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1,582,177 | He was research associate at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution from 1944 to 1959 where the Office of Naval Research generously supported his projects. He became professor of oceanography at Harvard University in 1959 and moved to Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1963, where he remained until 1978, return... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3552709 | 1,581,287 |
98,311 | In March 1978, Paramount assembled the largest press conference held at the studio since the 1950s to announce that Wise would direct a $15 million film adaptation of the original television series. Filming began that August and concluded the following January. With the cancellation of "Phase II", writers rushed to ada... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=277006 | 98,270 |
1,163,096 | According to the National Institute for Health Care and Excellence and the Mayo Clinic consensus recommendations for the treatment of ME/CFS, GET studies are of poor or very poor quality because of their methodology, inadequate tracking of harms, and a disease theory that conflicts with the evidence of multisystem biol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20513992 | 1,162,479 |
292,094 | From 2007 until 2022, a specially modified 747SP was used as the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy "(SOFIA)" astronomical observatory, operated jointly by NASA and Germany's DLR. A former Pan Am and United Airlines aircraft acquired in 1997, its airframe was modified to carry a 2.5-meter-diameter reflect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7048559 | 291,936 |
1,112,400 | The artifact can then be inserted into the slit and fixed to the shaft by tying around the flanges with a suitable material. Materials such as the Australian Sea Grass Cordage and split deer intestine can be used due to its high strength and durability once installed. Some people will wrap the material around the handl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9721272 | 1,111,834 |
761,385 | During Operation Barbarossa, the Luftwaffe initially achieved air supremacy over the Soviet Union. As the war dragged on, the United States joined the fight and the combined Allied air forces gained air superiority and eventually "supremacy" in the West. (For example, the Luftwaffe mustered 391 aircraft to oppose over ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=537478 | 760,978 |
1,416,449 | Stanley Schachter and his doctoral student Jerome Singer formulated their theory of emotion based on evidence that without an actual emotion-producing stimulus, people are unable to attribute specific emotions to their bodily states. They believed that there must be a cognitive component to emotion perception beyond th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37940820 | 1,415,651 |
241,326 | Fluoroscopy and angiography are special applications of X-ray imaging, in which a fluorescent screen and image intensifier tube is connected to a closed-circuit television system. This allows real-time imaging of structures in motion or augmented with a radiocontrast agent. Radiocontrast agents are usually administered... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=152623 | 241,206 |
1,249,055 | Tanner was born on 1 August 1920 in Camberley, Surrey, United Kingdom and was educated at Marlborough College and University College of the South West of England. His family travelled widely while he was a youth because his father, a soldier in the British Army, was stationed in various locations. Tanner was a top-rank... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1335881 | 1,248,379 |
208,222 | Properly, "Rickettsia" is the name of a single genus, but the informal term "rickettsia", plural "rickettsias", usually not capitalised, commonly applies to any members of the order Rickettsiales. Being obligate intracellular bacteria, rickettsias depend on entry, growth, and replication within the cytoplasm of living ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=82887 | 208,115 |
255,646 | There were noticeable improvements regarding science and technology as stated in President Fidel Ramos' State of the Nation Address. In his third SONA, there was a significant increase in personnel specializing in the science and technology field. At 1998, the Philippines was estimated to have around 3,000 competent sc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9629399 | 255,512 |
64,383 | According to Münster (1970), "A somewhat unsatisfactory aspect of Carathéodory's theory is that a consequence of the Second Law must be considered at this point [in the statement of the first law], i.e. that it is not always possible to reach any state 2 from any other state 1 by means of an adiabatic process." Münster... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=166404 | 64,358 |
