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546,272 | The third and final stage of the campaign was the capture of Balikpapan on the central east coast of Borneo. This operation had been opposed by Blamey, who believed that it was unnecessary, but went ahead on the orders of MacArthur. After a 20-day preliminary air and naval bombardment the 7th Division landed near the t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22738876 | 545,986 |
1,837,805 | The development of S-FEM started from the works on meshfree methods, where the so-called weakened weak (W2) formulation based on the G space theory were developed. The W2 formulation offers possibilities for formulate various (uniformly) "soft" models that works well with triangular meshes. Because triangular mesh can ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31976290 | 1,836,756 |
1,752,093 | Franciscus Donders spent a lot of time studying and researching biology and cognition. Only a little amount of his time was spent studying ophthalmology. Although little, its impact was the parent of many concepts (that still exist) in the field of ophthalmology. He introduced subjects such as refraction, astigmatism, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5100047 | 1,751,106 |
1,566,886 | Now one measures the time between start and stop for each event. This is called coincidence when a start and stop pair has been found. Since the intermediate state decays according to the laws of radioactive decay, one obtains an exponential curve with the lifetime of this intermediate state after plotting the frequenc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62421802 | 1,565,999 |
856,274 | After leaving school Boelcke joined a telegraph battalion in Koblenz as a (cadet officer) on 15 March 1911. As he learned his general military duties, he saw more airplanes. In January 1912 he began attending the (Military Academy) in Metz. As the advent of spring lengthened the days, he took advantage of his early cla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=193002 | 855,819 |
494,871 | Kubert served as DC Comics' director of publications from 1967 to 1976. He made the Unknown Soldier the lead feature of "Star Spangled War Stories" with issue #151 (June–July 1970) and initiated titles based on such Edgar Rice Burroughs properties as "Tarzan" and "Korak". Comics historian Les Daniels noted that Kubert'... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=855226 | 494,615 |
153,458 | Some German manufacturers and energy companies have criticized the phase-out plans, warning that Germany could face blackouts. While this did not happen there has been an increase in voltage fluctuations which has damaged industrial facilities and caused them to install voltage regulators. A 2020 study by the Haas Scho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8870938 | 153,388 |
2,004,131 | Max Bennett was a student at Christian Brothers College, St Kilda and did his undergraduate work in electrical engineering and physics at University of Melbourne in 1959, where he founded the Athenian Society dedicated to understanding Plato, Aristotle and Wittgenstein. His interest in brain and mind led to postgraduat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42104162 | 2,002,982 |
790,721 | The area of the brain with the greatest amount of recent evolutionary change is called the neocortex. In reptiles and fish, this area is called the pallium, and is smaller and simpler relative to body mass than what is found in mammals. According to research, the cerebrum first developed about 200 million years ago. It... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17682224 | 790,296 |
1,933,665 | Golden Horse hill conceals the most extensive cave system in Bohemia, accidentally discovered after an explosion in a nearby limestone quarry in 1950 and subsequently were made accessible for the public in 1959. Spanning two kilometers and three levels, the cave system inside the "Zlatý kůň" hill consists of passages a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8369313 | 1,932,557 |
1,073,864 | It does not involve maximal condensation of chromatin into chromosomes, observable by light microscopy as they line up in pairs along the metaphase plate. It does not involve these paired structures being pulled in opposite directions by a mitotic spindle to form daughter cells. Rather, it effects nuclear proliferation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33039059 | 1,073,310 |
1,159,632 | In 2004, Steven Chu became the director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where Chu launched several major initiatives centered on clean energy. Influenced by Chu's advocate on energy and climate change during his postdoctoral study at Berkeley, Cui decided to dedicate his Stanford lab to clean energy research ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62783536 | 1,159,017 |
