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404,596 | The Jovians (a non-playable race) were also descended from colonists. Unlike the other races of "Eve Online", they maintained a relatively high-functioning technological society after the collapse of the EVE wormhole and did not need to spend millennia recapitulating ancient societal developments as the others did, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=403307 | 404,396 |
1,305,583 | In August 1961, at the International Congress of Biochemistry in Moscow, Nirenberg presented a paper to a small group of scientists, reporting the decoding of the first codon of the genetic code. Matthew Meselson, who was in the audience, spontaneously hugged Nirenberg at the end of the talk and then told Francis Crick... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=762368 | 1,304,867 |
1,263,693 | Their American allies in the Vietnam War lent on the Australians heavily to choose the Lockheed F-104G Starfighter making the choice of the French aircraft highly unexpected, especially since the French government was opposed to the war. Mirages entered service in the RAAF in 1965 and were used in a front-line role by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63754631 | 1,263,005 |
2,153,453 | Boykin grew up with her mother, who worked at Phoenix Suns basketball games to pay Boykin's way through college. She studied biology at Occidental College, where she worked on the chaparral shrub "Arctostaphylos parryana". She moved to San Francisco State University for her Master's studies, working with Bob Patterson ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61288020 | 2,152,222 |
99,882 | In 2017, the FIA began negotiations with existing constructors and potential new manufacturers over the next generation of engines with a projected introduction date of but delayed to due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The initial proposal was designed to simplify engine designs, cut costs, promote new entrie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11034903 | 99,837 |
1,705,668 | The common midwife toad is found in a number of countries in north west Europe. It is common throughout France and is also found in southern Belgium and the Netherlands, Luxembourg, western Germany and northern and western Switzerland. There are some disconnected outlying populations in Portugal and northern Spain. In ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12371603 | 1,704,710 |
400,736 | On 31 August 1939 "Belfast" was transferred to the 18th Cruiser Squadron. Based at Scapa Flow in the Orkney islands, 18th Cruiser Squadron was part of the British effort to impose a naval blockade on Germany. Germany invaded Poland the following day, and Britain and France declared war on 3 September. At 11:40 that mor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209815 | 400,537 |
179,016 | The first radiological imaging of the ureters first occurred via X-rays, although this was made more difficult by the thick abdomen, which the low power of the original X-rays was not able to penetrate enough to produce clear images. More useful images were able to be produced when Edwin Hurry Fenwick in 1908 pioneered... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=188325 | 178,923 |
1,665,533 | Arterial spin labeling utilizes the water molecules circulating with the brain, and using a radiofrequency pulse, tracks the blood water as it circulates throughout the brain. After a period of time in microseconds (enough to allow the blood to circulate through the brain), a 'label' image is captured. A 'control' imag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58296164 | 1,664,596 |
833,566 | Leo Szilard and Thomas A. Chalmers reported that neutrons generated by gamma rays acting on beryllium were captured by iodine, a reaction that Fermi had also noted. When Meitner repeated their experiment, she found that neutrons from the gamma-beryllium sources were captured by heavy elements like iodine, silver and go... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64011351 | 833,117 |
746,544 | The secondary armament consisted of sixteen guns in eight twin mounts, weighing 81 tons each. They were grouped at the four corners of the citadel, with a twin mount on the main deck and another superimposed above it nearer amidships. This disposition gave better arcs of fire, freedom from blast, more separation of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=485616 | 746,149 |
94,942 | It is deployed aboard aircraft carriers, amphibious assault ships, Maritime Sealift Command ships, and fast combat support ships. Its missions include vertical replenishment, medical evacuation, combat search and rescue, anti-surface warfare, maritime interdiction, close air support, intelligence, surveillance and reco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=202031 | 94,901 |
