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424,833 | According to calculations of Virginia's state auditor, some 4,700 free black males and more than 25,000 male slaves between eighteen and forty five years of age were fit for service. Two companies were raised from laborers of two local hospitals-Winder and Jackson-as well as a formal recruiting center created by Genera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15799614 | 424,625 |
30,545 | The effect of the mirror flaw on scientific observations depended on the particular observation—the core of the aberrated PSF was sharp enough to permit high-resolution observations of bright objects, and spectroscopy of point sources was affected only through a sensitivity loss. However, the loss of light to the large... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40203 | 30,535 |
2,711 | In June 1942, the US Army established the Manhattan Project to handle its part in the atom bomb project and began the process of transferring responsibility from the Office of Scientific Research and Development to the military. In September, Groves was appointed director of what became known as the Manhattan Project. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39034 | 2,711 |
458,995 | On October 21, 1996, the fabless semiconductor company Quantum Effect Devices (QED) announced a PowerPC 603-compatible processor named "PowerPC 603q" at the Microprocessor Forum. Despite its name, it did not have anything in common with any other 603. It was a from the ground up implementation of the 32-bit PowerPC arc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8632684 | 458,771 |
856,518 | Despite the increasing popularity of LBM in simulating complex fluid systems, this novel approach has some limitations. At present, high-Mach number flows in aerodynamics are still difficult for LBM, and a consistent thermo-hydrodynamic scheme is absent. However, as with Navier–Stokes based CFD, LBM methods have been s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5074413 | 856,063 |
12,917 | In the Golan Heights, the Syrians attacked two Israeli armored brigades, an infantry brigade, two paratrooper battalions and eleven artillery batteries with five divisions (the 7th, 9th and 5th, with the 1st and 3rd in reserve) and 188 batteries. At the onset of the battle, the Israeli brigades of some 3,000 troops, 18... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34276 | 12,912 |
1,995,184 | On the other hand, some insist that the choice of whether or not to shoe should be considered on a case-by-case basis. They agree that it is favorable to allow horses to be shoeless when possible, for the same reasons as those listed above. They also point out, however, that the use of shoes can be beneficial in many i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9630965 | 1,994,041 |
179,626 | Succinic acid () is a dicarboxylic acid with the chemical formula (CH)(COH). The name derives from Latin "succinum", meaning amber. In living organisms, succinic acid takes the form of an anion, succinate, which has multiple biological roles as a metabolic intermediate being converted into fumarate by the enzyme succin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=97039 | 179,533 |
199,100 | In contrast to some "radicals", Parsons was a defender of modernity. He believed that modern civilization, with its technology and its constantly evolving institutions, was ultimately strong, vibrant, and essentially progressive. He acknowledged that the future had no inherent guarantees, but as sociologists Robert Hol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54041 | 198,997 |
628,186 | In addition to being a fission product of uranium, as described above, another way to produce ruthenium is to start with molybdenum, which has a price averaging between $10 and $20/kg, in contrast with ruthenium's $1860/kg. The isotope Mo, which has an abundance of 9.6% in natural molybdenum, can be transmuted to Mo by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1230653 | 627,851 |
1,975,498 | Alabama's Cretaceous rocks have been studied since at least as far back as 1856. In 1919 additional interest was attracted to the local Cretaceous system when a Professional Paper published by the United States Geological Survey listed at least a dozen local sources of contemporary plant fossils. USGS Professional Pape... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37799052 | 1,974,361 |
1,745,879 | The 7th Infantry Division was formed the following month and placed under the command of Major-General Richard O'Connor. The division was deployed to Palestine on internal security duties as part of a build-up of 18,500 men in the region. This force then began to suppress the revolt. Meanwhile, Palestinian guerrillas h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4468060 | 1,744,894 |
100,913 | Realising the size and scope of the task ahead, Carter sought help from Albert Lythgoe of the Metropolitan Museum's excavation team, working nearby, who readily agreed to lend a number of his staff, including Arthur Mace and archaeological photographer Harry Burton, while the Egyptian government loaned analytical chemi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13616 | 100,868 |