1,407,475 | During World War I, Reiter worked first as a German military physician on the Western Front in France. While there, he cared for several soldiers suffering from Weil's disease, and made his first notable discovery that one of the causative bacteria were "Leptospira icterohaemorrhagica", which had eluded culture methods... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2986062 | 1,406,685 |
1,795,373 | Based on the report of Manson's discovery, an American physician Albert Freeman Africanus King developed a proposition that malaria is transmitted by mosquitoes. He revealed his idea in 1881 to his colleagues C.V. Riley and L.O. Howard, who did not share the same opinion. Unfettered he developed the theory with proper ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42553902 | 1,794,364 |
244,197 | This early idea that the study of living birds was merely recreation held sway until ecological theories became the predominant focus of ornithological studies. The study of birds in their habitats was particularly advanced in Germany with bird ringing stations established as early as 1903. By the 1920s, the "Journal f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42967 | 244,070 |
874,645 | The Fontan procedure was initially described in 1971 by Dr. Francis Fontan (1929–2018) from Bordeaux, France. Prior to this, the surgical treatment for tricuspid atresia consisted of creating a shunt between a systemic artery and the pulmonary artery (Blalock-Taussig shunt) or the superior vena cava and the pulmonary a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=962917 | 874,183 |
358,971 | "Midway" lost an F-4 Phantom and two A-4 Skyhawks to North Vietnamese S-75 Dvina surface-to-air missiles before returning to Alameda on 23 November to enter San Francisco Bay Naval Shipyard on 11 February 1966 for a massive modernization (SCB-101.66), which proved expensive and controversial. The flight deck was enlarg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=402386 | 358,785 |
1,531,460 | Asif Siddiqi, who's epic book Challenge to Apollo : the Soviet Union and the space race, 1945-1974 was rated by The Wall Street Journal as one of the best works on space exploration, takes a more balanced approach by acknowledging Nazi Germany rocket technology and involvement of German scientists and engineers was an ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71216091 | 1,530,594 |
1,057,123 | The updraft under the cloud is mostly due to buoyancy, but there is also a large pressure difference between the base and the top of the cumulonimbus (larger than would be found in this height range outside the cloud) and local low-level mechanical lifting such as the lifting generated by a downburst. The two last phen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51560627 | 1,056,574 |
1,314,178 | It is estimated that the worldwide prevalence of AAE ranges from 1 person in every 10,000 people are affected to 1 case in every 150,000 people. However, it is thought that this disease prevalence could be higher due to diagnostic oversight and the shared symptoms of acquired angioedema with similar diseases. This dise... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21625471 | 1,313,457 |
60,044 | Other ceratopsians from the Two Medicine Formation include "Einiosaurus" and "Stellasaurus". In addition, remains of other indeterminate and dubious centrosaurines, including "Brachyceratops", are known from the formation and though they may represent younger stages of the three valid genera, this is not possible to de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1792493 | 60,019 |
973,920 | Early in the 20th century, the university's graduate program in education came into being; it has since served hundreds of North Country school teachers and administrators. Following a difficult period during the Great Depression and World War II that included the decision to shut down the Brooklyn Law School, the stud... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=561696 | 973,410 |
1,158,447 | The Luttrell Psalter measures 350 x 245 mm. It is written in Latin and is composed of 309 high-quality vellum leaves with flyleaves of paper. Most of the pages are decorated in red paint with details in gold, silver and blind. The illustrations are stamped and tooled into the paper. The manuscript has eight cords which... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3748486 | 1,157,833 |
831,856 | The advent of the microprocessor and solid-state memory made home computing affordable. Early hobby microcomputer systems such as the Altair 8800 and Apple I introduced around 1975 marked the release of low-cost 8-bit processor chips, which had sufficient computing power to be of interest to hobby and experimental user... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=264051 | 831,407 |
1,021,291 | A 2015 study led by James Hansen found that the shutdown or substantial slowdown of the AMOC, besides possibly contributing to extreme end-Eemian events, will cause a more general increase of severe weather. Additional surface cooling from ice melt increases surface and lower tropospheric temperature gradients, and cau... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5097491 | 1,020,762 |
