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809,556 | Applications of DLC typically utilize the ability of the material to reduce abrasive wear. Tooling components, such as endmills, drill bits, dies and molds often use DLC in this manner. DLC is also used in the engines of modern supersport motorcycles, Formula 1 racecars, NASCAR vehicles, and as a coating on hard-disk p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1821411 | 809,125 |
1,675,037 | The International Microsimulation Association, defines microsimulation as a modelling technique that operates at the level of individual units such as persons, households, vehicles or firms. Within the model each unit is represented by a record containing a unique identifier and a set of associated attributes – e.g. a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3190822 | 1,674,095 |
672 | Flight tests revealed several serious deficiencies that required costly redesigns, caused delays, and resulted in several fleet-wide groundings. In 2011, the F-35C failed to catch the arresting wire in all eight landing tests; a redesigned tail hook was delivered two years later. By June 2009, many of the initial fligh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11812 | 672 |
1,154,068 | Livio has focused much of his research on supernova explosions and their use in determining the rate of expansion of the universe. He has also studied so-called dark energy, black holes, and the formation of planetary systems around young stars. He has contributed to hundreds of papers in peer-reviewed journals on astr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3777856 | 1,153,458 |
884,037 | Between 2000 and 2010, the length of the proteins Folding@home has studied have increased by a factor of four, while its timescales for protein folding simulations have increased by six orders of magnitude. In 2002, Folding@home used Markov state models to complete approximately a million CPU days of simulations over t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=413102 | 883,573 |
1,318,825 | One typical version of Phase I studies in vaccines involves an escalation study, which is used in mainly medicinal research trials. The drug is introduced into a small cohort of healthy volunteers. Vaccine escalation studies aim to minimize chances of serious adverse effects (SAE) by slowly increasing the drug dosage o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1065730 | 1,318,100 |
2,172,355 | DLOC addresses the dynamic nature of collaborative networks, including emergency situations and the volatility of formal and informal communications between the individual and clustered agents. DLOC finds adjustments when networks evolve and undergo gradual changes over time. Specifically, successful realization of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51799119 | 2,171,114 |
1,908,184 | Knowledge of the response of membrane proteins to mismatch has been obtained from a variety of experimental studies. Different types of experimental approaches provide different kinds of insight into the contributions from the abovementioned hypothetical molecular responses. For example, proteins or peptides outfitted ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22574724 | 1,907,087 |
535,110 | It may be inaccurate though to depict the conflict as one sided and mainly perpetrated by Europeans on Aborigines. Although many more Aborigines died than British, this may have had more to do with the technological and logistic advantages enjoyed by the Europeans. Aboriginal tactics varied, but were mainly based on pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1323516 | 534,831 |
605,444 | LRUs are designed to specifications to assure that they can be interchanged, especially if they are from different manufacturers. Usually a class of LRUs will have coordinated environmental specifications (i.e. temperature, condensation, etc.). However, each particular LRU will also have detailed specifications describ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=275888 | 605,134 |
435,505 | Extracellular DNA (ecDNA) is DNA that is found in blood circulation. It appears as a result of apoptosis, necrosis, or neutrophil extracellular traps (NET)-osis of blood and tissue cells, but can also arise from the active secretion from living cells. EcDNA and their designated DNA binding proteins are able to activate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=496305 | 435,291 |
1,179,318 | When the creation or build is finished, the player can fly/drive/sail it around the map which contains five different islands with unique features, (4 on IOS or Android) and/or upload it to the "SimplePlanes" website. The five islands each provide a different experience to the player, with interactive targets. Each isl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48988469 | 1,178,694 |
154,037 | The Lebel Model 1886 rifle (French: Fusil Modèle 1886 dit "Fusil Lebel") also known as the "Fusil Mle 1886 M93", after a bolt modification was added in 1893, is an 8 mm bolt-action infantry rifle that entered service in the French Army in 1887. It is a repeating rifle that can hold eight rounds in its fore-stock tube m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=427222 | 153,967 |
1,268,126 | About thirty were present, including two unnamed guests from overseas, with many there to hear an obituary notice for the former president and botanist Robert Brown given by Lyell. Wallace's natural history agent Samuel Stevens happened to be present, while Darwin's friends there included William Benjamin Carpenter and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=856170 | 1,267,436 |
