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1,311,454 | According to the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis (of which Lawrence's acquired similarity/distinctiveness effects would simply be a special case), language affects the way that people perceive the world. For example, colors are perceived categorically only because they happen to be named categorically: Our subdivisions of the s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4643899 | 1,310,735 |
1,047,839 | IPEX syndrome is inherited in males via an x-linked recessive manner, as the FOXP3 gene, whose cytogenetic location is Xp11.23, is involved in this condition's mechanism. The FOXP3 gene has 12 exons and its full reading open frame encodes 431 amino-acids. FOXP3 is a member of the FKH family of transcription factors and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4104309 | 1,047,294 |
1,541,174 | Among the general public, there still exists negative connotations related to fertilizers and genetic modification of living organisms. Concerns that despite the benefit of higher yields and shorter growing cycles, fertilizers are associated with toxic runoff that contaminate sources of water and can lead to the genera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63883339 | 1,540,301 |
1,157,697 | A wide range of neuronal stimulation have been shown to induce IEG expression ranging from sensory and behavioral to drug-induced convulsions. As such, IEGs are utilized as a marker to understand neuronal ensembles associated with formations of certain memories such as fear, commonly attributed to the development of ps... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=771660 | 1,157,084 |
642,259 | In January 1965, President Lyndon Johnson told Congress that higher education was "no longer a luxury but a necessity" and urged Congress to enact legislation to expand access to college. Representative Edith Green of Oregon introduced H. R. 3220 as a bill to "strengthen the educational resources of our colleges and un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4927364 | 641,920 |
599,122 | Unlike most other car makers at the time, Buick had been using a valve-in-head/OHV overhead valve reverse-flow cylinder head design or I-head since their inception and continued this practice in their straight-eight designs. The engine was sold in different displacements depending on the model of car and the year and w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1430657 | 598,816 |
295,998 | Labor troubles became a grave issue in 1941. During the 22 months from August 1939 to June 1941 Stalin and Hitler supported each other as war raged in Europe. In the U.S., Communist local union officials opposed American aid to Britain's war against Germany. They called strikes in war industries that were supplying Len... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=221761 | 295,838 |
2,243,910 | Shortly before her death in 1939, Mrs. Stephenson asked her husband Dr. Frederick Stephenson, a University professor at Emmanuel College, to "carry on, get a housekeeper, and take in some students to help out and keep in touch with young people." By July of that same year, Victoria University acquired Dr. Stephenson's ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15731508 | 2,242,639 |
593,105 | "Pectoral slapping", informally known as pec-slapping, is when a cetacean turns on its side, exposes one or both pectoral fins into the air, and then slaps them against the surface of the water. It is a form of non-vocal communication commonly observed in a variety of whale and dolphin species as well as seals. The mot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=755842 | 592,801 |
2,122,399 | During Iron Age II and III and the Persian Period (the first half of the first millennium BCE), copper-based objects continued to be present beside growing numbers of iron products. Silver hoards containing small tongueshaped bar chunks or scrapped jewellery became more and more common in the archaeological context in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33756307 | 2,121,179 |
714,875 | On 10 October 2005, NASA 928 flew from Ellington Field via CFB Goose Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador to RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk, England arriving during the evening of 11 October 2005. The WB-57F then flew four missions out of Mildenhall at up to in UK airspace collecting "cosmic dust". The Cosmic Dust Collector (CDC)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33576652 | 714,502 |
1,247,214 | Major structural changes to the university during the ETSU era included the creation of a separate ETSU board of regents in 1969 and the approval to open a branch campus in Texarkana in April 1971. While at times accused of cronyism and wasteful spending, the university administration pursued innovative programs that p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49751816 | 1,246,539 |
486,166 | In 2016 DARPA, an agency of the U.S. Department of Defense, announced a tender for contracts to develop genetically modified plant viruses for an approach involving their dispersion into the environment using insects. The work plan stated:"“Plant viruses hold significant promise as carriers of gene editing circuitry an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25394605 | 485,917 |
2,141,328 | Kane's group has worked to understand a range of bird behaviors. In 2016, her group published a study on how raptors (like hawks, vultures, and falcons) hunt, turning their heads unpredictably as they visually search for their prey. Raptors hunt by alternating periods of rapid head or eye movement—a movement that is kn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59612144 | 2,140,098 |
1,410,428 | In the book, Lane discusses what he considers to be a major gap in biology: why life operates the way that it does, and how it began. In his view as a biochemist, the core question is about energy, as all cells handle energy in the same way, relying on a steep electrochemical gradient across the very small thickness of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53800065 | 1,409,636 |
930,039 | The Facebook artificial intelligence (AI) research team, along with researchers at the University of Oxford, New York University, the Imperial College London, and University College London, developed an open-source platform called the NetHack Learning Environment, designed to teach AI agents to play "NetHack". The base... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21489 | 929,548 |
