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293,968 | In 2012, a McClatchy investigation found that the NRO was possibly breaching ethical and legal boundaries by encouraging its polygraph examiners to extract personal and private information from DoD personnel during polygraph tests that were limited to counterintelligence issues. Allegations of abusive polygraph practic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=377048 | 293,809 |
888,367 | The American College of Prosthodontists (ACP) ensures standards are maintained in the field. Becoming a prosthodontist requires an additional three years of postgraduate specialty training after obtaining a dental degree. Recently, the ADA's Commission on Dental Accreditation (CODA) passed the updated educational stand... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1356602 | 887,899 |
898,796 | Kuznets' views and scientific methodology were highly influenced by methodological settings received by him in Kharkiv and fully shared by Mitchell for the statistical, inductive construction of hypotheses in economics and its empirical testing. Kuznets treated a priori and speculative conceptions with deep skepticism.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276820 | 898,321 |
1,382,607 | Phylactolaemate colonies reproduce sexually, and each member is a simultaneous hermaphrodite that functions as both male and female. They also reproduce asexually by a method that is unique among bryozoans and enables a colony's lineage to survive the variable and uncertain conditions of freshwater environments. Among ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22865328 | 1,381,842 |
863,549 | The Praxe is a body of ritual and custom founded upon ancient traditions and it is a controversial part of Coimbra's academic life to which no university student is indifferent. Part of the attraction of Coimbra's academic life, aside from its recognized excellence is that it is more "Praxe", having unique rituals that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=715164 | 863,089 |
1,965,108 | Patz and his research team focus on the cusp of climate change and health. Patz served as Principal Investigator for an EPA STAR grant in 1996 entitled, “Integrated Assessment of the Public Health Effects of Climate Change for the US and US territories”, one of the first federal grants awarded on this subject. This pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50954852 | 1,963,979 |
545,834 | Fleming enrolled for a BSc degree at University College London, graduated in 1870, and studied under the mathematician Augustus de Morgan and the physicist George Carey Foster. He became a student of chemistry at the Royal College of Science in South Kensington in London (now Imperial College). There he first studied A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16291 | 545,548 |
29,540 | Due to the proliferation in alchemical literature of pseudepigrapha and anonymous works, it is difficult to know which of the alchemists were actually women. As the sixteenth century went on, scientific culture flourished and people began collecting "secrets". During this period "secrets" referred to experiments, and t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=573 | 29,530 |
1,374,225 | All the applications cited above have employed technology in which the basic physical understanding and performance of the thermionic converter were essentially the same as those achieved before 1970. During the period from 1973 to 1983, however, significant research on advanced low-temperature thermionic converter tec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1252913 | 1,373,467 |
255,685 | Notable Filipino scientists have been contributors in the field of social science in the country. Raul V. Fabella was an academic, economist and scientist that graduated in Seminario Mayor-Recoletos (Bachelor of Philosophy; 1970); the University of the Philippines School of Economics (Master of Arts; 1975); and Yale Un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9629399 | 255,551 |
303,803 | Eventually new SEAD-dedicated aircraft were introduced, the Air Force's EF-105F/F-105G Thunderchief and Navy's A-6B Intruder, which mounted more sophisticated detection equipment and carried the AGM-45 Shrike and AGM-78 Standard anti-radiation missiles (ARMs). These fighter-bombers became very adept at tracking down an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=573491 | 303,641 |
515,785 | The most pressing threat for many species, particularly the smaller ones, comes from species introduced to their colonies. Procellariids overwhelmingly breed on islands away from land predators such as mammals, and for the most part have lost the defensive adaptations needed to deal with them (with the exception of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=224443 | 515,516 |
1,770,851 | During Lutkin's 33-year tenure, a new music building opened, the "Beehive" practice facility was constructed, and the first honorary doctor of music degree was awarded in 1915 to Frederick Stock, conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Lutkin was succeeded in 1928 by Carl Beecher, who had earned the school's first... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4174423 | 1,769,854 |
1,672,157 | In March 1878, Wilhelm Hack of Freiburg published a paper describing the use of non-surgical orotracheal intubation in the removal of vocal cord polyps. In November of that year, he published another study, this time on the use of orotracheal intubation to secure the airway of a patient with acute glottic edema, progre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28862297 | 1,671,215 |
