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1,633,624 | Thus not only did Darwin's theory give a new basis to the study of organic structure, but, whilst rendering the general theory of organic evolution equally acceptable and necessary, it explained the existence of low and simple forms of life as survivals of the earliest ancestry of the more highly complex forms, and rev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30410498 | 1,632,701 |
1,294,341 | In addition to surgery, Pott's focused on public health as well drawing his attention to the challenges of chimney-sweeps in his community. He wrote, "in their early infancy, they are most frequently treated with great brutality, and almost starved with cold and hunger; they are thrust up narrow, and sometimes hot chim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=189427 | 1,293,630 |
1,031,100 | LiDAR has frequently been used by members of the NTS to search for tall tree sites and to locate areas within a site with the greatest potential for tall tree finds. They have found LiDAR to be a useful tool for scouting locations prior to visits, but the values need to be ground truthed for accuracy. Michael Taylor wr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39003927 | 1,030,564 |
93,342 | Some effective altruists start non-profit or for-profit organizations to implement cost-effective ways of doing good. On the non-profit side, for example, Michael Kremer and Rachel Glennerster conducted randomized controlled trials in Kenya to find out the best way to improve students' test scores. They tried new textb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36903454 | 93,301 |
1,003,171 | This is an iterative CT reconstruction algorithm with edge-preserving TV regularization to reconstruct CT images from highly undersampled data obtained at low dose CT through low current levels (milliampere). In order to reduce the imaging dose, one of the approaches used is to reduce the number of x-ray projections ac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11403316 | 1,002,653 |
1,519,497 | In recent years, Giordano has dedicated numerous efforts to studying the relationship between cancer and environmental pollution in the Italian region of Campania, linking his career as a researcher to that of a science communicator. He was among the first to report an increased incidence of various types of cancer in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44199904 | 1,518,639 |
203,876 | Alternatively, emergency medicine in urban areas consists of diverse provider groups, including physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners and registered nurses who coordinate with specialists in both inpatient and outpatient facilities to address patients' needs, more specifically in the ED. For all systems... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52974 | 203,771 |
1,978,469 | Sorger's research involves multiple systems pharmacology approaches to cancer. The first focuses on preclinical pharmacology, the stage at which the molecular mechanisms of disease are studied and new drugs sought. An investigation into the causes of irreproducibility drug-response measurements led to a series of conce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69534725 | 1,977,331 |
434,968 | Diagnosing infections with "C. canimorsus" can be difficult. Common practice for culturing isolates is to keep agar plates for one week; sometimes, cultures of "C. canimorsus" are not visible at that point due to slow growth or inappropriate media. "C. canimorsus" requires very specific culture media and conditions; en... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8770962 | 434,754 |
12,341 | According to Sweeney, the hardest part of the engine to program was the renderer, as he had to rewrite its core algorithm several times during development, though he found less "glamorous" the infrastructure connecting all the subsystems. Despite requiring a significant personal effort, he said the engine was his favor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=417152 | 12,336 |
534,415 | After the golden years of the 1920s, the downturn hit hard at Northwestern University, a private school in Illinois. Its annual income dropped 25 percent from $4.8 million in 1930–31 to $3.6 million in 1933–34. The endowment investments shrank, fewer parents could pay full tuition, and annual giving from alumni and phi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44440652 | 534,136 |
1,049,957 | Gray wolves howl to assemble the pack (usually before and after hunts), to pass on an alarm (particularly at a den site), to locate each other during a storm or unfamiliar territory and to communicate across great distances. Wolf howls can under certain conditions be heard over areas of up to . Wolf howls are generally... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61366571 | 1,049,411 |
