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189,481 | Mahalanobis distance is one of the most widely used metrics to find how much a point diverges from a distribution, based on measurements in multiple dimensions. It is widely used in the field of cluster analysis and classification. It was first proposed by Mahalanobis in 1930 in context of his study on racial likeness.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=359931 | 189,384 |
237,634 | In the admission season for fall 2021 entry, there were more than 9,500 applicants, with 28% of the applicant pool receiving offers to become members of the Class of 2025. Recent trends show an expanding interest from international student populations, with application submissions increasing from 2,447 in 2019 to 3,255... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=870648 | 237,515 |
46,960 | Light water reactors make relatively inefficient use of nuclear fuel, mostly using only the very rare uranium-235 isotope. Nuclear reprocessing can make this waste reusable, and newer reactors also achieve a more efficient use of the available resources than older ones. With a pure fast reactor fuel cycle with a burn u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22153 | 46,942 |
1,740,891 | Several researchers have raised other methodological issues. Jarvis & Rennie (1995) thought that the use of drawings without words could represent an abstract idea the observer may be unable to comprehend. They suggested that children be asked to add sentences or annotate their drawings to improve interpretation. Losh,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32483221 | 1,739,910 |
141,212 | Following "Voyager's" encounters with Enceladus in the early 1980s, scientists postulated it to be geologically active based on its young, reflective surface and location near the core of the E ring. Based on the connection between Enceladus and the E ring, scientists suspected that Enceladus was the source of material... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=208430 | 141,155 |
1,510,850 | A Thurstonian model is a stochastic transitivity model with latent variables for describing the mapping of some continuous scale onto discrete, possibly ordered categories of response. In the model, each of these categories of response corresponds to a latent variable whose value is drawn from a normal distribution, in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33802950 | 1,510,000 |
1,856,500 | Singh (1984) writes that the species "E. hardwickii" was common (in the 1970s) at Tikerpada, a village at 600m elevation on the banks of the Mahanadi river in the Satkoshia Gorge Sanctuary of Odisha. In the night, during summer and rains, these may be found on the forest roads or on open areas, and in the day several i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3605481 | 1,855,432 |
478,147 | The assumption that any differential in reproductive success between males and females among the individuals that do reach sexual maturity must be due to sexual selection in the current population is also subject to criticism, such as the possibility of remnants of sexually selected traits in a previous species from wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26276222 | 477,907 |
660,251 | Their study highlighted interesting findings, such as confirming anecdotal evidence that there had been a strong El Niño in 1791, and finding that in 1816 the "Year Without a Summer" in Eurasia and much of North America had been offset by warmer than usual temperatures in Labrador and the Middle East. It was also an ad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=345811 | 659,906 |
728,217 | Novel approaches to PAR in the public sphere help scale up the engaged inquiry process beyond small group dynamics. Touraine and others thus propose a 'sociology of intervention' involving the creation of artificial spaces for movement activists and non-activists to debate issues of public concern. Citizen science is a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2819542 | 727,833 |
1,194,889 | Mass spectrometry is a technique which allows for the measurement of molecular mass and offers complementary data to spectroscopic techniques for structural identification. In a typical experiment a gas phase sample of an organic material is ionized and the resulting ionic species are accelerated by an applied electric... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11304514 | 1,194,249 |
2,241,772 | In the final game of the year, Maine was all that stood between Denver and the program's 6th title. While the Black Bears had a good offense, they had produced one of the top defensive seasons in the history of college hockey. The opposition was led by goaltender Jimmy Howard, who had set numerous NCAA records that sea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71842006 | 2,240,501 |
44,230 | In July 2021, the heads of the World Bank Group, the International Monetary Fund, the World Health Organization, and the World Trade Organization said in a joint statement: "As many countries are struggling with new variants and a third wave of COVID19 infections, accelerating access to vaccines becomes even more criti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63319438 | 44,213 |
702,764 | People with spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia are short-statured from birth, with a very short trunk and neck and shortened limbs. Their hands and feet, however, are usually average-sized. This type of dwarfism is characterized by a normal spinal column length relative to the femur bone. Adult height ranges from 0.9 meters ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2573911 | 702,396 |
