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1,215,463 | Vkhutemas was a close parallel to the German Bauhaus in its intent, organization and scope. The two schools were the first to train artist-designers in a modern manner. Both schools were state-sponsored initiatives to merge the craft tradition with modern technology, with a Basic Course in aesthetic principles, courses... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3014315 | 1,214,811 |
747,492 | Unofficially, Subaru stated that "FB" stands for "FHI/Future and Brand New/Boxer". It was announced in September 2010 as the third generation (following the EA 1st and EJ 2nd generations) boxer engine family with 2.0 litre and 2.5 litre naturally aspirated variants. The FB has an all new block and head featuring dual o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31743380 | 747,096 |
925,946 | In late 2012, the Army fielded 58 M3s and 1,500 rounds of ammunition to units deployed to Afghanistan to destroy enemy targets out to 1,000 meters. This was because RPG and machine gun teams could attack 900 meters away, while existing weaponry such as the M141 Bunker Defeat Munition, M72 LAW, M136 AT4, and MK153 SMAW ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=479277 | 925,460 |
552,977 | The Dmanisi research team, composed of those palaeontologists and researchers excavating at the Dmanisi site and studying the fossils, responded to Schwartz, Tattersall and Chi in the same year, maintaining that the fossils represented a single species. They noted that the distinction of "H. georgicus", and the further... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60072585 | 552,688 |
1,914,607 | Bryan's initial book review, published in 1905, was a review of three books published by the Cambridge University Press at around the same time. Bryan opens the review by writing that, though he is not does not care for the "University Presses competing with private firms", he believes "there can only be one opinion as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65496619 | 1,913,508 |
1,810,475 | Rumours of a resident ghost have sprung up by arts students and alumni alike, claiming to have seen sightings of a brown haired woman in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology in Earth Sciences. The Faculty Club was a former cafeteria and bar for the university's staff, originally located on the 7th floor of Ea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51387853 | 1,809,452 |
60,036 | Hieronymus, in 2009, concluded that the nasal and supraorbital bosses were used for butting or ramming the head or the flank of a rival. The bone structure indicates that the bosses were covered by cornified pads as in modern muskoxen, suggesting dominance fights similar to those of members of the Caprinae subfamily. I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1792493 | 60,011 |
349,888 | He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, England on 26 December 1958 to Richard and Edwina Newey. His father was a veterinarian and his mother was an ambulance driver during the Second World War. He attended Repton public school alongside Jeremy Clarkson. Newey was asked to leave Repton at the age of 16 after an incident at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1281891 | 349,705 |
1,238,851 | For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving as chaplain on board the U.S.S. Franklin when that vessel was fiercely attacked by enemy Japanese aircraft during offensive operations near Kobe, Japan, on 19 March 1945. A valiant and forceful leader, calm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2964464 | 1,238,184 |
1,569,445 | "Nepenthes aristolochioides" is noted for exhibiting relatively little dimorphism between its lower and upper pitchers. Rosette and lower pitchers are only briefly produced on small rosettes before the plant begins to climb, or on offshoots from the climbing stem. They arise from the ends of the tendrils, forming a 3–5... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4831700 | 1,568,558 |
520,002 | Cryptochromes (CRY1, CRY2) are evolutionarily old and highly conserved proteins that belong to the flavoproteins superfamily that exists in all kingdoms of life. All members of this superfamily have the characteristics of an N-terminal photolyase homology (PHR) domain. The PHR domain can bind to the flavin adenine dinu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1972565 | 519,731 |
335,981 | Olympus Mons lies at the edge of the Tharsis bulge, an ancient vast volcanic plateau likely formed by the end of the Noachian Period. During the Hesperian, when Olympus Mons began to form, the volcano was located on a shallow slope that descended from the high in Tharsis into the northern lowland basins. Over time, the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22818 | 335,803 |
1,704,958 | Howe's career as a military commander was contentious and consumed primarily by conflict with political and military leaders in Georgia and South Carolina. In 1778, he fought a duel with Christopher Gadsden of South Carolina which was spurred in part by Howe's conflict with South Carolina's state government. Political ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=691304 | 1,704,002 |