1,826,776 | From 1979 the Laboratory was encouraged to develop external software sales and entered into licensing agreements for this purpose, most notably with Synercom and ISSCO Corporation (sold to Computer Associates in 1987) for Odyssey. However, the licensing agreements had weak to non-existent technology exploitation and no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47557282 | 1,825,737 |
1,106,098 | The purpose of this small 2017 study was to test the anabolic theory and the effect of consuming the same amount of protein before and after resistance training on muscle strength, hypertrophy, and body composition changes. There were 21 subjects of the study involved in the study. All were men that participated in res... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20023618 | 1,105,535 |
1,217,989 | Like his predecessor, Shah Tahmasp, at the beginning of his reign (1524–1555) stayed rather inactive in architectural matters, contenting himself with restorations and embellishments, always along the lines of the dynasties which preceded him. In particular, the great mosques of Kerman, Shiraz and Isfahan, and the sanc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9485636 | 1,217,335 |
399,945 | A number of theorists have explored the meaning and implications of prosthetic extension of the body. Elizabeth Grosz writes, "Creatures use tools, ornaments, and appliances to augment their bodily capacities. Are their bodies lacking something, which they need to replace with artificial or substitute organs?...Or conv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72750 | 399,746 |
1,121,705 | But the attitude of the academical medicine of the day is doubtless indicated in Martin Lister's use of the term sectaries for Sydenham and his admirers, at a time (1694) when the leader had been dead five years. If there were any suspicion that the opposition to him was quite other than political, it would be set at r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=564669 | 1,121,131 |
347,819 | During the first years of the 19th century, lithography had only a limited effect on printmaking, mainly because technical difficulties remained to be overcome. Germany was the main center of production in this period. Godefroy Engelmann, who moved his press from Mulhouse to Paris in 1816, largely succeeded in resolvin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426 | 347,638 |
404,812 | In 1884, Paul Vieille invented a smokeless powder called Poudre B (short for "poudre blanche", white powder, as distinguished from black powder) made from 68.2% insoluble nitrocellulose, 29.8% soluble nitrocellulose gelatinized with ether and 2% paraffin. This was adopted for the Lebel rifle chambered in 8×50mmR Lebel.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=860000 | 404,612 |
1,878,369 | Keutel syndrome is an autosomal recessive disorder caused by a novel loss-of-function mutation in the matrix Gla protein gene (MGP). MGP protein resides in the extracellular matrix and is implicated in inhibiting calcification though the repression of bone morphogenetic protein 2 (BMP2). Mutations resulting in loss of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15912221 | 1,877,289 |
1,082,416 | Constructing his designs proved far more difficult than Evans initially envisaged—with just six working steam engines in the United States at this time, and a handful of workshops with any experience making them, it took Evans much of his savings and two years to yield a working example to display to the public in 1803... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=389929 | 1,081,859 |
1,630,599 | The lexical decision task is an implicit memory task in which participants are given a stimulus (a string of letters), and asked to decide whether this string is a word or a nonword. Nonwords are made by replacing at least one letter in a word with another letter (ex. mark becomes marb). Vowels are used to replace vowe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21312287 | 1,629,678 |
1,660,705 | In 1979 the Aviation Systems Command issued a Full Scale Engineering Development Request for Proposal for a systems which would meet the Artillery's Required Operational Capability. Lockheed Missile and Space Division won the contract in late 1979. The contract provided for the delivery off 22 air vehicles, 4 Ground Co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17844797 | 1,659,771 |
181,575 | On Earth, all known living things have a carbon-based structure and system. Scientists have speculated about the pros and cons of using atoms other than carbon to form the molecular structures necessary for life, but no one has proposed a theory employing such atoms to form all the necessary structures. However, as Car... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7316 | 181,480 |
919,771 | Roland was designed to a joint French and German requirement for a low-level mobile missile system to protect mobile field formations and fixed, high-value targets such as airfields. Development began in 1963 as a study by Nord Aviation of France and Bölkow of Germany with the system then called SABA in France and P-25... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2278911 | 919,285 |