1,798,207 | Henshaw sold G-AEXF to Frenchman Victor Vermoral in late 1939. During the Second World War, the aircraft was stored in a hangar in France with several owners continuing to hide it from German authorities. In 1950, Hugh Scrope found and bought it, and with Doug Bianchi's help, refurbished the aircraft to fly it back hom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10392720 | 1,797,198 |
1,981,936 | Around 1900, the Oxford team included the three Nickalls brothers, two of whom went on to represent England. Their contribution at university level saw Oxford romp to a 15–0 victory in 1898. Five years later, an American arrived at Oxford who was to become another 10-goal player and more famous than any of his predeces... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40015233 | 1,980,797 |
176,008 | Buick's first generation of V8 was offered from 1953 through 1956. It was an OHV pushrod engine like the then-new Oldsmobile "Rocket" V8. While it was officially called by Buick the "Fireball V8" it became known as the "Nailhead" by enthusiasts for the unusual vertical alignment of its small-sized valves, features that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1084072 | 175,916 |
461,687 | In 1953, MIT researcher Douglas T. Ross saw the "interactive display equipment" being used by radar operators, believing it would be exactly what his SAGE-related data reduction group needed. Ross and the other researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory were the sole users of the comp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60037798 | 461,460 |
638,533 | In physical therapy, occupational therapy, and athletic training, a goniometer measures range of motion of limbs and joints of the body. These measurements help accurately track progress in a rehabilitation program. When a patient has decreased range of motion, a therapist assesses the joint before performing an interv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=898572 | 638,194 |
593,881 | Given this, and the lack of funds to develop an all-new power unit, it was decided to upgrade the A-series unit at a cost of £30 million. The result was the 'A-Plus' Series of engines. Available in , the A-Plus had stronger engine blocks and cranks, lighter pistons and improved piston rings, Spring loaded tensioner uni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1376554 | 593,577 |
2,076,232 | Cubism was one of the first avant-garde movements, together with Fauvism and Expressionism. Fauvism involved experimentation in the field of color, which was conceived in a subjective and personal way, to which they applied emotional and expressive values, independent of nature. For these artists, colors had to generat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72166508 | 2,075,034 |
1,490,646 | This 'power law' method, while commonly employed, is of questionable appropriateness in contemporary scientific applications within the context of radiation interactions in heterogeneous media. This approach dates back to the late 1930s when photon sources were restricted to low-energy x-ray units. The exponent of 2.94... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2814326 | 1,489,807 |
1,410,866 | Briffa's paper as published in the January 2000 issue of "Quaternary Science Reviews" showed the unusual warmth of the last century, but cautioned that the impact of human activities on tree growth made it subtly difficult to isolate a clear climate message. In February 2000 Thomas J. Crowley and Thomas S. Lowery's rec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5354105 | 1,410,074 |
973,963 | Two mechanisms have been utilized to explain the change in velocity of the Greenland Ice Sheets outlet glaciers. The first is the enhanced meltwater effect, which relies on additional surface melting, funneled through moulins reaching the glacier base and reducing the friction through a higher basal water pressure. (No... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1164809 | 973,452 |
2,171,900 | The transmembrane region of many integral membrane proteins consists of one or more alpha helices. The orientations and interactions of these helices directly affect cell signaling and molecular transport across the bilayer. The hydrophobic environment of the phospholipid tails in turn modulates the position and struct... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27953209 | 2,170,661 |
2,012,708 | The Hoyas closed out their regular season with two games against ranked opponents. In the first, against No. 20 Notre Dame at the Verizon Center, the teams combined to make eight of their first 12 shots, then combined to make only three of their next 16. The Hoyas had a 7–0 run to take an 18–11 lead, the last two of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33673923 | 2,011,551 |