1,753,925 | Trained as a physicist at the University of Chicago, University of Maryland, and King's College London (PhD in Mathematical Physics), Ayres has dedicated his professional life to advancing the environment, technology and resource end of the sustainability agenda. His major research interests include technological chang... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3540587 | 1,752,935 |
1,946,632 | In April 1954, Reber's older brother, Major General Miles Reber, a West Point graduate, testified on the first day of the Army–McCarthy hearings. He had served as Chief of Army legislative liaison and then become commanding general of the Western Area Command in Europe. He thought McCarthy's attempt to influence the Ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31050310 | 1,945,519 |
2,086,078 | Since February 2009, IAASARS has been operating a ground-based Atmospheric Remote Sensing Station (ARSS) to monitor ground solar radiation levels and particulate pollution over the city of Athens, Greece. ARSS is located on the roof of the Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens (37.9 N, 23.8 E) at an e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41747232 | 2,084,876 |
1,716,539 | Somaesthetics as a research project initially arose from the work of Richard Shusterman during the mid-1990s in response to what he perceived as needed developments within his two principal modes of inquiry: pragmatist aesthetics and philosophy as an embodied art of living. While pragmatist aesthetics, according to Shu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47431129 | 1,715,570 |
123,223 | Recommended acute treatment of vasovagal and orthostatic (hypotension) syncope involves returning blood to the brain by positioning the person on the ground, with legs slightly elevated or sitting leaning forward and the head between the knees for at least 10–15 minutes, preferably in a cool and quiet place. For indivi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20254750 | 123,174 |
1,526,167 | Apolipoprotein D (ApoD) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the "APOD" gene. Unlike other lipoproteins, which are mainly produced in the liver, apolipoprotein D is mainly produced in the brain and testes. It is a 29 kDa glycoprotein discovered in 1963 as a component of the high-density lipoprotein (HDL) fraction ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9755490 | 1,525,304 |
1,460,003 | A very important group of plaques, now dispersed in several collections, were probably commissioned (perhaps by Otto I) for Magdeburg Cathedral and are called the Magdeburg Ivories, "Magdeburg plaques", the "plaques from the Magdeburg Antependium" or similar names. They were probably made in Milan in about 970, to deco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2162018 | 1,459,181 |
898,441 | ERK5 is part of a fairly well-separated pathway in mammals. Its sole specific upstream activator MKK5 is turned on in response to the MAP3 kinases MEKK2 and MEKK3. The specificity of these interactions are provided by the unique architecture of MKK5 and MEKK2/3, both containing N-terminal PB1 domains, enabling direct h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1128936 | 897,967 |
1,110,523 | In vivo, factor XII is activated by binding (contact) to polyanions termed contact-activation. Multiple polymers, the white clay material kaolin and glass are non-physiological factor XII contact activators. Activated platelets release inorganic polymers, polyphosphates. Contact to polyphosphates activates factor XII a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=538958 | 1,109,958 |
526,927 | Suresh joined Brown University in December 1983 as Assistant Professor of Engineering and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in July 1986 and to Professor in July 1989. In 1985, he was selected by the White House to receive the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award. He also received the 1982 Hardy Meda... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24593903 | 526,654 |
1,031,296 | If a suspected brain injury has occurred, the patient undergoes a series of medical imaging, which could include MRI(magnetic resonance imaging) or CT (computed tomography) scan. After the diagnosis of a brain injury, a speech and language pathologist will perform a variety of tests to determine the classification of a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=970950 | 1,030,760 |
199,111 | Parsons came into contact with several prominent intellectuals of the time and was particularly impressed by the ideas of social insect biologist Alfred Emerson. Parsons was especially compelled by Emerson's idea that, in the sociocultural world, the functional equivalent of the gene was that of the "symbol". Parsons a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54041 | 199,008 |
30,899 | These finds cemented Africa as the cradle of humankind. In the late 1970s and the 1980s, Ethiopia emerged as the new hot spot of paleoanthropology after "Lucy", the most complete fossil member of the species "Australopithecus afarensis", was found in 1974 by Donald Johanson near Hadar in the desertic Afar Triangle regi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10326 | 30,889 |
2,151,332 | In addition to writing about scientific results, Bernhardt also writes about scientific career trajectories, academic training, science culture, and work–life balance in academic positions across many career stages. In an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Bernhardt and co-authors urge scientists to prioriti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59705923 | 2,150,101 |
887,044 | Many players of both video games and simulators seek games for their replay value. Simulators enhance the replay value by offering a variety of single missions consisting of short, randomly generated missions as well as longer campaigns consisting of several smaller mission or objectives. Most campaigns are "dynamic fl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1880126 | 886,580 |