958,006 | In the summer of 2010, the United States Army began field testing the XM25 in Afghanistan, with an initial per-unit cost of the early models ranging from to $35,000. Five of the weapons were deployed with the 101st Airborne Division in Afghanistan in October 2010, along with 1,000 hand-made airburst rounds. The soldier... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1608120 | 957,500 |
674,110 | In 1950, the Ericsson Swedish company developed their own versions of the 1XB and A204 systems for the international market. In the early 1960s, the company's sales of crossbar switches exceeded those of their rotating 500-switching system, as measured in the number of lines. Crossbar switching quickly spread to the re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45456 | 673,758 |
250,068 | A consequence of describing electrons as waveforms is that it is mathematically impossible to simultaneously derive the position and momentum of an electron. This became known as the Heisenberg uncertainty principle after the theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg, who first published a version of it in 1927. (Heisenb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2844 | 249,936 |
826,074 | "Traditional" institutionalism rejects the "reduction" of institutions to simply tastes, technology, and nature (see naturalistic fallacy). Tastes, along with expectations of the future, habits, and motivations, not only determine the nature of institutions but are limited and shaped by them. If people live and work in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=859910 | 825,630 |
526,504 | Theophrastus's major botanical works were the "Enquiry into Plants" ("Historia Plantarum") and "Causes of Plants" ("Causae Plantarum") which were his lecture notes for the Lyceum. The opening sentence of the "Enquiry" reads like a botanical manifesto: ""We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25007304 | 526,231 |
1,581,118 | Bubble chambers, originally invented in 1952, are largely phased out but still have some use in WIMP dark matter detection. Bubble chambers are filled with superheated liquid held close to its phase transition. When a particle interacts with the superheated liquid the energy it imparts is enough to trigger a phase tran... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70646792 | 1,580,228 |
1,788,024 | Two-dimensional culture also suffers from poor diffusivity of nutrients and gases, requiring added media and supplements to be manually evenly distributed, and may result in irreproducible data. Microcarrier cell suspensions in stirred tank bioreactors allows for an even distribution through homogenous stirring. Parame... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16482142 | 1,787,018 |
1,635,556 | Born in 1844 in Vălenii de Munte, Pănculescu went to study abroad and graduated from the Zurich Science and Technology University, and then joined the 'Société des Établissements Eiffel' engineering company founded by Gustave Eiffel, recommended by famous Romanian poet Vasile Alecsandri. In 1878, Pănculescu returned to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26085404 | 1,634,633 |
406,419 | Australian cosmology beliefs were based around the Aboriginal and Teres Straight Islander people's ideas, also known as Indigenous astronomy, and it was around before the Babylonians, Greeks, and the Renaissance period. They found ways to observe the moon, stars, and the sun, this enabled them to create a sense of time... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38737 | 406,219 |
1,892,910 | Original genetic studies by gel electrophoresis led to the finding of the genome size, ca. 35 megabases, with 7 chromosomes and 1 mitochondrial chromosome. In the 1980s the mitochondrial chromosome was sequenced. Then in 2003 a pilot study was initiated to sequence regions bordering chromosome V's centromere using BAC ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34481954 | 1,891,827 |
851,070 | Military, police, and firefighters use HMDs to display tactical information such as maps or thermal imaging data while viewing a real scene. Recent applications have included the use of HMD for paratroopers. In 2005, the Liteye HMD was introduced for ground combat troops as a rugged, waterproof lightweight display that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1259296 | 850,617 |
1,252,605 | Kirchheim entered the Imperial Army as an officer candidate on May 1, 1899. He became a Leutnant with the Infanterie-Regiment Prinz Friedrich der Niederlande (2. Westfälisches) Nr. 15 in Minden on October 18, 1900. On October 1, 1904, he transferred to the Schutztruppe of German Southwest Africa, going on an eight-year... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19106625 | 1,251,927 |