263,298 | An important point concerning the value of the ductility (nominal strain at failure) in a tensile test is that it commonly exhibits a dependence on sample dimensions. This is unfortunate, since a universal parameter should exhibit no such dependence (and, indeed, there is no dependence for properties such as stiffness,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=87019 | 263,159 |
2,074,309 | Harris was EVP of Research & Development at Bioverativ. From 2011 to 2016, He worked as SVP Translational Medicine at Biogen. He was CEO of SGX Pharmaceuticals from 1999 to 2006, VP R&D at Sequana Therapeutics (1993-1999), and Director of the Advanced Technology Program and CTO at SAIC-Frederick, Inc. (2007-2011). He b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66959151 | 2,073,115 |
209,764 | The engine has been in production since 2001, with over 10 million units sold as of April 2013. Improvements over this period have included coating the tappets to reduce friction by 40%; redesigning the injector spray angle, resulting in a 15% reduction of during combustion and a small improvement in torque; and fittin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5948830 | 209,657 |
257,711 | On 2 November 1936, from Alexandra Palace located on the high ground of the north London ridge, the BBC began alternating Baird 240-line transmissions with EMI's electronic scanning system, which had recently been improved to 405-lines after a merger with Marconi. The Baird system at the time involved an intermediate f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39570 | 257,577 |
726,767 | An application of bio-mimicry via soft robotics is in ocean or space exploration. In the search for extraterrestrial life, scientists need to know more about extraterrestrial bodies of water, as water is the source of life on Earth. Soft robots could be used to mimic sea creatures that can efficiently maneuver through ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50647426 | 726,385 |
2,152,990 | The computer employed germanium transistors which by this time were sufficiently reliable in room temperatures kept below about 23 degrees C. The type S3301 was a 500 kHz clocked, 20-bit word machine with two Mullard core memory stores providing 4k of 20-bit data. The internal CPU logic was synchronised to even and odd... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50519941 | 2,151,759 |
340,754 | The classical Kuiper belt appears to be a composite of two separate populations. The first, known as the "dynamically cold" population, has orbits much like the planets; nearly circular, with an orbital eccentricity of less than 0.1, and with relatively low inclinations up to about 10° (they lie close to the plane of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16796 | 340,573 |
754,952 | On 19 May, the German High Command grew very confident. The Allies seemed incapable of coping with events. There appeared to be no serious threat from the south – indeed General Franz Halder, Chief of Army General Staff, toyed with the idea of attacking Paris immediately to knock France out of the war in one blow. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=376965 | 754,549 |
1,621,725 | In 1886, Anschütz developed the Electrotachyscope, an early device that displayed short motion picture loops with 24 glass plate photographs on a 1.5 meter wide rotating wheel that was hand-cranked to the speed of circa 30 frames per second. Each image was illuminated by a sparking spiral Geissler tube and displayed on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1425653 | 1,620,809 |
1,882,366 | The amount of heat supplied to thermal manikins may be controlled in three ways. In “comfort mode” the PMV model equation found in ISO 7730 is applied to the manikin, and the controller software calculates the heat loss an average person would be comfortable undergoing within a given environment. This requires that the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41138699 | 1,881,285 |
800,492 | Like other contemporary researchers of his time, Haeckel adopted his terminology from Carl Linnaeus where human ecological connections were more evident. In his 1749 publication, "Specimen academicum de oeconomia naturae", Linnaeus developed a science that included the "economy and polis of nature". Polis stems from it... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=155899 | 800,066 |
2,012,713 | Dropping to No. 15 in the AP Poll but with a record of 23–8, Georgetown earned a bid in the 2012 NCAA tournament, the Hoyas′ third consecutive appearance in the tournament and sixth in seven seasons. Seeded third in the Midwest Region, in the Round of 64 – termed the "Second Round" of the tournament that year – they me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33673923 | 2,011,556 |
454,987 | Methodologically, the advocates of the New Archaeology had to come up with ways of analyzing the archaeological remains in a more scientific fashion. The problem was that no framework for this kind of analysis existed. There was such a dearth of work in this area that it led Willey and Phillips to state in 1958, "So li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=160135 | 454,765 |