1,184,588 | In the open sea, the crew found out that one sailor from "Vostok" and few from "Mirny" caught up a sexually transmitted disease in Port Jackson. This type of diseases was especially widespread in Australia which was at that time a place where convicts were sent from Britain. Vessels did not escape may storms, and the c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40880361 | 1,183,960 |
460,306 | On November 11, 1944, Republic received an order for three prototypes of the new XP-84. Since the design promised superior performance to the P-80 Shooting Star and Republic had extensive experience in building single-seat fighters, no competition was held for the contract. The name Thunderjet was chosen to continue th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=442516 | 460,080 |
1,410,878 | A literature review by Willie Soon and Sallie Baliunas, published in the relatively obscure journal "Climate Research" on 31 January 2003, used data from previous papers to argue that the Medieval Warm Period had been warmer than the 20th century, and that recent warming was not unusual. In March they published an exte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5354105 | 1,410,086 |
1,368,559 | Creative director Chris Metzen noted that to avoid the same failure that "Titan" became, their group had to rethink how Blizzard's more successful games had come about, ignoring the scale and business opportunity of the end result and instead understand what tools and skills they had already to build from. In brainstor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55762533 | 1,367,803 |
1,190,791 | Born July 25, 1871 in New York City, she was raised in Harlem by her father Francis, an Episcopal priest, and her mother, Elizabeth Floy, who came from a prosperous New York family. Her ancestors were of Dutch and English descent and were all in America before 1720. Washburn was an only child; she did not appear to hav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=508123 | 1,190,157 |
991,288 | Historically, LDLT began with terminal pediatric patients, whose parents were motivated to risk donating a portion of their compatible healthy livers to replace their children's failing ones. The first report of successful LDLT was by Silvano Raia at the University of Sao Paulo Faculty of Medicine in July 1989. It was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=517879 | 990,771 |
1,787,263 | In general, the defect propagation theory plays a bigger role at low sediment transport rates since for high rates defects maybe washed away and bedforms generally initiated across the entire bed spontaneously. Venditti et al. (2005) report that instantaneous initiation begins with the formation of a cross-hatch patter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22450812 | 1,786,258 |
1,386,521 | On May 25, 1925, Struve married Mary Martha Lanning, who considered herself a musician but worked as a secretary at Yerkes. Lanning was slightly older than Struve and had been previously married. They had no children; thus the famous Struve astronomical dynasty came to an end. Other branches of the Struve family beside... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=584584 | 1,385,754 |
1,289,240 | The McDonnell Douglas F-4C Phantom II was one of the aircraft types evaluated by the RAAF as a potential replacement for its aging English Electric Canberra bombers in the early 1960s. In mid-1963 a team of senior RAAF officers headed by the Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Valston Hancock, travelled to the United S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36437816 | 1,288,531 |
897,374 | The cumulative damage of the semiconductor lattice ("lattice displacement" damage) caused by ionizing radiation over the exposition time. It is measured in rads and causes slow gradual degradation of the device's performance. A total dose greater than 5000 rads delivered to silicon-based devices in seconds to minutes w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1041641 | 896,901 |
526,886 | This function, referred to as a potential function, computes the molecular potential energy as a sum of energy terms that describe the deviation of bond lengths, bond angles and torsion angles away from equilibrium values, plus terms for non-bonded pairs of atoms describing van der Waals and electrostatic interactions.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=734256 | 526,613 |
672,750 | Jellyfish and zooxanthellae have a history together in the scientific world as "Symbiodinium" was first cultured from the jellyfish "Cassiopea," a model jellyfish species. Many different types of zooxanthellae have been observed forming relationships with jellyfish across many different phylogenetic branches, and the r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=479508 | 672,398 |
763,671 | The first radio antenna used to identify an astronomical radio source was built by Karl Guthe Jansky, an engineer with Bell Telephone Laboratories, in 1932. Jansky was assigned the task of identifying sources of static that might interfere with radiotelephone service. Jansky's antenna was an array of dipoles and reflec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46656 | 763,262 |
