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1,027,576 | In spite of all this and the introduction of more recent Pacifics, in the middle of the 1950s Gresley types continued to have a quasi-monopoly of East Coast Main Line express passenger services, and as the Sixties approached they went through yet another series of improvements comparable to those of the 1920s. The most... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2534748 | 1,027,042 |
1,370,701 | At the time, the Hall Institute was in the early stages of rapid expansion. The new director of the Institute, Charles Kellaway, wanted to increase the activities of the organisation to not only support hospital operations but have separate research groups in physiology, microbiology and biochemistry that would also do... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=417493 | 1,369,945 |
1,447,677 | Limitations in anticancer therapy occur mainly due to two reasons; because of the patient's organism, or because of the specific genetic alterations in the tumor cells. From the patient, therapy is limited by poor absorption of a drug which can lead to low concentration of the active agent in the blood and small amount... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33071344 | 1,446,861 |
1,910,182 | Tubular systems are the most widely used commercial culture systems. They are usually made of polypropylene acrylic or polyvinylchloride pipes which have small internal diameters and an air pump that generates bubbles to mix and agitate the culture. They usually use artificial light but some models use natural light. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31334548 | 1,909,084 |
1,541,648 | "V. paradoxus" is involved in cycling numerous inorganic elements including arsenic, sulfur, manganese and rare earth elements in a range of soil, freshwater and geological environments. In the case of arsenic, "V. paradoxus" is believed to oxidize As (III) to As (V) as a detoxification mechanism. "V. paradoxus" has be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39546431 | 1,540,775 |
139,901 | With the advent of cheap microcomputers it became possible to have a computer dedicated to controlling the spectrometer, collecting the data, doing the Fourier transform and presenting the spectrum. This provided the impetus for the development of FTIR spectrometers for the rock-salt region. The problems of manufacturi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19762116 | 139,844 |
667,245 | The military director of the NRO, Brigadier General John L. Martin Jr., suggested that MOL launches be made from Cape Kennedy, as launches from the West Coast implied a polar orbit, which in turn would lead to the assumption that the objective of the mission was reconnaissance. This was considered, but there were pract... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=615373 | 666,897 |
1,920,084 | After initially studying painting, Sugiura became an assistant to the manga artist Suihō Tagawa. He soon began drawing his own manga in 1933 and came to fame after World War II with a series of comedic manga for children based on stories like those of Sasuke Sarutobi, Jiraiya, and "Journey to the West". Sugiura closely... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25886264 | 1,918,982 |
210,285 | Avanti Corporation (styled as "Avant!) was founded when several former Cadence Design Systems employees bought the startup ArcSys, which was previously merged with Integrated Silicon Solutions (ISS), gaining Avanti its design rule checking and layout versus schematic tool Hercules (including 3D silicon structure modeli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=424893 | 210,178 |
965,056 | In 1945, Britain and Canada made an early call for an international discussion on controlling atomic power. At the time, the US had yet to formulate a cohesive policy or strategy on nuclear weapons. Taking advantage of this was Vannevar Bush, who had initiated and administered the Manhattan Project, but nevertheless ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30592 | 964,547 |
224,614 | Based on A. R. Luria's (1966) seminal work on the modularization of brain function, and supported by decades of neuroimaging research, the PASS Theory of Intelligence (Planning/Attention/Simultaneous/Successive) proposes that cognition is organized in three systems and four processes. The first process is the Planning,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=168191 | 224,500 |
1,424,343 | In October 2021, Sheng stepped down from teaching an undergraduate class, where he says he had intended to show how Giuseppe Verdi adapted William Shakespeare's play "Othello" into his opera "Otello." On September 10, 2021, he showed the class John Dexter's "Othello", where Laurence Olivier played Othello in blackface.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3488583 | 1,423,541 |
173,144 | The United Kingdom continued their ongoing rapid test development programme using the Innova rapid test, with increasing urgency as COVID-19 cases increased across Europe. On 6 November 2020, the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, started city-wide screening of Liverpool as part of the accelerated technology evaluation. Fu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67708405 | 173,053 |
199,971 | The contributions that Galileo made to observational astronomy include the telescopic confirmation of the phases of Venus; his discovery, in 1609, of Jupiter's four largest moons (subsequently given the collective name of the "Galilean moons"); and the observation and analysis of sunspots. Galileo also pursued applied ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13758 | 199,868 |