761,376 | Early on, the Allies gained a lead over the Germans by introducing machine-gun armed types such as the Vickers F.B.5 Gunbus fighter and the Morane-Saulnier L. In response, Germany bolstered its own aerial development efforts; a major achievement of the era was the (push rod controller), a genuine synchronisation gear, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=537478 | 760,969 |
108,489 | Despite their earlier work together, it was the first time Takahashi and Takeda were so intimately involved in a project. Takeda found working on the project more difficult than he initially anticipated: his standard writing form was for the anime series format, which was limited to episodes of 2025 minutes. With "Xeno... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25992553 | 108,444 |
957,525 | According to aviation historian Bill Gunston, on 24 April 1946 representatives from Mikoyan-Gurevich and the Yakovlev OKB tossed a coin to determine which aircraft would be the first Soviet jet to fly. (MiG had brought the I-300, and Yakovlev the Yak-(3)-15.) MiG won and the I-300's first flight lasted six minutes. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=304224 | 957,019 |
1,028,927 | An unsuccessful innovation of the "Tang" design was the General Motors EMD 16-338 lightweight, compact, high-speed "pancake" engine, rated at 1,000 bhp. Very different from the classic diesel engines that nearly all preceding submarines used, which were laid out with a horizontal crankshaft, this new engine had a verti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=472715 | 1,028,393 |
18,067 | In late 2002, during tension over suspected Iraqi possession of weapons of mass destruction, the 4th Fighter Wing at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base was ordered to maintain at least one squadron ready to deploy to the Persian Gulf. During January 2003, the 336th was deployed to Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, in coordination ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=495724 | 18,061 |
1,182,200 | This was a respectable career for a gentleman at a time when most naturalists in England were clergymen in the tradition of Gilbert White, who saw it as part of their duties to "explore the wonders of God's creation". Charles had concerns about being able to declare his belief in all the dogmas of the Church of England... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2087722 | 1,181,575 |
940,211 | In 1937 Rejewski, along with the German section of the Cipher Bureau, transferred to a secret facility near Pyry in the Kabaty Woods south of Warsaw. On 15 September 1938, the Germans introduced new rules for enciphering message keys (a new "indicator procedure"), making the Poles' earlier techniques obsolete. The Poli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4349420 | 939,710 |
791,993 | There have been a number of theories proposed regarding the development of modern human behavior, but in recent years the mosaic approach has been the most favored perspective in regards to the MSA, especially when taken in consideration with the archaeological evidence. Some scholars including Klein have argued for di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5971398 | 791,568 |
2,241,254 | Tom Chandler came to Texas A&M as an assistant to head coach Beau Bell in 1958. He took over as head coach in 1959 and immediately won the Southwest Conference championship in his first year. Over the next 25 years at the helm, Chandler led the Aggies to 4 more conference championships, 8 NCAA postseasons, and an appea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18455992 | 2,239,983 |
978,645 | The H160 is the first rotorcraft to feature the Blue Edge five-bladed main rotor. This incorporates a double-swept shape that reduces the noise generation of blade-vortex interactions (BVI), a phenomenon which occurs when the blade impacts a vortex created at its tip, resulting in a 3–4 dB noise reduction and raising t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45574933 | 978,134 |
1,639,555 | One of the earliest fossil hunting excursions into Wyoming happened in 1870, when O. C. Marsh led an expedition into the state on behalf of Yale. However, the state's abundant dinosaur remains would not come to the attention of science until 1877. Three men played a pivotal early role in bringing scientific attention t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37799139 | 1,638,629 |
1,816,985 | In 1899 the bed of the glacier was reached in two places, with depths of 66 m and 85 m, and this success persuaded the German and Austrian Alpine Club, which had subsidized the early expeditions, to fund ongoing work and build an improved version of the drilling apparatus, which became available in 1901. A key improvem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56017314 | 1,815,951 |