1,453,805 | There are three main components to the hybrid fusion fuel cycle: deuterium, tritium, and fissionable elements. Deuterium can be derived by the separation of hydrogen isotopes in seawater (see heavy water production). Tritium may be generated in the hybrid process itself by absorption of neutrons in lithium bearing comp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20766780 | 1,452,988 |
527,640 | This Bacterium’s evolution through genome expression in very detail and in comparison with other relatives of the Staphylococci as well with experiments and data that have been collected in the past. S. Capitis’ genomes with a deeper understanding of this species and how evolutionary related it is to other Bacterium (S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22600247 | 527,367 |
362,153 | In March 2007, the UK government was considering fingerprinting all children aged 11 to 15 and adding the prints to a government database as part of a new passport and ID card scheme and disallowing opposition for privacy concerns. All fingerprints taken would be cross-checked against prints from 900,000 unsolved crime... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=84777 | 361,963 |
1,116,591 | The South African Air Force (SAAF) also served with distinction in PRU duties. In February 1943 60 Squadron acquired their first PR Mosquito II's at the instigation of Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery whilst they were serving in North Africa.. In May 1943, the squadron was sent to USAAF San Severo in Italy This move wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23908469 | 1,116,018 |
1,731,567 | Beyond vertebrates NAEs are also found to have signaling roles in more primitive organism, implicated as metabolic signals that coordinate nutrient status and lifespan determination in "Caenorhabditis elegans", and detected in organisms as diverse as yeast ("Saccharomyces cerevisiae"), freshwater fish ("Esox lucius" an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20853174 | 1,730,591 |
370,480 | In September 2021 after 12 flights, the mission was extended indefinitely. In March 2022 after 21 flights, NASA said it would continue flying "Ingenuity" until at least the coming September. The area of the helicopter's next goal is more rugged than the relatively flat terrain it flew over in its first year of operatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56300556 | 370,286 |
1,044,386 | Athens was chosen as the host city during the 106th IOC Session held in Lausanne, Switzerland on 5 September 1997. The Greek capital had lost its bid to organize the 1996 Summer Olympics to the American city of Atlanta nearly seven years before, during the 96th IOC Session in Tokyo, Japan on 18 September 1990. Under th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=346300 | 1,043,842 |
417,917 | Oliphant met Groves and Oppenheimer in Washington, D.C., on 18 September 1943, and they attempted to persuade him to join the Los Alamos Laboratory, but Oliphant felt that he would be of more use assisting Lawrence on the electromagnetic project. Accordingly, the Technical Subcommittee directed that Oliphant and six as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41957579 | 417,713 |
1,695,161 | The HYSPLIT model is extensively used by United States Land Management Agencies to forecast potential human health impacts from wildland fire smoke. Smoke from wildland fires can directly impact both the public and wildfire personnel health. The U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service AirFire Research Team uses H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44329487 | 1,694,210 |
1,436,539 | During the age of New Imperialism in the late 19th century European explorers and scientists traveled across the globe bringing descriptions of landscapes and landforms. As geographical knowledge increased over time these observations were systematized in a search for regional patterns. Climate emerged thus as prime fa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54278600 | 1,435,730 |
285,541 | At the professional level, sprinters begin the race by assuming a crouching position in the starting blocks before driving forward and gradually moving into an upright position as the race progresses and momentum is gained. The set position differs depending on the start. The use of starting blocks allows the sprinter ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=89276 | 285,387 |
379,193 | Other antiestrogens, such as ethamoxytriphetol (MER-25) and clomifene (MRL-41), were assessed for treatment of breast cancer and found to be effective before tamoxifen, but were plagued with toxicity issues. The first clinical study of tamoxifen took place at the Christie Hospital in 1971, and showed a convincing effec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1269557 | 378,998 |
390,145 | Between the introduction of universal conscription in 1902 until the start of World War II, the army was usually maintained at a consistent strength of 100,000 men, with two-thirds of the force being conscripts for two years. From 1942 onwards, the Swedish government embarked upon a massive and ambitious militarisation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=316252 | 389,950 |