708,388 | Sapir was born into a family of Lithuanian Jews in Lauenburg (now Lębork) in the Province of Pomerania where his father, Jacob David Sapir, worked as a cantor. The family was not Orthodox, and his father maintained his ties to Judaism through its music. The Sapir family did not stay long in Pomerania and never accepted... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9321 | 708,019 |
295,966 | Early pioneers in the field include Jean Louis Lassaigne (early 19th century) and Philippe de Clermont (1854). In 1932, German chemist Willy Lange and his graduate student, Gerde von Krueger, first described the cholinergic nervous system effects of organophosphates, noting a choking sensation and a dimming of vision a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=959629 | 295,806 |
382,326 | Today, some authors use "episome" in the context of prokaryotes to refer to a plasmid that is capable of integrating into the chromosome. The integrative plasmids may be replicated and stably maintained in a cell through multiple generations, but at some stage, they will exist as an independent plasmid molecule. In the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23974 | 382,131 |
26,728 | There is debate as to the benefits of screening. As of 2017, the United States Preventive Services Task Force found insufficient evidence to make a recommendation among those without symptoms. In the United Kingdom, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) recommend testing for coeliac disease i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63526 | 26,718 |
1,659,896 | Space science and technology have been a government priority for decades. In the late 1980s and 1990s, Brazil invested almost US$1 billion in developing space infrastructure around the National Institute of Space Research (INPE), leading to the launch of the first scientific satellite built entirely in Brazil in 1993 (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1525228 | 1,658,963 |
611,804 | On flight day 11, the crew of Space Shuttle "Endeavour" conducted a late inspection of the orbiter's Thermal Protection System. On most previous flights, this inspection was performed after the shuttle undocked from the ISS. However, in this case it was done early, because the Orbiter Boom Sensor System (OBSS) was to b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18089765 | 611,493 |
1,255,794 | As the west began to learn about the Chernobyl incident, fear and anxiety about nuclear energy swelled in U.S. public opinion. Even as early as 1975, anti-nuclear movement coalitions were making strides in reducing the power of the nuclear industry. The coalitions were able to instill fear in the population over the ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31284652 | 1,255,110 |
426,781 | A turning point came during Project Nobska in the summer of 1956, when Edward Teller predicted that a warhead would become available by 1963. This was much lighter than the warhead of the Jupiter, and led the US Navy to pull out of the joint Jupiter project in late 1956 in order to concentrate on the development of a s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35942972 | 426,572 |
1,042,905 | Through analysis, numerical calculation, simulation and experimentation an important condition for a magnetic sail to generate significant force is the MHD applicability test, that states that the standoff distance formula_34 must be significantly greater than the ion gyroradius, also called the Larmor radius or cyclot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37845 | 1,042,362 |
1,476,311 | Architectural innovations that are responsive to architecture do not have to resemble a plant or an animal. Where form is intrinsic to an organism's function, then a building modeled on a life form's processes may end up looking like the organism too. Architecture can emulate natural forms, functions and processes. Tho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39314537 | 1,475,479 |
1,296,618 | The analogue Mars Lander Habitat is a two-story cylinder that measures about in diameter, and is a crew's combined home and place of work during a Mars surface exploration simulation. On the first floor, there are two simulated [[airlock]]s, a shower and toilet, an EVA Preparation room for storage and maintenance of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=433258 | 1,295,907 |
1,185,352 | Pliny's work is divided neatly into the organic world of plants and animals, and the realm of inorganic matter, although there are frequent digressions in each section. He is especially interested in not just describing the occurrence of plants, animals and insects, but also their exploitation (or abuse) by man. The de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1694427 | 1,184,723 |
1,750,976 | Tropical cyclone observation has been carried out over the past couple of centuries in various ways. The passage of typhoons, hurricanes, as well as other tropical cyclones have been detected by word of mouth from sailors recently coming to port or by radio transmissions from ships at sea, from sediment deposits in nea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8342716 | 1,749,990 |