703,424 | The Olympic village was located in the southern part of the city on the border with the suburbs of Échirolles and Eybens. The chosen place was the site of the former Grenoble-Mermoz Airport, a large housing estate with 6,500 rooms was built in two years. After the games some areas was turned a primary school, secondary... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=162504 | 703,056 |
2,151,599 | Clemson University also hosts Clemson Engineers for Developing Countries (CEDC), a multi-level immersive student-led organization and class that provides Clemson students of any major with service-learning and project experience. The focus of the program is to provide sustainable solutions aimed at improving the qualit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17183579 | 2,150,368 |
1,610,704 | In steels, the Fe(n,α)Cr and Fe(n,p)Mn reactions are responsible for most of the protons and α-particles produced, and these have an incident neutron energy threshold at 0.9 MeV and 2.9 MeV respectively. Therefore, conventional fast fission reactors, which produce neutrons with an average energy around 1-2 MeV, cannot ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3555270 | 1,609,799 |
969,096 | A 2004 study by Kathryn Thomas and Sandra Carlson used teeth from the upper jaw of three individuals interpreted as a juvenile, a subadult, and an adult, recovered from a bone bed in the Hell Creek Formation of Corson County, South Dakota. In this study, successive teeth in columns in the edmontosaurs' dental batteries... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1585380 | 968,586 |
700,270 | Lustre 2.12 was released on December 21, 2018 and focused on improving Lustre usability and stability, with improvements the performance and functionality of the FLR and DoM features added in Lustre 2.11, as well as smaller changes to NRS TBF, HSM, and JobStats. It added LNet Network Health to allow the LNet Multi-Rail... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1778965 | 699,905 |
1,382,307 | During their evolutionary history, caseids shifted from faunivorous to herbivorous diet, a pattern that also occurred independently in other Carboniferous and Permian tetrapod groups such as Captorhinidae and Edaphosauridae. Earliest and most basal caseids, such as the late Carboniferous "Eocasea" and the early Permian... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4962651 | 1,381,542 |
32,142 | He was also known for always being happy to provide others with scientific and mathematical advice, even when the recipient did not later credit him, which he did on many occasions with mathematicians and scientists of all ability levels. Wigner wrote that he perhaps supervised more work (in a casual sense) than any ot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15942 | 32,130 |
640,167 | The 1956 Winter Olympics was organised by a committee composed of members of the Italian National Olympic Committee and the Italian government. Observers were sent to the Oslo Games in 1952 to collect information regarding the sports programme, infrastructure, and accommodation requirements. The intelligence gathered t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=211869 | 639,828 |
248,834 | In August 1942, Hawker's second test pilot, Ken Seth-Smith, while deputising for Chief Test Pilot Philip Lucas, carried out a straight and level speed test from Hawker's test centre at Langley, and the aircraft broke up over Thorpe, killing the pilot. Sydney Camm and the design team immediately ruled out pilot error, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63744 | 248,706 |
502,114 | A circular sheet (blank) of 118 mm diameter was cut from the alloy sheet and the cut surfaces polished to remove burrs. The blank was placed on the die and the top chamber brought in contact. The furnace was switched on to the set temperature. Once the set temperature was reached the top chamber was brought down furthe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=262043 | 501,856 |
1,213,245 | Between World War I and World War II, the Royal Australian Navy underwent a severe reduction in ships and manpower. As a result of the Washington Naval Treaty, the flagship HMAS "Australia" was scrapped with her main armaments and sunk outside Sydney Heads in 1924. In the same year, the RAN began a five-year program of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5606945 | 1,212,593 |
1,359,680 | Eukaryotic cells can be used as an alternative to prokaryotic expression of proteins intended for therapeutic use. Yeast is a single cell fungus that uses high expression levels, fast growth, and inexpensive maintenance, similar to prokaryotic systems. Because yeast is a food organism, it is also favorable for the prod... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29071957 | 1,358,929 |
1,341,007 | Trackers detect or monitor head, hand or body movements and send that information to the computer. The computer then translates it and ensures that position and orientation are reflected accurately in the virtual world. Tracking is important in presenting the correct viewpoint, coordinating the spatial and sound inform... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20783988 | 1,340,274 |