59,050 | The ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge is a benchmark in object classification and detection, with millions of images and hundreds of object classes. In the ILSVRC 2014, a large-scale visual recognition challenge, almost every highly ranked team used CNN as their basic framework. The winner GoogLeNet (th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40409788 | 59,025 |
1,047,496 | In 2006, Mount Merapi had not been active for more than four years, but on May 11 a pyroclastic flow triggered the evacuation of more than 20,000 people from the northern sector of Yogyakarta. While authorities expected a larger eruption to follow, the earthquake occurred instead. The volcano's previous eruptions depos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5309730 | 1,046,951 |
1,392,862 | Spenta Wadia has made significant contributions to high energy physics and quantum gravity, that include i) the observation that global gauges like the Coulomb gauge cannot be fixed in a non-abelian gauge theory; ii) the discovery of the large N, 3rd order phase transition in soluble models of low dim lattice gauge the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22665200 | 1,392,091 |
1,820,468 | On 29 October 1950 the party of five met up at Jogbani, the railhead on the India–Nepal border. With six Sherpas from Darjeeling they went by road to Dharan where they took on eighteen local porters for the trek via Dhankuta to the Arun River, which they crossed in a dugout canoe, and then trekked beside the Dudh Kosi ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48827836 | 1,819,431 |
934,593 | Since ethnomusicology evolved from comparative musicology, some ethnomusicologists' research features analytical comparison. The problems arising from using these comparisons stem from the fact that there are different kinds of comparative studies with a varying degree of understanding between them. Beginning in the la... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=80077 | 934,100 |
1,251,603 | The YC-14 Prototype was a prototype plane that was being designed by Boeing specifically for the US Air Force. There were a lot of different designs that were considered and different technologies that were used specifically for carrying tanks and paratroopers. There was a computer that was installed and a very powerfu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8203113 | 1,250,925 |
1,306,663 | After Desert Storm, the army struggled with military operations other than war, such as peacekeeping and peace enforcement operations. The school and its graduates examined the situations in Bosnia, Haiti, and Somalia. Graduates also participated in Defense Support of Civil authorities missions. The course continued to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47720 | 1,305,947 |
2,055,677 | Maantay and Maroko believe that GIS can have an important role in these "risk-framed" understandings. As New York is a "hyper-heterogeneous urban area", traditional administrative population data is insufficient for flood zone/population risk research. A more fine-tuned analysis is possible if tax-level datasets (based... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31783151 | 2,054,494 |
957,752 | BAC had inherited the aerospace activities of several companies via its formation, and research into various space-related ventures continued at the new entity. One of BAC's research teams, headed by engineer Tom Smith, Chief of the Aerospace Department at BAC, that was initially investigating supersonic and hypersonic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=81087 | 957,246 |
2,191,221 | Finally, along with Lawrie in 2009, Doom (0.65, 0.49 and 0.56 WHIP in 1982 and 1984–85), Susan LeFebvre (0.58 in 1986), Shawn Andaya (0.62 in 1987), Lisa Longaker (0.64, 0.58 and 0.56 in 1988-90), Tiffany Boyd (0.57 in 1989), Debby Day (0.64 in 1991), Susie Parra (0.71, 0.68 and 0.99 in 1991, 1993–94), Scott (0.83 in 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67373176 | 2,189,972 |
2,035,199 | In this same period, she had entered a relationship with Walter Rosenthal. Rosenthal was Jewish, and Jews were increasingly persecuted in Germany in the 1930s under the National Socialist (Nazi) regime that took power in 1933. Walter Rosenthal emigrated to Brazil in 1936. Hildegard joined him in São Paulo in 1937. That... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59373759 | 2,034,026 |
1,073,867 | Additional examples of non-mitotic proliferation, and important insights into underlying mechanisms, have resulted from extensive work with polyploid cells. Such cells, long acknowledged to exist, were once believed simply to be anomalous. Accumulating research, including in the liver now suggests that cells containing... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33039059 | 1,073,313 |