2,107,459 | Although every frame of the film was created using computer graphics, conventional artwork played an important role in developing the look and feel of the show. Art Director Chris Butler did extensive research to design props and sets that allow the 3D animators to create historically authentic environments. The animat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11535706 | 2,106,246 |
1,483,879 | Rapid advances in technologies along with economic demands have led to a noticeable increase in the complexity of engineering systems (Vicente, 1999a). As a result, it is becoming more and more difficult for designers to anticipate events that may occur within such systems. Unanticipated events by definition cannot be ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3216623 | 1,483,043 |
1,709,997 | Vampire bats are sensitive to power densities (a measure of emitted energy) greater than 50 µW/cm2 at distances between 13 and 16 cm (a power density of 1.8x10W/cm2 corresponds to 50 °C). This was first determined by quantifying the temperature at which vampire bats could not behaviorally distinguish between heat emitt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33977879 | 1,709,038 |
163,770 | The compact disc is an evolution of LaserDisc technology, where a focused laser beam is used that enables the high information density required for high-quality digital audio signals. Unlike the prior art by Optophonie and James Russell, the information on the disc is read from a reflective layer using a laser as a lig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41920 | 163,685 |
1,577,908 | In 1969, students protesters from the college, in addition to students of nearby James B. Dudley High School, were involved in a four-day conflict with the Greensboro Police and the National Guard in which there was one casualty. The conflict, which lasted between May 21 through May 25, was sparked by perceived civil r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42220009 | 1,577,019 |
104,949 | The title track of "Atom Heart Mother" resulted from a number of instrumental figures the band had composed during these rehearsals, including the chord progression of the main theme, which guitarist David Gilmour had called "Theme from an Imaginary Western", and the earliest documented live performance was on 17 Janua... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=271068 | 104,904 |
496,660 | From this increased interest in the nature of the earth and its origin, came a heightened attention to minerals and other components of the earth's crust. Moreover, the increasing economic importance of mining in Europe during the mid to late 18th century made the possession of accurate knowledge about ores and their n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8245348 | 496,404 |
2,107,626 | 2-AF can undergo a reaction to become a toxic carcinogen to animals. 2-AF can be acetylated to become 2-acetylaminofluorene (2-AAF). This compound has been a major research area for cancer-causing agents. 2-Acetylaminofluorene is able to cause tumors in mice and other animals in the liver and kidney. This substance can... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37394233 | 2,106,413 |
983,055 | Many economists pessimistic about technological unemployment accept that compensation effects did largely operate as the optimists claimed through most of the 19th and 20th century. Yet they hold that the advent of computerisation means that compensation effects have become less effective. An early example of this argu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32040137 | 982,542 |
981,003 | The ICPC traces its roots to a competition held at Texas A&M University in 1970 hosted by the Alpha Chapter of the Upsilon Pi Epsilon Computer Science Honor Society (UPE). This initial programming competition was titled First Annual Texas Collegiate Programming Championship and each University was represented by a team... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=520121 | 980,491 |
1,313,347 | A 2013 Cochrane review estimated that mammography in women between 50 and 75 years old results in a relative decreased risk of death from breast cancer of 15% and an absolute risk reduction of 0.05%. However, when the analysis included only the least biased trials, women who had regular screening mammograms were just a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13705072 | 1,312,627 |
199,984 | A precursor of the engine was designed by the German scientist Otto von Guericke who, in 1650, designed and built the world's first vacuum pump to create a vacuum as demonstrated in the Magdeburg hemispheres experiment. He was driven to make a vacuum to disprove Aristotle's long-held supposition that 'Nature abhors a v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13758 | 199,881 |