1,682,473 | The final one-pot operation begins with a Curtius Rearrangement of acyl azide (7) to produce an isocyanate functional group at room temperature. The isocyanate derivative then reacts with acetic acid to yield the desired acetylamino moiety found in (1). This domino Curtius rearrangement and amide formation occurs in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8906733 | 1,681,530 |
1,461,222 | Rankine was one of the first engineers to recognise that fatigue failures of railway axles was caused by the initiation and growth of brittle cracks. In the early 1840s he examined many broken axles, especially after the Versailles train crash of 1842 when a locomotive axle suddenly fractured and led to the death of ov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=262149 | 1,460,400 |
774,413 | Anarcho-communism is a theory of anarchism which advocates the abolition of the state, private property, and capitalism in favor of common ownership of the means of production, direct democracy and a horizontal network of voluntary associations, and workers' councils with production and consumption based on the guiding... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43069513 | 773,997 |
133,287 | At the beginning of the 13th century, there were reasonably accurate Latin translations of the main works of almost all the intellectually crucial ancient authors, allowing a sound transfer of scientific ideas via both the universities and the monasteries. By then, the natural philosophy in these texts began to be exte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14400 | 133,234 |
894,964 | The first mastersingers file into the church, including Eva's wealthy father Veit Pogner and the town clerk Beckmesser. Beckmesser, a clever technical singer who was expecting to win the contest without opposition, is distressed to see that Walther is Pogner's guest and intends to enter the contest. Meanwhile, Pogner i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37915 | 894,494 |
1,383,801 | During the Paleocene to Early Eocene Skye formed one of the main volcanic centres of the North Atlantic Igneous Province. Gently dipping lavas from the volcanoes cover most of northern Skye, giving a stepped trap type landscape. The dominant lava type is basalt, with subsidiary hawaiite and mugearite derived from silic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38293308 | 1,383,034 |
1,649,221 | The ankyrin-repeat sequence motif has been studied using multiple sequence alignment to determine conserved amino acid residues critical for folding and stability. The residues on the wide lateral surface of ankyrin repeat structures are variable, often hydrophobic, and involved mainly in mediating protein–protein inte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5822839 | 1,648,289 |
38,903 | At its debut, the Palladium models had the lowest drag coefficient of any production car, with . The new HVAC system uses a heat pump that Tesla says provides 30% longer range and requires 50% less energy in cold weather conditions than the previous Model S. Charging was said to increase by in 15 minutes (on a 250 kW S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18215937 | 38,889 |
1,857,484 | Ulm grew up in Fürth/Bavaria and Erlangen as son of Udo Ulm and Hertha Ulm, both Structural Engineers. Following National Service as a nurse in a surgical hospital in Erlangen, he studied Civil Engineering at the Technical University of Munich, where he graduated in 1990 with a “Diplom Ingenieur (Bauingenieur)”(Eq. MSc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59593534 | 1,856,416 |
714,852 | The RB-57F was the result of an Air Force "Big Safari" requirement for a high-altitude reconnaissance platform with better performance than the existing and similar RB-57D, some of which had been grounded as a result of wing spar failures. A more urgent need to field an aircraft capable of high altitude signals intelli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33576652 | 714,479 |
1,373,560 | It is possible that the core principles of The Faculty of Language be correlated to natural laws (such as for example, the Fibonacci sequence— an array of numbers where each consecutive number is a sum of the two that precede it, see for example the discussion Uriagereka 1997 and Carnie and Medeiros 2005). According to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9568471 | 1,372,803 |
480,078 | Each college has program-specific laboratories to support hands-on, simulated learning and application of theories. One of the most recent laboratories established is the fabrication laboratory called the Labspace for Innovation Knowledge-Honing and Application (LIKHA FabLab), which is part of the university's Manufact... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18965074 | 479,834 |
8,164 | After the Russian Revolution, the Bolsheviks promoted psychology as a way to engineer the "New Man" of socialism. Consequently, university psychology departments trained large numbers of students in psychology. At the completion of training, positions were made available for those students at schools, workplaces, cultu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22921 | 8,161 |