1,683,701 | The Sectoral Model, proposed by economist Homer Hoyt in 1939, explores the notion that the development of cities is centralised around transportation lines where wedges of residential land is concentrated by social class. Although, this model acts as a highly generalised theory does not equally represent urban morpholo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48914891 | 1,682,758 |
284,671 | Because the new technologies are still not widely used, AFOs are often still made from polypropylene-based plastic, mostly in the shape of an "L" with the upright part behind the calf and the lower part under the foot. The continuous "L" shape of these constructions, however, only offers the rigidity that can be produc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26734587 | 284,517 |
723,282 | Milanković put the Sun at the center of his theory, as the only source of heat and light in the Solar System. He considered three cyclical movements of the Earth: eccentricity (100,000-year cycle – Johannes Kepler, 1609), axial tilt (41,000-year cycle – from 22,1° to 24,5°; Presently, the Earth's tilt is 23.5° – Ludwig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=150014 | 722,902 |
174,312 | Ghiorso and co-workers analyzed filter papers which had been flown through the explosion cloud on airplanes (the same sampling technique that had been used to discover ). Larger amounts of radioactive material were later isolated from coral debris of the atoll, which were delivered to the U.S. The separation of suspect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9479 | 174,221 |
1,208,137 | Various machine elements that potentially lent themselves to screw making (such as the lathe, the leadscrew, the slide rest, gears, slide rests geared direct to spindles, and "change gear" gear trains) were developed over the centuries, with some of those elements being quite ancient. Various sparks of inventive power ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29477317 | 1,207,491 |
2,078,344 | Through kinship theory, the occurrence of Prader-Willi Syndrome is theorized to result from the absence of the paternally derived gene, and the only copy is the maternally 'silent' copy. In this case, the child is expected to express behaviors which reduced maternal costs in evolutionary history. In particular, a reduc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57329591 | 2,077,145 |
1,195,596 | The evolutionary switch to bipedalism may have influenced the origins of music. The background is that noise of locomotion and ventilation may mask critical auditory information. Human locomotion is likely to produce more predictable sounds than those of non-human primates. Predictable locomotion sounds may have improv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4220231 | 1,194,956 |
1,664,104 | Team-Based Learning has been suggested to help students who seem uninterested in subject material, do not do their homework, and have difficulty understanding material. TBL can transform traditional content with application and problem solving skills, while developing interpersonal skills. Vaughn et al. (2019) stated t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5774409 | 1,663,167 |
1,968,276 | Following his two-year (1961–63) postdoctoral research fellowship at Caltech, Clayton was awarded an Assistant Professorship, one of the four founding faculty members in Rice University's newly created Department of Space Science (later renamed Space Physics and Astronomy). There he initiated a graduate-student course ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36061850 | 1,967,146 |
2,044,287 | Höber was born in Stettin to businessman Anselm Emil and his wife Elise née Köhlau. Educated at the gymnasium at Stettin, he went to study medicine in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1892. He completed studies at the University of Erlangen in 1897 and worked with his uncle Isidor Rosenthal where he became interested in physiol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24147166 | 2,043,107 |
1,979,298 | This body of work was largely ignored until 1971, when Lawrence Fisher and Roman Weil re-introduced immunization to the academic community in a journal article that followed a 1969 report written for the Center for Research in Securities Prices. Shortly thereafter, in 1972, I.T. Vanderhoof presented the concept to the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30457132 | 1,978,160 |
1,001,766 | In 2003, "The New York Times" published an investigative article that noted "longstanding tensions" between the faculty and Principal McCaskill, "spilled into the open in October, with news reports that several teachers accused him of repeatedly sending sexually explicit e-mail messages from his school computer to staf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=378883 | 1,001,248 |
