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347,525 | Until January 1961, Georgia state law required racial segregation in publicly funded higher education. On January 6, 1961, the District Court mandated that UGA immediately admit two African American teenagers, Hamilton E. Holmes and Charlayne Hunter, who were previously denied admission in 1959 on the basis of race. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=378232 | 347,344 |
516,581 | After testing the over 5,000 km Agni V missile, which went up to 600 km into space during its parabolic trajectory, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) now feels it can fashion deadly anti-satellite (ASAT) weapons in double-quick time. "Agni V gives you the boosting capability and the 'kill vehicle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70364617 | 516,312 |
1,015,192 | The Aharonov–Bohm effect can be understood from the fact that one can only measure absolute values of the wave function. While this allows for measurement of phase differences through quantum interference experiments, there is no way to specify a wavefunction with constant absolute phase. In the absence of an electroma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=277664 | 1,014,671 |
448,785 | One of the experiments would include releasing a multi-colored balloon that would remain tethered to the capsule, observing the behavior of liquid in a weightless state inside a closed glass bottle, using a special light meter to determine the visibility of a ground flare, making weather photographs with hand-held came... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=213240 | 448,567 |
395,669 | Some uses of heavy metals, including in sport, mechanical engineering, military ordnance, and nuclear science, take advantage of their relatively high densities. In underwater diving, lead is used as a ballast; in handicap horse racing each horse must carry a specified lead weight, based on factors including past perfo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46659847 | 395,474 |
1,968,323 | In 2006-07 nine small towns (between 5,000 and 25,000 inhabitants) across Peru introduced a new water and sanitation management model, under which the community is being more empowered, including through deciding themselves about a certain level of service quality, such as low-cost technologies, and corresponding tarif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10611984 | 1,967,190 |
1,543,875 | In 1849 he joined Queen's College Galway and during his long career there published nearly 70 papers and established a museum. He developed a course in geology for the arts, agriculture, and engineering faculties and served as an examiner in geology for the University. His research included topics such as the structure... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10161625 | 1,543,002 |
1,824,671 | In the first phase of the experiment (running until 2018), antiprotons from the Antiproton Decelerator (AD) with a kinetic energy of 5.3MeV had to pass through a series of aluminum foils which acted as so-called degraders, slowing down a fraction of the fast antiprotons to few keV. The slow antiprotons were then furthe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50841676 | 1,823,633 |
1,810,456 | The university would later experience a second wave of growth when it was announced that Calgary (as well as the university) would host the XV Winter Olympic Games. In preparation for the Games, the university undertook several construction projects such as the Olympic Oval, the Athlete's Village (currently part of Res... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51387853 | 1,809,433 |
732,161 | Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus (previously "Lactobacillus rhamnosus") is a bacterium that originally was considered to be a subspecies of "L. casei", but genetic research found it to be a separate species in the "L. casei" clade, which also includes "L. paracasei" and "L. zeae". It is a short Gram-positive homofermentati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3148908 | 731,774 |
1,514,361 | The use of biofuels, which are fuels derived from recently dead biological material, reduces dependence on petroleum and enhances energy security. Biofuels also play significant roles in the "food vs fuel" debate, mitigation of oil prices, and energy balance and efficiency. Ethanol is a biofuel produced from crops high... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11882110 | 1,513,510 |
1,061,568 | Governments have been implementing digital technologies to provide more efficient administration and social services since the early 2000s, often referred to as e-government. Many governments around the world are now using automated, algorithmic systems for profiling and targeting policies and services including algori... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68710620 | 1,061,015 |
967,470 | Photoresistors used in opto-isolators rely on bulk effects in a uniform film of semiconductor; there are no p-n junctions. Uniquely among photosensors, photoresistors are non-polar devices suited for either AC or DC circuits. Their resistance drops in reverse proportion to the intensity of incoming light, from virtuall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=465393 | 966,960 |
1,481,390 | A few of the plant's workers were severely injured or killed by the disaster conditions resulting from the earthquake. There were no immediate deaths due to direct radiation exposures, but at least six workers have exceeded lifetime legal limits for radiation and more than 300 have received significant radiation doses.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38070727 | 1,480,556 |