971,012 | In addition to all the training usually given to chemical technologists in their respective degree (or one given via an associate degree), a chemist is also trained to understand more details related to chemical phenomena so that the chemist can be capable of more planning on the steps to achieve a distinct goal via a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5636 | 970,502 |
1,817,096 | By the early 1980s the SIPRE/CRREL auger had been in widespread use for nearly thirty years without significant modifications. In 1981, CRREL took on a sea-ice study which required core with a 4.25 in diameter in unbroken lengths of at least 11 in, to allow for mechanical tests. These specifications ruled out the exist... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56017314 | 1,816,061 |
484,411 | If an individual experiences impaired or damaged cognitive inhibition abilities, the psychological results can be extremely debilitating. Patients with obsessive compulsive disorder can experience the effects of reduced cognitive inhibition. "Failures of inhibition were identified in treatment of adults with OCD. In Go... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38433123 | 484,162 |
1,205,524 | Further progress in studies of atomic structure was in tight connection with the advance to shorter [[wavelength]] in EUV region. [[Robert Andrews Millikan|Millikan]], [[Ralph A. Sawyer|Sawyer]], [[Ira Sprague Bowen|Bowen]] used [[electric discharge]]s in vacuum to observe some emission spectral lines down to 13 nm the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35980148 | 1,204,879 |
329,097 | On October 27, 1959, a Convair B-58 Hustler jet bomber was being flown from Carswell Air Force Base near Fort Worth, Texas, to Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. Three civilian crew members were aboard: the pilot, Everette Wheeler, and two flight engineers, Michael Keller and Harry Blosser. At about 7:30 p.m., the plane ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=458762 | 328,922 |
2,053,602 | The Center for Biotechnology is an interdisciplinary organization of researchers from the Duquesne University School of Pharmacy, the Bayer School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, and the Rangos School of Health Sciences. Its mission is to enhance the innovative development and application of biotechnology throug... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13279305 | 2,052,419 |
928,636 | There is, moreover, political complexity to complicate individual culpability. After World War I, the center-left Social Democrats had governed with the right-wing Social Christians in increasingly tenuous coalition, with the emergence of paramilitaries and disorder culminating in civil war. As a matter of "Realpolitik... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65676 | 928,147 |
775,927 | As King of the Norse Gods, Odin possesses vast strength, stamina and durability far greater than that of a normal Asgardian, along with resistance to all Earthly diseases and toxins, incredible resistance to magic and, as a courtesy of the Golden Apples of Idunn, a greatly extended lifespan. Odin has all the abilities ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=994848 | 775,511 |
1,235,596 | A variety of heaters can be used for zone melting, with their most important characteristic being the ability to form short molten zones that move slowly and uniformly through the ingot. Induction coils, ring-wound resistance heaters, or gas flames are common methods. Another method is to pass an electric current direc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=171396 | 1,234,933 |
339,093 | The habilitation teaching qualification ("facultas docendi" or "faculty to teach") under a university procedure with a thesis and an exam is commonly regarded as belonging to this category in Germany, Austria, France, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Poland, etc. The degree developed in Germany in the 19th century "when hol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=188886 | 338,913 |
42,459 | Due to their generally prohibitive cost versus HDDs at the time, until 2009, SSDs were mainly used in those aspects of mission critical applications where the speed of the storage system needed to be as high as possible. Since flash memory has become a common component of SSDs, the falling prices and increased densitie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7366298 | 42,444 |
1,564,539 | In July 1987, ACT transferred its software division of compilers and related tools to a new joint venture called InterACT that was two-thirds owned by LSI Logic and one-third by ACT. (This was now the third time that some form of 'InterACT' had been used.) The goal of InterACT was to produce a set of products for what ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43706094 | 1,563,652 |
1,044,333 | Where the fact of evolutionary change was accepted by biologists but natural selection was denied, including but not limited to the late 19th century eclipse of Darwinism, alternative scientific explanations such as Lamarckism, orthogenesis, structuralism, catastrophism, vitalism and theistic evolution were entertained... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53955838 | 1,043,789 |
856,574 | Patients that experience light to mild symptoms are commonly treated through physical therapy, which involves stretching and strengthening the lower back, abdominal (core) and leg muscles. Common stretches used include the knee to chest stretch, posterior pelvic tilt, neural stretching of the legs, hip-flexor stretch a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12730702 | 856,119 |