1,769,044 | A 2009 study published in the journal "Science" reported an association between a retrovirus xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus (XMRV) and CFS. The editors of "Science" subsequently attached an "Editorial Expression of Concern" to the report, to the effect that the validity of the study "is now seriously in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16723684 | 1,768,050 |
965,091 | Tsarapkin responded positively to the US proposal, though was wary of the prospect of allowing underground tests registering below magnitude 4.75. In its own proposal offered 19 March 1960 the Soviet Union accepted most US provisions, with certain amendments. First, the Soviet Union asked that underground tests under m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30592 | 964,582 |
298,212 | Barber spotted the second bomber, carrying Chief of Staff Vice Admiral Matome Ugaki and part of Yamamoto's staff, low over the water off Moila Point, trying to evade an attack by Holmes, whose wing tanks had finally come off. Holmes damaged the right engine of the Betty, which emitted a white vapor trail, but his closu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4274699 | 298,052 |
561,431 | Osterholm was the principal investigator and director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-supported Minnesota Center of Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance (2007–2014) and chaired the Executive Committee of the Centers of Excellence Influenza Research and Surveillance network. He is a past preside... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3223893 | 561,142 |
1,444,381 | Deimos and Phobos One are two Martians – whose names also happen to be those of Mars' moons– the latter being a researcher who wants to understand the concept of murder (they are portrayed by actors Carroll O'Connor and Barry Morse, respectively, who play their characters as a sort of Holmes-and-Watson team). Upon his ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4151496 | 1,443,568 |
281,486 | The focal study was the longest paper of the three and the last to be published. Like many of his colleagues, Lister was aware that inflammation was the first stage of many postoperative conditions and that excessive inflammation often preceded the onset of a septic condition. Once that happened, the patient would deve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16535 | 281,333 |
602,011 | Work Integrated Learning (WIL) is the commonly accepted term for a wide range of experiential learning opportunities in Canada. Work Integrated Learning (WIL) is considered to be inclusive of educational programs that incorporate a workplace-based component that has connections to the classroom through various lear... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=445944 | 601,702 |
556,967 | Critics and detractors of the fab projects currently underway in India, in different conceptual phases, doubt the prospects of success of these capital-intensive projects, pointing to various reasons like marginal profitability due to overcapacity of output in a saturated and fiercely competed fab market, noncompetence... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51010296 | 556,678 |
372,506 | During the late 1960s and 1970s, SACLOS wire-guided missiles began to supplant recoilless rifles in the anti-tank role. While recoilless rifles retain several advantages such as being able to be employed at extremely close range, as a guided missile typically has a significant deadzone before it can arm and begin to se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=236060 | 372,311 |
2,159,484 | Kim Solez obtained his M.D. with AOA honours from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, and trained in pathology at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in Baltimore, Maryland where he was mentored in renal pathology by Robert Heptinstall. He joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins and in 1987 became ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47424392 | 2,158,252 |
584,656 | The process steps involve combining metal powders with polymers such as wax and polypropylene binders to produce the "feedstock" mix that is injected as a liquid into a mold using plastic injection molding machines. The molded or "green part" is cooled and ejected from the mold. Next, a portion of the binder material i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2793738 | 584,356 |
903,247 | The SST has a diurnal range, just like the Earth's atmosphere above, though to a lesser degree due to its greater specific heat. On calm days, the temperature can vary by . The temperature of the ocean at depth lags the Earth's atmosphere temperature by 15 days per , which means for locations like the Aral Sea, tempera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=899880 | 902,771 |
1,940,648 | SuperBIT is a 0.5 m, wide-field, diffraction-limited balloon-borne telescope that operates at within the stratosphere in order to achieve space-like operating conditions and performance. With optical sensitivity from the near-infrared (900 nm) to the near-ultraviolet (300 nm), SuperBIT aims to make precise weak gravita... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68284830 | 1,939,537 |
1,465,364 | APT is used to program numerically-controlled machine tools to create complex parts using a cutting tool moving in space. It is used to calculate a path that a tool must follow to generate a desired form. APT is a special-purpose language and the predecessor to modern computer aided manufacturing (CAM) systems. It was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3673047 | 1,464,541 |