1,190,583 | Stewart was a child actor and holder of an Equity card. His first appearance on television came in 1978, in a BBC Scotland adaptation of John Buchan's 1922 novel "Huntingtower". Amongst his contemporaries at the East Kilbride Rep Theatre was the actor John Hannah. Leaving acting behind, he studied geography and geology... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16807222 | 1,189,949 |
597,084 | Heizer has since continued his exploration of the dynamics between positive forms and negative space. His "Adjacent, Against, Upon" (1976) juxtaposes three large granite slabs in different relationships to cast concrete forms; the 30-50 ton granite slabs were quarried in the Cascade Mountain Range and transported by ba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1038039 | 596,779 |
120,641 | Fortunately, with new and rapidly evolving technological advancements, those in Mission Control are able to monitor the health of their astronauts more closely utilizing telemedicine. One may not be able to completely evade the physiological effects of space flight, but they can be mitigated. For example, medical syste... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28431 | 120,592 |
1,921,293 | Skylab, a science and engineering laboratory, was launched into Earth orbit by a Saturn V rocket on May 14, 1973. Detailed X-ray studies of the Sun were performed. The S150 experiment performed a faint X-ray source survey. The S150 was mounted atop the SIV-B upper stage of the Saturn 1B rocket which orbited briefly beh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25119101 | 1,920,190 |
961,617 | Thorndike contributed a great deal to psychology. His influence on animal psychologists, especially those who focused on behavior plasticity, greatly contributed to the future of that field. In addition to helping pave the way towards behaviorism, his contribution to measurement influenced philosophy, the administratio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=84864 | 961,108 |
1,922,876 | In the original product imaging paper, the "positions" of the ions are imaged onto a two-dimensional detector. A photolysis laser dissociates methyl iodide (CHI), while an ionization laser is used REMPI to ionize a particular vibrational level of the CH product. Both lasers are pulsed, and the ionization laser is fired... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17768388 | 1,921,773 |
1,040,299 | With the turn of the millennium, paths towards the industrial production of BSC cells and modules started to be laid again. In 2000, Japanese manufacturer Hitachi released results of its research in BSCs with another transistor-like npn cell with 21.3% front and 19.8% rear efficiency. By 2003 Hitachi had developed BSC ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65342312 | 1,039,756 |
1,724,922 | The Nestler laboratory's focus in neuropsychopharmacology and molecular neuroscience concentrates on forming a molecular approach to psychiatry and furthering the understanding of the molecular basis of both depression and drug addiction, using animal models to study the way drug use or stress affects the brain. His ad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25283394 | 1,723,951 |
167,863 | Santos-Dumont competed for the award on 12 November 1906, again in Bagatelle. He did five public flights that day: one at 10 am, of 40 metres; two others at 10:25 am, of 40 and 60 metres, when the axle of the right wheel broke. The damage was repaired during lunch and Santos-Dumont resumed at 4:09 pm. He covered 82.60 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=152687 | 167,773 |
705,615 | The discovery set the stage for the development of the Standard Model, as the model relied on the idea of symmetry of particles and forces and how particles can sometimes break that symmetry. The wide coverage of her discovery prompted the discoverer of fission Otto Robert Frisch to mention that people at Princeton wou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36284621 | 705,246 |
964,190 | The concept of embodiment has been inspired by research in cognitive neuroscience, such as the proposals of Gerald Edelman concerning how mathematical and computational models such as neuronal group selection and neural degeneracy result in emergent categorization. From a neuroscientific perspective, the embodied cogni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33034640 | 963,681 |
193,610 | Vestigial structures are often homologous to structures that are functioning normally in other species. Therefore, vestigial structures can be considered evidence for evolution, the process by which beneficial heritable traits arise in populations over an extended period of time. The existence of vestigial traits can b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=308981 | 193,510 |
956,993 | Current US policy states: "Autonomous … weapons systems shall be designed to allow commanders and operators to exercise appropriate levels of human judgment over the use of force." However, the policy requires that autonomous weapon systems that kill people or use kinetic force, selecting and engaging targets without f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36973733 | 956,487 |