1,643,055 | Structurally, DsbA contains a thioredoxin domain with an inserted helical domain of unknown function. Like other thioredoxin-based enzymes, DsbA's catalytic site is a CXXC motif (CPHC in "E. coli" DsbA). The pair of cysteines may be oxidized (forming an internal disulfide) or reduced (as free thiols), and thus allows f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29200295 | 1,642,128 |
1,893,094 | Naadiya Moosajee was born in South Africa in 1984 and earned her bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering and master's degree in Transportation Engineering from the University of Cape Town. She later studied at the University of Edinburgh, earning her master's degree in business administration. Early in her career, she w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57218855 | 1,892,011 |
2,097,426 | The judging criteria challenged students to complete an application that included several essays. The essays were then evaluated for communication abilities by DCYSC judges who selected 400 semi-finalists. The judging panel also selected 40 finalists who received an all-expense-paid trip to Washington D.C. to compete i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40075620 | 2,096,218 |
130,720 | Heavy losses to enemy fighters forced the reintroduction of a rear gunner; early Il-2s were field modified by cutting a hole in the fuselage behind the cockpit for a gunner sitting on a canvas sling armed with a UBT machine gun in an improvised mounting. The semi-turret gun mount allowed the machine gun to be fired at ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=183726 | 130,668 |
1,877,537 | The New Zealand midge has 4 stages in its life cycle. This ranges from egg, larva, pupa and adult. The midge often breeds in swarms in areas of lakes and stagnant water which suits pupae and larvae to breed. Eggs are often laid in numbers up to 3000 and are contained in a gelatinous substance which helps it to attach t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54120791 | 1,876,459 |
210,728 | David Watt's 2004 textbook also analyzes exception handling in the framework of sequencers (introduced in this article in the section on early exits from loops). Watt notes that an abnormal situation, generally exemplified with arithmetic overflows or [[input/output]] failures like file not found, is a kind of error th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45459 | 210,621 |
1,707,263 | Dimitri Nanopoulos was born and raised in Athens. His grandfather, Dimitris Nakas, was an Aromanian and an ardent Greek nationalist who had migrated at the beginning of the 20th century to New York, but in March 1914 traveled back to his native land in order to participate in the Greek struggle for northern Epirus, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2845472 | 1,706,305 |
56,353 | IMAX's proprietary DMR (Digital Media Remastering) process up-converts conventional films to IMAX format. This special digital intermediate technology let IMAX venues show films shot on 35mm for conventional theaters. In 2002, "" and an IMAX-format re-release of the 1995 film "Apollo 13", were the first official applic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=173787 | 56,329 |
1,653,362 | Delambre's quickly achieved success in his career in astronomy, such that in 1788, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In 1790, to establish a universally accepted foundation for the definition of measures, the National Constituent Assembly asked the French Academy of Sciences to i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=179945 | 1,652,430 |
1,820,950 | at Siemens, his work was concerned with the acoustic properties of telephones. Between 1940 and 1945, he worked the Telecommunications Research Establishment being particularly responsible for developing the microwave radar After, Adams moved to the Atomic Energy Research Establishment until 1953. In 1953, he moved onc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1249565 | 1,819,913 |
133,285 | The curriculum of these medieval institutions centered on the seven liberal arts, which were aimed at providing beginning students with the skills for reasoning and scholarly language. Students would begin their studies starting with the first three liberal arts or "Trivium" (grammar, rhetoric, and logic) followed by t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14400 | 133,232 |
1,060,412 | The October 2001 asteroid deflection workshop participants created the "B612 Project" to further their research. Schweickart, along with Drs. Hut, Lu and Chapman, then formed the B612 Foundation on October 7, 2002, with its first goal being to "significantly alter the orbit of an asteroid in a controlled manner". Schwe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=333633 | 1,059,861 |
1,270,204 | Around the 1970s the study of market failures again came into focus with the study of information asymmetry. In particular three authors emerged from this period: Akerlof, Spence, and Stiglitz. Akerlof considered the problem of bad quality cars driving good quality cars out of the market in his classic "The Market for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46194565 | 1,269,513 |
893,987 | Though Hutton circulated privately a printed version of the abstract of his Theory ("Concerning the System of the Earth, its Duration, and Stability") which he read at a meeting of the Royal Society of Edinburgh on 4 July 1785; the full account of his theory as read at 7 March 1785 and 4 April 1785 meetings did not app... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15965 | 893,517 |