2,116,977 | Isolichenan is a polymer of glucose units joined by a mixture of α-(1→3) and α-(1→4) linkages. Using the technique of partial acid hydrolysis, Stanley Peat and colleagues determined that the linkages are of the α-configuration. The ratio of these linkages has been reported differently by various authors in the scientif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64242581 | 2,115,759 |
1,591,272 | Some most common model plants include "Arabidopsis thaliana" (common name: mouse-ear cress), "Antirrhinum majus" (common name: snapdragon), and "Zea mays" (common name: corn). Some authors have argued that these species are not useful models for the study of gene expression in heteroblastic plants because none of them ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44815911 | 1,590,377 |
299,542 | The compound "cis"-[Pt(NH)Cl] was first described by Italian chemist Michele Peyrone in 1845, and known for a long time as Peyrone's salt. The structure was deduced by Alfred Werner in 1893. In 1965, Barnett Rosenberg, Van Camp et al. of Michigan State University discovered that electrolysis of platinum electrodes gene... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1374187 | 299,381 |
1,749,658 | The diversity of characteristics complicates description of Liliaceae morphology, and confused taxonomic classification for centuries. The diversity is also of considerable evolutionary significance (see Evolution). The family Liliaceae are characterised as monocotyledonous, perennial, herbaceous, bulbous (or rhizomato... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42056883 | 1,748,672 |
1,070,987 | The invention of the elevator was a precondition for the invention of skyscrapers, given that most people would not (or could not) climb more than a few flights of stairs at a time. The elevators in a skyscraper are not simply a necessary utility like running water and electricity, but are in fact closely related to th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3475655 | 1,070,433 |
1,672,800 | In humans, sortilin is expressed over a wide range of cell types and tissues such as the brain, spinal cord, adrenal gland, thyroid, B-lymphocytes, adipocytes, skeletal muscle, and heart. As a sorting receptor on the cell surface and on the endoplasmic reticulum-Golgi apparatus within the cell, sortilin is involved in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14343235 | 1,671,858 |
1,228,274 | Beginning with the Meiji Restoration of 1868, which established a new, centralized regime, Japan set out to "gather wisdom from all over the world" and embarked on an ambitious program of military, social, political, and economic reforms that transformed it within a generation into a modern nation-state and major world... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54108025 | 1,227,612 |
1,996,284 | Rakhi Garhi site with area is the largest IVC site in the world, which is about double the size than that of next largest site Mohenjo Daro, asserts Professor Dr. Vasant Shinde, Vice Chancellor of Daccan College and in-charge of Rakhi Garhi excavation. He further informed about the 6,000 years old pre-Harappan IVC site... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50332562 | 1,995,141 |
933,259 | The result is a multiplicity of histories of specific railroads, large and small. Typically they deal with standard topics: the builders and their organizational, legislative and financial dealings; colorful construction crews laying down wood ties and steel rail; the development of locomotives and passenger cars; boos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=587997 | 932,767 |
1,047,690 | Eosinophilic pneumonia is diagnosed in one of three circumstances: when a complete blood count reveals increased eosinophils and a chest X-ray or computed tomography identifies abnormalities in the lungs, when a biopsy identifies increased eosinophils in lung tissue, or when increased eosinophils are found in fluid obt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2938935 | 1,047,145 |
1,266,879 | The NCLs present with progressive loss of visual function and neurodevelopmental decline, seizure, myoclonic jerks and premature death. The "CTSD" gene is one of the identified eight genes the deficiency of which is responsible for NCLs. It has been reported that a homozygous single nucleotide duplication in exon 6 cou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14722632 | 1,266,189 |
928,215 | The second phase is characterized by the aim of having completely self-sufficient in nuclear power development. In June 1959, the USSR officially ended any forms of nuclear aid to China, withdrawing Soviet technicians. China suffered but continued nuclear power development by massive research and input. In order to rap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12899377 | 927,727 |
149,639 | During World War II, Calder continued to sculpt, adapting to a scarcity of aluminum during the war by returning to carved wood in a new open form of sculpture called "constellations". Postwar, Calder began to cut shapes from sheet metal into evocative forms and hand-paint them in his characteristically bold hues. Calde... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=213216 | 149,571 |
1,868,219 | Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is a region that has experienced high rates of HIV/AIDs, political instability, and poverty. These conditions have contributed to a paucity of state-run educational institutions, an insufficient number of educators, and a surplus of students. For these reasons, many students attend universities... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37796710 | 1,867,143 |