913,139 | In spite of the agreement, the large project cost combined with the ending of similar projects at other labs resulted in critical comments by scientists at other labs, Sandia National Laboratories in particular. In May 1997, Sandia fusion scientist Rick Spielman publicly stated that NIF had "virtually no internal peer ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=337301 | 912,660 |
1,758,177 | The women's 10,000 m was held on June 7. Defending outdoor 5000 m and 2016 cross country champion Karissa Schweizer of the University of Missouri was favored by some to take the title in her first attempt at the distance at the championships, but she also faced the previous year's 10,000 m champion Charlotte Taylor fro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57596294 | 1,757,184 |
2,138,896 | In terms of direct contribution to the UK economy, air transport is an £11.4 billion industry, a figure which represents 1.1 per cent of the country's economy. It employs 186,000 people (full-time equivalents), and indirectly supports an additional 334,000 jobs, although the inclusion of indirect employment as an econo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14120583 | 2,137,666 |
362,910 | On 13 January 1994, NASA formally announced a completion of its repairs on the main mirror of the Hubble Space Telescope allowing for sharper images and, consequently, more accurate analyses of its observations. Briefly after the repairs were made, Wendy Freedman's 1994 Key Project analyzed the recession velocity of M1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5985207 | 362,720 |
974,725 | The history of linear electric motors can be traced back at least as far as the 1840s, to the work of Charles Wheatstone at King's College London, but Wheatstone's model was too inefficient to be practical. A feasible linear induction motor is described in the (1905 - inventor Alfred Zehden of Frankfurt-am-Main), for d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44495 | 974,214 |
356,180 | The bomb would naturally contain a large kinetic energy because it moves at orbital velocities, around in orbit and at impact. As the rod reenters Earth's atmosphere it would lose most of the velocity, but the remaining energy would cause considerable damage. Some systems are quoted as having the yield of a small tacti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2999725 | 355,997 |
838,410 | Media companies put media convergence back to their agenda after the dot-com bubble burst. In 1994, Knight Ridder promulgated the concept of portable magazines, newspaper, and books: "Within news corporations it became increasingly obvious that an editorial model based on mere replication in the Internet of contents th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=206586 | 837,961 |
1,744,993 | Salinization and alkalization have been linked through the study of arid regions across North America and have negatively effected 37% and 90% of freshwater drainage areas, respectively. Their interaction is best noted by the levels of rising pH in streams and rivers measured in 232 USGS sites in 2018. Among these site... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63996171 | 1,744,009 |
923,540 | While mainstream theories assert that consciousness emerges as the complexity of the computations performed by cerebral neurons increases, Orch OR posits that consciousness is based on non-computable quantum processing performed by qubits formed collectively on cellular microtubules, a process significantly amplified i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=712245 | 923,054 |
361,305 | The term "anthropocene" is informally used in scientific contexts. The Geological Society of America entitled its 2011 annual meeting: "Archean to Anthropocene: The past is the key to the future". The new epoch has no agreed start-date, but one proposal, based on atmospheric evidence, is to fix the start with the Indus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=374390 | 361,116 |
1,816,601 | in an environment where the short training time could be utilized effectively, lack of own spaces for boat service, gymnastics, athletics and weapons exercises and the need for adequate facilities for teaching operation, were some of the reasons why the old Naval Academy at Skeppsholmen was no longer sufficient. Näsby ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9468354 | 1,815,567 |
146,470 | Farmers have widely adopted GM technology (see figure). Between 1996 and 2013, the total surface area of land cultivated with GM crops increased by a factor of 100, from to 1,750,000 km (432 million acres). 10% of the world's arable land was planted with GM crops in 2010. As of 2011, 11 different transgenic crops were ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2291204 | 146,412 |
1,482,847 | Making altitude (elevation) measurements of the Sun is simple and direct, requiring the user to align the image of the Sun through the front pinhole (aperture), centered onto the rear back plate which operates more like a mask and not a viewing pass hole for sighting the Sun with the naked eye. Much in the same manner ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20747100 | 1,482,011 |
2,081,923 | HEL initially had three directorates to govern its research and responsibilities. Teams in the Behavioral Research Directorate managed basic human factors research that studied systems from a soldier’s point of view. Researchers focused on factors such as vision, hearing, endurance, stress, strength, height, and weight... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70607475 | 2,080,723 |