69,245 | Despite the "Voyager" data, evidence for a tenuous oxygen atmosphere (exosphere) on Ganymede, very similar to the one found on Europa, was found by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) in 1995. HST actually observed airglow of atomic oxygen in the far-ultraviolet at the wavelengths 130.4 nm and 135.6 nm. Such an airglow is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54211 | 69,218 |
1,303,194 | From 1920 John Carson, also working for AT&T, began to develop a new way of looking at signals using the operational calculus of Heaviside which in essence is working in the frequency domain. This gave the AT&T engineers a new insight into the way their filters were working and led Otto Zobel to invent many improved fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23431648 | 1,302,478 |
963,136 | "C. jejuni" is commonly associated with poultry, and is also commonly found in animal feces. "Campylobacter" is a helical-shaped, non-spore-forming, Gram-negative, microaerophilic, nonfermenting motile bacterium with a single flagellum at one or both poles, which are also oxidase-positive and grow optimally at 37 to 42... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=571816 | 962,627 |
100,284 | Secondary electrons have very low energies on the order of 50 eV, which limits their mean free path in solid matter. Consequently, SEs can only escape from the top few nanometers of the surface of a sample. The signal from secondary electrons tends to be highly localized at the point of impact of the primary electron b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28034 | 100,239 |
1,794,867 | In an X-ray burster, this material accretes onto the surface of the neutron star, where it forms a dense layer. After mere hours of accumulation and gravitational compression, nuclear fusion starts in this matter. This begins as a stable process, the hot CNO cycle, however, continued accretion causes a degenerate shell... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=195693 | 1,793,858 |
314,660 | Clinically, CLSM is used in the evaluation of various eye diseases, and is particularly useful for imaging, qualitative analysis, and quantification of endothelial cells of the cornea. It is used for localizing and identifying the presence of filamentary fungal elements in the corneal stroma in cases of keratomycosis, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1186904 | 314,491 |
247,306 | Between 2013 and 2015 Davis introduced a wide-reaching restructure of the university's administration, labelled the Business Improvement Program, which led to the sacking of 500 administrative staff and some administrative responsibilities being transferred to academic staff. At the same time in the ten years to 2018 t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=363594 | 247,178 |
10,196 | MIT Bootcamps are intense week-long innovation and leadership programs that challenge participants to develop a venture in a week. Each Bootcamp centers around a particular topic, specific to an industry, leadership skill set, or emerging technology. Cohorts are organized into small teams who work on an entrepreneurial... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18879 | 10,192 |
1,200,700 | Estuaries occur where there is a noticeable change in salinity between saltwater and freshwater sources. This is typically found where rivers meet the ocean or sea. The wildlife found within estuaries is unique as the water in these areas is brackish - a mix of freshwater flowing to the ocean and salty seawater. Other ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65970498 | 1,200,059 |
1,672,210 | Synthetic chemicals such as diethyltoluamide (often called DEET) dissolved in an oily carrier are sometimes used. Also there are various organic, botanical repellents such as citronella oil and neem oil. Typically various types of synthetic pyrethroids such as deltamethrin, cypermethrin, and permethrin are formulated i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53631421 | 1,671,268 |
1,174,322 | Sauropodomorpha, of which Neosauropoda is a subclade, first arose in the late Triassic. Around 230 million years ago, animals such as "Eoraptor", the most basal known member of Dinosauria and also Saurischia, already displayed certain features of the Sauropod group. These derived characters began to distinguish them fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9714882 | 1,173,700 |
746,711 | In a 2012 paper titled "Can't We All Be More Like Scandinavians?", co-written with Robinson and Verdier, he suggests that "it may be precisely the more 'cutthroat' American society that makes possible the more 'cuddly' Scandinavian societies based on a comprehensive social safety net, the welfare state and more limited... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1803497 | 746,316 |