839,699 | In 2018, he was awarded the Fields Medal, commonly described as the Nobel Prize of mathematics, becoming the second Australian (after Terence Tao) and the second person of Indian descent (after Manjul Bhargava) to be so honoured. The short citation for the medal declared that Venkatesh was being honoured for "his synth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6647964 | 839,250 |
49,341 | Glenn moved his family back to New Concord during a short period of leave, and after two and a half months of jet training at Cherry Point, was ordered to South Korea in October 1952, late in the Korean War. Before he set out for Korea in February 1953, he applied to fly the F-86 Sabre jet fighter-interceptor through a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58702 | 49,321 |
925,942 | In the late 1980s, the Special Operations Forces Modernization Action Plan indicated need for a Ranger Anti-Armor/Anti-Personnel Weapon System (RAAWS) to replace the M67 recoilless rifle in use by the 75th Ranger Regiment. A market survey in 1987 indicated that the Carl Gustaf M3 was the best candidate for satisfying R... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=479277 | 925,456 |
75,769 | A breakthrough came in 1948 when a research group headed by John Enders at the Children's Hospital Boston successfully cultivated the poliovirus in human tissue in the laboratory. This group had recently successfully grown mumps in cell culture. In March 1948, Thomas H. Weller was attempting to grow "varicella" virus i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=192198 | 75,740 |
1,843,063 | U-PARC was founded as the research labs of Gulf Oil in 1933 in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh. Work began on its current Harmar Township location in August 1934 with the opening of the first three buildings in 1935. For many decades it was one of the leading industrial research centers in the world, with labs encomp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22828647 | 1,842,010 |
1,454,186 | Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defence ("ECO" C67) 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.0–0 Nxe4 5.Re1 Nd6 6.Nxe5 Nxe5 7.Rxe5+ Be7 8.Nc3 0–0 9.Bd3 Bf6 10.Re3 g6 11.b3 Re8 12.Qf3 Bg5 13.Rxe8+ Nxe8 14.Bb2 c6 15.Ne4 Be7 16.Qe3 d5 17.Qd4 f6 18.Ng3 Be6 19.Re1 Ng7 20.h4 Qd7 21.h5 Bf7 22.hxg6 Bxg6 23.Qe3 Kf7 24.Qf4 Re8 25.Re3 Ne6 26.Qg4 Nf8 27.N... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14590504 | 1,453,368 |
1,195,611 | In February 2013, Frontiers published a study by Stephan Lewandowsky and co-authors which analysed conspiracy theory explanations given in blog responses to an earlier paper about conspiracy theories and support for free-market economics as predictors of a climate change denial stance. In March 2014, Frontiers retracte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29572416 | 1,194,971 |
2,239,403 | The history of the College of William & Mary can be traced back to a 1693 royal charter establishing "a perpetual College of Divinity, Philosophy, Languages, and the good arts and sciences" in the British Colony of Virginia. It fulfilled an early colonial vision dating back to 1618 to construct a university level progr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20795001 | 2,238,132 |
1,554,903 | LCTFs enable high image quality and allowing relatively easy integration with regard to optical system design and software control. However, they emit lower peak transmission values in comparison with conventional fixed-wavelength optical filters due to the use of multiple polarizing elements. This can be mitigated in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27958813 | 1,554,020 |
1,871,766 | Dynemicin A is specific for B-DNA, and functions by intercalating into the minor groove of the double helix. For intercalation to occur, the separation between strands, which is usually 3-4 angstroms, needs to be widened to 7-8 angstroms to allow enough space for the ligand to bind. Given this, the DNA must be strained... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31670661 | 1,870,689 |
859,372 | In 1995, inspired by Dyson's 1970 suggestion of seeding uninhabited deserts on Earth with self-replicating machines for industrial development, Klaus Lackner and Christopher Wendt developed a more detailed outline for such a system. They proposed a colony of cooperating mobile robots 10–30 cm in size running on a grid ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1600053 | 858,914 |
386,595 | Digital twins offer a great amount of business potential by predicting the future instead of analyzing the past of the manufacturing process. The representation of reality created by digital twins allows manufacturers to evolve towards ex-ante business practices. The future of manufacturing drives on the following four... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47896295 | 386,400 |