405,220 | In 1931, Arthur Eddington published in the "Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society" a long commentary on Lemaître's 1927 article, which Eddington described as a "brilliant solution" to the outstanding problems of cosmology. The original paper was published in an abbreviated English translation later on in 19... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=224698 | 405,020 |
162,155 | By 1921, more than 3 million Britons were unemployed as a result of the postwar economic downturn. While the economy was recovering by 1922–1923, the UK found itself struggling again by 1926, the general strike of that year doing it no favours. Growth for the remainder of the decade became erratic, with brief periods o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33643110 | 162,070 |
1,691,241 | EP is classified as a relaxant type of prostaglandin receptor based on its ability, upon activation, to relax the contraction of certain smooth muscle preparations and smooth muscle-containing tissues that have been pre-contracted by stimulation. When bound to PGE or other of its agonists, it mobilizes G proteins conta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14162110 | 1,690,291 |
799,450 | Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) followed by a radical cystectomy (RC) and pelvic lymph node dissection is current standard of care to treat muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC). NAC was justified for use in MIBC due to a randomized control trial which showed an improved median overall survival (OS; 77 months vs. 46 mon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3120122 | 799,025 |
310,213 | Biologists have found extremophiles that thrive in ice, boiling water, acid, alkali, the water core of nuclear reactors, salt crystals, toxic waste and in a range of other extreme habitats that were previously thought to be inhospitable for life. This opened up a new avenue in astrobiology by massively expanding the nu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2787 | 310,046 |
1,583,047 | Two different types of beetles are classified as flour beetles: the red flour beetle and the confused flour beetle. Both are similar in physical characteristics. They are flat and oval in shape and usually range around long. Their exoskeletons are reddish brown with a shiny and smooth texture. The eggs, larvae, and pup... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16345498 | 1,582,157 |
1,028,415 | Over several years starting in 1894 the Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi built the first complete, commercially successful wireless telegraphy system based on airborne electromagnetic waves (radio transmission). In December 1901, he would go on to established wireless communication between Britain and Newfoundland, e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8774050 | 1,027,881 |
359,927 | Elsewhere, Potemkin's scheme to develop a Russian presence in the rapidly disintegrating state of Persia failed. Plans for a full-scale invasion had previously been cut back and a small unit sent to establish a trading post there was quickly turned away. Potemkin focused instead on Russia's southern provinces, where he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=475101 | 359,740 |
1,884,472 | The establishment and operation of Queensland Agricultural College was an important commitment by the Queensland Government to agricultural advancement. The development of the dairying industry was an early priority as was the introduction of new agricultural methods and technologies. For instance, in 1897, the first c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44321024 | 1,883,391 |
838,302 | Mendelevium was the ninth transuranic element to be synthesized. It was first synthesized by Albert Ghiorso, Glenn T. Seaborg, Gregory Robert Choppin, Bernard G. Harvey, and team leader Stanley G. Thompson in early 1955 at the University of California, Berkeley. The team produced Md (half-life of 77 minutes) when they ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18899 | 837,853 |
1,645,756 | Ecological fitting can influence species diversity either by promoting diversification through genetic drift, or by maintaining evolutionary stasis through gene flow. Research has shown that ecological fitting can result in parasite assemblages that are just as diverse as those produced over evolutionary time, indicati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30509934 | 1,644,827 |
1,859,090 | While most volcanoes emit some mixture of the same few gasses, each volcano's emissions contain different ratios of those gasses. Water vapour (HO) is the predominant gas molecule produced, closely followed by carbon dioxide (CO) and sulfur dioxide (SO), all of which can function as greenhouse gasses. A few unique volc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31670958 | 1,858,022 |
1,330,683 | Evidence-based nursing (EBN) is an approach to making quality decisions and providing nursing care based upon personal clinical expertise in combination with the most current, relevant research available on the topic. This approach is using evidence-based practice (EBP) as a foundation. EBN implements the most up to da... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16818407 | 1,329,954 |
246,716 | Campus architecture is diverse, but its prevailing image is perhaps best characterized by a handful of red-brick buildings in the older campus core designed in a neo-Georgian or Renaissance Revival mode, many of which were constructed between the world wars. Yet WSU was hardly immune to modernist, "international style"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=228600 | 246,588 |