756,033 | PON1 can inactivate some OPs through hydrolysis. PON1 hydrolyzes the active metabolites in several OP insecticides such as chlorpyrifos oxon, and diazoxon, as well as, nerve agents such as soman, sarin, and VX. PON1 hydrolyzes the metabolites, not the parent compounds of insectides. The presence of PON1 polymorphisms c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12523440 | 755,630 |
799,363 | A 2018 study conducted by scholars from Tel-Aviv University, the Israel Antiquities Authority and Harvard University had discovered that 22 out of the 600 people who were buried in Peki'in cave from the Chalcolithic Period were of both local Levantine and Persian and Zagros area ancestries, or as phrased in the paper i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16696142 | 798,938 |
614,531 | A 2018 study conducted by scholars from Tel-Aviv University, the Israel Antiquities Authority and Harvard University had discovered that 22 out of the 600 people who were buried in Peki'in cave from the Chalcolithic Period were of both local Levantine and Persian and Zagros area ancestries, or as phrased in the paper i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9238638 | 614,217 |
407,383 | The Lubbock campus is home to the main academic university, law school, and medical school (Health Sciences Center). It is one of two institutions (the other being UT Austin) in Texas to have a graduate school, law school, and medical school on its main campus. The campus, which boasts Spanish Renaissance architecture,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=272980 | 407,182 |
86,733 | The Army Research Laboratory extended funding for the Arizona State University Flexible Display Center (FDC) in 2009 with a $50 million grant. The university has partnered with the Pentagon on such endeavors since 2004 with an initial $43.7 million grant. In 2012, researchers at the center created the world's largest f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1859 | 86,698 |
1,025,234 | John M. Callow, of General Engineering of Salt Lake City, had followed flotation from technical papers and the introduction in both the Butte and Superior Mill, and at Inspiration Copper in Arizona and determined that mechanical agitation was a drawback to the existing technology. Introducing a porous brick with compre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1567681 | 1,024,701 |
1,001,126 | In higher plants thylakoids are organized into a granum-stroma membrane assembly. A granum (plural grana) is a stack of thylakoid discs. Chloroplasts can have from 10 to 100 grana. Grana are connected by stroma thylakoids, also called intergranal thylakoids or lamellae. Grana thylakoids and stroma thylakoids can be dis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209455 | 1,000,608 |
1,266,623 | Lichens as a group have received less attention in classical treatises on botany than other groups although the relationship between humans and some species has been documented from early times. Several species have appeared in the works of Dioscorides, Pliny the Elder and Theophrastus although the studies are not very... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=172384 | 1,265,934 |
928,651 | Of some fifty-six songs on which Webern worked during and after World War I (1914–1926), he ultimately finished and later published only thirty-two, carefully ordered into sets as Opp. 12–19. "How much I owe to your "Pierrot"", he wrote Schoenberg upon completing a setting of Georg Trakl's "Abendland III", Op. 14, No. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65676 | 928,162 |
539,671 | Plasmonics typically utilizes so-called surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs), that are coherent electron oscillations travelling together with an electromagnetic wave along the interface between a dielectric (e.g. glass, air) and a metal (e.g. silver, gold). The SPP modes are strongly confined to their supporting interfac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44522280 | 539,391 |
1,244,443 | The upstream 2.5 kilobases of the perlecan promoter region were studied by CAT activation in cell lines of various histological origins. This study concluded that there existed a TGF-β responsive element in the promoter just 285 base pairs upstream of the transcriptional start site. This result has been corroborated in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4328716 | 1,243,770 |
389,636 | Many centuries ago the doctors propagated the viability of a complex approach in the diagnosis of disease and the treatment of the patient, however, modern medicine, which boasts a wide range of diagnostic methods and a variety of therapeutic procedures, stresses specification. This brought up a question: How to wholly... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217631 | 389,441 |
521,645 | The idea of a land bridge is even more supported by the multiple co-occurrence of hadrosaurid and therizinosaurid footprints at the lower Cantwell Formation of the Denali National Park, which reflects an important faunal exchange between landmasses. These tracks show the dominant presence of hadrosaurids and a reduced ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3812410 | 521,373 |