1,335,965 | The second major parameter to be considered is the output frequency of the power source. As the heat is predominantly generated in the surface of the component it is important to select a frequency which offers the deepest practical penetration depth into the material without running the risk of current cancellation. I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19117626 | 1,335,235 |
216,902 | The actual nature of meteors was still debated during the 19th century. Meteors were conceived as an atmospheric phenomenon by many scientists (Alexander von Humboldt, Adolphe Quetelet, Julius Schmidt) until the Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli ascertained the relation between meteors and comets in his work ""N... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=157819 | 216,794 |
1,640,736 | Chapter 18's key (“Leisure, Excellence, and Happiness")is that “avowed happiness appears to decline as technological affluence rises” (124). This is an issue because, along with making work easier, “the promise of technology” has also always included in it the promise of more leisure, which supposedly leads to more hap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29772724 | 1,639,809 |
1,781,247 | An example of a significant condition from which an extreme gender bias and differential medical attention and treatment can be noted is that of Cardiovascular disease. Of this condition, Coronary heart disease is the most prevalent; with women more often than men reported as fatalities. Due to sex based medical prerog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32780718 | 1,780,243 |
1,558,903 | Off Santa Barbara, birthing takes place from March to June after a gestation period of ten months, and the females mate again shortly afterward. The average litter size is six, with a range of 1–11 (rarely 13); there is no correlation between female size and number of offspring. The young are born in water deep, probab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7332664 | 1,558,018 |
1,479,510 | At 05:10:56 GMT on the night of 3 March 1959, Pioneer 4 lifted off from LC-5 at Cape Canaveral. This time, the booster performed almost perfectly so that "Pioneer 4" achieved its primary objective (an Earth-Moon trajectory), returned radiation data and provided a valuable tracking exercise. A slightly longer than nomin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=82010 | 1,478,677 |
313,520 | Researchers have checked the BOLD signal against both signals from implanted electrodes (mostly in monkeys) and signals of field potentials (that is the electric or magnetic field from the brain's activity, measured outside the skull) from EEG and MEG. The local field potential, which includes both post-neuron-synaptic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=226722 | 313,351 |
1,036,212 | The problems with lightsabers with actual light blades mentioned at the beginning of this section are not all insurmountable. For instance, it is mentioned that "Lasers do not clash when their beams cross", which is a statement based on our day-to-day experience with light. But Euler and Heisenberg have shown in 1936 t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=311217 | 1,035,672 |
1,915,630 | The main focus of Kumar's research in condensed matter physics was the theory related to disordered magnetic systems. At IIT Roorkee, he collaborated with a number of scientists such as Mustansir Barma and S. Shenoy and studied superparamagnetic particles, magnetic anisotropy and disordered ultrametric models. Kumar's ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54025702 | 1,914,531 |
796,098 | The most recent German Transrapid line project, and the one that came closest to being built, having previously been approved, was an airport connection track from Munich Central Station to Munich Airport, a project. The connection between the train station and airport was close to being built, but was cancelled on 27 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=172228 | 795,673 |
228,629 | Wu completed her PhD in June 1940, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, the US academic honor society. In spite of Lawrence and Segrè's recommendations, she could not secure a faculty position at a university, so she remained at the Radiation Laboratory as a post-doctoral fellow. Because of her early achievements, the "O... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=252131 | 228,512 |
1,684,586 | Freeze-casting can be applied to produce aligned porous structure from diverse building blocks including ceramics, polymers, biomacromolecules, graphene and carbon nanotubes. As long as there are particles that may be rejected by a progressing freezing front, a templated structure is possible. By controlling cooling gr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39211211 | 1,683,641 |
1,479,072 | High-rise construction, though possible from the late 19th century onwards, was greatly advanced during the second half of the 20th century. Fazlur Khan designed structural systems that remain fundamental to many modern high rise constructions and which he employed in his structural designs for the John Hancock Center ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17326228 | 1,478,239 |
