prevailing attitude of post-war industrialists: "British factory managers preferred to operate in a cycle of under-investment, limited research and development, low wages and a shrin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33643110 | 162,110 |
2,066,961 | Independently the Royal Brompton group of the 1980s, a Cambridge (UK) consortium of clinicians and engineers developed a system in 2009 that has revisited structure light pattern as a noninvasive method for collecting accurate representations of chest and abdominal wall movement. The methodology has several advantages:... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22391357 | 2,065,770 |
559,071 | In 1848, John Martyn Harlow described that Phineas Gage had his frontal lobe pierced by an iron tamping rod in a blasting accident. He became a case study in the connection between the prefrontal cortex and executive functions. In 1861, Paul Broca heard of a patient at the Bicêtre Hospital who had a 21-year progressive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4794482 | 558,782 |
643,984 | Price's framework, like Garfield's, takes for granted the structural inequality of science production, as a minority of researchers creates a large share of publication and an even smaller share have a real measurable impact on subsequent research (with as few as 2% of papers having 4 citations or more at the time). De... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1223245 | 643,644 |
1,193,781 | Visual inspection of the cervix, using acetic acid (white vinegar; VIA) or Lugol's iodine (VILI) to highlight precancerous lesions so they can be viewed with the "naked eye", shifts the identification of precancer from the laboratory to the clinic. This method is also referred to as direct visual inspection or cervicos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31322039 | 1,193,141 |
1,050,663 | Recent developments have extended thermal shift approaches to the analysis of ligand interactions in complex mixtures, including intact cells. Initial observations of individual proteins using fast parallel proteolysis (FastPP) showed that stabilization by ligand binding could impart resistance to proteolytic digestion... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38876059 | 1,050,117 |
1,874,041 | Anticoagulation therapy has a long history. In 1884 John Berry Haycraft described a substance found in the saliva of leeches, "Hirudo medicinalis", that had anticoagulant effects. He named the substance ‘Hirudine’ from the Latin name. The use of medicinal leeches can be dated back all the way to ancient Egypt. In the e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37120076 | 1,872,964 |
1,856,684 | In 2001 Insoll began his longest running research mission, the "Early Islamic Bahrain" project, sponsored by HRH Shaikh Salman bin Hamad Al-Khalifa, Crown Prince and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Bahrain. This has involved excavations and surveys nearly every year since, with co-directors Dr Salman Almahari and Dr R... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38891541 | 1,855,616 |
1,276,223 | By the spring of 1963, the Ovshinskys had exhausted the savings with which they had initially funded ECL. Before seeking public funding, Stan wanted validation of the importance of his work from a well-recognized scientist. He telephoned Nobel Laureate John Bardeen, a co-inventor of the transistor and co-discoverer of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2785878 | 1,275,530 |
710,163 | During the 1950s and 1960s there was a great burst of activity by propellant chemists to find high-energy liquid and solid propellants better suited to the military. Large strategic missiles need to sit in land-based or submarine-based silos for many years, able to launch at a moment's notice. Propellants requiring con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1078982 | 709,792 |
789,430 | Future directions for AAC focus on improving device interfaces, reducing the cognitive and linguistic demands of AAC, and the barriers to effective social interaction. AAC researchers have challenged manufacturers to develop communication devices that are more appealing aesthetically, with greater options for leisure a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2106968 | 789,006 |
571,132 | In 1914, the Nernsts were entertaining co-workers and students they had brought to their country estate in a private railway car when they learned that war had been declared. Their two older sons entered the army, while father enlisted in the voluntary driver's corps. He supported the German army against their opponent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=75876 | 570,841 |
973,109 | Mortality, though it has lessened to a limited degree, at least in developed countries with timely access to initial and tertiary care, varies where the chance of survival is diminished as the number of organs involved increases. Mortality in MODS from septic shock (which itself has a high mortality of 25-50%), and fro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=856149 | 972,599 |
1,779,297 | The Sound Surveillance System (SOSUS) was a top-secret project involving a large scale, underwater sensor network driven by the US Navy from 1949 to monitor Russian vessels in the GIUK Gap. Towards the later part of the cold war, the facility was opened to academic research in an effort to support operational and maint... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60878831 | 1,778,295 |