98,695 | The Rowland–Molina hypothesis was strongly disputed by representatives of the aerosol and halocarbon industries. The Chair of the Board of DuPont was quoted as saying that ozone depletion theory is "a science fiction tale … a load of rubbish … utter nonsense". Robert Abplanalp, the President of Precision Valve Corporat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44183 | 98,652 |
1,280,766 | The CSIR contract R&D portfolio aims to enable clear understanding of national imperatives and the needs of industry to optimise the impact of the CSIR's R&D outputs. It leverages public, private and international partnerships in support of cutting-edge science, engineering and technology (SET).The organisation has cli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23443825 | 1,280,071 |
2,177,322 | Thirty seconds into their opening game with Reading and they were behind, the Vale went on to lose 2–0. A six-game unbeaten streak followed, with just three goals conceded, though only five goals were scored. On his return to Burslem, Pinchbeck scored a brace to salvage a point against Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30106697 | 2,176,078 |
305,905 | The extremely long necks of "plesiosauromorphs" have caused speculation as to their function from the very moment their special build became apparent. Conybeare had offered three possible explanations. The neck could have served to intercept fast-moving fish in a pursuit. Alternatively, plesiosaurs could have rested on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1398078 | 305,741 |
992,839 | After agreeing on an initial idea, Bushnell and Dabney began designing a prototype based on a Data General Nova. Over the summer they made plans for developing the game, and in the early fall they were joined by Larry Bryan, a computer programmer who also worked at Ampex. Bushnell and Dabney put US$100 each into a part... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=292879 | 992,322 |
273,700 | Examination of the Würzburg radar equipment brought back to the UK during Operation Biting (February 1942) and subsequent reconnaissance revealed to the British that all German radars were operating in no more than three frequency ranges, making them prone to jamming. Arthur Travers "Bomber" Harris, Commander-in-Chief ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1550386 | 273,552 |
1,155,327 | Professor Sir George Porter became the president in September 1985. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1967 along with Manfred Eigen, and Ronald George Wreyford Norrish. When asked about the scientific literacy of Britain, he stated that Britain was the least educated country compared to all the other advanced countri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=373118 | 1,154,717 |
19,597 | Critics say that Tor is not as secure as it claims, pointing to U.S. law enforcement's investigations and shutdowns of Tor-using sites such as web-hosting company Freedom Hosting and online marketplace Silk Road. In October 2013, after analyzing documents leaked by Edward Snowden, "The Guardian" reported that the NSA h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20556944 | 19,589 |
78,770 | In 1982, Japan's Technical Research and Development Institute (TRDI) initiated studies of options for an indigenous fighter design to replace the Mitsubishi F-1 strike fighter. This initiative would later be designated FS-X (Fighter Support Experimental; the two-seat trainer version was originally designated 'TFS-X'.) ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18895385 | 78,737 |
226,043 | Following his retirement, Stafford served on several corporate boards, including Omega SA, Gibraltar Exploration, and Gulfstream Aerospace. He originally intended to reunite with his ASTP crewmates in Russia, but the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and the subsequent 1980 Olympics boycott, left them unable to trav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=638571 | 225,927 |
1,713,222 | The funding of renewable energy (RE) projects is dependent on the credibility of the institutions developing and implementing RE policy. This places a particular burden on the energy regulators in Africa, whose professional staff may be few in number and who have track records of only a decade or so. Rules (micro polic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11492908 | 1,712,256 |
1,398,798 | Soundscape ecologists seek to investigate the structure of soundscapes, explain how they are generated, and study how organisms interrelate acoustically. A number of hypotheses have been proposed to explain the structure of soundscapes, particularly elements of biophony. For instance, an ecological theory known as the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31352483 | 1,398,025 |
1,726,106 | In the traditional course, Years 1 and 2 are mainly lecture-based, with some small-group teaching, practical sessions, and early patient-based contact in GP practices and hospitals. Subjects include anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, pharmacology, behavioural sciences, pathology, neurology, embryology and an introducti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9312169 | 1,725,135 |
1,027,572 | The early A1 Pacifics were a match for the performances demanded of them in the early 1920s. They were certainly able to take loads single-handed that were beyond the capacity of their Atlantic predecessors as was shown in a test run made by No. 1471 "Sir Frederick Banbury" when it took a 20-coach train weighing over t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2534748 | 1,027,038 |
2,012,884 | RNA-targeting small molecule drug discovery has greatly benefitted from the available cellular models for disease. The use of cell culture in early development has become a requirement for assessing the basic efficacy of a drug candidate. Thus, more research groups have implemented these techniques in their programs. I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56731305 | 2,011,727 |