931,708 | Thrun developed a number of autonomous robotic systems that earned him international recognition. In 1994, he started the University of Bonn's Rhino project together with his doctoral thesis advisor Armin B. Cremers. In 1997 Thrun and his colleagues Wolfram Burgard and Dieter Fox developed the world's first robotic tou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3538953 | 931,216 |
1,558,939 | The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the federal agency responsible for funding health research, recommended in 2010 against funding a pan-Canadian trial of liberation therapy because there was a lack of evidence on the safety or efficacy of the procedure. It suggested a scientific expert working group ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24133117 | 1,558,054 |
1,408,168 | Reflowing as a rework technique, similar to the manufacturing process of reflow soldering, involves dismantling the equipment to remove the faulty circuit board, pre-heating the whole board in an oven, heating the non-functioning component further to melt the solder, then cooling, following a carefully determined therm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1663983 | 1,407,378 |
1,658,221 | Even then scepticism still persisted. Considering the degree of variations between Taiwan strain and typical "T. saginata", Taiwanese parasitologists such as P.C. Fan, C.Y Lin, C.C. Chen and W.C Chung from National Yang-Ming University designated it to a subspecies, and named it "T. saginata asiatica". Based on critica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26890853 | 1,657,288 |
148,036 | XPS is widely used to generate an empirical formula because it readily yields excellent quantitative accuracy from homogeneous solid-state materials. Absolute quantification requires the use of certified (or independently verified) standard samples, and is generally more challenging, and less common. Relative quantific... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70847 | 147,977 |
1,791,162 | After a year of training following his selection by NASA in January 1990, Jones became an astronaut in July 1991. In 1994 he flew as a mission specialist on successive flights of . First, in April 1994, he ran science operations on the "night shift" during STS-59, the first flight of the Space Radar Laboratory (SRL-1).... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=606010 | 1,790,155 |
1,568,954 | NCRP Report No. 153 notes that: “Denisova et al. exposed rats to 1.5 Gy of 1 GeV/u56Feions and tested their spatial memory in an eight-arm radial maze. Radiation exposure impaired the rats’ cognitive behavior, since they committed more errors than control rats in the radial maze and were unable to adopt a spatial strat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39761773 | 1,568,067 |
1,995,299 | Except the conventional semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors (SESAMs), which use III–V semiconductor multiple quantum wells grown on distributed Bragg reflectors (DBRs), many researchers have turned their attention onto other materials as saturable absorbers. Especially because there are a number of drawbacks assoc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21474889 | 1,994,156 |
1,400,051 | The Center has a regional facility for Genetic Fingerprinting, which provides DNA analysis services for forensic & criminal investigations, paternity disputes, identification of wildlife remains, authentication of plants and seeds besides a battery of molecular diagnostics for genetic and infectious diseases. RGCB is a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8819388 | 1,399,264 |
131,619 | The effects of toxicity on health have been examined using questionnaires and in-person interviews in an effort to understand the relationship between and asthma. The influence of indoor air pollutants on health is important because the majority of people in the world spend more than 80% of their time indoors. The amou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=238528 | 131,567 |
982,365 | While there is no single medical, physical, or genetic test for ADHD, an evaluation can be provided by a qualified mental health care professional or physician who gathers information from multiple sources. These can include ADHD symptom checklists, standardized behavior rating scales, a detailed history of past and cu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1673370 | 981,853 |
1,601,361 | Wet nanotechnology is an anticipated new sub-discipline of nanotech that is going to mostly be dominated by the different forms of wet engineering. The processes that will be used are going to take place in aqueous solutions and are very close to that of biotechnology manufacturing / bio-molecular manufacturing which i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30380229 | 1,600,460 |
417,334 | A cooperative approach to reintroduction by ecologists and biologists could improve research techniques. For both preparation and monitoring of reintroductions, increasing contacts between academic population biologists and wildlife managers is encouraged within the Survival Species Commission and the IUCN. The IUCN st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=477117 | 417,131 |