480,850 | For a long time, it was a widely held opinion that computer Go posed a problem fundamentally different from computer chess. Many considered a strong Go-playing program something that could be achieved only in the far future, as a result of fundamental advances in general artificial intelligence technology. Those who th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=227021 | 480,606 |
1,033,399 | The Foreign Legion received orders to prepare five battalions—three from the 1st Regiment and two from the 2nd Regiment—for service in the Crimean campaign. Two battalions would be drawn from each regiment to form an infantry brigade, while the third remaining battalion would be used as to establish and garrison depot ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8868718 | 1,032,863 |
1,914,609 | The review George H. Bryan published in "Nature" on 27 April 1905 sparked controversy among Cambridge professors at the time. The review received several notable responses from Whittaker's colleagues, although Whittaker himself never publicly spoke of it. The main actors in the polemic, other than Whittaker and Bryan, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65496619 | 1,913,510 |
961,548 | The most common metric of energy use during locomotion is the net (also termed "incremental") cost of transport, defined as the amount of energy (e.g., Joules) needed above baseline metabolic rate to move a given distance. For aerobic locomotion, most animals have a nearly constant cost of transport—moving a given dist... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1132756 | 961,039 |
183,311 | Idaho Central Credit Union Arena (ICCU Arena), located immediately to the north of the Kibbie Dome, became the new home of Vandals men's and women's basketball for the 2021–22 season. The university had attempted to build a new arena to replace Memorial Gym for over 50 years, but nothing came of the plans until 2018, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53545 | 183,214 |
1,218,291 | Scientists have been studying the early biomarkers for AD using brain chemicals. Monitoring glutathione (GSH), an antioxidant molecule in the brain, aids in the early identification of AD and mapping out therapeutic invention. Scientists have demonstrated that hippocampus, frontal, and cingulate cortical regions respon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17563859 | 1,217,637 |
1,885,808 | Many epichloae endophytes—including "N. coenophialum" symbiotic with "Lolium arundinaceum" (syn. "Festuca arundinacea", tall fescue)—also produce ergot alkaloids that are toxic to mammalian herbivores. The ergot alkaloids occur at relatively low concentrations in the plant and are often difficult to detect analytically... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22802306 | 1,884,726 |
109,190 | On 18 June 1999, Germany and France publicly placed orders for an initial batch of 160 Tiger helicopters, 80 for each nation, valued at €3.3 billion. On 22 March 2002, the first production Tiger was rolled out in a large ceremony held at Eurocopter's Donauwörth factory; although production models began initial acceptan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=310780 | 109,145 |
2,081,295 | Fife's distinction as a local politician was even greater than his mark as a surgeon. He was an advanced liberal, and in his early days was stigmatized as a Chartist. In 1831 he was active in forming the Northern Political Union, which agitated in favour of the Reform Bill. Fife's stirring speeches had a great effect a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31132473 | 2,080,095 |
35,790 | By 1915, after having published a first article in 1912, Alfred Wegener was making serious arguments for the idea of continental drift in the first edition of "The Origin of Continents and Oceans". In that book (re-issued in four successive editions up to the final one in 1936), he noted how the east coast of South Ame... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24944 | 35,778 |
121,134 | The four mechanisms used to create and process the filtrate (the result of which is to convert blood to urine) are filtration, reabsorption, secretion and excretion. Filtration or ultrafiltration occurs in the glomerulus and is largely passive: it is dependent on the intracapillary blood pressure. About one-fifth of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=215248 | 121,085 |
1,446,752 | General Douglas MacArthur arrived in Australia on 17 March, and was appointed Supreme Commander of the newly established South West Pacific Area (SWPA) on 18 April. Ultra intelligence picked up Japanese plans for an overland advance on 19 May, and on 9 June he informed the commander of Allied Land Forces, General Sir T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51118476 | 1,445,936 |
411,052 | In practice, Kohn–Sham theory can be applied in several distinct ways, depending on what is being investigated. In solid-state calculations, the local density approximations are still commonly used along with plane-wave basis sets, as an electron-gas approach is more appropriate for electrons delocalised through an inf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209874 | 410,850 |
2,121,176 | The main reason for using either MDCL method (or the combination of the two) is to save power and money. Alternatively, for the same total power consumption, the transmission coverage can be somewhat improved. The AMC method has two other advantages. It limits the peak voltages on transmitter and antenna circuits, poss... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8028205 | 2,119,957 |
1,397,645 | By 1989, Nintendo had become Japan's number one company and Yamauchi wanted to position the Famicom as the key portal to a previously inconceivably large-scale potential future network of freely accessible and vital information in all aspects of daily life. Anticipating a new economy of service fees and sales commissio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17056476 | 1,396,872 |