542,482 | The quantitative biological effects of cosmic rays are poorly known, and are the subject of ongoing research. Several experiments, both in space and on Earth, are being carried out to evaluate the exact degree of danger. Additionally, the impact of the space microgravity environment on DNA repair has in part confounded... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14415787 | 542,202 |
262,377 | Rochester is a member of the Association of American Universities and is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very High Research Activity". Rochester had a research expenditure of $397 million in 2020. In 2008, Rochester ranked 44th nationally in research spending, but this ranking has declined gradually to 66... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31918 | 262,238 |
911,561 | Digital consultant apps like Babylon Health's GP at Hand, Ada Health, AliHealth Doctor You, KareXpert and Your.MD use AI to give medical consultation based on personal medical history and common medical knowledge. Users report their symptoms into the app, which uses speech recognition to compare against a database of i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=351581 | 911,082 |
895,266 | Metal Gear RAY differs from previous Metal Gear models in that it is not a nuclear launch platform, but instead, a weapon of conventional warfare, originally designed by the U.S. Marines to hunt down and destroy the many Metal Gear derivatives that became common after Metal Gear REX's plans leak following the events of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3175926 | 894,796 |
1,907,213 | On return trip to Sarawak in March 1992, it was found that the tree had been cut down by local people most likely for fuel and building material. There was no other trees of the same variety existed in the Lundu region. The collectors then returned home with samples from other varieties of the "Calophyllum lanigerum" s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14562897 | 1,906,117 |
1,248,701 | Europe around the 15th century was changing quickly. The new world had just been opened up, overseas trade and plunder was pouring wealth through the international economy and attitudes among businessmen were shifting. In 1561, a system of Industrial Monopoly Licences, similar to modern patents had been introduced into... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12870157 | 1,248,025 |
2,028,838 | Since its creation and until 1920, the school depended on the National Ministry of Public Education. In 1920, it became dependent on the National University of the Litoral, as an annex to the Faculty of Mathematical, Physical-Chemical and Natural Sciences applied to industry. From that moment on, the Industrial School ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5364412 | 2,027,670 |
667,880 | In January 2005, Harvard University President Lawrence Summers sparked controversy at a National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Conference on Diversifying the Science & Engineering Workforce. Dr. Summers offered his explanation for the shortage of women in senior posts in science and engineering. He made comments s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3135183 | 667,531 |
1,618,766 | The roots of tropical ecology can be traced to the voyages of European naturalists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Men who might be considered early ecologists such as Alexander Von Humboldt, Thomas Belt, Henry Walter Bates, and even Charles Darwin sailed to tropical locations and wrote extensively about the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19826061 | 1,617,851 |
2,101,390 | An imaging cycler microscope (ICM) is a fully automated (epi)fluorescence microscope which overcomes the spectral resolution limit resulting in parameter- and dimension-unlimited fluorescence imaging. The principle and robotic device was described by Walter Schubert in 1997 and has been further developed with his co-wo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42191418 | 2,100,178 |
934,567 | In his 2005 paper "Come Back and See Me Next Tuesday," Nettl asks whether ethnomusicologists can, or even should practice a unified field methodology as opposed to each scholar developing their own individual approach. Nettl considers several factors when sampling music from different cultures. The first thing is that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=80077 | 934,075 |
1,404,473 | Capt. Dudley Pound’s Admiralty Plans Division report of 6 April 1918 on operations with D.C.B’s controlled from aircraft began “It is considered that the time is now ripe to formulate concrete plans. It is assumed that 60 - 80 miles should be considered the maximum range possible at present under normal conditions. Owi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67154389 | 1,403,683 |
1,684,905 | Claude received travel grants from Belgian government for his doctoral thesis on the transplantation of mouse cancers into rats. With this he worked his postdoctoral research in Berlin during the winter of 1928–1929, first at the Institut für Krebsforschung, and then at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology, Dahlem,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1505548 | 1,683,960 |
1,684,904 | Albert Claude was born in 1899 (but according to civil register 1898) in Longlier, a hamlet in Neufchâteau, Belgium, to Florentin Joseph Claude and Marie-Glaudice Watriquant Claude. He was the youngest among three brothers and one sister. His father was a Paris-trained baker and ran a bakery-cum-general store at Longli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1505548 | 1,683,959 |