681,953 | 2013: Arctic West Summer 2013 (AWS13) consisted of four different missions for "Healy", over which more than were covered. The first mission utilized "Healy"s unique over-the-side science capabilities in order to collect organisms and create an ecological picture of the Hanna Shoal region. The second mission yielded se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=274594 | 681,597 |
1,010,725 | One of three mission outcomes is possible: either the human forces are eliminated, the alien forces are neutralized, or the player chooses to withdraw. The mission's score and the result are based on the number of X-COM operatives lost (either dead, unconscious, or under alien control), civilians saved or perished, ali... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=668164 | 1,010,204 |
896,827 | The desire for a single international system of measurement came largely from increasing international trade and the need to apply common standards to goods. For a company to buy a product produced in another country, they needed to know that the product would arrive as described. The medieval "ell" was abandoned in pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20353 | 896,356 |
1,260,329 | The multi-level perspective (MLP) is an analytical tool that attempts to deal with this complexity and resistance to change. Focussing on the dynamics of wider transitionary developments as opposed to discrete technological innovations, the MLP concerns itself with socio-technical system transformations, particularly w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34066587 | 1,259,642 |
723,277 | Immediately after arriving in Budapest, Milanković met the Director of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Science, Koloman von Szilly who, as a mathematician, eagerly accepted Milanković and enabled him to work undisturbed in the Academy's library and the Central Meteorological Institute. Milanković spent four yea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=150014 | 722,897 |
19,607 | In July 2015, the Tor Project announced an alliance with the Library Freedom Project to establish exit nodes in public libraries. The pilot program, which established a middle relay running on the excess bandwidth afforded by the Kilton Library in Lebanon, New Hampshire, making it the first library in the U.S. to host ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20556944 | 19,599 |
149,653 | One of Calder's more unusual undertakings was a commission from Dallas-based Braniff International Airways to paint a full-size Douglas DC-8-62 four-engined jet as a "flying canvas". George Stanley Gordon, founder of the New York City advertising agency Gordon and Shortt, approached Calder with the idea of painting a j... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=213216 | 149,585 |
1,939,839 | Over the years, Goriely has made important contributions to the modeling and analysis of filaments. Elastic curves can be modeled through the Kirchhoff equations that take into account bending, shearing, and extension. Within this context, in 1998 he identified a new type of instability driven by curvature. He showed t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64431963 | 1,938,729 |
1,021,297 | In February 2021, a study had reconstructed the past 30 years of AMOC variability and found no evidence of decline. In August 2021, study published in "Nature Climate Change" showed significant changes in eight independent AMOC indices, and suggested that they could indicate "an almost complete loss of stability". Howe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5097491 | 1,020,768 |
1,077,962 | The Human Metabolome Database is a freely available, open-access database containing detailed data on more than 40,000 metabolites that have already been identified or are likely to be found in the human body. The HMDB contains three kinds of information: 1) chemical information, 2) clinical information, and 3) biochem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1075211 | 1,077,407 |
1,222,722 | The Peking Union Medical College Hospital was founded in 1906. The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., the London Missionary Society, and later, the Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Society for the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=919947 | 1,222,063 |
1,914,655 | In 2014, Mahadevan-Jansen was elected as conference co-chair to the 2018 Gordon Research Conference on Lasers in Medicine Biology with Paul French. She is exploring the use of Raman spectroscopy for investigating pre-term cervical remodeling. In 2018, 10 years after Mahadevan-Jensen demonstrated that parathyroid gland ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61494548 | 1,913,556 |
1,025,497 | Following Asilomar, new genetic engineering techniques and applications developed rapidly. DNA sequencing methods improved greatly (pioneered by Frederick Sanger and Walter Gilbert), as did oligonucleotide synthesis and transfection techniques. Researchers learned to control the expression of transgenes, and were soon ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=322460 | 1,024,964 |