260,330 | Despite Castronovo's statements, Karl Sperling, Heidemarie Neitzel and Hagen Scherb reported that the prevalence of Down syndrome (trisomy 21) in West Berlin, Germany, peaked 9 months following the main fallout.[ 11, 12] From 1980 to 1986 the birth prevalence of Down syndrome was quite stable (i.e., 1.35–1.59 per 1,000... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4155456 | 260,196 |
975,533 | The university began moving in 1968 to a new site on Stag Hill in Guildford, adjacent to Guildford Cathedral. Students continued to alternate between the original Battersea campus and the new Guildford campus until 1970. A further allocated to the university remained undeveloped until 2005. The BBC's local radio statio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=167774 | 975,022 |
5,014 | In terms of the game's combat system, Plessas said that unlike previous games, which often relied on the player to use many combos in a sequential fashion, this game is "more about individual moves strung together in response to the assortment of enemies being fought." Although that difference may be small, he said tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50810460 | 5,011 |
1,478,948 | "Cementitious" syntactic foams have also been investigated as a potential lightweight structural composite material. These materials include glass microspheres dispersed in a "cement" paste matrix to achieve a closed cell foam structure, instead of a metallic or a polymeric matrix. The resulting composites are reported... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1539042 | 1,478,115 |
1,869,554 | The main objectives of SAMPEX experiments was to obtained data for several continuous years on the anomalous components of cosmic rays, on solar energetic particles emissions from the Sun, and on the precipitating magnetospheric relativistic electrons. The orbit of SAMPEX has an altitude of and an 81.70° inclination. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10669005 | 1,868,478 |
1,642,157 | Thymus tissue is compartmentalized into cortex and medulla and each of these two compartments comprises its specific thymic epithelial cell subset. cTECs reside in the outer part- cortex, which mostly serves as a developmental site for T cells. Precursors of T cells originate in the bone marrow from which they migrate ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58068464 | 1,641,230 |
559,733 | Building on the body of work forwarded by Copernicus, Kepler and Newton, 18th-century astronomers refined telescopes, produced star catalogues, and worked towards explaining the motions of heavenly bodies and the consequences of universal gravitation. Among the prominent astronomers of the age was Edmund Halley. In 170... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17912788 | 559,444 |
1,402,253 | Jerome Clarke Hunsaker (August 26, 1886 – September 10, 1984) was an American naval officer and aeronautical engineer, born in Creston, Iowa, and educated at the U.S. Naval Academy and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His work with Gustav Eiffel outside Paris led to the first wind tunnel in the US at MIT. He ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3956769 | 1,401,466 |
530,323 | The stage of fruit set follows flowering almost immediately, when the fertilized flower begins to develop a seed and grape berry to protect the seed. In the Northern Hemisphere, this normally takes place in May and in the Southern Hemisphere in November. This stage is very critical for wine production since it determin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19533906 | 530,049 |
538,951 | After serving on the "Olympic", he transferred to the "Titanic", where he was given the post of chief engineer. On the night of April 14, shortly before the "Titanic" hit the iceberg, Bell received an order from the bridge to either stop or reverse the engines (accounts vary), in an attempt to slow the ship. Despite th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56900718 | 538,672 |
241,135 | In 1995, Stephen Blust coined the term "software defined radio", publishing a request for information from Bell South Wireless at the first meeting of the Modular Multifunction Information Transfer Systems (MMITS) forum in 1996, organized by the USAF and DARPA around the commercialization of their SpeakEasy II program.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=83137 | 241,015 |
574,149 | Muller was born in New York City, the son of Frances (Lyons) and Hermann Joseph Muller Sr., an artisan who worked with metals. Muller was a third-generation American whose father's ancestors were originally Catholic and came to the United States from Koblenz. His mother's family was of mixed Jewish (descended from Span... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=240846 | 573,855 |
1,004,525 | Among naval historians, the 5"/38 gun is considered the best intermediate-caliber, dual purpose naval gun of World War II, especially as it was usually under the control of the advanced Mark 37 Gun Fire Control System which provided accurate and timely firing against surface and air targets. Even this advanced system r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5293178 | 1,004,007 |