261,330 | The cell cycle is a sequence of activities in which cell organelles are duplicated and subsequently separated into daughter cells with precision. There are major events that happen during a cell cycle. The processes that happen in the cell cycle include cell development, replication and segregation of chromosomes. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6339 | 261,193 |
324,538 | Literature published in 2004 suggests that, along with previously established pollution mitigation, a more circular supply chain would help mitigate some of the pollution at the extraction point. This means recycling and reusing REEs that are already in use or reaching the end of their life cycle. A study published in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=145440 | 324,365 |
1,672,802 | In 2007, chromosome 1p13.3 was identified as a promising locus through a genome-wide approach in patients with coronary artery disease. Subsequently, accumulating evidence suggests that the "SORT1" gene at the 1p13 locus is an important risk factor for coronary artery disease, which is attributed to lipid metabolism di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14343235 | 1,671,860 |
1,635,963 | Mary Agnes Chase (1869–1963) was an American botanist who specialized in agrostology, the study of grasses. Although lacking formal education past elementary school, Chase was able to rise through the ranks as a botanist at the United States Department of Agriculture, beginning as an illustrator under the tutelage of A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31328401 | 1,635,038 |
1,397,479 | Italy has administered a comprehensive range of feed-in tariffs and incentives for renewable energy producers. The rationale for a feed-in tariff (FIT) in the power sector is that incentives spur the development of production capacity, technology and economies of scale in emerging renewable energy sources. As a technol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32847002 | 1,396,706 |
909,887 | The goal of the merger was for the government to ultimately spend less money maintaining a new building than an old one. It was estimated that the new facility would cost about $172 million less to manage each year. The original 2005 estimate of the cost of shutting down WRAMC, and shifting it across town to Bethesda, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8167907 | 909,408 |
1,506,994 | In 1977 Casey attacked the Race Relations Act 1976 for removing the requirement of "mischievous intent" in inciting racial hatred. He claimed that the requirement was a safeguard of freedom of speech and that the racial issue was a political issue with the "possibilities and limitations of rational discussion" much lik... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4383531 | 1,506,148 |
48,523 | The new understanding of benzene, and hence of all aromatic compounds, proved to be so important for both pure and applied chemistry that in 1890 the German Chemical Society organized an elaborate appreciation in Kekulé's honor, celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of his first benzene paper. Here Kekulé spoke of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18582186 | 48,503 |
327,714 | Charles Darwin's grandfather Erasmus Darwin outlined a hypothesis of transmutation of species in the 1790s, and French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck published a more developed theory in 1809. Both envisaged that spontaneous generation produced simple forms of life that progressively developed greater complexity, ada... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29932 | 327,540 |
1,355,092 | Renault began selling the Elect'Road, a plug-in series hybrid version of their popular Kangoo, in Europe. It was sold alongside Renault's "Electri'cite" electric-drive Kangoo battery electric van. The Elect'Road had a 150 km range using a nickel-cadmium battery pack and a 500 cc, 16 kW liquid-cooled gasoline "range-ext... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11443610 | 1,354,344 |
736,172 | A 2004 doctoral dissertation by Don Brady examined NFL Players' knowledge of concussions, studying both active and retired National Football League Players' knowledge of concussions. Brady's findings concluded: that many NFL players lacked accurate and essential knowledge pertaining to various aspects of a concussion; ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36082813 | 735,785 |
470,644 | This degree of diversity makes defining synapomorphy (derived common characteristics) for the group extremely difficult, the order being defined on the basis of molecular affinity rather than morphology. However, some characteristics that are prevalent (common traits) represent potential or putative synapomorphies base... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26987 | 470,408 |
364,590 | The Gatling gun, patented in 1861 by Richard Jordan Gatling, was the first to offer controlled, sequential fire with mechanical loading. The design's key features were machine loading of prepared cartridges and a hand-operated crank for sequential high-speed firing. It first saw very limited action in the American Civi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19690 | 364,399 |
1,789,832 | Current research on antibiotic synergy and potential therapies is moving in three primary directions. Some research is devoted to finding combinations of extant antibiotics which when combined exhibit synergy. A classic example of this effect is the interaction between β-lactams, which damage the bacteria cell membrane... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46489321 | 1,788,826 |
1,169,792 | One of the effects of this extensive network of schools was the growth of the "democratic myth" in the 19th century, which created the widespread belief that many a "lad of pairts" had been able to rise up through the system to take high office and that literacy was much more widespread in Scotland than in neighbouring... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18943753 | 1,169,173 |