761,011 | In 1908, Einstein's former mathematics professor Hermann Minkowski modeled 3D space together with the 1D axis of time by treating the temporal axis like a fourth spatial dimension—altogether 4D spacetime—and declared the imminent demise of the separation of space and time. Einstein initially called this "superfluous le... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=173416 | 760,605 |
1,617 | While most historians trace the origins of the Cold War to the period immediately following World War II, some argue that it began with the October Revolution in Russia in 1917 when the Bolsheviks took power. In World War I, the British, French and Russian Empires had composed the major Allied Powers from the start, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=325329 | 1,617 |
52,145 | Critics in the 1990s such as J. R. Harris, Steven Pinker and Jerome Kagan were generally concerned with the concept of infant determinism (nature versus nurture), stressing the effects of later experience on personality. Building on the work on temperament of Stella Chess, Kagan rejected almost every assumption on whic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=884589 | 52,125 |
239,985 | While BioWare did not have any strong ideas at the start of "Anthem"s development cycle, they knew they wanted an action game that players could play cooperatively, and which moved away from their "Mass Effect" and "Dragon Age" franchises. An early idea that focused the direction was the use robotic-enhanced exosuits, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54272102 | 239,865 |
229,306 | Limited knowledge of the taxonomy, biogeography and natural history of deep sea communities prevents accurate assessment of the risk of species extinctions from large-scale mining. Data acquired from the abyssal North Pacific and North Atlantic suggest that deep-sea ecosystems may be adversely affected by mining operat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=972800 | 229,189 |
1,106,696 | An important potential application of perceptual learning is the acquisition of skill for practical purposes. Thus it is important to understand whether training for increased resolution in lab conditions induces a general upgrade which transfers to other environmental contexts, or results from mechanisms which are con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25335695 | 1,106,132 |
1,457,645 | Synthetic CpG ODN differ from microbial DNA in that they have a partially or completely phosphorothioated (PS) backbone instead of the typical phosphodiester backbone and a poly G tail at the 3' end, 5' end, or both. PS modification protects the ODN from being degraded by nucleases such as DNase in the body and poly G ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23780702 | 1,456,825 |
427,674 | After a silence, the second part of the Adagio (from bar 77) follows. This is largely based on the components of the main theme. The existing material presented is varied and further developed. The principle of tone splitting is also evident here, above all in the opposite voice of the flute, which as a new element for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2052551 | 427,464 |
254,585 | An example of SDT and education are Sudbury Model schools where people decide for themselves how to spend their days. In these schools, students of all ages determine what they do, as well as when, how, and where they do it. This freedom is at the heart of the school; it belongs to the students as their right, not to b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2679667 | 254,452 |
2,062,132 | The Ocean Tracking Network, headquartered at Dalhousie University in Halifax was established in 2008, with $168 million in funding provided by the Canada Foundation for Innovation and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council. The project seeks to establish a worldwide animal surveillance and ocean monitori... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18401364 | 2,060,942 |
1,979,805 | The first book “"Globalization. Outline of the Holistic World" ” is a fundamental fragment of the general theory of globalization developed by the author, in which he recreates a holistic (integral) picture of the world and considers globalization, on the one hand, as a natural-historical process, and on the other, as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40153145 | 1,978,667 |
309,826 | The aphelion of Venus, for example, touches the inner edge of the zone in most estimates and while atmospheric pressure at the surface is sufficient for liquid water, a strong greenhouse effect raises surface temperatures to at which water can only exist as vapour. The entire orbits of the Moon, Mars, and numerous aste... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1072751 | 309,659 |
1,741,914 | Etoricoxib, that is used for patients with chronic arthropathies and musculoskeletal and dental pain, is absorbed moderately when given orally. A study on its pharmacokinetics showed that the plasma peak concentration of etoricoxib occurs after approximately 1 hour. It has shown to be extensively bound to plasma albumi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20187427 | 1,740,930 |
1,202,022 | Extended occupational exposure to 1-bromopropane in higher concentrations than recommended has resulted in significant injury to workers in the United States. Its use as a solvent in aerosol glues used to glue foam cushions has been especially controversial. Reported symptoms of overexposure affect the nervous system a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14898683 | 1,201,380 |
458,122 | Hopkins received his commission in the United States Air Force via the Air Force ROTC from the University of Illinois, where he was a distinguished graduate. After graduating with his bachelor's degree he was commissioned a second lieutenant in January 1992. Early in his Air Force career, he was stationed at Kirtland A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23437038 | 457,899 |