1,980,958 | Foerster's student years occurred in a time when neurology was starting to develop independently from internal medicine and psychiatry under the influence of, among others, Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893), Wilhelm Heinrich Erb, William Richard Gowers (1845-1912) and particularly Karl Wernicke, who became well known by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2649305 | 1,979,820 |
166,882 | A second series of approaches was designed and patented by Leonard R. Kahn. The various Kahn systems removed the hard limit imposed by the use of the strict log function in the generation of the signal. Earlier Kahn systems utilized various methods to reduce the second-order term through the insertion of a predistortio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29048 | 166,795 |
1,950,961 | "Ergo", the indications are that Matthew constructed the book iteratively, producing this third instalment, that includes the evolutionary exposition (p. 381), plus a further "colophon" ("In taking a retrospective glance at our pages ..." p. 388) that provides a better description of the technique to produce "knees" fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54486030 | 1,949,840 |
1,668,869 | Canada entered World War I on August 4, 1914, and soon the need for anti-toxins against tetanus became an urgent wartime matter. Robert Defries who joined the Antitoxin Lab in 1915 proposed that its operations be expanded to treat Canadian soldiers fighting trench warfare, for "not a fraction of the necessary amount [o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61019378 | 1,667,929 |
366,165 | Paracelsus's lectures at Basel university unusually were held in German, not Latin. He stated that he wanted his lectures to be available to everyone. He also published harsh criticism of the Basel physicians and apothecaries, creating political turmoil to the point of his life being threatened. In a display of his con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=152487 | 365,973 |
1,177,108 | A key paper describing OSeMOSYS is available. A 2011 study uses OSeMOSYS to investigate the role of household investment decisions. A 2012 study extends OSeMOSYS to capture the salient features of a smart grid. The paper explains how to model variability in generation, flexible demand, and grid storage and how these im... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38803848 | 1,176,485 |
81,549 | In 2004 by Japan's NTT Docomo, with studies on the standard officially commenced in 2005. In May 2007, the LTE/SAE Trial Initiative (LSTI) alliance was founded as a global collaboration between vendors and operators with the goal of verifying and promoting the new standard in order to ensure the global introduction of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19752979 | 81,516 |
1,142,878 | Out of all described eukaryotes almost one third are herbivorous insects, about 500,000. They feed on living plant matter or the products of a plant. These insects may eat essential parts of the plant, such as the leaves or sap, or they may survive on the pollen and nectar produced by the plant. Herbivorous insects oft... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15367337 | 1,142,281 |
1,848,772 | The Kyrgyz economy is oriented primarily towards agricultural production, mineral extraction, textiles and the service industry. There is little incentive to create knowledge- and technology-based industries. The insufficient rate of capital accumulation also hampers structural changes designed to boost innovation and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54244683 | 1,847,714 |
1,903,460 | TS-DFT is usually used in a two step process. In the first step, the spectrum of an optical broadband pulse is encoded by the information (e.g., temporal, spatial, or chemical information) to be captured. In the next step, the encoded spectrum is mapped by large group-velocity dispersion into a slowed temporal waveform... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34270042 | 1,902,366 |
778,686 | The Air Ministry still saw little immediate value in the effort (they regarded it as long-range research), and having no production facilities of its own, Power Jets entered into an agreement with steam turbine specialists British Thomson-Houston (BTH) to build an experimental engine facility at a BTH factory in Rugby,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42707 | 778,269 |
953,008 | The earliest documented design of pressure vessels was described in 1495 in the book by Leonardo da Vinci, the Codex Madrid I, in which containers of pressurized air were theorized to lift heavy weights underwater. However, vessels resembling those used today did not come about until the 1800s, when steam was generated... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=636219 | 952,503 |
384,156 | In September 2014, Richard Branson described the intended date for the first commercial flight as February or March 2015; by the time of this announcement, a new plastic-based fuel had yet to be ignited in-flight. By September 2014, the three test flights of the SS2 had only reached an altitude of around 71,000 ft, app... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1021879 | 383,961 |