487,349 | In 1963 Fairchild's analog IC lineup, designed to military specifications, consisted of three amplifier circuits. Before Widlar, Fairchild's engineers had designed analog ICs in a style not unlike conventional circuits built with discrete devices. Despite realizing early on that this approach was impractical, owing to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3483624 | 487,099 |
1,345,728 | A resource compiled specifically to supply information on a certain subject or group of subjects in a form that will facilitate its ease of use. The works are examined for authority and reputation of the publisher, author, or editor; accuracy; appropriate bibliography; organization, comprehensiveness, and value of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17327644 | 1,344,987 |
802,733 | The logo of the institute symbolises important aspects of the four major sciences. The DNA in the centre acknowledges the discovery of its double helix structure by Watson and Crick as a major breakthrough in biology, perhaps "the most important step forward in life sciences after Darwin's theory of evolution". The ben... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7535321 | 802,304 |
2,032,931 | The 2008 Summer Olympics marked Australian-born Ryan Gambin's Olympic debut. He qualified for the Beijing Olympics by going 0.38 seconds faster than the "B" (FINA/Invitation) qualifying standard for the men's 100 metres butterfly competition with a time of 54.33 seconds at the 2008 European Aquatics Championships in Ei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17438648 | 2,031,759 |
1,227,079 | In Division I Championship Subdivision football, Georgia Southern pioneered a version of the flexbone that won a record six NCAA Championship Subdivision National Titles and nine Southern Conference titles. Through the 2007 season, the United States Air Force Academy (Air Force) and the United States Naval Academy (Nav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5472036 | 1,226,418 |
688,792 | Most IHs disappear without treatment, leaving minimal to no visible marks. This may take many years, however, and a proportion of lesions may require some form of therapy. Multidisciplinary clinical practice guidelines for the management of infantile hemangiomas were recently published. Indications for treatment includ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=862505 | 688,430 |
54,906 | ChNPP was commissioned in phases with the four reactors entering commercial operation between 1978 and 1984. In 1986, reactor No. 4 was the site of the Chernobyl disaster; as a result of this, the power plant is now within a large restricted area known as the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Both the zone and the power plant ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1238999 | 54,883 |
2,229,662 | Born in Iași, he attended the Costache Negruzzi High School in his native city. In 1927 he enrolled at the University of Iași, graduating in 1931. Upon graduation, he became an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Science of the University of Iași and began his research activity under the guidance of his advisor, Alex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70713128 | 2,228,398 |
1,610,707 | IFMIF will consist of five major systems: an accelerator facility, a Li target facility, a test facility, a post-irradiation examination (PIE) facility and a conventional facility. The whole plant must comply with international nuclear facility regulations. The energy of the beam (40 MeV) and the current of the paralle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3555270 | 1,609,802 |
1,605,533 | Systematic intercomparison of EMICs has been undertaken since 2000, most recently with a community contribution to the IPCC's fifth assessment report. The equilibrium and transient climate sensitivity of EMICs broadly fell within the range of contemporary GCMs with a range of 1.9 - 4.0°C (compared to 2.1° - 4.7°C, CMIP... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58797946 | 1,604,629 |
358,024 | In 1910, the British took the opportunity to replace their Mk VI cartridge with a more modern design. The "Mark VII" loading used a pointed bullet with a flat-base. The .303 British Mark VII cartridge was loaded with of Cordite MDT 5-2 (cordite MD pressed into tubes) and had a muzzle velocity of and a maximum range of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1036189 | 357,838 |
1,360,845 | However, the seminal papers on spontaneous breaking of gauge symmetries were at first largely ignored, because it was widely believed that the (non-Abelian gauge) theories in question were a dead-end, and in particular that they could not be renormalised. In 1971–1972, Martinus Veltman and Gerard 't Hooft proved renorm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24038774 | 1,360,092 |