1,821,086 | Trained with B-17s before moving to England, August–October 1942. Entered combat in November 1942, bombing such targets as submarine pens, airdromes, factories, communication targets, shipbuilding yards, harbors, and dock facilities until mid-1943. When Eighth Air Force heavy bombers first penetrated Germany on 27 Janu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25877979 | 1,820,048 |
1,280,693 | Weidenreich studied at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Universität in Strasbourg where he earned a medical degree in 1899. From 1921 to 1924 he served as a Professor of anthropology at the University of Heidelberg and was a visiting professor at the University of Chicago in 1934. In 1935 he succeeded Canadian paleoanthropologist Da... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2666360 | 1,279,998 |
462,261 | The reentry module (: спускаемый аппарат (СА), "Spuskaemiy apparat (SA)") is used for launch and the journey back to Earth. It is covered by a heat-resistant covering to protect it during re-entry. It is slowed initially by the atmosphere, then by a braking parachute, followed by the main parachute which slows the craf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43817287 | 462,032 |
1,062,517 | Batygin's research is primarily aimed at understanding the formation and evolution of planetary systems. In 2010, he and David J. Stevenson published a calculation, which showed that hot Jupiters can become inflated as a consequence of Ohmic dissipation of electrical currents induced through an interaction between ioni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49177410 | 1,061,963 |
523,785 | Soldered joints can fail in many ways like electromigration and formation of brittle intermetallic layers. Some failures show only at extreme joint temperatures, hindering troubleshooting. Thermal expansion mismatch between the printed circuit board material and its packaging strains the part-to-board bonds; while lead... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26626178 | 523,513 |
1,281,068 | Pigmentation is one method employed by a variety of plants as a form of photoprotection. For example, in Antarctica, native mosses of green color can be found naturally shaded by rocks or other physical barriers while red colored mosses of the same species are likely to be found in wind and sun exposed locations. This ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4970131 | 1,280,372 |
2,078,794 | Laird came out of retirement during World War II to research radar at University of Western Ontario for the Canadian National Research Council. Her retirement home was in London, Ontario and she turned up at the research centre in 1940, asking to help. She worked there without pay but took a full part in the research, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40802662 | 2,077,595 |
1,997,092 | Phytotechnology is the application of plants to engineering and science problems. Phytotechnology uses ecosystem services to provide for a specifically engineered solution to a problem. Ecosystem services, broadly defined fall into four broad categories: provisioning (i.e. production of food and water), regulating (i.e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33533216 | 1,995,949 |
1,878,396 | Some general symptoms that are produced on infected plants include poor growth, fruit spot, and chlorotic foliage. These secondary symptoms are often due to plant root stress. These make it rather difficult to diagnose nematode diseases in general. The roots when infected produce necrotic lesions, which are darkened ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11874473 | 1,877,316 |
776,841 | This eight-story, steel-frame building, boasting one of the finest examples of a terra-cotta clad façade, was commissioned by Mary Ludington Barnes for the American Book Company (1890), which was owned by her husband, Charles Barnes. At the time, Chicago was a national center for the publishing industry, as demonstrate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1914203 | 776,425 |
1,730,697 | Experimentally, it is observed that though the magnitude of the magnetization is uniform throughout a homogeneous specimen at uniform temperature, the direction of the magnetization is in general not uniform, but varies from one region to another, on a scale corresponding to visual observations with a microscope. Unifo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28835992 | 1,729,722 |
615,086 | Science denialism has rapidly increased in recent years. A major factor is the rapid spread of misinformation and fake news via social media (such as Facebook), as well as prominent placing of such misinformation in Google searches. Climate change denialism is a particular problem in that its global nature and lengthy ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18546373 | 614,772 |