957,916 | The question of how to understand Aristotle's conception of nature having a purpose and direction something like human activity is controversial in the details. Martha Nussbaum for example has argued that in his biology this approach was practical and meant to show nature only being analogous to human art, explanations... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30731 | 957,410 |
596,370 | The formation of embedded nanoparticles is complex, and all of the controlling parameters and factors have not yet been investigated. Computer simulation is still difficult as it involves processes of diffusion and clustering, however it can be broken down into a few different sub-processes such as implantation, diffus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23891367 | 596,065 |
2,021,393 | Interest in ribotoxins has also been revived by the prospect of their use as components of antitumor immunotoxins. These immunotoxins are chimeric molecules composed of a fragment of a specific antibody, responsible for targeting a surface antigen present only in certain tumor cells, fused with a ribotoxin that promote... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60078619 | 2,020,230 |
101,588 | The intense modern interest in this "Cambrian explosion" was sparked by the work of Harry B. Whittington and colleagues, who, in the 1970s, reanalysed many fossils from the Burgess Shale and concluded that several were as complex as, but different from, any living animals. The most common organism, "Marrella", was clea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19349161 | 101,543 |
30,861 | When the M2 was first being designed, John Browning faced two design challenges. With the machine tools available at that time, the dimensions that established the location of the bolt face and the depth of the chamber could not be held tightly enough to control the fit of the cartridge in the chamber. The round can be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=246727 | 30,851 |
1,338,738 | Not all assessments were negative. Paul Thurrott praised NGSCB, stating that it was "Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing initiative made real" and that it would "form the basis of next-generation computer systems." Scott Bekker of "Redmond Magazine" stated that NGSCB was misunderstood because of its controversy and that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59524 | 1,338,005 |
1,626,043 | The university has about 10,000 students, 117 classrooms, 28 teaching laboratories located in 55 specially equipped classrooms, and five educational and computer centers. It has 638 teachers, including 420 with academic degrees and titles, one member of Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences (RAACS),... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18480316 | 1,625,125 |
1,639,620 | In the 19th century Charles Wheatstone determined that retinal disparity was a large contributor to depth perception. Using a stereoscope, he showed that horizontal disparity is used by the brain to calculate the relative depths of different objects in 3-dimensional space in reference to a fixed point. This process is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41121858 | 1,638,694 |
602,305 | Rossi is on record as writing of his synthetic modified mRNA: "because our technology is RNA based, it completely eliminates the risk of genomic integration and insertional mutagenesis inherent to all DNA-based methodologies." The abstract from this paper which earned him recognition of "Time" reads in part: "Here we d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56690627 | 601,996 |
1,586,220 | In 1980 he received the NASA Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement in recognition of his earlier work on transonic potential flow. In 1988 he received the Gold Medal of the British Royal Aeronautical Society for his outstanding contribution to the development of methods for the calculation of transonic flow over... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7655681 | 1,585,329 |
813,336 | On 29 June 1940 the LaGG-3 was accepted for production. The first plant to build LaGG-3's was Plant No.23 in Leningrad and was tested in December 1940. As soon they were built, the first aircraft were sent to their units in Soviet Asia. The LaGG-3 proved immensely unpopular with pilots. It was somewhat hard to control ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8237706 | 812,903 |
337,730 | Little happened until the beginning of 1886, but with the re-election of Jules Grévy as president and his appointment of Edouard Lockroy as Minister for Trade decisions began to be made. A budget for the Exposition was passed and on 1 May Lockroy announced an alteration to the terms of the open competition which was be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12232 | 337,551 |
869,874 | By the end of 1809, he had constructed the world's first full-size glider and flown it as an unmanned tethered kite. In the same year, goaded by the farcical antics of his contemporaries (see above), he began the publication of a landmark three-part treatise titled "On Aerial Navigation" (1809–1810). In it he wrote the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1607990 | 869,414 |
1,480,307 | During his tenure at UC Davis, he trained more than 30 graduate students in genetics, developmental biology and agricultural science. In 1973, Stebbins gave his last lectures at UC Davis and was made professor emeritus. Following his retirement, he travelled widely, taught, and visited colleagues for the next 20 years.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1591079 | 1,479,473 |
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