937,855 | Production of the T9 peaked at 100 tanks produced per month between August 1943 and January 1944; however, this number rapidly declined when the results of the British and American testing programmes were reported to the Ordnance Department, and only 830 T9s were ever produced. The faults discovered with the design led... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=335693 | 937,355 |
1,035,585 | Within a year of completing his doctorate, the increasingly repressive and anti-semitic Nazi regime in Germany had prompted Hempel to emigrate to Belgium as his wife was of Jewish ancestry. In this he was aided by the scientist Paul Oppenheim, with whom he co-authored the book "Der Typusbegriff im Lichte der neuen Logi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1380238 | 1,035,045 |
1,370,704 | When Burnet returned to Australia, he went back to the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, where he was appointed assistant director by Kellaway. His first assignment was to investigate the "Bundaberg disaster", in which 12 children had died after receiving a contaminated diphtheria vaccine. Kellaway was put in charge of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=417493 | 1,369,948 |
1,471,530 | One of the earliest studies on ovulatory shifts found that female lab rats tend to run on their exercise wheels more during their fertile window. Subsequent research showed that a variety of species experience an increase in the frequency of spontaneous activity and motor behavior during estrus. Some studies on humans ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55907997 | 1,470,702 |
175,181 | Digital spirit levels are increasingly common in replacing conventional spirit levels, particularly in civil engineering applications such as traditional building construction and steel structure erection, for on-site angle alignment and leveling tasks. The industry practitioners often refer to those levelling tools as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=352353 | 175,090 |
1,511,456 | Humus is one of the two final stages of decomposition of organic matter. It remains in the soil as the organic component of the soil matrix while the other stage, carbon dioxide, is freely liberated in the atmosphere or reacts with calcium to form the soluble calcium bicarbonate. While humus may linger for a thousand y... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64613245 | 1,510,606 |
1,940,482 | Polysialic acid (polySia) is polymer of linearly repeating monomer units of α2,8- and α2,9-glycosidic linked sialic acid residues. Sialic acid refers to carboxylated 9-carbon sugars, 2-keto-3-dexoxy-D-"glycero"-nononic acids. An unusual property of this sugar is that it often polymerizes into polySia. This is accomplis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16618335 | 1,939,372 |
399,583 | The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), a part of the National Institutes of Health, supports and conducts research on the brain and central nervous system, including research relevant to RSDS, through grants to major medical institutions across the country. NINDS-supported scientists are w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56283 | 399,385 |
1,345,241 | Population modeling became of particular interest to biologists in the 20th century as pressure on limited means of sustenance due to increasing human populations in parts of Europe were noticed by biologist like Raymond Pearl. In 1921 Pearl invited physicist Alfred J. Lotka to assist him in his lab. Lotka developed pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11397469 | 1,344,503 |
885,504 | The second flight for the Falcon 9 vehicle was the COTS Demo Flight 1, the first launch under the NASA Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) contract designed to provide "seed money" for development of new boosters. The original NASA contract called for the COTS Demo Flight 1 to occur the second quarter of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34048636 | 885,040 |
1,194,882 | Due to complex interactions which arise from electron-electron repulsion, algebraic solutions of the Schrödinger equation are only possible for systems with one electron such as the hydrogen atom, H, H, etc.; however, from these simple models arise all the familiar atomic (s,p,d,f) and bonding (σ,π) orbitals. In system... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11304514 | 1,194,242 |
589,586 | After her death, the Maria Goeppert Mayer Award was created by the American Physical Society (APS) to honor young female physicists at the beginning of their careers. Open to all female physicists who hold PhDs, the winner receives money and the opportunity to give guest lectures about her research at four major instit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=140526 | 589,284 |
935,056 | The main grouping of healthcare scientists working in areas similar to respiratory therapists are respiratory and sleep physiologists. They perform the majority of comprehensive pulmonary physiological assessments (including cardiopulmonary exercise tests) as well as sleep studies. They might also manage non-invasive v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48614 | 934,562 |