573,518 | In March 2007, Jane's Information Group reported that the Typhoon was the favourite to win the contest for Japan's next-generation fighter requirement. The other competitors then were the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and McDonnell Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle. On 17 October 2007, Japanese Defence Minister Shigeru Ishiba confir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59468861 | 573,224 |
1,598,171 | The transmission of these sciences throughout the Eastern and Western hemispheres is also important to understand when distinguishing the sciences of both regions. The beginnings of cultural, religious, and scientific diffusion of information between the Western and Eastern societies began with the successful conquests... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27280889 | 1,597,272 |
983,922 | The college of eLearning, & Extended Ed (CEEE) is a self-supporting outreach department of Cal Poly Humboldt that provides a variety of academic, professional development and personal enrichment opportunities. While the CEEE programs are open to almost everyone, there is an emphasis on providing access to those communi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=197004 | 983,408 |
784,972 | Skulls are rounded or triangular in shape when viewed from above, and they were particularly flattened in semiaquatic to aquatic taxa, with dorsally facing orbits. The skull is usually covered in pits and ridges to form a honeycomb-like pattern. One of the most recent hypotheses for the function of the dermal ornamenta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2925388 | 784,552 |
1,570,331 | Some have suggested that “the experimental genetic manipulation of the animal germline initially by pronuclear injection of cloned DNA into zygotes represents one of the most significant milestones in the history of human civilization," Behringer et al, in Manipulating the Mouse Embryo (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13365910 | 1,569,443 |
1,942,807 | In the decades after the 1970s, some saw the ethnic composition of the school's enrollment as changing. In 1979, former Prep School Headmaster Richard Howard said in his book "Upper Canada College, 1929-1979: Colborne's Legacy": "The growth of the enrolment has increased the number of boys from a wide variety of backgr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9633735 | 1,941,696 |
49,103 | While the early stories were complete narratives, the frequent appearances of these two antagonists, Doom and Namor, in subsequent issues indicated the creation of a long narrative by Lee and Kirby that extended over months. According to comics historian Les Daniels, "only narratives that ran to several issues would be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11664 | 49,083 |
252,578 | There are three ways that this sequestration can be carried out: post-combustion capture, pre-combustion capture, and oxy-combustion. A wide variety of separation techniques are being pursued, including gas phase separation, absorption into a liquid, and adsorption on a solid, as well as hybrid processes, such as adsor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4535852 | 252,445 |
309,645 | and were converted to amphibious transport submarines in 1948 and redesignated as SSPs. Initially, they were equipped with a watertight hangar capable of housing a Landing Vehicle Tracked (LVT), and retained one 5-inch (127 mm)/25 caliber deck gun for shore bombardment. Both torpedo rooms and one engine room were gutte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=444621 | 309,480 |
1,069,848 | Since the early 1900s there has been an accumulation of experimental evidence to demonstrate the role of the limbic system, specifically the amygdala complex in mediating emotional expressions of fear and anger. Early primate studies have revealed that chemical and electrical stimulation of the amygdala region accentua... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60613001 | 1,069,294 |
1,637,263 | During the American Civil War, Williams was accused of being a Copperhead when he attempted to interfere with the war effort and submitted legislation to require Governor Oliver Morton to show what the money in the state emergency fund was being spent on. One of Williams's primary concerns in the Assembly was state spe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4197308 | 1,636,338 |
719,937 | As a result, many girls are divorced or abandoned by their husbands and partners, disowned by family, ridiculed by friends, and even isolated by health workers. Divorce rates for women who have an obstetric fistula range from 50% to as high as 89%. Now marginalized members of society, girls are forced to live on the ed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=231286 | 719,557 |
285,919 | Styrene is regarded as a "known carcinogen", especially in case of eye contact, but also in case of skin contact, of ingestion and of inhalation, according to several sources. Styrene is largely metabolized into styrene oxide in humans, resulting from oxidation by cytochrome P450. Styrene oxide is considered toxic, mut... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=168394 | 285,765 |
565,877 | Until late May, no confirmed case had been documented outside the EU/EEA/UK and USA. No suspicious case had been observed in East Asia or Southeast Asia (or in Australia or New Zealand). The absence of documented cases in China and other Asian countries that had already experienced a COVID-19 epidemic led to conjecture... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63895130 | 565,587 |