882,384 | Sputtered atoms ejected from the target have a wide energy distribution, typically up to tens of eV (100,000 K). The sputtered ions (typically only a small fraction of the ejected particles are ionized — on the order of 1 percent) can ballistically fly from the target in straight lines and impact energetically on the s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9084531 | 881,920 |
161,033 | Traditionally, it was often assumed that actual human reasoning should follow the rules described in normative theories. On this view, any discrepancy is a form of irrationality that should be avoided. However, this usually ignores the human limitations of the mind. Given these limitations, various discrepancies may be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61032 | 160,948 |
1,610,841 | In 1942 Hicks took a job at the Western Electric Company, designing and testing quartz crystal oscillators in Kearny, New Jersey. She was the first woman to be employed by Western Electric as an engineer, and she spent three years working there. Upon the death of her father, she joined the Bloomfield, New Jersey based ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2821381 | 1,609,936 |
503,294 | In 2018 Thai researchers and the Health Ministry called for an outright ban on the use of the agricultural chemicals paraquat, glyphosate ("Roundup"), and chlorpyrifos. Paraquat and glyphosate are widely used herbicides. Chlorpyrifos is a pesticide. All are known to hazardous to humans and the ecosystem. The ban is opp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3467679 | 503,036 |
973,456 | While LEGO had been interested in mass-producing the programmable brick concept for a while, they had to wait until enough people owned personal computers and the components required to produce the intelligent brick went down in price. Development of what would later be known as LEGO Mindstorms started in 1996 as the f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=198856 | 972,946 |
488,665 | The level of achievement in Hellenistic astronomy and engineering is impressively shown by the Antikythera mechanism (150-100 BC). The astronomer Aristarchus of Samos was the first known person to propose a heliocentric model of the solar system, while the geographer Eratosthenes accurately calculated the circumference... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1673699 | 488,415 |
187,436 | In 2007, "Te Kaha" began undergoing a series of major upgrades as part of the four-stage Platform Systems Upgrade (PSU), planning for which started in 2004. The four areas of modification under the PSU were improved stability and compartment configuration changes, overhaul of the propulsion system, installation of a ne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=897679 | 187,339 |
1,506,494 | The next step led to the central nervous system. It was taken by Marthe Vogt, a refugee from Germany who at that time worked with John Henry Gaddum in the Institute of Pharmacology of the University of Edinburgh. ″The presence of noradrenaline and adrenaline in the brain has been demonstrated by von Euler (1946) and Ho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38791208 | 1,505,648 |
944,594 | "Vibrio vulnificus" wound infections have a mortality rate around 25%. In people in whom the infection worsens into sepsis, typically following ingestion, the mortality rate rises to 50%. The majority of these people die within the first 48 hours of infection. The optimal treatment is not known, but in one retrospectiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=550621 | 944,092 |
417,007 | After working for NASA for twenty-one years, she took an early retirement opportunity in 1979 in part to allow her to care for her elderly mother, although she continued on as a consultant for another year in order to complete the selection of STScI. Roman was interested in learning computer programming, and so audited... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4370870 | 416,804 |
1,695,302 | The original goal for paper-based microfluidics (μPAD) was to make low-cost and user-friendly point-of-care (POC) devices that can be operated without the assistance of medical personnel or any other qualified specialist in resource-limited and rural areas. To achieve this goal, μPAD should fit the “Affordable, Sensiti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56210030 | 1,694,350 |
999,312 | Ocean acidification is the direct consequence of elevated concentrations of hydrogen ions and carbonate saturation from significant absorption of carbon dioxide (CO) by the world's oceans. The pre-industrial state of the ocean's carbonate chemistry has been notably stable, including the balance of its pH. Following the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=529019 | 998,794 |
1,021,295 | Climate reconstructions generally support the hypothesis that the AMOC is already weaker now than it was in the early 20th century. For instance, a 2010 statistical analysis found an ongoing weakening of the AMOC since the late 1930s, with an abrupt shift of a North Atlantic overturning cell around 1970. Climate scient... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5097491 | 1,020,766 |
1,170,563 | Lacking the proper methods and necessary safety precautions, informal e-waste recycling is directly responsible for worsening the health of many in China. Since the pollutants that are released during the process travel, the effects on health are widespread. Firstly, those who reside around informal sites experience se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29127790 | 1,169,944 |
2,100,341 | Hannah's tenure could not have started better, as the Lynx bolted out to an early 9–0–0 record and jumped from 14th in the rankings (LU–B began 2015–16 exactly where it closed 2014–15) all the way up to eighth - in position to receive an invitation to the ACHA National Tournament - by the end of October. The schedule s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54162731 | 2,099,131 |