1,333,855 | When Mendel’s work on inheritance was rediscovered in 1900, scientists debated whether Mendel’s laws could account for the continuous variation observed for many traits. One group known as the biometricians argued that continuous traits such as height were largely heritable, but could not be explained by the inheritanc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57196924 | 1,333,126 |
130,430 | An electronic stethoscope (or stethophone) overcomes the low sound levels by electronically amplifying body sounds. However, amplification of stethoscope contact artifacts, and component cutoffs (frequency response thresholds of electronic stethoscope microphones, pre-amps, amps, and speakers) limit electronically ampl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28714 | 130,378 |
1,016,616 | Colin Ford, in the "Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography" calls her images "extraordinarily powerful" and "arguably the first 'close-up' photographs in history". He continues:Her visualisations of poetry are different in style and achievement from those of any other photographer of the time. Her contemporarie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=85737 | 1,016,092 |
1,494,466 | Along the way to the final, defending champion Yuriy Borzakovskiy was eliminated as his fast closing tactics didn't get him into a qualifying place or time. In the final, most of the field got off fairly evenly, with Ismail Ahmed Ismail showing the least interest in joining the pack of seven. By 200 metres, Wilfred Bun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18569131 | 1,493,625 |
1,034,512 | Clean coal technology is a collection of technologies being developed in attempts to lessen the negative environmental impact of coal energy generation and to mitigate worldwide climate change. When coal is used as a fuel source, the gaseous emissions generated by the thermal decomposition of the coal include sulfur di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2423894 | 1,033,975 |
825,189 | The first fossil remains now attributed to "Dimorphodon" were found in England by fossil collector Mary Anning, at Lyme Regis in Dorset, UK in December 1828. This region of Britain is now a World Heritage Site, dubbed the Jurassic Coast; in it layers of the Blue Lias are exposed, dating from the Hettangian-Sinemurian. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2469652 | 824,746 |
1,956,869 | The fundamental idea that measurement has been built to exploit the Spatial resolution of electron microscopy and temporal resolution for ultrafast optical pump probe. The setup simply consists of scanning electron microscopy machine always works in ultra-high vacuum that regarding on electron beam as a probe and ultra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64346513 | 1,955,745 |
1,382,465 | Worse, in 1740 Prussia invaded Silesia to become a great power. Austria's defeat against a tiny country convinced many other countries to finally partition it. Prussia, France, Spain, Bavaria, Saxony, Naples, Sardinia and Modena then created an alliance to finally wipe out Austria from the European map. At first, the i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2819350 | 1,381,700 |
93,514 | The AV-8B underwent standard evaluation to prepare for its USMC service. In the operational evaluation (OPEVAL), lasting from 31 August 1984 to 30 March 1985, four pilots and a group of maintenance and support personnel tested the aircraft under combat conditions. The aircraft was graded for its ability to meet its mis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18940560 | 93,473 |
101,485 | The standard US Navy scanning sonar at the end of World War II operated at 18 kHz, using an array of ADP crystals. Desired longer range, however, required use of lower frequencies. The required dimensions were too big for ADP crystals, so in the early 1950s magnetostrictive and barium titanate piezoelectric systems wer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29438 | 101,440 |
260,329 | Researchers at the time knew that high doses of radiation increase the rate of physiological pregnancy and fetal abnormalities, but select researchers who were familiar with both the prior human exposure data and animal testing knew that, unlike the dominant linear no-threshold model of radiation and cancer rate increa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4155456 | 260,195 |
1,351,328 | Identifying skeletal remains is a very sensitive research subject at the farm. With a new age and generation, there has been a paradigm shift in methods to identify the entrails of victims. With innovations and adaptation to change, computers are able to identify properties of bone matter that has been buried years beg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16471345 | 1,350,582 |
52,714 | Official planning for the next major revision of Blender after the 2.7 series began in the latter half of 2015, with potential targets including a more configurable UI (dubbed "Blender 101"), support for Physically based rendering (PBR) (dubbed EEVEE for "Extra Easy Virtual Environment Engine") to bring improved realti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=81926 | 52,694 |