8,525 | Also in 2015, Airbus flight tested a package of aerodynamic upgrades for the Eurofighter known as the Aerodynamic Modification Kit (AMK) consisting of reshaped (delta) fuselage strakes, extended trailing-edge flaperons and leading-edge root extensions. This increases wing lift by 25% resulting in an increased turn rate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=167667 | 8,522 |
884,036 | Protein folding does not occur in one step. Instead, proteins spend most of their folding time, nearly 96% in some cases, "waiting" in various intermediate conformational states, each a local thermodynamic free energy minimum in the protein's energy landscape. Through a process known as adaptive sampling, these conform... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=413102 | 883,572 |
449,096 | Post-processual archaeology began in Britain during the late 1970s, spearheaded by a number of British archaeologists who had become interested in aspects of French Marxist anthropology. Most prominent among these was Ian Hodder (born 1948), a former processualist who had made a name for himself for his economic analys... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=160139 | 448,878 |
550,271 | Mark Humayun, who joined the faculty of the Keck School of Medicine of USC Department of Ophthalmology in 2001; Eugene Dejuan, now at the University of California San Francisco; engineer Howard D. Phillips; bio-electronics engineer Wentai Liu, now at University of California Los Angeles; and Robert Greenberg, now of Se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17198736 | 549,983 |
1,457,067 | Individuals are far more likely to part with personal information when it seems that they will have some sort of control over the use of the information or if the information is given to an entity that they already have an established relationship with. In these specific circumstances, subjects will be much inclined to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4168072 | 1,456,247 |
1,338,735 | Ross Anderson of Cambridge University was among the most vocal critics of NGSCB and of Trusted Computing. Anderson alleged that the technologies were designed to satisfy federal agency requirements; enable content providers and other third-parties to remotely monitor or delete data in users' machines; use certificate r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59524 | 1,338,002 |
1,073,585 | Molecular dynamics (MD) has been a very powerful technique to investigate the nanoindentation at atomic scale. For instance, Alexey et al employed MD to simulate the nanoindentation process of a titanium crystal, dependence of deformation of the crystalline structure on the type of the indenter is observed, which is ve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4023692 | 1,073,031 |
1,268,645 | Tanks patrol desolate city streets. Turrets and missile sites threaten the skies. Robot warriors carrying pulse rifles surround military installations. What's become of Earth? Machines have taken over. Corporate greed and rapid technological advancements have made humans pawns of their own creations. During the first f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6167671 | 1,267,955 |
710,974 | Candidates for a new drug to treat a disease might, theoretically, include from 5,000 to 10,000 chemical compounds. On average about 250 of these show sufficient promise for further evaluation using laboratory tests, mice and other test animals. Typically, about ten of these qualify for tests on humans. A study conduct... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3218783 | 710,603 |
620,312 | By the late 1970s, in addition to the work on "Coxiella burnetii" and other rickettsiae, research priorities had expanded to include the development of vaccines and therapeutics against Argentine, Korean and Bolivian hemorrhagic fevers, Lassa fever and other exotic diseases that could pose potential BW threats. In 1978... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2727969 | 619,997 |
1,927,771 | Tadashi Sasaki was born on May 12, 1915 in Hamada City, Shimane Prefecture. Not much is known of Sasaki’s mother. His father was a former samurai from the garrison at Hamada Castle and a teacher. Initially, Sasaki desired to study modern Japanese literature, but he was encouraged by one of his school teachers to study ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38096595 | 1,926,667 |
1,585,186 | Remote sensing as we know it today started with the first earth orbiting satellite Landsat 1 in 1973. Landsat 1 delivered the first multi-spectral images of features on land and coastal zones all over the world and already showed effectiveness in oceanography, although not specifically designed for it. In 1978 NASA mak... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67696353 | 1,584,295 |