509,983 | Therefore, an appropriate outgroup must be unambiguously outside the clade of interest in the phylogenetic study. An outgroup that is nested within the ingroup will, when used to root the phylogeny, result in incorrect conclusions about phylogenetic relationships and trait evolution. However, the optimal level of relat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=948183 | 509,719 |
1,437,845 | In order to form a healthy lifestyle in 2006, the measures of Bukovinian State Medical University for the Prevention of drug addiction and substance abuse were approved, which defined the terms of introduction into the educational process of the program for the promotion of a healthy lifestyle and the prevention of dru... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28179573 | 1,437,035 |
1,039,439 | Bioelectronics is used to help improve the lives of people with disabilities and diseases. For example, the glucose monitor is a portable device that allows diabetic patients to control and measure their blood sugar levels. Electrical stimulation used to treat patients with epilepsy, chronic pain, Parkinson's, deafness... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18601295 | 1,038,898 |
590,945 | To justify such a radical move towards the depiction of the world in unrecognizable terms, Antliff and Leighten argue that the emergence of Cubism transpired during an era of dissatisfaction with positivism, materialism and determinism. The 19th century theories upon which such philosophies were based, came under attac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38781217 | 590,643 |
387,600 | Attributed as a significant reason for the trend of increasing height in parts of Europe are the egalitarian populations where proper medical care and adequate nutrition are relatively equally distributed. The uneven distribution of nutritional resources makes it more plausible for individuals with better access to res... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=905957 | 387,405 |
495,199 | In 1987, J. Keith Rigby and colleagues suggested that pachycephalosaur domes were heat-exchange organs used for thermoregulation, based on their internal "radiating structures" (trabeculae). This idea was supported by a few other writers in the mid-1990s. In 1998, Goodwin and colleagues considered the lack of sinuses i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2274197 | 494,943 |
1,270,617 | Although "C. nivalis" is closely related to "Chlamydomonas reinhardtii", the environmental conditions each species inhabits are very different. "C. nivalis" can be found in mountains, snowfields, and polar regions around the world. The habitat of "C. nivalis" subjects the cells to environmental extremes including limit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4338212 | 1,269,926 |
20,711 | During a deposition filed for the 1887 trial, Italian inventor Antonio Meucci also claimed to have created the first working model of a telephone in Italy in 1834. In 1886, in the first of three cases in which he was involved, Meucci took the stand as a witness in the hope of establishing his invention's priority. Meuc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=852 | 20,702 |
86,756 | Changemaker Central is a student-run centralized resource hub for student involvement in social entrepreneurship, civic engagement, service-learning, and community service that catalyzes student-driven social change. Changemaker Central locations have opened on all campuses in fall 2011, providing flexible, creative wo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1859 | 86,721 |
1,661,608 | The col discovered by Longstaff in 1905 seemed less suitable than one further south, spotted by Hugh Ruttledge in 1932. However they were distracted by Trisul East (now called Maiktoli, ) which looked technically straightforward so, while Tilman continued surveying with Pasang, the other three made the first ascent of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46889736 | 1,660,674 |
883,241 | Outcomes vary considerably, with 5 years survival rates between 35% and 95% depending on the type of RMS involved, so clear diagnosis is critical for effective treatment and management. Accurate and quick diagnosis is often difficult due to the heterogeneity of RMS tumors and a lack of strong genetic markers of the dis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=549895 | 882,777 |
1,498,124 | In 1986, Atluri founded a scientific association, ICCES: International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering & Sciences. ICCES held annual meetings of scientists from various countries in general, and Asia in particular: Tokyo (1986); Atlanta (1988); Melbourne, Australia (1991); Hong Kong (1992); Hawai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21130283 | 1,497,280 |
74,290 | Blood vessels with aneurysms, on the other hand, are under the influence of an S-shaped stress-strain curve. As a visual aid, aneurysms can be understood as a long, cylindrical balloon. Because it's a tight balloon under pressure, it can pop at any time stress beyond a certain force threshold is applied. In the same ve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=322553 | 74,263 |
476,235 | Approximately two-fifths of the Digest consists of the writings of Ulpian, while some one-sixth belongs to Paulus. The work was declared to be the sole source of non-statute law: commentaries on the compilation were forbidden, or even the citing of the original works of the jurists for the explaining of ambiguities in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=617671 | 475,997 |