761,007 | The English physicist Lord Rayleigh [1842–1919] worked on sound. The Irishmen William Rowan Hamilton (1805–1865), George Gabriel Stokes (1819–1903) and Lord Kelvin (1824–1907) produced several major works: Stokes was a leader in optics and fluid dynamics; Kelvin made substantial discoveries in thermodynamics; Hamilton ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=173416 | 760,601 |
1,576,698 | In September 2015, Eric Lipton writing for the "New York Times" reported that the agriculture industry had enlisted academics, including Folta, to use their "independent voices" to advocate for public perception and policy, which appeared favorable to the industry. He reported that the University of Florida had receive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47731689 | 1,575,809 |
1,122,759 | The drug aprotinin (Trasylol, previously Bayer and now Nordic Group pharmaceuticals), is a small protein bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor (BPTI), or basic trypsin inhibitor of bovine pancreas, which is an antifibrinolytic molecule that inhibits trypsin and related proteolytic enzymes. Under the trade name Trasylol, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4628609 | 1,122,185 |
1,883,011 | Thermoacoustic imaging was originally proposed by Theodore Bowen in 1981 as a strategy for studying the absorption properties of human tissue using virtually any kind of electromagnetic radiation. But Alexander Graham Bell first reported the physical principle upon which thermoacoustic imaging is based a century earlie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19820084 | 1,881,930 |
147,831 | General Secretary and President Hu Jintao announced that the disaster response would be rapid. Just 90 minutes after the earthquake, Premier Wen Jiabao, who has an academic background in geomechanics, flew to the earthquake area to oversee the rescue work. Soon afterward, the Ministry of Health stated that it had sent ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17901805 | 147,772 |
1,057,693 | Passive nuclear safety is a design approach for safety features, implemented in a nuclear reactor, that does not require any active intervention on the part of the operator or electrical/electronic feedback in order to bring the reactor to a safe shutdown state, in the event of a particular type of emergency (usually o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1228393 | 1,057,144 |
973,849 | In 1997, President Freeman Hrabowski created the Conservation and Environmental Research Areas of UMBC also known as "CERA" on the south end of the campus. The conservation area encompasses 50 acres surrounding Pig Pen Pond and Bwtech@UMBC Research and Technology Park. At the same time as preserving the land, CERA allo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=375259 | 973,339 |
844,637 | Neurotoxicity is a form of toxicity in which a biological, chemical, or physical agent produces an adverse effect on the structure or function of the central and/or peripheral nervous system. It occurs when exposure to a substance – specifically, a neurotoxin or neurotoxicant– alters the normal activity of the nervous ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=546712 | 844,187 |
1,964,862 | The origins of the DPC are rooted in a 1995 workshop put on by the Joint Information Systems Committee and the British Library at the University of Warwick, focusing on how to approach the digital preservation. Internet usage was rapidly increasing, user expectations of digital resources were greater, and more users an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2361111 | 1,963,733 |
1,557,719 | Alloplasty is a surgical procedure performed to substitute and repair defects within the body with the use of synthetic material. It can also be performed in order to bridge wounds. The process of undergoing alloplasty involves the construction of an alloplastic graft through the use of computed tomography (CT), rapid ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60958951 | 1,556,834 |
1,808,723 | An important early success of his biophysical approach to palaeobotany was the discovery of evidence for a substantial increase in the atmospheric CO₂ concentration and 'super-greenhouse' conditions across the Triassic-Jurassic (Tr-J) boundary, 200 million years ago, based on analyses of fossil stomata and leaf morphol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43094065 | 1,807,702 |
2,084,060 | The offensive was renewed on 20 September with the Battle of the Menin Road Ridge. The new tactics emphasised stepwise attacks, allowing time for the heavy artillery to carry out CB tasks and to destroy concrete emplacements. 23rd HAG began a 'hurricane' bombardment the day before and continued until 08.40 on Z day, by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69464934 | 2,082,860 |