2,162,547 | In his review Chris Lavers of "The Guardian" stated "Krauss weaves his cosmic story around the life of a single oxygen atom, from the time it was just a twinkle in the universe's eye to the eventual death of its constituent particles. This denouement may come to pass in some distant part of the cosmos long after we hav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47286488 | 2,161,312 |
429,488 | Münsterberg conducted many experiments with his normal psychology students in his basic psychology course while at Harvard. He asked them, "without any theoretical introduction, at the beginning of an ordinary lecture, to write down careful answers to a number of questions referring to that which they would see or hear... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=917279 | 429,278 |
2,024,498 | After attending high school at De La Salle College in Mangere, South Auckland, Dudley obtained B.Sc and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Auckland in 1987 and 1992 respectively. His doctoral thesis was titled "Coherent transient phenomena in the mode-locked argon laser". In 1992 and 1993, he carried out postdoctoral... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41875747 | 2,023,334 |
2,053,460 | Maine Athletic Director Steve Abbott said, “Among concerns about using 'The Pit' is the potential for not being able to accommodate more than the estimated capacity crowd of 1,300.” In 2012, renovations began to the arena. New scoreboards and shot clocks were installed, and seats were added after the 2012-13 season. Ab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33490256 | 2,052,278 |
859,978 | There has been a substantial amount of ethical debate surrounding the operation and its performance. The main issue is that, as noted below, the procedure entails submitting otherwise physically healthy people to potentially fatal, lifelong immunosuppressant therapy. So far, four people have died of complications relat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1000053 | 859,520 |
1,451,607 | The 1970s and 1980s were busy decades for Vaisala. Thin-film technology was developed for Vaisala HUMICAP® relative humidity sensors - the first in the world. The Vaisala CORA Automatic Sounding System - along with automatic weather stations, road weather stations and aviation weather systems - was introduced. In 1975,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1369123 | 1,450,790 |
384,329 | Sega's decision to implement a GD-ROM (though publicly advertised as a CD-ROM) for storage medium did save costs but it did not compare well against the PS2's much-touted DVD capabilities. Sega was either unable or unwilling to spend the advertising money necessary to compete with Sony, who themselves took massive loss... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=490610 | 384,134 |
721,261 | , studies and trials are underway that examine the possible benefits of nitric oxide in the treatment of COVID-19. This research is based on the fact that nitric oxide was investigated as an experimental therapy for SARS. Brian Strickland, MD, a fellow in Wilderness Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital who studie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20800103 | 720,881 |
1,552,109 | SNAs are being proposed as therapeutic materials. Despite their high negative charge, they are taken up by cells (also negatively charged) in high quantities without the need for positively charged co-carriers, and they are effective as gene regulation agents in both antisense and RNAi pathways (Fig. 4). The proposed m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36131613 | 1,551,228 |
774,752 | Many cities in the Maule region were seriously affected by the earthquake which triggered more than 1000 landslides, a significant contributor to earthquake fatalities. Mapped from satellite images, most landslides occurring in the Principal Andean Cordillera and a constrained area on the Arauco Peninsula. Curanipe, on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26357457 | 774,336 |
153,971 | The American Heritage Center, located in the Centennial Complex, is an extensive repository of manuscripts, photographs, artworks, movies, audio recordings, and other items. It is one of the largest non-governmental archives west of the Mississippi River. Officially established in 1945, it now contains over of historic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=535684 | 153,901 |
491,508 | In industrialized Western society, ecosystems have been managed primarily to maximize yields of a particular natural resource. This method to managing ecosystems can be seen by the U.S. Forest Service's shift away from sustaining ecosystem health and toward maximizing timber production to support residential developmen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22793769 | 491,254 |
894,461 | Anthropological fieldwork uses an array of methods and approaches that include, but are not limited to: participant observation, structured and unstructured interviews, archival research, collecting demographic information from the community the anthropologist is studying, and data analysis. Traditional participant obs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5669923 | 893,991 |
770,929 | Midwifery in Greco-Roman antiquity covered a wide range of women, including old women who continued folk medical traditions in the villages of the Roman Empire, trained midwives who garnered their knowledge from a variety of sources, and highly trained women who were considered physicians. However, there were certain c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19391 | 770,515 |
794,912 | The UK government's aviation research facilities including the Blind Landing Experimental Unit (BLEU) set up during 1945/46 at RAF Martlesham Heath and RAF Woodbridge to research all the relevant factors. BEA's flight technical personnel were heavily involved in BLEU's activities in the development of Autoland for its ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1841031 | 794,487 |
1,508,015 | Research on reasoning in medicine, or clinical reasoning, usually focuses on cognitive processes and/or decision-making outcomes among physicians and patients. Considerations include assessments of risk, patient preferences, and evidence-based medical knowledge. On a cognitive level, clinical inference relies heavily o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57091071 | 1,507,167 |