1,038,680 | In 1958 MIT published its report on the economics of NC. They concluded that the tools were competitive with human operators, but simply moved the time from the machining to the creation of the tapes. In "Forces of Production", Noble claims that this was the whole point as far as the Air Force was concerned; moving the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39469106 | 1,038,139 |
307,939 | The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) became interested in LSD when they read reports alleging that American prisoners during the Korean War were being brainwashed with the use of some sort of drug or "lie serum". LSD was the original centerpiece of the top secret MKULTRA project, an ambitious undertaking conducte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1119225 | 307,774 |
1,924,167 | "mda-7" interacts with two of the type II cytokine hetero-dymeric receptor complexes IL-20R1/IL-20R2 and IL-22R1/IL-20R2. It has been seen that in some contexts, "mda-7" activates STAT transcription factors. However, the STAT pathway is not always activated and is not required for "mda-7" cell growth arrest and cell de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34556489 | 1,923,064 |
3,017 | The F-16 is a single-engine, highly maneuverable, supersonic, multi-role tactical fighter aircraft. It is much smaller and lighter than its predecessors but uses advanced aerodynamics and avionics, including the first use of a relaxed static stability/fly-by-wire (RSS/FBW) flight control system, to achieve enhanced man... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11642 | 3,017 |
302,754 | TeX commands commonly start with a backslash and are grouped with curly braces. Almost all of TeX's syntactic properties can be changed on the fly, which makes TeX input hard to parse by anything but TeX itself. TeX is a macro- and token-based language: many commands, including most user-defined ones, are expanded on t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30065 | 302,593 |
1,494,765 | In his 1982 monograph, ornithologist Richard Schodde proposed a northern origin for the chestnut-shouldered fairywren group due to the variety of forms in north and their absence in the southeast of the continent. Ancestral birds spread south and colonised the southwest during a warm wetter period around 2 million year... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4096922 | 1,493,924 |
548,150 | Even at the smallest scales of current semiconductor technology, each operation is carried out by huge streams of electrons. Reducing the number of electrons involved in these processes, with the ultimate goal of achieving single electron control is a serious challenge. This is due to the electrons being highly interac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=459844 | 547,863 |
219,873 | The Active Denial System (ADS) is a non-lethal directed-energy weapon developed by the U.S. military, designed for area denial, perimeter security and crowd control. Informally, the weapon is also called the heat ray since it works by heating the surface of targets, such as the skin of targeted human beings. Raytheon h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=953399 | 219,764 |
1,943,167 | Amato has several notable results. Her paper on probabilistic roadmap methods (PRMs) is one of the most important papers on PRM. It describes the first PRM variant that does not use uniform sampling in the robot's configuration space. She wrote a seminal paper with one of her students that shows how the PRM methodology... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42076184 | 1,942,056 |
175,331 | Since the new aircraft would require a significant amount of engineering work in untested waters, the first order placed was actually for two prototypes of the XB-35, and included Northrop's plan to also build two all-wood one-third scale flying models to measure performance and stability; these were dubbed the Northro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=566031 | 175,239 |
120,990 | Inositol is considered a safe and effective treatment for polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). It works by increasing insulin sensitivity, which helps to improve ovarian function and reduce hyperandrogenism. It is also shown to reduce the risk of metabolic disease in people with PCOS. In addition, thanks to its role as FS... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=866807 | 120,941 |
889,520 | METU has about 40 undergraduate programs within the faculties of Engineering, Architecture, Arts and Sciences, Economic and Administrative Sciences, and Education, and there are 97 masters and 62 doctorate programs available in the graduate schools of Natural and Applied Sciences, Social Sciences, Informatics, Applied ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=515839 | 889,051 |