1,966,396 | High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and electron ionization mass spectrometry (EIMS) are two analytical techniques that, in principle, seem to be incompatible. However, because these two approaches share a great deal of applications in the analysis of suitable molecules, typically less than 1000 u, a large ef... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24897052 | 1,965,267 |
92,976 | Activation energies (in most fusion systems this is the temperature required to initiate the reaction) for fusion reactions are generally high because the protons in each nucleus will tend to strongly repel one another, as they each have the same positive charge. A heuristic for estimating reaction rates is that nuclei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=261362 | 92,935 |
27,591 | A unified explanation of these phenomena required a theory of solid-state physics, which developed greatly in the first half of the 20th century. In 1878 Edwin Herbert Hall demonstrated the deflection of flowing charge carriers by an applied magnetic field, the Hall effect. The discovery of the electron by J.J. Thomson... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27709 | 27,581 |
786,872 | By August 2013, Congress had allocated $181 million for buying parts and upgrading Abrams systems to mitigate industrial base risks and sustain development and production capability. Congress and General Dynamics were criticized for redirecting money to keep production lines open and accused of "forcing the Army to buy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25079265 | 786,449 |
2,145,262 | EnCor has always collaborated with basic scientists and clinicians to produce articles in peer reviewed scientific publications focused on the examination of various plasma, serum and CSF biomarkers of nervous system damage and degeneration. One of these is the phosphorylated, axonal form of the major neurofilament pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33879721 | 2,144,031 |
1,220,389 | The ADD primarily helped streamline research and development, as well as acquire foreign military technologies and directly engage in product development. The first weapon that South Korea would produce on its own (albeit with restriction) are licensed Colt M16 rifles in 1971. Other US-designed weapons and ammunition w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66301957 | 1,219,735 |
895,289 | The Sahelanthropus (also known as the ST-84 Metal Gear) is a large Metal Gear unit that appears in "". It is classified as an Anthropoid Bipedal Weapon System and was built by the Soviet Union in co-operation with the mysterious XOF organization. Its name is derived from "Sahelanthropus tchadensis", an extinct hominine... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3175926 | 894,818 |
950,473 | A series of high-profile disputes about the scientific priority of the 17th century – the era that the American science historian D. Meli called "the golden age of the mud-slinging priority disputes" – is associated with the name Leibniz. The first of them occurred at the beginning of 1673, during his first visit to Lo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3671687 | 949,969 |
1,755,654 | During World War II, Essen worked on radar and developed a number of instruments, including the cavity resonance wavemeter. It was this work that suggested to Essen the possibility of a more precise measurement of the speed of light. In 1946, in collaboration with A.C. Gordon-Smith, he used a microwave cavity, of preci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=495065 | 1,754,664 |
78,771 | Building on its licensed manufacture of KF-16s, in 1992 Samsung Aerospace began work on designing a tandem-seat, supersonic, combat-capable jet trainer to replace the BAE Hawk 67, Northrop T-38 Talon, A-37 Dragonfly, and eventually F-4 Phantom II and F-5E/F Tiger II operated by the Republic of Korea Air Force (ROKAF). ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18895385 | 78,738 |
338,275 | Riggs and company were working in the area as a result of favorable correspondence between Riggs and Stanton Merill Bradbury, a dentist in nearby Grand Junction. In the spring of 1899 Riggs had sent letters to mayors in western Colorado, inquiring after possible trails leading from railway heads into northeastern Utah,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20598015 | 338,095 |
1,659,077 | The AC system was engineered and installed by Westinghouse employees V.G. Converse, Lewis B. Stillwell, Charles F. Scott, and Ralph D. Mershon with the assistance of engineering students they recruited from Cornell University. In the summer of 1890 Westinghouse delivered the equipment and the engineers installed it lat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9838639 | 1,658,144 |
1,272,764 | Rodents, most especially mice, are excellent animal models of autism because they have similar social relationships and neuroscience. When exposed to prenatal valproate (VPA) during pregnancy, the mice are born with basic deformities and the developmental delays seen symptomatically in humans. This is all comparable an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41328472 | 1,272,073 |
1,464,067 | In spring 1865, Kocher followed his teacher Biermer to Zürich, where Theodor Billroth was director of the hospital and influenced Kocher significantly. Kocher then proceeded to start a journey through Europe to meet several of the most famous surgeons of the time. It is not clear how Kocher financed his trip but accord... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10473 | 1,463,244 |
1,115,161 | This chapter opens with a discussion of the mechanism of evolution by natural selection, which he refers to as ""phylogenetic learning"", since it is driven by a feedback mechanism caused by the success or otherwise in surviving and reproducing; and modifications of behaviour over a lifetime in response to experience, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40625991 | 1,114,592 |