940,667 | Some anomalies in the background radiation have been reported which are aligned with the plane of our solar system. These are unexplained by the Copernican principle and suggest that the solar system's alignment is special in relation to the background radiation of the universe. Land and Magueijo in 2005 dubbed this al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49293854 | 940,166 |
38,017 | "H. erectus" is credited with inventing the Acheulean stone tool industry, succeeding the Oldowan industry, and were the first to make lithic flakes bigger than , and hand axes (which includes bifacial tools with only 2 sides, such as picks, knives, and cleavers). Though larger and heavier, these hand axes had sharper,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19554533 | 38,004 |
1,291,692 | Toxicity testing typically involves studying adverse health outcomes in animals subjected to high doses of toxicants with subsequent extrapolation to expected human responses at lower doses. The system relies on the use of a 40+year-old patchwork of animal tests that are expensive (costing more than $3B per year), time... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8077127 | 1,290,982 |
145,558 | Peter Attia was born on 19 March 1973 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is of Coptic Egyptian descent. First wanting to become a professional boxer,he later attended Queen's University, receiving B.Sc. degrees in mechanical engineering and applied mathematics. He attended Stanford University School of Medicine, where he ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58937837 | 145,500 |
1,582,559 | Biological psychopathology is a field that focuses mostly on the research and understanding the biological basis of major mental disorders such as bipolar and unipolar affective disorder, schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease. Much of the understanding thus far has come from neuroimaging techniques such as radiotracer ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22347001 | 1,581,669 |
283,874 | Dirac described the quantization of the electromagnetic field as an ensemble of harmonic oscillators with the introduction of the concept of creation and annihilation operators of particles. In the following years, with contributions from Wolfgang Pauli, Eugene Wigner, Pascual Jordan, Werner Heisenberg and an elegant f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25268 | 283,721 |
1,410,863 | The reconstruction found significant variability around a long-term cooling trend of –0.02 °C per century, as expected from orbital forcing, interrupted in the 20th century by rapid warming which stood out from the whole period, with the 1990s "the warmest decade, and 1998 the warmest year, at moderately high levels of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5354105 | 1,410,071 |
1,084,726 | His parents hoped that he would become a lawyer, but he became interested in chemistry while at school. Overcoming his parents' objections he enrolled as a chemistry undergraduate at the University of Vienna and completed his degree in 1936. Made aware by lecturer Fritz von Wessely of the advances being undertaken at t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38262 | 1,084,168 |
780,890 | Arthrodira ("jointed neck") were the most diverse and numerically successful of the placoderm orders, occupying roles from giant apex predators to detritus-nibbling bottom dwellers. They had a movable joint between armour surrounding the head and body. As the lower jaw moved down, the head shield moved, allowing for a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=949620 | 780,472 |
1,199,559 | The key to deciphering Uranus's spectrum was found in the 1930s by Rupert Wildt and Vesto Slipher, who found that the dark bands at 543, 619, 925, 865 and 890 nm belonged to gaseous methane. They had never been observed before because they were very weak and required a long path length to be detected. This meant that t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13062770 | 1,198,918 |
2,215,169 | Sir Joseph Anthony Dwyer (20 June 1939 – 16 October 2021) was a British civil engineer and businessman. He joined Wimpey in 1955 and spent 44 years with the firm, becoming chief executive officer and chairman. Dwyer was responsible for repositioning Wimpey as a housebuilder by swapping its contracting arm for Tarmac's ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61959129 | 2,213,909 |
1,177,788 | The NDM movement originated at a conference in Dayton, Ohio in 1989, which resulted in a book by Gary Klein, Judith Orasanu, Roberta Calderwood, and Caroline Zsambok. The NDM framework focuses on cognitive functions such as decision making, sensemaking, situational awareness, and planning – which emerge in natural sett... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4698768 | 1,177,165 |
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