193,567 | An ambitious campus expansion plan was proposed by Fr. Vernon F. Gallagher in 1952. Assumption Hall, the first student dormitory, was opened in 1954, and Rockwell Hall was dedicated in November 1958, housing the schools of business and law. It was during the tenure of Fr. Henry J. McAnulty that Fr. Gallagher's ambitiou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=582163 | 193,467 |
1,767,113 | The production of NO is elevated in populations living at high altitudes, which helps these people avoid hypoxia by aiding in pulmonary vasculature vasodilation. The endothelium (inner lining) of blood vessels uses NO to signal the surrounding smooth muscle to relax, thus resulting in vasodilation and increasing blood ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3701628 | 1,766,119 |
598,581 | Learning a model architecture directly on a large dataset can be a lengthy process. NASNet addressed this issue by transferring a building block designed for a small dataset to a larger dataset. The design was constrained to use two types of convolutional cells to return feature maps that serve two main functions when ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56643213 | 598,276 |
621,192 | Several Mathematicians and Historians mention that the earliest of the texts were written beginning in 800 BCE by Vedic Hindus based on compilations of an oral tradition dating back to 2000 BCE. It is possible, as proposed by Gupta, that the geometry was developed to meet the needs of ritual. Some scholars go farther: ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1884188 | 620,860 |
1,187,139 | In 1981, John L. Hennessy began the "Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages" (MIPS) project at Stanford University to investigate reduced instruction set computer (RISC) technology. The results of his research convinced him of the future commercial potential of the technology, and in 1984, he took a sabbati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53839062 | 1,186,508 |
312,518 | Whereas ancestral humans lived in small bands of related people of all ages, modern secondary school students are share the same social environment as people from the same age groups from diverse backgrounds, an evolutionary novelty. Back then, social competition during adolescence proved crucial to future social and r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41162624 | 312,350 |
1,258,880 | As a result of the poor communications between countries following the Chernobyl disaster in the Spring of 1986, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) was requested by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and other international organizations to arrange for early warning messages about nuclear accidents ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8369167 | 1,258,193 |
1,575,222 | A cognitive or "brain-to-brain" prosthesis involves neither learned input nor output signals, but the native signals used normally by the area of the brain to be replaced (or supported). Thus, such a device must be able to fully replace the function of a small section of the nervous system—using that section's normal m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29826376 | 1,574,333 |
1,616,294 | Coming from the gun, Nigeria's Olabisi Afolabi was the first to break from the stagger formation in lane 3, gaining on Australia's Nova Peris-Kneebone to her outside. After the first half lap, Afolabi began to pay for her enthusiasm, tying up through the second turn where American Jearl Miles Clark and then Jamaican Sa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8983416 | 1,615,383 |
1,971,727 | Subsequent work analyzed the players’ results in conjunction with results obtained from GRAPE and the stochastic ascent algorithms with a variety of seeding strategies (all free from the original numerical error). The in-game optimized solutions of the players "perform roughly on par with the best of the tested standar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41008786 | 1,970,593 |
784,842 | Cardiff School of Art & Design opened in 1865 as the Cardiff School of Art and is the oldest constituent part of the university. From September 2012 onwards CSAD's learning & teaching, research and enterprise activities are focused in thirteen 'subjects': Artist Designer: Maker, Architectural Design and Technology, Arc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1283728 | 784,422 |
1,353,396 | College House, the original 15th-century college, is a Grade I listed building built of sandstone in the shape of a lowercase 'b' with a slate roof. It is accessed by the original gatehouse; which was constructed on a plinth and contains the original timbers. The upper storey is accessed by an external staircase. Baron... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=483941 | 1,352,649 |
669,100 | DFSS seeks to avoid manufacturing/service process problems by using advanced techniques to avoid process problems at the outset (e.g., fire prevention). When combined, these methods obtain the proper needs of the customer, and derive engineering system parameter requirements that increase product and service effectiven... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=718273 | 668,750 |