432,746 | Today's system of dual education in Germany functions by cooperation between small and medium companies. Cooperation is regulated by law and employers and trade unions are responsible for creating new training regulations. Since certificates are standardized across all industries, the dual education system ensures that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3899523 | 432,533 |
1,177,970 | Mangrove forests, along with the animal species they shelter, represent globally significant sources of biodiversity and provide humanity with valuable ecosystem services. They are used by mammals, reptiles and migratory birds as feeding and breeding grounds, and provide crucial habitats for fish and crustacean species... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36309813 | 1,177,347 |
1,926,378 | Hardy was self-taught in Greek and Latin. He paid his way through university by earning scholarships, and won the Governor General's Academic Medal in Classics and English. He earned a Master of Arts at the University of Toronto, and then a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. He educated about the Classics and world ev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39683375 | 1,925,274 |
225,370 | In certain outdoor environments, animals such as horses, pigs, cattle, and sheep experience hypercalcemia commonly. In southern Brazil and Mattewara India, approximately 17 percent of sheep are affected, with 60 percent of these cases being fatal. Many cases are also documented in Argentina, Papua New Guinea, Jamaica, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=512274 | 225,254 |
1,458,580 | As part of a humanitarian aid project in Malawi in 2019/20, medicines were delivered by Wingcopter to remote areas that were partially cut off from the outside world by a flood. Wingcopter has also been active with UNICEF and DHL in delivering vaccines and other medications in Vanuatu and some African nations. Along wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63477455 | 1,457,760 |
801,686 | For the special case of deuterium isotope effects, we will argue that the first three terms can be treated as equal to or well approximated by unity. The first factor S (containing the σ) is the ratio of the symmetry numbers for the various species. This will be a rational number (a ratio of integers) that depends on t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1106771 | 801,258 |
1,553,383 | Much of the theory of classical non-equilibrium thermodynamics is concerned with the spatially continuous motion of fluids, but fluids can also move with spatial discontinuities. Helmholtz (1868) wrote about how in a flowing fluid, there can arise a zero fluid pressure, which sees the fluid broken asunder. This arises ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24622609 | 1,552,502 |
1,718,132 | To understand the exposures that affect shifting malaria transmission rates we can look to "The Epidemiologic Triad", a model that explains the relationship between exposure, transmission, and causation of infectious diseases. With regards to malaria transmission rates in the African Highlands, factors and exposures re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63453251 | 1,717,162 |
788,007 | This species is known as a saprotroph and plays an important role in the early colonization of substrata in soil. Nonetheless, it can also behave as a parasite of plant tissues causing a rot of vegetables and fruits. Like other species of "Rhizopus", "R. stolonifer" grows rapidly and spreads by means of the stolons. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55223022 | 787,583 |
411,533 | General Motors' (GM) first ECUs had a small application of hybrid digital ECUs as a pilot program in 1979, but by 1980, all active programs were using microprocessor based systems. Due to the large ramp up of volume of ECUs that were produced to meet the Clean Air Act requirements for 1981, only one ECU model could be ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2528024 | 411,331 |
217,706 | The low cost ($200/ton) and high cycle rate (2,000X) of synthetic zeolites such as Linde 13X with water adsorbate has garnered much academic and commercial interest recently for use for thermal energy storage (TES), specifically of low-grade solar and waste heat. Several pilot projects have been funded in the EU from 2... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2465250 | 217,598 |
1,243,473 | During the second five-year plan (1956–60) in India, a number of industrial projects were contemplated. To ensure enough supply of trained personnel to meet the demand for these projects, a decision was taken to start the Regional Engineering Colleges (RECs), at the rate of one per each major state, which can churn out... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5492473 | 1,242,800 |
1,668,867 | In 1913, John G. FitzGerald took up a new role as part-time Associate Professor of Hygiene at the University of Toronto. After becoming one of the youngest graduates of the University of Toronto Medical School in 1903, he had spent a decade pursuing further study across North America and Europe, learning how to make an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61019378 | 1,667,927 |
981,447 | There have been several reports of corpses in the Body Worlds exhibit being prepared and shown without consent. In January 2004, the German news magazine "Der Spiegel" made a report based on internal emails and records, as well as statements from von Hagens, that his company had acquired corpses from executed Chinese p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=151107 | 980,935 |