362,948 | The situation changes somewhat with the introduction of dark energy or a cosmological constant. A cosmological constant due to a vacuum energy density has the effect of adding a repulsive force between objects that is proportional (not inversely proportional) to distance. Unlike inertia it actively "pulls" on objects t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5985207 | 362,758 |
1,274,050 | In 1946, Randall was appointed Head of Physics Department at King's College in London. He then moved to the Wheatstone chair of physics at King's College, London, where the Medical Research Council set up the Biophysics Research Unit with Randall as the director (now known as Randall Centre for Cell and Molecular Bioph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30859641 | 1,273,358 |
385,191 | A common use of the one-time pad in quantum cryptography is being used in association with quantum key distribution (QKD). QKD is typically associated with the one-time pad because it provides a way of distributing a long shared secret key securely and efficiently (assuming the existence of practical quantum networking... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22210 | 384,996 |
1,110,373 | This extended lambda calculus was intended to serve as a provably memory-safe intermediate representation for compiling Standard ML programs into machine code, but building a translator that would produce good results on large programs faced a number of practical limitations which had to be resolved with new analyses, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26294208 | 1,109,808 |
993,057 | "The Closing of the American Mind" was published in 1987, five years after Bloom published an essay in "National Review" about the failure of universities to serve the needs of students. With the encouragement of Saul Bellow, his colleague at the University of Chicago, he expanded his thoughts into a book "about a life... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=84444 | 992,540 |
1,206,479 | By late 1941, Junkers decided the best course of action was to make more radical changes to the design, and introduced the 222C and 222D models. With a new bore and stroke of , the engine displacement increased a second time, to 55.5 L (3,386.8 in³), just very slightly larger than the contemporary Wright Duplex Cyclone... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=705691 | 1,205,834 |
1,196,414 | The Lockheed Martin CEV design included several modules in the LEO (low earth orbit) and crewed lunar versions of the spacecraft, plus an abort system. The abort system was an escape tower like that used in the Mercury, Apollo, Soyuz, and Shenzhou craft (Gemini, along with the Space Shuttles "Enterprise" and "Columbia"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6640441 | 1,195,774 |
292,007 | Davies independently developed a similar message routing concept and more detailed network design in 1965. He coined the term "packet switching", and proposed building a commercial nationwide data network in the UK. He gave a talk on the proposal in 1966, after which a person from the Ministry of Defence (MoD) told him... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43339 | 291,849 |
1,988,812 | Following his PhD, Chibale joined the University of Liverpool as a Sir William Ramsay British Research Fellow. He developed optically active alcohols using lanthanides. In 1994 he joined the Scripps Research Institute, creating complicated natural molecules from organic building blocks. He began to explore angiogenesis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57520533 | 1,987,670 |
259,245 | Measures of performance on tests of working memory increase continuously between early childhood and adolescence, while the structure of correlations between different tests remains largely constant. Starting with work in the Neo-Piagetian tradition, theorists have argued that the growth of working-memory capacity is a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33912 | 259,111 |
369,370 | Wind and solar energy generated 8.5% of worldwide electricity in 2019. This share has grown rapidly while costs have fallen and are projected to continue falling. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates that 2.5% of world gross domestic product (GDP) would need to be invested in the energy system... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1055890 | 369,177 |
722,459 | John Sloan (1871–1951) was an early-20th-century Realist of the Ashcan School, whose concerns with American social conditions led him to join the Socialist Party in 1910. Originally from Philadelphia, he worked in New York after 1904. From 1912 to 1916, he contributed illustrations to the socialist monthly "The Masses"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11382737 | 722,079 |
1,375,523 | Faye Glenn Abdellah (March 13, 1919 – February 24, 2017) was an American pioneer in nursing research. Abdellah was the first nurse and woman to serve as the Deputy Surgeon General of the United States. Preceding her appointment, she served in active duty during the Korean War, where she earned a distinguished ranking e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6742984 | 1,374,762 |