518,259 | In opposition to this view, some historians of science, including non-Catholics such as J.L. Heilbron, A.C. Crombie, David Lindberg, Edward Grant, Thomas Goldstein, and Ted Davis, have argued that the Church had a significant, positive influence on the development of Western civilization. They hold that, not only did m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42657576 | 517,990 |
937,972 | Although migration of cells was detected from the early days of the development of microscopy by Leeuwenhoek, a Caltech lecture regarding chemotaxis propounds that 'erudite description of chemotaxis was only first made by T. W. Engelmann (1881) and W. F. Pfeffer (1884) in bacteria, and H. S. Jennings (1906) in ciliates... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7403 | 937,472 |
1,514,376 | One government which is moving forward with mitigation plans is the emirate of Abu Dhabi. The United Arab Emirates economy minister stated in 2007 that the UAE do not believe that relying on oil revenues is sustainable, and so are moving to diversify their economies. Besides allotting land for solar power plants and pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11882110 | 1,513,525 |
146,562 | Bullet drop compensation (BDC, sometimes referred alternatively as "ballistic elevation") is a feature available on some telescopic sights, usually those used by more tactically-oriented semi-automatic and assault rifles. The feature provides pre-determined reference markings for various distances (referred to as "bull... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1052795 | 146,504 |
2,053,218 | "M. burtonii" is an extremophilic archeon of the family "Methanosarcinaceae", a family of three genera of coccus-shaped cells. "Methanococcides burtonii" has adapted to life in Antarctica where it resides in Ace Lake at temperatures that remain permanently 1-2 °C. "M. burtonii" was first discovered by an Austrian limno... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40235000 | 2,052,036 |
1,117,110 | At the end of the fellowship in 1935, with a return to Vienna made untenable by the political climate, Lazarsfeld decided to remain in America, and secured an appointment as the director of student relief work for the National Youth Administration, headquartered at the University of Newark (now the Newark campus of Rut... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=427665 | 1,116,537 |
209,782 | Many factors contributed to the cancellation: rising cost estimates (to $12bn); poor management by physicists and Department of Energy officials; the end of the need to prove the supremacy of American science with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War; belief that many smaller scientific experime... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=512286 | 209,675 |
526,532 | In plant physiology research interest was focused on the movement of sap and the absorption of substances through the roots. Jan Helmont (1577–1644) by experimental observation and calculation, noted that the increase in weight of a growing plant cannot be derived purely from the soil, and concluded it must relate to w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25007304 | 526,259 |
405,657 | The intent of the H.264/AVC project was to create a standard capable of providing good video quality at substantially lower bit rates than previous standards (i.e., half or less the bit rate of MPEG-2, H.263, or MPEG-4 Part 2), without increasing the complexity of design so much that it would be impractical or excessiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=237036 | 405,457 |
655,982 | Despite the costs, axolotls have unique regenerative abilities and ultimately provide useful information in understanding tissue regeneration because they can regenerate their limbs, spinal cord, skin, heart, lungs, and other organs. Naturally occurring mutant axolotls like the white strain that are often used in resea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22696587 | 655,638 |
722,503 | According to a 1977 report by the California Agrarian Action Project, during the summer of 1976 in California, many harvest machines had been equipped with a photo-electric scanner that sorted out green tomatoes among the ripe red ones using infrared lights and colour sensors. It worked in lieu of 5,000 hand harvesters... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2063352 | 722,123 |
554,308 | When the United States of America declared war on Germany on 6 April 1917, many in Britain hoped this event would solve all these problems. The two men directly responsible for British tank production, Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt and Lieutenant-Colonel Albert Gerald Stern, initially considered sending a delegation to t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2181128 | 554,019 |
254,049 | The 6.5mm bullet was found to be too light for long-range fire support and anti-aircraft use, so in 1932 the heavier 8×63mm patron m/32 cartridge was developed. As this resulted in a heavier recoil, a spring-loaded cradle replaced the backplate with a heavily spring-loaded buffer that acted as an extension of the stand... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1205661 | 253,916 |
496,663 | By the 1770s, chemistry was starting to play a pivotal role in the theoretical foundation of geology and two opposite theories with committed followers emerged. These contrasting theories offered differing explanations of how the rock layers of the earth's surface had formed. One suggested that a liquid inundation, per... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8245348 | 496,407 |