214 | In 1918, Einstein was one of the founding members of the German Democratic Party, a liberal party. Later in his life, Einstein's political view was in favor of socialism and critical of capitalism, which he detailed in his essays such as "Why Socialism?" His opinions on the Bolsheviks also changed with time. In 1925, h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=736 | 214 |
362,905 | According to inflation theory, during the inflationary epoch about 10 of a second after the Big Bang, the universe suddenly expanded, and its volume increased by a factor of at least 10 (an expansion of distance by a factor of at least 10 in each of the three dimensions). This would be equivalent to expanding an object... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5985207 | 362,715 |
308,067 | Repairs were completed by March 1941, and in June "Lützow" steamed to Norway. While en route, she was torpedoed by a British bomber, necessitating significant repairs that lasted until May 1942. She returned to Norway to join the forces arrayed against Allied shipping to the Soviet Union. She ran aground during a plann... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3010318 | 307,902 |
742,738 | Rao has received 38 honorary doctoral degrees from universities in 19 countries around the world and numerous awards and medals for his contributions to statistics and science. He is a member of eight National Academies in India, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Italy. Rao was awarded the United States Nation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1418009 | 742,344 |
907,763 | The universities developed in the large cities of Europe during this period, and rival clerical orders within the Church began to battle for political and intellectual control over these centers of educational life. The two main orders founded in this period were the Franciscans and the Dominicans. The Franciscans were... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26571896 | 907,285 |
330,846 | When the first "Sonic the Hedgehog" title was released in 1991, Sega of America developed an origin for Sonic the Hedgehog and Dr. Robotnik which diverged from the back-stories created in Japan by Sonic Team. In this back-story, set on the planet Mobius, Dr. Ivo Robotnik was originally a benevolent scientist named Dr. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16350481 | 330,669 |
565,878 | During July, suspected cases were being flagged and reported in Mumbai, in Delhi, Chennai, and elsewhere. In Pakistan, at least 24 children were said to have Kawasaki-like symptoms in Lahore, where 8 cases fulfilling WHO criteria were prospectively identified by 30 June. In Kazakhstan, 14 cases were confirmed by 20 Aug... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63895130 | 565,588 |
275,530 | Factors that contribute to pollinator decline include habitat destruction, pesticide, parasitism/diseases, and climate change. The more destructive forms of human disturbances are land use changes such as fragmentation, selective logging, and the conversion to secondary forest habitat. Defaunation of frugivores is also... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=233609 | 275,381 |
1,123,219 | In 2004, palaeontologist Sankar Chatterjee and engineer R. Jack Templin said that smaller pterosaurs may have been able to skim-feed. They doubted that this was possible for larger ones, due to their lesser manoeuvrability and flying capability while resisting water. Chatterjee and Templin noted that skimmers have blun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5382243 | 1,122,645 |
1,274,617 | In all organisms displaying cell constancy, nuclei division by mitosis in mature cells is not achieved. Embryonic cells are able to undergo mitosis, however, this function is lost when cells become differentiated. There is no evidence showing that this ability is ever regained, even after injury which normally function... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13857654 | 1,273,925 |
934,543 | In seeking to analyze such a wide scope of musical genres, repertories, and styles, some scholars have favored an all-encompassing "objective" approach, while others argue for "native" or "subjective" methodologies tailored to the musical subject. Those in favor of "objective" analytical methods hold that certain perce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=80077 | 934,051 |
871,121 | The Sahara of North Africa is the largest hot desert in the world. Flowlines can be traced from erg to erg, demonstrating very long transport downwind. Satellite observations show yardangs aligned with the sandflow lines. All flowlines arise in the desert itself, and show indications of clockwise circulation roughly li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=643020 | 870,661 |
231,819 | In 1956, the German informatician Karl Steinbuch and engineer Helmut Gröttrup coined the word "Informatik" when they developed the "Informatik-Anlage" for the Quelle mail-order management, one of the earliest commercial applications of data processing. In April 1957, Steinbuch published a paper called "Informatik: Auto... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23997153 | 231,700 |
666,806 | In 1953 the Braggs moved into the elegant flat for the Resident Professor in the Royal Institution in London, the position his father had occupied when he died. In 1934 and 1961 Lawrence had delivered the Royal Institution Christmas Lecture and since 1938 he had been Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Institution, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=303544 | 666,458 |