1,880,043 | Wu's parents were physics professors in Beijing, China. In high school, Wu was recognized as an academic talent and frequently chosen for competitions in math and physics. Her parents made diligent efforts to provide her with a rigorous education, even during the anti-intellectualism of the "Cultural Revolution." As a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52428798 | 1,878,962 |
1,264,844 | The Chinese of the Tang era were also very interested in the benefits of officially classifying all of the medicines used in pharmacology. In 657, Emperor Gaozong of Tang (r. 649-683) commissioned the literary project of publishing an official "materia medica", complete with text and illustrated drawings for 833 differ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31641740 | 1,264,156 |
1,715,477 | In the late 1970s, the "Lincoln Laboratory's Experimental Test Site" facility (observatory code 704) was built at White Sands Missile Range. The project's prototype used low-light video cameras. In 1994 a new proposal was made for automated detection of asteroids, this time using newer digital detector technology. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=444937 | 1,714,510 |
1,052,545 | Zener held the following posts/appointments: He was a research fellow at the University of Bristol from 1932 to 1934. He taught at Washington University in St. Louis (1935–1937), the City College of New York (1937–1940), and Washington State University (1940–1942) before working at the Watertown Arsenal during World Wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=415428 | 1,051,999 |
741,619 | Named after its inventor, André Virgile Paul Marie Berthier, a French civilian engineer in the Algerian railways, the Berthier's three-shot vertical-feed Mannlicher-type en bloc magazine could be loaded by clips, greatly increasing reloading speed, a particular convenience for cavalry and other mounted troops. A spring... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12812847 | 741,227 |
1,767,445 | The Gold Coast, where a hole had been left once the Brisbane Bears moved away, had grown to become the 6th biggest urban area with nearly half a million people, many of which had migrated from states where Australian Rules is popular. Several bids were made for a new AFL franchise by the powerhouse Southport Sharks Aus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3362955 | 1,766,451 |
95,747 | In September 1944, Fermi inserted the first uranium fuel slug into the B Reactor at the Hanford Site, the production reactor designed to breed plutonium in large quantities. Like X-10, it had been designed by Fermi's team at the Metallurgical Laboratory and built by DuPont, but it was much larger and was water-cooled. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10264 | 95,706 |
1,106,703 | In 1940, George Beadle and Edward Tatum demonstrated the existence of a precise relationship between genes and proteins. In the course of their experiments connecting genetics with biochemistry, they switched from the genetics mainstay "Drosophila" to a more appropriate model organism, the fungus "Neurospora"; the cons... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4173711 | 1,106,139 |
1,811,951 | Since then, he has dedicated most of his activity monitoring Io's volcanism with the Keck-10m telescope and the support of CfAO, an NSF science and technology center. In 2003, he was hired as an assistant researcher at UC Berkeley to conduct his research more independently and expanded it to a broader field, but still ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8055221 | 1,810,918 |
1,004,050 | On 20 February 2014, the USAF reasserted the bomber's need at the annual Air Force Association Air Warfare Symposium in Orlando, Fla. It was stated it will be fielded in the mid-2020s, and between 80 and 100 of the bombers will be procured. Lt. Gen. Burton Field clarified the 80 to 100 range is due to uncertainty over ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34042348 | 1,003,532 |
35,968 | At the same time, a 200-seat four-engine version, the B11 (which would eventually become the A340) was also under development. The B11 was originally planned to take the place of narrow-body Boeing 707s and Douglas DC-8s then in commercial use, but would later evolve to target the long-range, wide-body trijet replaceme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=164939 | 35,956 |
1,044,962 | Neodymium-doped solid state lasers continue to be the laser source of choice for industrial applications. Direct pumping of the upper Nd laser level at 885-nm (rather than at the more traditional broad 808-nm band) offers the potential of improved performance through a reduction in the lasing quantum defect, thereby im... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=828562 | 1,044,418 |
359,429 | Most of the known functions of alkaloids are related to protection. For example, aporphine alkaloid liriodenine produced by the tulip tree protects it from parasitic mushrooms. In addition, the presence of alkaloids in the plant prevents insects and chordate animals from eating it. However, some animals are adapted to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2341 | 359,242 |
784,665 | The advent of jet engines for fighters and bombers posed new problems for interceptors. With closing speeds of 1,500 ft/s (457 m/s) or more for head-on interceptions, the time available for a fighter pilot to successfully target an enemy aircraft and inflict sufficient damage to bring it down was increasingly small. Wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1151868 | 784,245 |
1,503,436 | A high temperature Scanning SQUID Microscope using a YBCO SQUID is capable of measuring magnetic fields as small as 20 pT (about 2 million times weaker than the earth's magnetic field). The SQUID sensor is sensitive enough that it can detect a wire even if it is carrying only 10 nA of current at a distance of 100 µm fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20670019 | 1,502,590 |