1,322,663 | When evaluating land spreading as a drilling waste management option, several items should be considered. These include area-wide topographical and geological features; current and likely future activities around the disposal site; hydrogeologic data (location, size, and direction of flow for existing surface water bod... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5124364 | 1,321,937 |
135,476 | Although the sequence of the human genome has been completely determined by DNA sequencing, it is not yet fully understood. Most, but not all, genes have been identified by a combination of high throughput experimental and bioinformatics approaches, yet much work still needs to be done to further elucidate the biologic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42888 | 135,421 |
348,563 | With assistance from firearms engineers at Fabrique Nationale de Herstal, Belgium, the Model 1919 was completely re-engineered into the .30 caliber M2/AN (Army-Navy) aircraft machine gun (not to be confused with the .50 caliber M2/AN or the 20mm AN/M2, the two other primary US aircraft weapons of WWII). The .30 in M2/A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30863956 | 348,381 |
1,258,501 | Over time, the approach to cerebral palsy management has shifted away from narrow attempts to fix individual physical problems such as spasticity in a particular limb to making such treatments part of a larger goal of maximizing the person's independence and community engagement. Much of childhood therapy is aimed at i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27399297 | 1,257,814 |
4,000 | After the success of their first game "Kinetica" (2001), Santa Monica Studio began development of the original "God of War" in 2002, and unveiled it two years later at SCEA Santa Monica Gamers' Day 2004. Game director and creator David Jaffe said that although the idea for "God of War" was his own, the concept owed a d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16282491 | 4,000 |
1,652,492 | Ole Skovsmose describes a classroom in Denmark in which students learned about the use of algorithms for distribution of welfare support to families by attempting to create their own algorithms. The class worked in groups, where each group came up with a family profile to serve under the supervision of the instructor. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52098442 | 1,651,560 |
840,748 | Between 1880 and 1957, courts in Michigan, Mississippi, Ohio, and California rejected expert testimony for bloodspatter analysis, generally holding that it added nothing to the jurors' own evaluations of bloodstains submitted as evidence. In 1957, the California Supreme Court became the first American court to accept e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2782331 | 840,298 |
112,549 | The discovery of microwave cosmic background radiation announced in 1965 finally brought an effective end to the remaining scientific uncertainty over the expanding universe. It was a chance result from work by two teams less than 60 miles apart. In 1964, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson were trying to detect radio wave ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=847879 | 112,504 |
1,356,738 | In 2007, National University of Singapore physicist Antonio Castro Neto hypothesized that pressing two misaligned graphene sheets together might yield new electrical properties, and separately proposed that graphene might offer a route to superconductivity, but he did not combine the two ideas. In 2010 researchers from... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60654187 | 1,355,988 |
1,708,405 | In 1970, Ken Freeman demonstrated the first 'string machine' which was essentially combo-organ like in size and how it generated tones. It had simple controls though centered around creating an ensemble effect where vibrato is happening at slightly different rates on different notes like in a real orchestra. Freeman us... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56945879 | 1,707,447 |
1,668,466 | Immune dysregulation can also be caused by toxins. For example, in environmental workers, increased exposure to pesticides (such as DDT, organophosphate, amides, phthalamides, etc.) disrupts immune system responses. The resulting damage depends on the individual's age, dose and time of toxin exposure. At a young age an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6865131 | 1,667,526 |
1,044,104 | The origins and evolutionary relationships between the three main groups of amphibians are hotly debated. A molecular phylogeny based on rDNA analysis dating from 2005 suggests that salamanders and caecilians are more closely related to each other than they are to frogs, and the divergence of the three groups took plac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23444071 | 1,043,560 |
1,962,334 | for anything more than a conic Bézier segment. Searching for a single form, the group worked together, learning about knots, multiple knots, and how nicely Bézier segments, especially the conics, could be imbedded into a B-spline curve with multiple knots. Looking back, it seemed so simple: It is easy to verify that th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37607697 | 1,961,206 |
1,804,140 | Atypical lipomatous tumors (ALTs) are a type of well-differentiated liposarcoma. The term ALT is often applied to tumors located in surgically accessible locations such as the skin, oral cavity, or eye socket whereas the term well-differentiated liposarcomas is applied to tumors in less surgically accessible, deep, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2018913 | 1,803,125 |