1,760,190 | The competition uses a fictional organization called the "Foundation Society" to create a futuristic setting for the competition within the 21st century, and competitors must use plausible extensions of current technology in their proposals (e.g. no 'cold fusion' or space elevators). The Foundation Society issues a "Pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3518678 | 1,759,197 |
353,942 | Industrial robotics is a sub-branch in industrial automation that aids in various manufacturing processes. Such manufacturing processes include machining, welding, painting, assembling and material handling to name a few. Industrial robots use various mechanical, electrical as well as software systems to allow for high... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=173354 | 353,759 |
1,498,841 | After the war Franz, in co-operation with the ‘Rundfunktechnisches Institut’, (‘Broadcasting Technique Institute’) directed by Walter Kuhl, designed the ‘927 Large Studio turntable'. Introduced in 1951, the 927 is 67 cm wide, 52 cm deep and 21.5 cm high. Its enormous main platter (44 cm) was necessary to play 16” aceta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7933660 | 1,497,997 |
681,375 | The Pontic vases are also closely related stylistically to Ionian pottery painting. Also in this case it is assumed that they were produced in Etruscan workshops by craftsmen who emigrated from Ionia. The vases got their misleading name from the depiction on a vase of archers thought to be Scythians, who lived at the B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1076046 | 681,019 |
1,063,150 | Browning received word from Brigham Young to join the main party of settlers in 1852. He left Mosquito Creek, Iowa, July 8, 1852, and migrated across the Rocky Mountains as the captain of ten wagons in the Henry W. Miller Company. He arrived October 2, 1852, with six wagons and $600 to the Salt Lake Valley. Browning mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2351871 | 1,062,596 |
952,352 | By the start of World War II, aircraft altitude performance had increased so much that anti-aircraft guns had similar predictive problems, and were increasingly equipped with fire-control computers. The main difference between these systems and the ones on ships was size and speed. The early versions of the High Angle ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1493317 | 951,847 |
545,314 | Information extraction is the part of a greater puzzle which deals with the problem of devising automatic methods for text management, beyond its transmission, storage and display. The discipline of information retrieval (IR) has developed automatic methods, typically of a statistical flavor, for indexing large documen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=383162 | 545,030 |
1,299,090 | Subsequent to the discovery of the CMB, hundreds of cosmic microwave background experiments had been conducted to measure and characterize the signatures of the radiation. The most famous experiment is probably the NASA Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite that orbited in 1989–1996 and which detected and quantif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=658074 | 1,298,376 |
983,254 | Some scholars view the emergence of language as the consequence of some kind of social transformation that, by generating unprecedented levels of public trust, liberated a genetic potential for linguistic creativity that had previously lain dormant. "Ritual/speech coevolution theory" views rituals as costly signals tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1318175 | 982,740 |
132,909 | The British export models were renamed "Airacobra" in 1941. A further 150 were specified for delivery under Lend-Lease in 1941 but these were not supplied. The Royal Air Force (RAF) took delivery in mid-1941 and found that performance of the non-turbo-supercharged production aircraft differed markedly from what they we... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=458867 | 132,856 |
618,672 | After the Civil War and following the death of his wife, three of his children, and an adopted child from spinal meningitis in 1864, Still concluded that the orthodox medical practices of his day were frequently ineffective and sometimes harmful. The use of Calomel, also known as mercury chloride, was one such medical ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=701187 | 618,358 |
512,535 | The race started with around 110,000 to 120,000 people in attendance at 14:00 local time. It lasted 53 laps over a distance of . The conditions for the race were dry with the air temperature and the track temperature . Every competitor began on the medium compound tyre since it was three-tenths of a second faster than ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1123405 | 512,269 |
1,545,737 | During the 1950s the Soviet Union, and its allies, began limiting NATO and the US's access to their military information. Nikita Khrushchev assumed power following the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953. Relations between the USSR and Eastern Europe became intense. Examples include the riots in Poland (1956), Hungary's att... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47355403 | 1,544,863 |