784,867 | In 2005, a surgical technique was documented in canine and cadaveric models called the transoral robotic surgery (TORS) for the da Vinci robot surgical system as it was the only FDA-approved robot to perform head and neck surgery. In 2006, three patients underwent resection of the tongue using this technique. The resul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2629669 | 784,447 |
733,072 | Hence, this school argues that there are faster impact measurement technologies that can account for a range of publication types as well as social media web coverage of a scientific contribution to arrive at a complete evaluation of how impactful the science contribution was. The gist of the argument for this school i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6277878 | 732,685 |
484,915 | Sperry went to Hall High School in West Hartford, Connecticut, where he was a star athlete in several sports, and did well enough academically to win a scholarship to Oberlin College. At Oberlin, he was captain of the basketball team, and he also took part in varsity baseball, football, and track. He also worked at a c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=102958 | 484,666 |
394,816 | As of late 2017, China has deployed facial recognition and artificial intelligence technology in Xinjiang. Reporters visiting the region found surveillance cameras installed every hundred meters or so in several cities, as well as facial recognition checkpoints at areas like gas stations, shopping centers, and mosque e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=602401 | 394,621 |
192,868 | From ancient times, people suspected that the climate of a region could change over the course of centuries. For example, Theophrastus, a pupil of Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle in the 4th century BC, told how the draining of marshes had made a particular locality more susceptible to freezing, and speculated that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23423379 | 192,768 |
1,694,838 | Tooze wrote that the German victories of 1940 appeared to be of less significance than the changes they caused in the US, where hostility to German ambitions had been manifest since 1938. On 16 May, the day after the German breakthrough on the Meuse, Roosevelt laid before Congress a plan to create the greatest military... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51751618 | 1,693,887 |
1,904,512 | Among his achievements are becoming the first person within the UK to be recognized as a specialist in veterinary behavioural medicine by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. and being awarded Fellowship of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons in 2016 in recognition of his contribution to the field. In 2020 he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29628839 | 1,903,418 |
358,870 | The initial yields of Borlaug's crops were higher than any ever harvested in South Asia. The countries subsequently committed to importing large quantities of both the Lerma Rojo 64 and Sonora 64 varieties. In 1966, India imported 18,000 tons—the largest purchase and import of any seed in the world at that time. In 196... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=275564 | 358,684 |
111,547 | In chapter II of this book's Supplementum, Ramazzini noted that "Scribes and Notaries" may develop "incessant movement of the hand, always in the same direction … the continuous and almost tonic strain on the muscles... that results in failure of power in the right hand". A report from the British Civil Service also co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=653778 | 111,502 |
192,447 | Access control lists (ACLs) are used in traditional discretionary access-control (DAC) systems to affect low-level data-objects. RBAC differs from ACL in assigning permissions to operations which change the direct-relations between several entities (see: "ACLg" below). For example, an ACL could be used for granting or ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66181 | 192,348 |
697,688 | Geopolymerization forms aluminosilicate frameworks that are similar to those of rock-forming minerals. Yet, there are major differences. In 1994, Davidovits presented a theoretical structure for K-poly(sialate-siloxo) (K)-(Si-O-Al-O-Si-O) that was consistent with the NMR spectra. It does not show the presence of water ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11932146 | 697,324 |
762,793 | It is notable that although there are no hard limits on horizons in future studies and foresight efforts, typical future horizons explored are within the realm of the practical and do not span more than a few decades. Nevertheless, there are hard science fiction works that can be applicable as visioning exercises that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1508301 | 762,385 |
1,153,374 | Several companies and organisations (including ArborGen, GLBRC, ...) in the pulp and paper industry are interested in utilizing GM technology to alter the lignin content of plantation trees (particularly eucalyptus and poplar trees). It is estimated that reducing lignin in plantation trees by genetic modification could... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41083964 | 1,152,764 |
1,659,028 | In 1973, Marsden (along with Arthur E. Fischer) won the Gravitational Research Foundation Prize. He was also the recipient of a Carnegie Fellowship in 1977, and a Miller Professorship in 1981-82. Also in 1981, Marsden won the Jeffery–Williams Prize. And in 1990, he received the Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathemati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6164105 | 1,658,095 |