1,536,863 | The subject of overreactions has also been important in behavioral finance. In his 2006 PhD thesis, Duran examined 130,000 data points of daily prices for closed-end funds in terms of their deviation from the net asset value (NAV). Funds exhibiting a large deviation from NAV were likely to behave in the opposite direct... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14246632 | 1,535,995 |
57,381 | On 23 December 2004, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz approved a program budget decision that ended the procurement of C-130J for the Air Force and completed the remaining KC-130J order for the Marine Corps in 2006, which would save US$5 billion in the Pentagon budget. Deficiencies with the C-130J that w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16172717 | 57,357 |
1,275,244 | Footdrumming is used widely as a predator warning or defensive action. It is used primarily by fossorial or semi-fossorial rodents, but has also been recorded for spotted skunks ("Spilogale putorius"), deer (e.g. white-tailed deer "Odocoileus virginianus"), marsupials (e.g. tammar wallabies "Macropus eugenii"), rabbits... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28544210 | 1,274,552 |
264,746 | Initial data from the WHI in 2002 suggested mortality to be lower when HRT was begun earlier, between age 50 to 59, but higher when begun after age 60. In older patients, there was an apparent increased incidence of breast cancer, heart attacks, venous thrombosis, and stroke, although a reduced incidence of colorectal ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19526030 | 264,603 |
36,917 | In Europe, lead production began to increase in the 11th and 12th centuries, when it was again used for roofing and piping. Starting in the 13th century, lead was used to create stained glass. In the European and Arabian traditions of alchemy, lead (symbol ♄ in the European tradition) was considered an impure base meta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17747 | 36,905 |
2,215,925 | Normally, the Atlantic Hockey champion received a 4th seed for the NCAA tournament. Air Force, with its 26 wins and top-15 ranking, was afforded a 3rd seed, becoming just the second entry from its conference to be given that high of a ranking. They opened the tournament against Western Michigan, who they had already pl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70000301 | 2,214,665 |
742,347 | The effects of atmospheric stratification cause the radio path to bend downward in a typical situation so a major distance is possible as the earth equivalent curvature increases from 6370 km to about 8500 km (a 4/3 equivalent radius effect). Rare events of temperature, humidity and pressure profile versus height, may ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5540651 | 741,955 |
1,304,423 | The origin of the term "neuroethics" has occupied some writers. Rees and Rose (as cited in "References" on page 9) claim "neuroethics" is a neologism that emerged only at the beginning of the 21st century, largely through the oral and written communications of ethicists and philosophers. According to Racine (2010), the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=703002 | 1,303,707 |
251,813 | In 1864, Wallace published a paper, "The Origin of Human Races and the Antiquity of Man Deduced from the Theory of 'Natural Selection, applying the theory to humankind. Darwin had not yet publicly addressed the subject, although Thomas Huxley had in "Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature". Wallace explained the apparent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1494 | 251,680 |
1,253,839 | Modern Japan's foreign policy was shaped at the outset by its need to reconcile its Asian identity with its desire for status and security in an international order dominated by the West. The principal foreign policy goals of the Meiji period (1868–1912) were to protect the integrity and independence of the nation agai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2998679 | 1,253,159 |
65,366 | In possible contrast with other transhumanist organizations, WTA officials considered that social forces could undermine their futurist visions and needed to be addressed. A particular concern is the equal access to human enhancement technologies across classes and borders. In 2006, a political struggle within the tran... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30299 | 65,341 |
579,478 | The conceptual foundation for DNA nanotechnology was first laid out by Nadrian Seeman in the early 1980s. A number of natural branched DNA structures were known at the time, including the DNA replication fork and the mobile Holliday junction, but Seeman's insight was that immobile nucleic acid junctions could be create... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4613341 | 579,181 |
2,196,863 | George Herbert Allen (August 16, 1923, Kusnacht, Switzerland – May 9, 2011, McKinleyville, California) was an American ichthyologist and fisheries scientist. His father was a US consul and they family moved to Calgary with his father's posting in 1927 and George remained there until he went to the University of Wyoming... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57917771 | 2,195,612 |
181,041 | Prototypes were field tested between 26 April and 12 May 1942; the evaluation commission's report was largely favorable, but still proposed some minor improvements mostly aimed at strengthening the gun's structure. By July, Shpagin had finished his own improved model (PPSh-2), and it was pitted in field trials against ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30863752 | 180,947 |