367,076 | Although the experimental protocol had not been published, physicists in several countries attempted, and failed, to replicate the excess heat phenomenon. The first paper submitted to "Nature" reproducing excess heat, although it passed peer review, was rejected because most similar experiments were negative and there ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7463 | 366,884 |
786,995 | Psychedelics cause perceptual and cognitive distortions without delirium. The state of intoxication is often called a "trip". Onset is the first stage after an individual ingests (LSD, psilocybin, ayahuasca, and mescaline) or smokes (dimethyltryptamine) the substance. This stage may consist of visual effects, with an i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45621 | 786,572 |
754,637 | After World War II, Canadian-born John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006) became one of the standard bearers for pro-active government and liberal-democrat politics. In "The Affluent Society" (1958), Galbraith argued that voters reaching a certain material wealth begin to vote against the common good. He also argued that th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7881361 | 754,234 |
1,217,593 | Another pioneer within the field of activity-dependent plasticity is Michael Merzenich, currently a professor in neuroscience at the University of California, San Francisco. One of his contributions includes mapping out and documenting the reorganization of cortical regions after alterations due to plasticity. While as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20510214 | 1,216,940 |
77,470 | Under the leadership of Hale, Noyes, and Millikan (aided by the booming economy of Southern California), Caltech grew to national prominence in the 1920s and concentrated on the development of Roosevelt's "Hundredth Man". On November 29, 1921, the trustees declared it to be the express policy of the institute to pursue... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5786 | 77,441 |
736,880 | One of the first devices that was designed to look like and function as a virtual reality headset was called a stereoscope. It was invented in the 1830s during the early days of photography, and it used a slightly different image in each eye to create a kind of 3D effect. Although as photography continued to develop in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10499965 | 736,492 |
495,053 | Around 1904–1905, the works of Hendrik Lorentz, Henri Poincaré and finally Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity, exclude the possibility of propagation of any effects faster than the speed of light. It followed that Newton's law of gravitation would have to be replaced with another law, compatible with the pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11694610 | 494,797 |
634,356 | Owing to its ease and economy of cultivation, the Neff strain of "A. castellanii", discovered in a pond in Golden Gate Park in the 1960s, has been effectively used as a classic model organism in the field of cell biology. From just 30 L of simple medium inoculated with "A. castellanii", about 1 kg of cells can be obtai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=369857 | 634,018 |
925,952 | In 2017, the U.S. Army approved a requirement for 1,111 M3E1 units to be fielded to soldiers as part of an Urgent Material Release. The M3E1 is part of the Product Manager Crew Served Weapon portfolio. A key benefit of the M3E1 is that it can fire multiple types of rounds, giving soldiers increased capability on the ba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=479277 | 925,466 |
826,013 | The C9 was a development of Sauber's previous C8 design, retaining a monocoque that largely consisted of aluminium, although considerably stiffer and with numerous other improvements. The rear suspension changed from vertically positioned spring/damper units arranged over the top of the gearbox to a horizontal layout a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2059863 | 825,569 |
1,966,402 | The interfacing mechanism is contained inside a common EI source, like that found in any GC-MS system. The liquid phase from a nano HPLC column is admitted from the capillary column port, where the connection tubing and the nebulizer are first introduced and sealed to prevent vacuum loss. The mechanism is based on the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24897052 | 1,965,273 |
1,593,152 | The microneurography technique allows the recording of impulse activity of individual nerve fibers with absolute resolution in attending human subjects. Hence the subject is able to cooperate in various kinds of tests while the exact and complete information carried by the individual nerve fiber is monitored and offere... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7360700 | 1,592,255 |
1,703,445 | The analysis of ancient genomes of anatomically modern humans has, in recent years, completely revolutionized our way of studying population migrations, transformation and evolution. Nevertheless, much still remains unknown. The first and obvious problem related to this kind of approach, which is going to be partially ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58990374 | 1,702,489 |
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