1,554,789 | While many predict that Latin America will dominate the solar energy production, Mexico is predicted to use this method the most. While it is one of the least common sources at the time (2015), solar has begun to increase at rapid speed. It is said that if this form was fully tapped it could be the only form needed. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41447629 | 1,553,908 |
913,322 | The Short-Range Assault Weapon (SRAW) program was begun by the U.S. Marine Corps in 1987 as a replacement for existing unguided M72 LAW and AT4 anti-armor rockets. A demonstration and validation phase was conducted by several companies between February 1990 and mid-1993, with the first test firings occurring in 1991. I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3777960 | 912,843 |
977,931 | In 1884, Halsted read a report by the Austrian ophthalmologist Karl Koller, describing the anesthetic power of cocaine when instilled on the surface of the eye. Halsted, his students, and fellow physicians experimented on each other, and demonstrated that cocaine could produce safe and effective local anesthesia when a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2394191 | 977,420 |
1,036,033 | The critical role of the active centre residue in determining the specificity of inhibition of serpins was unequivocally confirmed by the finding that a natural mutation of the active centre methionine in alpha1-antitrypsin to an arginine, as in antithrombin, resulted in a severe bleeding disorder. This active-centre ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=564590 | 1,035,493 |
652 | The APG-81 radar uses electronic scanning for rapid beam agility and incorporates passive and active air-to-air modes, strike modes, and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) capability, with multiple target track-while-scan at ranges in excess of . The antenna is tilted backwards for stealth. Complementing the radar is the A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11812 | 652 |
1,327,068 | The cytogenetics of EHE gave some of the first clues of an underlying genetic alteration. A balanced, reciprocal translocation t(1;3)(p36.3;q25) in EHE tumor cells was first described by Mendlick et al. in 2001 (). This led to the landmark paper by Tanas et al. in 2011() describing the specific genes involved in the tr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20851553 | 1,326,341 |
1,894,754 | Gordon was educated at University of Chicago where he did an undergraduate degree in Mathematics and a PhD at University of Oregon in Chemical Physics under Terrell L Hill. His thesis was "On Stochastic Growth and Form and Steady State Properties of Ising Lattice Membranes". He published his first paper in 1966. Gordon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35995199 | 1,893,670 |
1,734,210 | In 1935, Igls hosted the two-man event of the world bobsleigh championships when the track ran from Römerstrasses to the Patscherkofel valley railroad station. Several fatal accidents at the finishing curve occurred during competition, causing temporarily closure of the track until safety measures were introduced. In 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15214386 | 1,733,233 |
240,377 | The dominant type of defect of concern in quartz crystals is the substitution of an Al(III) for a Si(IV) atom in the crystal lattice. The aluminium ion has an associated interstitial charge compensator present nearby, which can be a H ion (attached to the nearby oxygen and forming a hydroxyl group, called Al−OH defect)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40979 | 240,257 |
1,147,697 | The "R.38" made its first flight on 23–24 June 1921, when it flew registered as R.38 but bearing the US designation ZR-2; the seven-hour flight revealed problems with over-balance of the control surfaces. With the balance area of the top rudder reduced, a second test flight was carried out on 17–18 July. The control ba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=588348 | 1,147,092 |
1,437,852 | The areas of work with students in studios and clubs are diverse: lectures, seminars, lectures, round tables, debates, meetings with leading scientists of the University, etc. are held. With the opening of the Academic Palace, circle work with students with creative abilities and musical preferences has revived. In par... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28179573 | 1,437,042 |
1,529,569 | Starner is probably most well known for being a strong advocate for wearable computing. During his time at the MIT Media Lab, Starner, already responsible for helping create one of the earliest high-accuracy on-line cursive handwriting recognition systems in 1993 as an associate scientist with BBN's Speech Systems Grou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=631348 | 1,528,705 |
1,828,714 | A desire by Pittsburgh residents to better understand the health risks from pollution released from the city's many steel mills in the early 20th century led to the creation of Pitt's School of Public Health in 1948 with a $13.6 million grant from the A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust. Originating in the re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14649238 | 1,827,674 |
1,721,122 | In addition to former Pi Gamma Mu presidents Charles Abram Ellwood, S. Howard Patterson and W. Leon Godshall, prominent members of the society include former U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson, 1956 Nobel Prize winner and former Canadian prime minister Lester B. Pearson, former Philippine presidents José P. Laurel and Fe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8594300 | 1,720,152 |
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