179,021 | In models involving many input variables, sensitivity analysis is an essential ingredient of model building and quality assurance. National and international agencies involved in impact assessment studies have included sections devoted to sensitivity analysis in their guidelines. Examples are the European Commission (s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=620083 | 178,928 |
2,148,945 | When John Pickles departed to take up an endowed chair at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and John Paul Jones III became Dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Arizona in 2003, the chair, Karl Raitz, convinced the administration to authorize a mid-rank faculty hire. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47120039 | 2,147,714 |
687,891 | Etzkowitz and Leydesdorff initially argued that the strength of the interactions between governments, industry and university depends on which component is the driving force in the framework. In a statist model, a strong state is driving interactions between the three components in a top-down implementation. It creates... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55380112 | 687,533 |
725,234 | Yule (1926) and Granger and Newbold (1974) were the first to draw attention to the problem of spurious correlation and find solutions on how to address it in time series analysis. Given two completely unrelated but integrated (non-stationary) time series, the regression analysis of one on the other will tend to produce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22309853 | 724,853 |
746,763 | Given that the global supply of personal protective equipment (PPE) is insufficient during the pandemic, as of 2 February 2020, the World Health Organization recommends minimizing the need for PPE through telemedicine; physical barriers such as clear windows; allowing only those involved in direct care to enter a room ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63164437 | 746,368 |
1,236,352 | Fresh from engineering school, in 1967, he joined Philips Research Labs in Eindhoven, where he spent thirty years in a fruitful association. The renowned physicist Hendrik Casimir was director of Philips Research till 1972. Immink described the atmosphere at that time: "We were able to conduct whatever research we foun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1556788 | 1,235,688 |
1,375,845 | Abelson's studies indicated that in order to reduce the equilibrium time, he needed to have a much greater temperature gradient. The NRL considered building it at the Naval Engineering Experiment Station in Annapolis, Maryland, but this was estimated to cost $2.5 million, which the NRL regarded as too expensive. Other ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3673785 | 1,375,084 |
934,518 | For FM broadcasting (and the few remaining low-band TV stations), weather is the primary cause for changes in VHF propagation, along with some diurnal changes when the sky is mostly without cloud cover. These changes are most obvious during temperature inversions, such as in the late-night and early-morning hours when ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=271195 | 934,026 |
1,626,213 | Eco-health studies differ from traditional, single-discipline studies. A formal epidemiological study may show increasing rates of malaria in a region but does not address the reasons for the increasing rate. An environmental health study may recommend the spraying of a pesticide in specific amounts in certain areas to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4151398 | 1,625,295 |
1,055,964 | In 1999, she led a Harvard University team who, by use of a Bose–Einstein condensate, succeeded in slowing a beam of light to about 17 metres per second, and, in 2001, was able to stop a beam completely. Later work based on these experiments led to the transfer of light to matter, then from matter back into light, a pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1300275 | 1,055,416 |
1,980,014 | Ogin's MEWT (mixer-ejector wind turbine, another CWAT variation) is differentiated from previous DAWT's by using a lobed two stage diffuser (Grumman and Vortec machine were also two stage, but conical instead of lobed) to equalize the pressure over the exit area of the diffuser. The theory is that creating a uniform pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21987025 | 1,978,876 |
349,354 | During the 1920s and 1930s, Frank Lloyd Wright resolutely refused to associate himself with any architectural movements. He considered his architecture to be entirely unique and his own. Between 1916 and 1922, he broke away from his earlier prairie house style and worked instead on houses decorated with textured blocks... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=315927 | 349,171 |
2,001,454 | On March 8, 1915, Kitagawa was born to Christian Japanese parents in the city of Osaka. His father was an Episcopal priest and as a youth he grew up in a parsonage with a minority community of Christians in Japan. As a child, Kitagawa was friends with other children who were sons and daughters of people within Buddhis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27953973 | 2,000,308 |
2,154,900 | Another topic of research for Thompson has been on biotic/abiotic interfaces. The research focuses on smart materials that can respond to different environmental factors to produce technologies that produce desirable results. Such materials can be sensitive to magnetic fields, pH, light, stress, voltage, temperature, e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54282405 | 2,153,669 |
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