2,116,561 | Previously the Navy Board had relied upon timber as the major building material, which resulted in high maintenance costs and was also a fire risk. The docks Dummer designed were stronger with more secure foundations and stepped sides that allowed shorter timbers to be used for shoring and made it much easier for shipw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24510735 | 2,115,344 |
781,320 | Each launch site had three parts, separated by at least 1,000 yards (914 m). One part (designated C) of about six acres (24,000 m) contained the IFC (Integrated Fire Control) radar systems to detect incoming targets (acquisition and target tracking) and direct the missiles (missile tracking), along with the computer sy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=225739 | 780,902 |
535,205 | The Iraqi military quickly proved no match for coalition military power, and with their defeat the bulk of Australian forces were withdrawn. While Australia did not initially take part in the post-war occupation of Iraq, an Australian Army light armoured battlegroup—designated the Al Muthanna Task Group and including 4... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1323516 | 534,926 |
135,613 | There is a general consensus among historians that the roots of the industrial engineering profession date back to the Industrial Revolution. The technologies that helped mechanize traditional manual operations in the textile industry including the flying shuttle, the spinning jenny, and perhaps most importantly the st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23535218 | 135,558 |
1,949,195 | What skill set is needed to successfully serve in the role of Chief Information Officer in higher education? A review of the literature provides some useful perspectives. Linda Fleit (1999), the former president and founder of the IT Consulting Firm Edutech International from 1985 to 2008 and through this experience, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31306690 | 1,948,074 |
6,360 | Landforms visible on Mars strongly suggest that liquid water has existed on the planet's surface. Huge linear swathes of scoured ground, known as outflow channels, cut across the surface in about 25 places. These are thought to be a record of erosion caused by the catastrophic release of water from subsurface aquifers,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14640471 | 6,357 |
1,537,672 | Individual curriculum maps are "developed by individual teachers [and] reflect what they teach in their class or classes. They include essential questions, content, skills, and assessments" (Jacobs & Johnson, 2009, p. 115). More detailed than the consensus map, "allow for individual teacher autonomy" (Hale, 2008, p. 14... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5311894 | 1,536,800 |
1,668,892 | Typhus is a group of infectious bacterial diseases often spread through lice, fleas, and mites. Typhus fever, spread by the body louse, had ravaged both the military and civilian populations of Eastern Europe throughout WWI and continued to plague the European populace. While no typhus vaccine was available at the begi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61019378 | 1,667,952 |
1,813,879 | The Center for Multidisciplinary Research in Transportation (TechMRT) was established in 1997 to serve as a focal point between Texas Tech and the various transportation research funding organizations and programs. In the area of pavement engineering and construction, the center has conducted research on constructabili... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10673182 | 1,812,845 |
663,863 | The methodology and strong language of the review were questioned. The keywords used for a database search of the scientific literature were [insect*] and [declin*] + [survey], which mostly returned studies finding declines, not increases. Sánchez-Bayo responded that two thirds of the reviewed studies had come from out... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59924918 | 663,517 |
863,326 | In 1798, he entered the École Polytechnique in Paris as first in his year, and immediately began to attract the notice of the professors of the school, who left him free to make his own decisions as to what he would study. In his final year of study, less than two years after his entry, he published two memoirs, one on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44670 | 862,866 |
1,130,706 | Hypovirulent phenotypes do not appear to correlate with specific genome features and it seems there is not one particular metabolic pathway causing hypovirulence but several. In addition to negative effects, beneficial interactions do also occur. Well described examples are the killer phenotypes in yeasts and "Ustilago... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8952788 | 1,130,117 |
236,366 | The university grew rapidly in the early 20th century but was involved in an academic freedom controversy in 1915 when Joseph T. Kingsbury recommended that five faculty members be dismissed after a graduation speaker made a speech critical of Utah governor William Spry. One third of the faculty resigned in protest of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32097 | 236,247 |
1,913,789 | After initial transmission, "P. salmonis" is capable of infecting macrophages without inducing apoptosis, which allows it to spread throughout a host’s body while evading the host’s natural immune response. "P. salmonis" infections appear to be systematic. White or yellow lesions or ulcers, ranging from 1mm to 2cm in d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40421553 | 1,912,690 |
826,217 | Rights to other standards go for staff, or students, universities are subject to both judicial review and rights in contract law because they are seen as having both an equally "public" and "private" nature. In a leading case of "Clark v University of Lincolnshire and Humberside" a student claimed that she should not h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=81513 | 825,773 |