213,416 | Parasitoids have inspired science fiction authors and screenwriters to create terrifying parasitic alien species that kill their human hosts. One of the best-known is the Xenomorph in Ridley Scott's 1979 film "Alien", which runs rapidly through its lifecycle from violently entering a human host's mouth to bursting fata... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217438 | 213,308 |
1,022,602 | As of 2008, treatments of NTDs depends on the severity of the complication. No treatment is available for anencephaly and infants usually do not survive more than a few hours. Aggressive surgical management has improved survival and the functions of infants with spina bifida, meningoceles and mild myelomeningoceles. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3202774 | 1,022,072 |
833 | During the Neoproterozoic, , much of Earth might have been covered in ice. This hypothesis has been termed "Snowball Earth", and it is of particular interest because it preceded the Cambrian explosion, when multicellular life forms significantly increased in complexity. Following the Cambrian explosion, , there have be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9228 | 833 |
193,207 | The new design was introduced commercially in 1776, with the first example sold to the Carron Company ironworks. Watt continued working to improve the engine, and in 1781 introduced a system using a sun and planet gear to turn the linear motion of the engines into rotary motion. This made it useful not only in the orig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=165067 | 193,107 |
34,401 | Following the success of "Bill Nye the Science Guy", Nye began work on a comeback project, "The Eyes of Nye", aimed at an older audience and tackling more controversial science topics such as genetically modified food, global warming and race. However, "shifting creative concepts, infighting among executives and disput... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10276064 | 34,389 |
2,056,958 | Waterman has made fundamental advances in the understanding of the molecular and biophysical basis of cellular motility and migration. Such events are of critical importance in development (mainly in the vascular and nervous systems), the immune response and wound healing, embryogenesis, as well as in metastatic cancer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53979054 | 2,055,774 |
98,892 | Long-term use of benzodiazepines has been associated with long-lasting deficits in memory, and show only partial recovery six months after stopping benzodiazepines. It is unclear whether full recovery occurs after longer periods of abstinence. Benzodiazepines can cause or worsen depression. Paradoxical excitement occas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=646748 | 98,849 |
1,604,442 | Wildlife trafficking practices have resulted in the emergence of zoonotic diseases. Exotic wildlife trafficking is a multi-billion dollar industry that involves the removal and shipment of mammals, reptiles, amphibians, invertebrates, and fish all over the world. Traded wild animals are used for bushmeat consumption, u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59878126 | 1,603,541 |
1,468,014 | Iron oxide nanoparticles are used in cancer magnetic nanotherapy that is based on the magneto-spin effects in free-radical reactions and semiconductor material ability to generate oxygen radicals, furthermore, control oxidative stress in biological media under inhomogeneous electromagnetic radiation. The magnetic nanot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25430201 | 1,467,190 |
1,564,565 | Rigidity theory, or topological constraint theory, is a tool for predicting properties of complex networks (such as glasses) based on their composition. It was introduced by James Charles Phillips in 1979 and 1981, and refined by Michael Thorpe in 1983. Inspired by the study of the stability of mechanical trusses as pi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41733409 | 1,563,678 |
1,515,106 | Coonley persuaded the director of the Riverside program, Lucia Burton Morse, and her assistant, Charlotte Krum, to help launch a new school. Morse and Krum had attended Elizabeth Harrison's Kindergarten College, which "championed the concept of kindergarten teaching in America and was one of the first teacher's college... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8052357 | 1,514,255 |
1,040,398 | Continuous flow analysis (CFA) is a general term that encompasses both segmented flow analysis (SFA) and flow injection analysis (FIA). In segmented flow analysis, a continuous stream of material is divided by air bubbles into discrete segments in which chemical reactions occur. The continuous stream of liquid samples ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2382486 | 1,039,855 |