913,461 | In 2012, Pasachoff and Sheehan consulted original sources, and questioned the basis for the claim that Lomonosov observed the thin arc produced by the atmosphere of Venus. A reference to the paper was even picked up by the Russian state-controlled media group RIA Novosti on 31 January 2013, under the headline "Astronom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=632331 | 912,982 |
612,017 | The "Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā" (Ah, "Heart of Medicine") is written in poetic language. The "Aṣṭāṅgasaṅgraha" (As, "Compendium of Medicine") is a longer and less concise work, containing many parallel passages and extensive passages in prose. The Ah is written in 7120 easily understood Sanskrit verses that present a cohere... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=300767 | 611,706 |
369,211 | The Soviet government issued the decree for Scientific Research Test Range No. 5 (NIIP-5; ) on 12 February 1955. It was actually founded on 2 June 1955, originally a test center for the world's first intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), the R-7 Semyorka. NIIP-5 was soon expanded to include launch facilities for s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=180638 | 369,018 |
1,592,593 | In 1990, the Federal Supreme Court of Germany and the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany decided that sections of the German Code of Criminal Procedure provided justifiable legal basis for the use of genetic fingerprinting in identifying criminals and absolving innocents. The decisions, however, lacked specific de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55251966 | 1,591,696 |
1,648,979 | Groves's biggest concern was about people. Soldiers and scientists wanted to return to their peacetime pursuits, and there was a danger that wartime knowledge would be lost, leaving no one who knew how to handle and maintain nuclear weapons, much less how to improve the weapons and processes. The military side of the M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29079065 | 1,648,047 |
173,469 | The progress of these projects was initially slow, but after Germany had declared war on the United States four days after the Pearl Harbor attack by Imperial Japan, the "Reichsluftfahrtministerium" (RLM) started the more serious "Amerikabomber" programme in the spring of 1942 for a very long range bomber, with the res... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=455636 | 173,378 |
946,795 | The first left ventricular assist device (LVAD) system was created by Domingo Liotta at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston in 1962. The first LVAD was implanted in 1963 by Liotta and E. Stanley Crawford. The first successful implantation of an LVAD was completed in 1966 by Liotta along with Dr. Michael E. DeBakey. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3301527 | 946,292 |
1,169,927 | Under the new Communist government, Ginling's curriculum had to incorporate some political requirements. Even though these were not different from the earlier requirement of learning Party Principles under the Nationalist government, Thurston argues that the new Communist requirements were more serious because they con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=668984 | 1,169,308 |
219,010 | The Soviet Union had a nominally supranational pharmacopoeia, the State Pharmacopoeia of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSRP), although the de facto nature of the nationality of republics within that state differed from the de jure nature. The European Union has a supranational pharmacopoeia, the European Ph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=300705 | 218,902 |
1,386,509 | During the year and a half that Otto spent in exile in Gallipoli and later in Constantinople, he became an impoverished refugee, eating at relief agencies and taking any job he could find. For some time, he worked as a woodcutter, residing with fellow Russian officers, often 6 people in a tent. One night, a neighboring... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=584584 | 1,385,742 |
1,301,659 | The Greek physician Hippocrates, the founder of scientific medicine, was the first to deal with the anatomy and the pathology of human spine. Galen developed an interest in anatomy from his studies of Herophilus and Erasistratus. The concept of studying disease through the methodical dissection and examination of disea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19391193 | 1,300,945 |
389,630 | In psychiatry, psychology, and mental health counseling, comorbidity refers to the presence of more than one diagnosis occurring in an individual at the same time. However, in psychiatric classification, comorbidity does not necessarily imply the presence of multiple diseases, but instead can reflect current inability ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217631 | 389,435 |
1,652,529 | A third mode of occurrence of tachylite is as the margins and thin offshoots of dikes or sills of basalt and diabase. They are sometimes only a fraction of an inch in thickness, resembling a thin layer of pitch or tar on the edge of a crystalline diabase dike, but veins several inches thick are sometimes found. In thes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1198783 | 1,651,597 |