1,219,038 | In eukaryotic cells, especially in mammalian cells, thiolases exhibit diversity in intracellular localization related to their metabolic functions as well as in substrate specificity. For example, they contribute to fatty-acid β-oxidation in peroxisomes and mitochondria, ketone body metabolism in mitochondria, and the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10940038 | 1,218,384 |
1,459,822 | According to 2013 autosomal IBD survey "of recent genealogical ancestry over the past 3,000 years at a continental scale", the speakers of Bosnian language share a very high number of common ancestors dated to the migration period approximately 1,500 years ago with Poland and Romania-Bulgaria cluster among others in Ea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55610868 | 1,459,001 |
2,040,292 | The men's and women's pole vault competition were the only events on the opening day. They were conducted simultaneously with two parallel runways down the center of the arena. The women's entrants included eight of the top 20 vaulters in history, most of them peaking in the weeks before the competition. One day after ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49813023 | 2,039,113 |
886,959 | The technical work, the development of Recommendations, of ITU-T is managed by Study Groups (SGs), such as Study Group 13 for network standards, Study Group 16 for multimedia standards, and Study Group 17 for security standards, which are created by the World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (WTSA) which is h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14744 | 886,495 |
2,065,074 | Exploratory processes are selective processes that operate within individual organisms during their lifetimes. In many animals, the vascular, immune and nervous systems develop by producing a variety of forms, and the most functional solutions are selected for and retained, while others are lost. For example, the ‘shap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56284235 | 2,063,883 |
1,554,940 | This intensive immersion program is designed to provide a competitive advantage to gifted and talented undergraduate and graduate students who plan to enter a higher education institution where the language of instruction is English. Many international students have difficulty with English, particularly as it relates t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9511959 | 1,554,057 |
1,350,151 | On 11 March 1888, Ferraris published his research in a paper to the Royal Academy of Sciences in Turin (two months later Nikola Tesla gained , application filed October 12, 1887. Serial Number 252,132). These alternators operated by creating systems of alternating currents displaced from one another in phase by definit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1644203 | 1,349,405 |
934,042 | Early instances of forced perspective used in low-budget motion pictures showed objects that were clearly different from their surroundings: often blurred or at a different light level. The principal cause of this was geometric. Light from a point source travels in a spherical wave, decreasing in intensity (or "illumin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=184072 | 933,550 |
675,881 | The volumes of certain quadric surfaces of revolution were calculated by Archimedes. The development of calculus in the seventeenth century provided a more systematic way of computing them. Curvature of general surfaces was first studied by Euler. In 1760 he proved a formula for the curvature of a plane section of a su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15513875 | 675,528 |
814,220 | Agricultural innovation is essential to addressing the potential issues of climate change. This includes better management of soil, water-saving technology, matching crops to environments, introducing different crop varieties, crop rotations, appropriate fertilization use, and supporting community-based adaptation stra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47512577 | 813,787 |
589,524 | During the Miocene, the atmosphere and climate were relatively stable. If anything, increased gradually from before settling down to concentrations similar to the Holocene. This suggests that it did not have a key role in invoking C evolution. Grasses themselves (the group which would give rise to the most occurrences ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41468418 | 589,222 |
213,777 | During the Miocene, the atmosphere and climate were relatively stable. If anything, increased gradually from before settling down to concentrations similar to the Holocene. This suggests that it did not have a key role in invoking C evolution. Grasses themselves (the group which would give rise to the most occurrences ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11008314 | 213,669 |
1,864,335 | In 2008 BMW revealed a concept car called "GINA" which featured a fabric body stretched over a movable aluminium wire and carbon fiber frame, capable of flexing in certain areas to reveal details like door openings, or modify aerodynamic properties of the car in real time. The 2016 incarnation of this concept car, the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59386014 | 1,863,263 |
1,750,907 | Most ASR studies are conducted "in vitro", and have revealed ancestral protein properties that seem to be evolutionarily desirable traits – such as increased thermostability, catalytic activity and catalytic promiscuity. These data have been accredited to artifacts of the ASR algorithms, as well as indicative illustrat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39867144 | 1,749,921 |
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