563 | On June 25, 2009, Curry was selected with the seventh overall pick in the 2009 NBA draft by the Golden State Warriors. He appeared in 80 games (77 starts) during the 2009–10 season, averaging 17.5 points, 4.5 rebounds, 5.9 assists and 1.90 steals in 36.2 minutes. His second half of the season vaulted him into the rooki... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5608488 | 563 |
1,705,871 | The first images were recorded in 1973 when BEBC first received a beam from the Proton Synchrotron (PS). From 1977 to 1984, the chamber took photos in the West Area neutrino beam line of the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) and in hadron beams at energies of up to 450 GeV. During 1978, a Track-Sensitive Target (TST) was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14777031 | 1,704,913 |
1,284,059 | Musgrave was born in Königstein im Taunus, Germany, into the family of a writer and translator Curt Abel Musgrave, a chemist by profession. His paternal grandfather (professor of linguistics at the Berlin Humboldt Institute Carl Abel) and maternal grandmother were Jewish but converted to Christianity. He turned from th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4242581 | 1,283,360 |
1,881,409 | Not all fungi can grow in the same places though, distinct types of fungi are necessary to consider. Even though some fungi can have a massive area of dispersal, they still succumb to the same barriers that most species do. Some elevations are too high or too low and limit the capacity to disperse spores, favoring simi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59393212 | 1,880,328 |
258,031 | One hypothesis which has been gaining currency in recent years: that early snowball Earths did not so much "affect" the evolution of life on Earth as result from it. In fact the two hypotheses are not mutually exclusive. The idea is that Earth's life forms affect the global carbon cycle and so major evolutionary events... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28982 | 257,897 |
1,688,456 | Sastry was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2001 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) in 2004. He also received the President of India Gold Medal in 1977, the IBM Faculty Development award for 1983-1985, the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1985 and the Eckman Award... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17170770 | 1,687,510 |
7,968 | Initial production of the A380 was troubled by delays attributed to the of wiring in each aircraft. Airbus cited as underlying causes the complexity of the cabin wiring (98,000 wires and 40,000 connectors), its concurrent design and production, the high degree of customisation for each airline, and failures of configur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=181173 | 7,965 |
984,994 | The Soviet Katyusha rocket launchers were top secret in the beginning of World War II. A special unit of the NKVD troops was raised to operate them. On July 14, 1941, an experimental artillery battery of seven launchers was first used in battle at Rudnya in Smolensk Oblast of Russia, under the command of Captain Ivan F... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20895829 | 984,480 |
358,226 | Although Tycho admired Copernicus and was the first to teach his theory in Denmark, he was unable to reconcile Copernican theory with the basic laws of Aristotelian physics, that he considered to be foundational. He was also critical of the observational data that Copernicus built his theory on, which he correctly cons... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30027 | 358,040 |
850,198 | Computerised simulations can readily incorporate chance in the form of some sort of randomised element, and can be run many times to provide outcomes in terms of probabilities. In such situations, it sometimes happens that the unusual results are of more interest than the expected ones. For example, if a simulation mod... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10280894 | 849,746 |
1,946,030 | The network currently consists of at least 34 camera stations located in Germany, Czech Republic, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Slovakia and Austria at elevations up to 1846 m above mean sea level. The cameras are separated by a distance of about ; they cover an area of about and photograph the entire visible sky. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27572047 | 1,944,918 |
288,220 | Command modules similar to that used on Apollo7 were subjected to tests in the run-up to the mission. A three-astronaut crew (Joseph P. Kerwin, Vance D. Brand and Joe H. Engle) was inside a CM that was placed in a vacuum chamber at the Manned Spaceflight Center in Houston for eight days in June 1968 to test spacecraft ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1773 | 288,064 |
1,409,900 | Kimura soon found Iowa State College too restricting; he moved to the University of Wisconsin to work on stochastic models with James F. Crow and to join a strong intellectual community of like-minded geneticists, including Newton Morton and most significantly, Sewall Wright. Near the end of his graduate study, Kimura ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=645327 | 1,409,108 |