107,274 | An intrinsic contributor to the antibiotic resistant nature of "M. tuberculosis" is its unique cell wall. Saturated with long-chain fatty acids or mycolic acids, the mycobacterial cell presents a robust, relatively insoluble barrier. This has led to its synthesis being the target of many antibiotics - such as Isoniazid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=392019 | 107,229 |
703,459 | Consistent discretizations approach developed by Jorge Pullin and Rodolfo Gambini have no constraints. These are lattice approximation techniques for quantum gravity. In the canonical approach if one discretizes the constraints and equations of motion, the resulting discrete equations are inconsistent: they cannot be s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42598658 | 703,091 |
109,054 | Most emission analysis use average emissions rates across regions instead of marginal generation at different times of the day. The former approach does not take into account the generation mix within interconnected electricity markets and shifting load profiles throughout the day. An analysis by three economist affili... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1611987 | 109,009 |
1,456,087 | In 2013, Lautenschlager performed digital reconstructions for the cranial musculature in "Erlikosaurus" and found a relatively weak bite force compared to other theropods. As a whole, the adductor musculature of the jaws—which primarily function to close the jaws—generates a total force of 374 and 570 N but only a smal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4613539 | 1,455,267 |
2,016,519 | Held in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, the 1982 Women's Final Four Basketball Tournament was the first sponsored by the NCAA. Featuring host Elizabethtown College, Clark College (Massachusetts), Pomona College and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, the tournament was played in a classic field house over a th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=538065 | 2,015,357 |
1,370,746 | Burnet continued to travel and speak, but in the early 1980s, he and his wife became increasingly hampered by illness. Having surmised his illness two years earlier, in November 1984 he underwent surgery for colorectal cancer. He made plans to resume scientific meetings, but was then taken ill again, with significant p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=417493 | 1,369,990 |
165,822 | After studying in the B/L program of Lycée Henri-IV's Classes préparatoires, Duflo began her undergraduate studies at École normale supérieure in Paris, planning to study history, her interest since childhood. In her second year, she began considering a career in the civil service or politics. She spent ten months in M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16736191 | 165,737 |
379,112 | Although typically applied to printed, published, broadcast, and reproduced materials in contemporary times, all words, letters, symbols, and numbers written alongside the earliest naturalistic drawings by humans may be called typography. The word, "typography", is derived from the Greek words τύπος "typos" "form" or "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31217 | 378,917 |
215,802 | The 13th-century Dominican scholar Albert the Great posited that, as erosion was known to occur, there must be some process whereby new mountains and other land-forms were thrust up, or else there would eventually be no land; he suggested that marine fossils in mountainsides must once have been at the sea-floor. Orogen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53879 | 215,694 |
524,498 | Whewell built on Lubbock's work to develop an understanding of tidal patterns around the world that could be used to generate predictions for many locations without the need for long series of tidal observations at each port. This required extensive new observations, initially obtained through an informal network, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=205488 | 524,226 |
1,153,731 | The silsesquioxane core in these hybrid materials provides an increased glass transition temperature, improved mechanical properties, higher use temperature, and lower flammability. These desirable properties combined with the ability to readily functionalize a silsesquioxane with multiple antimicrobial groups allows f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18503727 | 1,153,121 |
1,512,727 | Garcia's research integrates approaches in structural biology, biochemistry and protein engineering to understand how cell surface receptors sense environmental cues through the engagement of extracellular ligands, and transduce signals. The overarching theme of the laboratory is to elucidate the structural and mechani... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52035641 | 1,511,876 |
7,298 | The ISS is equipped with about 100 IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad and HP ZBook 15 laptop computers. The laptops have run Windows 95, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 10 and Linux operating systems. Each computer is a commercial off-the-shelf purchase which is then modified for safety and operation including updates to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15043 | 7,295 |
108,272 | The United States maintains intelligence facilities in Australia, and regularly rotates military forces to the country for training purposes. The intelligence facilities comprise the Pine Gap satellite tracking station near Alice Springs and Naval Communication Station Harold E. Holt near Exmouth, Western Australia. Pi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67538 | 108,227 |