462,611 | Acknowledging these variations, many hypotheses have been established to reflect why these observations are task-dependent. Given that different senses develop at different rates, it has been proposed that cross-modal integration does not appear until both modalities have reached maturity. The human body undergoes sign... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1619306 | 462,382 |
330,279 | Hans-Ulrich Rudel, a Stuka ace, had suggested using two 37 mm (1.46 in) Flak 18 guns, each one in a self-contained under-wing gun pod, as the "Bordkanone BK 3,7", after achieving success against Soviet tanks with the 20 mm MG 151/20 cannon. These gun pods were fitted to a Ju 87 D-1, W.Nr 2552. The first flight of the m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16590 | 330,104 |
2,139,960 | Electrospray ionization mass spectrometry is a very versatile technique, consisting in a transfer of the formed complexes from the injected solution to the gas phase by a soft ionization process without strongly perturbing the complex stability. In addition, a small amount of the prepared solution needs to be injected ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64345861 | 2,138,730 |
766,569 | Monetary and non-monetary measures of well-being are ideal when used to complement each other. Understanding the various aspects of economic development process not only helps address issues of inequality and lags in human development, but also helps to pinpoint where countries lag, which once addressed can further pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3674777 | 766,159 |
785,263 | The MMU was used on three Shuttle missions in 1984. It was first tested on February 7 during mission STS-41-B by astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart. Two months later, during mission STS-41-C, astronauts James van Hoften and George Nelson attempted to use the MMU to capture the Solar Maximum Mission sa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=329759 | 784,842 |
1,650,797 | Several museums were started in India including one at the Asiatic Society in Calcutta. There were also many who worked in the British Museum in London and received specimens collected from India. They made significant contributions by their publications. Edward Blyth (1810–1873) and Nelson Annandale (1876–1924) made g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1186505 | 1,649,865 |
2,156,431 | During the Western African Ebola virus epidemic, science diplomats and other medical professionals traveled around the world to help track the outbreak. They tried to reduce the number of cases and deaths of the Ebola virus by studying the disease and testing possible vaccines or treatments to contain it. Even though i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63936969 | 2,155,200 |
1,539,712 | Phyllobates bicolor, or more commonly referred to as the black-legged poison dart frog, is the world's second-most toxic dart frog. Under the genus "Phyllobates", this organism is often mistaken as "Phyllobates terribilis", the golden poison frog, as both are morphologically similar. However, "Phyllobates" "bicolor" is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5495985 | 1,538,839 |
2,009,808 | Schlink was born in Darmstadt, near where his father, Wilhelm Schlink, was a professor of mechanics and aeronautics. The family of his mother, Ella, had been influenced by Herrnhut pietism. His only sibling, his sister Klara (1904-2001), who later called herself Mutter Basilea Schlink, became a popular religious writer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7037306 | 2,008,656 |
13,904 | The direction of causality between scientific discovery and technological innovation has been debated by scientists, philosophers and policymakers. Because innovation is often undertaken at the edge of scientific knowledge, most technologies are not derived from scientific knowledge, but instead from engineering, tinke... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29816 | 13,899 |
1,927,768 | Dill was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1947. He attended MIT where he obtained a S.B. and S.M. in Mechanical Engineering (1971). He obtained his Ph.D. in 1978 at UCSD in the Biology Department working with Bruno H. Zimm, studying the biophysical properties of DNA molecules. Towards the end of his doctoral research... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35750522 | 1,926,664 |
1,655,534 | AutoSketch was developed by Foresight Resources under the name "Drafix" to run under Microsoft DOS, and was one of the first Windows based CAD software products. An Atari version was also available around 1989. Drafix won the first American Institute of Architect's "CAD Shoot-out". Among the features that made the orig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2655402 | 1,654,601 |
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