496,673 | In recent years, geology has continued its tradition as the study of the character and origin of the earth, its surface features and internal structure. What changed in the later 20th century is the perspective of geological study. Geology was now studied using a more integrative approach, considering the earth in a br... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8245348 | 496,417 |
1,964,943 | In 1951, he became an assistant professor at Princeton University. There he gave lectures on quantum electrodynamics from which his seminal textbook, written with Josef-Maria Jauch, emerged. In 1953 he became an associate professor (and colleague of Jauch) at the University of Iowa; the text "The theory of Photons and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55859711 | 1,963,814 |
1,074,204 | In industrial process, the control of the quality of process water can be critical to the quality of the end product. Water is often used as a carrier of reagents and the loss of reagent to product must be continuously monitored to ensure that correct replacement rate. Parameters measured relate specifically to the pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25213120 | 1,073,650 |
1,867,624 | The term "mycotic aneurysm", initially attributed to Osler and used to describe bacterial intracranial aneurysms, is a misnomer. Most investigators currently agree that its use should be strictly limited to descriptions of aneurysms of fungal origin. Yet efforts to establish an accurate nomenclature have been generally... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38656185 | 1,866,548 |
1,542,257 | Dr. Goodman is a Fellow of the OSA, the IEEE, and the SPIE. In 1971, he was chosen the recipient of the Frederick Emmons Terman Award of the American Society for Engineering Education. He received the 1983 Max Born Award of the Optical Society of America for his contributions to physical optics, and in particular to ho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21665361 | 1,541,384 |
271,751 | The decision to go through with the operation was hotly contested within Begin's government. Ariel Sharon, a member of the Security Cabinet, later said that he was among those who advocated bombing the reactor. Dayan, Defense Minister (until late 1980) Ezer Weizman and Deputy Prime Minister Yigael Yadin were among thos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4191587 | 271,603 |
510,168 | Metal substrates for use in SAMs can be produced through physical vapor deposition techniques, electrodeposition or electroless deposition. Thiol or selenium SAMs produced by adsorption from solution are typically made by immersing a substrate into a dilute solution of alkane thiol in ethanol, though many different sol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1753270 | 509,903 |
50,904 | The industry has been accused of making unscientific claims, and distorting facts relating to infertility, in particular through widely exaggerated claims about how common infertility is in society, in an attempt to get as many couples as possible and as soon as possible to try treatments (rather than trying to conceiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57880 | 50,884 |
858,121 | Emotion is defined as any mental experience with high intensity and high hedonic content. The existence and nature of emotions in non-human animals are believed to be correlated with those of humans and to have evolved from the same mechanisms. Charles Darwin was one of the first scientists to write about the subject, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5160010 | 857,665 |
1,114,539 | At sufficiently large enough scales, rigid matter such as the typical silicate-ferrous composition of rocky planets behaves fluidly, and satisfies the condition for evaluating the mechanics of toroidal self-gravitating fluid bodies in context. A rotating mass in the form of a torus allows an effective balance between t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68488098 | 1,113,971 |
173,133 | In November 2020, a new, marginally more infectious strain of SARS-CoV-2 was identified in the United Kingdom, the SARS-CoV-2 Alpha variant. The strain rapidly spread around the world. With widespread global use of this form of COVID-19 testing, there was a concern that this variant would render rapid testing obsolete.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67708405 | 173,042 |
1,546,449 | Cody and Johnstone (1982) and Rajan and Johnstone (1988a; 1988b) showed that constant acoustic stimulation that in (which evokes a strong MOCS response (Brown et al., 1998)) reduced the severity of acoustic trauma. This protection was negated in the presence of a chemical known to suppress the action of the olivocochle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17523336 | 1,545,575 |
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