1,313,688 | Colony hybridization begins with a desire to extract a segment of DNA containing a specific gene, such as a gene that conveys antibiotic resistance. A specific piece of DNA is removed from its respective cell culture and inserted into a bacterial plasmid via a process known as recombination. These bacterial plasmids ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55750470 | 1,312,968 |
666,023 | GEODSS tracks objects in deep space, or from about 3,000 mi (4,800 km) out to beyond geosynchronous altitudes. GEODSS requires nighttime and clear weather tracking because of the inherent limitations of an optical system. Each site has three telescopes. The telescopes have a 40-inch (1.02 m) aperture and a two-degree f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1430643 | 665,675 |
1,564,943 | In 1970, Haskins Laboratories moved to New Haven, Connecticut, and entered into affiliation agreements with Yale University and the University of Connecticut; Haskins remains fully independent of both Yale and UConn, administratively and financially. The lab's original location in New Haven, at 270 Crown Street (from 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6202324 | 1,564,056 |
1,259,152 | The flux method of crystal growth is a method where the components of the desired substance are dissolved in a solvent (flux). The method is particularly suitable for crystals needing to be free from thermal strain. It takes place in a crucible made of highly stable, non-reactive material. For production of oxide cryst... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8472042 | 1,258,465 |
565,317 | Sejong's first assignment to Jang was to build a celestial globe to measure astronomical objects. Books obtained from Arabian and Chinese scholars were not complete in their instructions, for these devices could also be used for military purposes. After two months of study, Jang made a spherical device that could perfo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4653170 | 565,027 |
932,565 | In 1644, René Descartes proposed that no empty space can exist and that a continuum of matter causes every motion to be curvilinear. Thus, centrifugal force thrusts relatively light matter away from the central vortices of celestial bodies, lowering density locally and thereby creating centripetal pressure. Utilizing a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4387043 | 932,073 |
108,859 | Some scientists have asserted that the carbon spherules originated as fungal structures and/or insect fecal pellets, and contained modern contaminants and that the claimed nanodiamonds are actually misidentified graphene and graphene/graphane oxide aggregates. Iridium, magnetic minerals, microspherules, carbon, and nan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11338425 | 108,814 |
240,152 | In the "LA Weekly" op-ed piece "The Kids Aren't All Right: Is over-education killing young artists?", published in 2005, curator Aaron Rose wrote about an observed trend he recognized in Los Angeles's most esteemed art schools and their MFA programs, including CalArts. He uses the example of Supersonic, "a large exhibi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=165084 | 240,032 |
691,362 | "Evolution is a controversial topic, so it is necessary to address a few basic questions at the beginning of the book. Many people think that questioning Darwinian evolution must be equivalent to espousing creationism. As commonly understood, creationism involves belief in an earth formed only about ten thousand years ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=186205 | 690,999 |
221,072 | Eosinophils are one form of terminally differentiated granulocytes; they function to neutralize invading microbes, primarily parasites and helminthes but also certain types of fungi and viruses. They also participate in transplant rejection, Graft-versus-host disease, and the killing of tumor cells. In conducting these... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=238806 | 220,963 |
1,286,255 | Bayesian epistemology is an important theory in the field of formal epistemology. It has its roots in Thomas Bayes' work in the field of probability theory. It is based on the idea that beliefs are held gradually and that the strengths of the beliefs can be described as subjective probabilities. As such, they are subje... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3660078 | 1,285,554 |
2,170,714 | The proposed four million years old tectonic aneurysm system in the Saint Elias Mountains in Alaska was formed by glacial erosion on the mountains developed by underthrusting of the Yakutat microplate beneath the North American margin. The aneurysm occurs in the Northern plate corner in which transitions from dextral s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33737566 | 2,169,476 |
65,712 | Alternating current systems can use transformers to change voltage from low to high level and back, allowing generation and consumption at low voltages but transmission, possibly over great distances, at high voltage, with savings in the cost of conductors and energy losses. A bipolar open-core power transformer develo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42986 | 65,687 |
339,486 | In January 2022, it was announced that Airbus had flown its C295 "Flight Test Bed 2 Sky 2" for the first time; development of this upgraded aircraft was funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research program and it is intended to test various technologies related future regional multi-mission aircraft. Modificati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7175494 | 339,306 |
2,116,840 | Defending champion Francesco Panetta took the early lead, shadowed by Tom Hanlon. The ever dangerous Kenyan team scattered toward the rear of the pack, but quickly moved forward as a group to join the train behind Hanlon. The first action happened on the third lap when Hagen Melzer and Graeme Fell, found themselves lyi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13819508 | 2,115,623 |