651,142 | In terms of their characteristics, Panhandle hooks are nearly the opposite of Alberta clippers. Instead of forming in the north and dropping south, these low pressure systems form in the southwestern United States and then move northeast. They get their name from the location where they usually make their turn to the n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7762235 | 650,800 |
567,882 | Neurophysiological studies in animals provided some insights on the neural correlates of conscious behavior. Vernon Mountcastle, in the early 1960s, set up to study this set of problems, which he termed "the Mind/Brain problem", by studying the neural basis of perception in the somatic sensory system. His labs at Johns... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18345264 | 567,592 |
1,977,467 | The 2007–08 and 2008–09 seasons were notable as UMass' first serious foray into the national championship discussion, thanks to new head coach Chris Cobb and a sudden talent infusion led by Maura Grainger and URI transfer Cara Murphy. Grainger, who began her collegiate career with Providence College's NCAA Division I p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54095645 | 1,976,329 |
1,399,974 | Malignant mesothelioma is an aggressive and incurable tumour caused by asbestos arising from mesothelial cells of the pleura, peritoneum (the lining of the abdominal cavity) and rarely elsewhere. Pleural mesothelioma is the most common type of mesothelioma, representing about 75 percent of cases. Peritoneal mesotheliom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37923694 | 1,399,188 |
341,162 | At the end of the 19th century, radio or wireless technology was in an early stage of development and the Marconi Company was engaged in development and construction of radio communication systems. Guglielmo Marconi appointed English physicist John Ambrose Fleming as scientific advisor in 1899. Fleming had been engaged... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32496 | 340,981 |
113,440 | A typical ethnography attempts to be holistic and typically follows an outline to include a brief history of the culture in question, an analysis of the physical geography or terrain inhabited by the people under study, including climate, and often including what biological anthropologists call habitat. Folk notions of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=152626 | 113,395 |
2,247,433 | The complexity of nutrient cycles is an enduring challenge to understanding ecosystem function. Particularly, in areas of significant habitation and modification by humans, these systems are experiencing rapid periods of alteration from historical precedents within the Columbia river Basin. These shifts in human habita... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55308957 | 2,246,161 |
2,128,737 | Volakis is the author of 8 books, including the Antenna Handbook, which is referred to as the “antenna bible,” a key book on finite element methods, small antennas, integral equations methods, and wearable electronics. He has also mentored nearly 100 doctoral candidates and postdoctoral researchers and has co-written 4... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67062977 | 2,127,514 |
1,851,822 | Dr. Bahar adapted fundamental theories and methods of polymer statistical mechanics to biomolecular structure and dynamics. She pioneered a modified version of the classical Rouse model, to examine the collective dynamics of proteins modeled as elastic network models (ENMs). ENMs have three strengths: simplicity, abili... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53960573 | 1,850,761 |
850,204 | Participants in the Pentagon simulations were sometimes of very high rank, including members of Congress and White House insiders as well as senior military officers. The identity of many of the participants remains secret even today. It is a tradition in US simulations (and those run by many other nations) that partic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10280894 | 849,752 |
1,399,268 | As high-speed computation became a major Army priority, BRL played a major role in the development of the modern computer as the lab worked to increase the pace of military calculations. In addition to aiding the development of some of the world's earliest electronic computers, BRL focused on making advancements in bot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30865936 | 1,398,493 |
279,836 | Prior to America's entry into World War I, she cruised the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico, attached to the Atlantic Fleet Auxiliary Division. The ship arrived at Norfolk, Virginia, on 6 April 1917, and was assigned to the Naval Overseas Transport Service, interrupted her coaling operations by two cargo voyages to France, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=199421 | 279,686 |
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