1,227,253 | The electromagnetic pulse was produced by a pair of Marx generators built by Maxwell Laboratories of San Diego, California. The generators were mounted on pedestals constructed of wood in the same manner as the main test platform, one on each side of a large wedge shaped steel structure which acted as a ground plane fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32682509 | 1,226,592 |
1,276,258 | Deficiency of GALT causes classic galactosemia. Galactosemia is an autosomal recessive inherited disorder detectable in newborns and childhood. It occurs at approximately 1 in every 40,000-60,000 live-born infants. Classical galactosemia (G/G) is caused by a deficiency in GALT activity, whereas the more common clinical... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1592232 | 1,275,565 |
1,812,484 | With her PhD she joined the fabled AT&T Bell Labs in Murray Hills in New Jersey (NJ) and later Bellcore, Red Bank also in NJ. The first ever evidence of, high critical temperature (high-Tc) superconductivity was reported (1986) by Bednoz and Muller, two researchers at the IBM's research laboratory in Zurich, Switzerlan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42647710 | 1,811,451 |
2,091,255 | Weis had a summer internship in 1960, while in Cornell, at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Immediately after receiving her Ph.D., Weis joined the faculty of Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey, in 1967, where she was promoted to Professor in 1976. In addition to teaching, she has con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15754889 | 2,090,051 |
4,803 | In 1915, Albert Einstein developed his theory of general relativity, having earlier shown that gravity does influence light's motion. Only a few months later, Karl Schwarzschild found a solution to the Einstein field equations that describes the gravitational field of a point mass and a spherical mass. A few months aft... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4650 | 4,801 |
780,221 | Although interoception as a term has more recently gained increased popularity, different aspects of it have been studied since the 1950s. These include the features of attention, detection, magnitude, discrimination, accuracy, sensibility, and self-reporting. Despite not using the word "interoception" specifically, ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54842715 | 779,804 |
1,275,779 | The government attempted to stop the rot with a change in policy in 1873. It was no longer policy to open a telegraph facility at every office issuing money orders in outlying areas. It would now have to be shown the office was likely to be profitable. There was no proposal to disconnect already connected unprofitable ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60245762 | 1,275,086 |
555,045 | Iro "et al.", trying to interpret the nitrogen deficiency in comets, stated most of the conditions for hydrate formation in the protoplanetary nebulae, surrounding the pre-main and main sequence stars were fulfilled, despite the rapid grain growth to meter scale. The key was to provide enough microscopic ice particles ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54140 | 554,756 |
1,039,258 | One of the recommendations of this Global Patient Safety Challenge was the adoption of a checklist for use in surgical procedures. As understood in common language, a checklist is a physical list of tasks to be done, with some measure of marking each item's completion (e.g. a square to be filled with a checkmark). Whil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30541130 | 1,038,717 |
133,246 | There are many notable contributors to early Chinese disciplines, inventions, and practices throughout the ages. One of the best examples would be the medieval Song Chinese Shen Kuo (1031–1095), a polymath and statesman who was the first to describe the magnetic-needle compass used for navigation, discovered the concep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14400 | 133,193 |
1,932,592 | The right to recruit student for master's degrees in technical fields was awarded in 1980. Distance education was introduced in 1981, starting with 91 students at the time. Since 1985 the college was called "Qingdao Institute of Chemical Industry" (), a change of name that was considered a downgrade by a lot of student... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1479349 | 1,931,484 |
1,201,758 | The F-35C was designed for network-centric warfare, and gives the pilot enhanced situational awareness from its ability to communicate and process data obtained from onboard sensors and from other platforms. While the F-117 had no radar, the F-35C uses an AN/APG-81 AESA radar that can act as a narrowband jammer and can... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41509737 | 1,201,117 |
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