2,118,444 | The experiment was capable of measuring gamma-ray energies falling within the energy interval from 0.045 to 10 MeV. The Ge detector system had an initial energy resolution better than 2.5 keV at 1.33 MeV and a line sensitivity from 1.E-4 to 1.E-5 photons/cm-s, depending on the energy. Key experimental parameters were (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14597919 | 2,117,226 |
1,068,553 | Programs were prepared ahead of time, offline, on paper tape or punched cards. But usually the programmers were allowed to run the programs personally, hands-on, instead of submitting them to operators as was the case with mainframe computers at that time. And the console typewriter allowed entering data and getting ou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=92577 | 1,067,999 |
1,062,940 | When motivations to go into space are realized, work on mitigating the most serious threats can begin. One of the biggest threats to astronaut safety in space is sudden radiation events from solar flares. The violent solar storm of August 1972, which occurred between the Apollo 16 and Apollo 17 missions, could have pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23516569 | 1,062,386 |
323,553 | Once considered for replacement by the "Common Support Aircraft", this concept was abandoned. The latest E-2 version is the "E-2D Advanced Hawkeye", which features an entirely new avionics suite including the new AN/APY-9 radar, radio suite, mission computer, integrated satellite communications, flight management syste... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56075 | 323,381 |
398,236 | By 1940, automation via cams, such as in screw machines and automatic chuckers, had already been very well developed for decades. Beginning in the 1930s, ideas involving servomechanisms had been in the air, but it was especially during and immediately after World War II that they began to germinate (see also Numerical ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38360943 | 398,040 |
2,162,285 | In 1931, ETSTC joined the Lone Star Conference (LSC) as a founding member, in which it competed in men's basketball, football, tennis, and track. The Lions football team was particularly successful, winning five LSC championships and a share of a sixth between 1933 and 1943. The 1934 team, considered "one of ET's great... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49869717 | 2,161,050 |
143,197 | Several obstacles have been encountered in the development of astatine-based radiopharmaceuticals for cancer treatment. World War II delayed research for close to a decade. Results of early experiments indicated that a cancer-selective carrier would need to be developed and it was not until the 1970s that monoclonal an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=901 | 143,139 |
83,815 | Microwaves travel solely by line-of-sight paths; unlike lower frequency radio waves, they do not travel as ground waves which follow the contour of the Earth, or reflect off the ionosphere (skywaves). Although at the low end of the band they can pass through building walls enough for useful reception, usually rights of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20097 | 83,781 |
33,100 | The main Scythian weapon was the short composite recurve bow; presently so-called "Scythian type" arrows were not a Scythian invention but had been borrowed during the Scythian period in West Asia from the peoples of Transcaucasia, were made either of reed or of wood, and their arrowheads were typically socketed and ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55092 | 33,088 |
263,202 | vs. vertical bias changed across slit with dipole illumination. The rotating plane of incidence (azimuthal range within -25° to 25°) is confirmed in the SHARP actinic review microscope at CXRO which mimics the optics for EUV projection lithography systems. The reason for this is a mirror is used to transform straight r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2154371 | 263,063 |
777,302 | TAM has been widely criticised, despite its frequent use, leading the original proposers to attempt to redefine it several times. Criticisms of TAM as a "theory" include its questionable heuristic value, limited explanatory and predictive power, triviality, and lack of any practical value (). Benbasat and Barki suggest... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=325542 | 776,886 |
310,283 | Despite the manpower and technical limitations imposed upon the German Army by the Treaty of Versailles, several Reichswehr officers established a clandestine General Staff to study World War I and develop future strategies and tactics. One such Reichswehr officer, Hans von Seeckt, became Commander-in-Chief. Seeckt too... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29073044 | 310,115 |
1,414,909 | Microencapsulation (diameter < 1 mm) remains a popular technology for manufacturing autonomous self-healing components for cementitious systems, inspired by the pioneering study of White et al. Microcapsules were directly incorporated into the matrix and upon crack development, and releasing the core in the crack volum... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69140980 | 1,414,112 |
1,934,835 | A message of congratulation was sent by the Astronomer Royal at Greenwich, Sir H. Spencer Jones. Articles on current celestial objects were written in the local press by the Reverend John Lees, who usually acted as chairman at public lectures given at the Observatory by visiting astronomers The first Curator was J. Gra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9898493 | 1,933,727 |
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