995,103 | Hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia (HED) is the most common subtype of the disease. Clinical cases of patients with this condition display a range of symptoms. The most relevant abnormality of HED is hypohidrosis, the inability to produce sufficient amounts of sweat, which is attributed to missing or dysfunctional sweat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=315458 | 994,586 |
894,153 | Patients with asymptomatic but not localized low grade FL, gastrointestinal tract FL, and pediatric-type follicular lymphoma have been served by careful follow-up without therapeutic intervention. Even high grade, aggressive, relapsed, or transformed FL may also be served with observation in patients who are asymptomat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3034995 | 893,683 |
1,272,543 | Baird attended Dickinson College and earned his bachelor's and master's degrees, finishing the former in 1840. After graduation he moved to New York City with an interest in studying medicine at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He returned to Carlisle two years later. He taught natural histor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=397874 | 1,271,852 |
339,974 | Although rarely used as a weapon today, trebuchets maintain the interest of professional and hobbyist engineers. One modern technological development, especially for the competitive pumpkin-hurling events, is the "floating arms" design. Instead of using the traditional axle fixed to a frame, these devices are mounted o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43380 | 339,793 |
1,747,563 | After an active substance has been re-approved for use, all PPPs containing this active substance also have to be re-approved within three months. If the applicants do not hand in a re-application, their authorisation for the product will expire in accordance to Art. 32. If expired, the PPP is allowed to stay on the ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56351395 | 1,746,577 |
1,280,804 | Charles went on to stay with his brother Erasmus in London, near the scientific institutions which were in the throes of renovation, while the city itself was being torn up to install new sewers and gas lighting. He went round the British Museum, the Royal College of Surgeons, the Linnean, the Zoological Society and Ge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1632764 | 1,280,109 |
1,866,508 | "Pyrobaculum yellowstonensis" strain WP30 was obtained from an elemental sulfur sediment (Joseph's Coat Hot Spring [JCHS], 80 °C, pH 6.1, 135 μM As) in Yellowstone National Park (YNP), USA and is a chemoorganoheterotroph and requires elemental sulfur and/or arsenate as an electron acceptor. Growth in the presence of el... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12812688 | 1,865,433 |
327,808 | While some, like Spencer, used analogy from natural selection as an argument against government intervention in the economy to benefit the poor, others, including Alfred Russel Wallace, argued that action was needed to correct social and economic inequities to level the playing field before natural selection could impr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29932 | 327,634 |
620,315 | In 1985, General Maxwell R. Thurman, then Army Deputy Chief of Staff, reviewed the threat posed to U.S. servicemembers by biological weapons. Thurman was particularly concerned about the application of genetic engineering technology to alter conventional microorganisms and his review resulted in a five-year plan of exp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2727969 | 620,000 |
1,275,772 | The government was determined to reach a decision quickly so that future planning was not left in limbo. Rising company share prices meant any delay would likely add to the costs. In June, the companies began to negotiate, fearing that if they did not, a disadvantageous arrangement would be imposed on them. A select co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60245762 | 1,275,079 |
80,221 | By the eighteenth century, higher quality American potash was increasingly imported to Britain. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, potash production provided settlers in North America a way to obtain badly needed cash and credit as they cleared wooded land for crops. To make full use of their land, settlers nee... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56509 | 80,188 |
1,159,266 | The Malta Conferences Foundation seeks to provide a bridge to peace in the Middle East through science diplomacy. Starting in 2001, Dr. Zafra Lerman began working with the American Chemical Society Subcommittee on Scientific Freedom and Human Rights to develop a scientific conference that would bring together researche... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31816142 | 1,158,651 |
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