896,874 | The third method is to redefine traditional units in terms of metric values. These redefined "quasi-metric" units often stay in use long after metrication is said to have been completed. Resistance to metrication in post-revolutionary France convinced Napoleon to revert to "mesures usuelles" (usual measures), and, to s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20353 | 896,402 |
1,903,407 | The first and most widely studied is the C242T polymorphism is located in exon 4 at position 214 from the ATG and resulting in a non conservative His72 substitution for a Tyr. Inoue et al. first found that the T allele of the C242 polymorphism might have a protective effect against CAD. Despite some evidence of the eff... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14416416 | 1,902,313 |
1,613,884 | In the late 1920s Bate travelled to the British ruled Palestine. She was in her late 40s and well respected. Bates had been invited by Dorothy Garrod, who later became Cambridge University's first female professor and who had been put in charge of an excavation in Haifa by the British military governor. In Bethlehem Ba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14388057 | 1,612,979 |
185,249 | The effects of inhaling particulate matter that have been widely studied in humans and animals include asthma, lung cancer, respiratory diseases, cardiovascular disease, premature delivery, birth defects, low birth weight, developmental disorders, neurodegenerative disorders mental disorders, and premature death. Outdo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30876688 | 185,152 |
1,882,363 | Clothing insulation is the thermal insulation provided by clothing and it is measured in clo. The measuring unit was developed in 1941. Shortly afterward, thermal manikins were developed by the US Army for the purposes of carrying out insulation measurements on the gear they were developing. The first thermal manikins ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41138699 | 1,881,282 |
2,169,880 | The telescope enjoyed first light in January 2009 and was the world’s largest aperture solar telescope until DKIST enjoys first light in December 2019. The telescope was named the Goode Solar Telescope (GST) in July 2017. More than 150 publications have used GST data since its first light until 2020. The off-axis GST i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28353336 | 2,168,642 |
1,175,912 | As in other minimally invasive surgery, not everybody in the surgical community did not believe in this technology. Today it is the gold standard for many types of surgery. Starting with a simple appendectomy, cholecystectomy, partial kidney resections and partial liver resections, the laparoscopic approach is expandin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34076003 | 1,175,290 |
658,300 | The fuel is uranium dioxide pellets, enriched to 2.5-3.5%, in stainless steel tubes. The original design concept of the AGR was to use a beryllium based cladding. When this proved unsuitable due to brittle fracture, the enrichment level of the fuel was raised to allow for the higher neutron capture losses of stainless ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=143352 | 657,955 |
26,402 | On 11 December 2017, President Trump signed Space Policy Directive 1, a change in national space policy that provides for a U.S.-led, integrated program with private sector partners for a human return to the Moon, followed by missions to Mars and beyond. The policy calls for the NASA administrator to "lead an innovativ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60758751 | 26,392 |
1,362,679 | While any person may experience a critical incident, conventional wisdom says that members of law enforcement, fire fighting units, and emergency medical services are at great risk for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, less than 5% of emergency services personnel will develop long-term PTSD symptomatology... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5289263 | 1,361,926 |
129,809 | The external defibrillator, as it is known today, was invented by electrical engineer William Kouwenhoven in 1930. Kouwenhoven studied the relationship between electric shocks and their effects on the human heart when he was a student at Johns Hopkins University School of Engineering. His studies helped him invent a de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=146384 | 129,757 |
680,134 | Stereotactic radiosurgery utilizes externally generated ionizing radiation to inactivate or eradicate defined targets in the head or spine without the need to make an incision. This concept requires steep dose gradients to reduce injury to adjacent normal tissue while maintaining treatment efficacy in the target. As a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1189445 | 679,780 |
362,668 | The sixth X-37B mission (OTV-6), U.S. Space Force 7 (formerly known as AFSPC 7), launched on an Atlas V 501 rocket from Cape Canaveral SLC-41 on 17 May 2020 at 13:14:00 UTC. This mission is the first time the spaceplane has carried a service module, a ring attached to the rear of the vehicle for hosting multiple experi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=991257 | 362,478 |
1,694,643 | The remnants of the eastern portion of the volcano, called the Neenach Formation, lie about 195 miles (314 kilometers) south of the western portion near Neenach, California. (). The formation covers about 10 square miles and is notable for the distinct and strongly linear boundary along its southerly side, where the Sa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32853614 | 1,693,692 |
1,067,399 | The European Molecular Biology Laboratory has closed all six sites in Europe (Barcelona, Grenoble, Hamburg, Heidelberg, Hinxton, and Rome). All EMBL site governments have implemented strict controls in response to the coronavirus. EMBL staff have been instructed to follow the advice of local authorities. Several staff ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63478388 | 1,066,845 |
605,010 | The DOS version of "SimEarth" was released in December 1990, and the game was scheduled to release in Spring 1991 for the Amiga and Atari ST. Will Wright was introduced to James Lovelock by Stewart Brand, a former editor of "CoEvolution Quarterly" who lived near Wright, upon hearing about "SimEarth". Lovelock advised t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=174974 | 604,700 |
1,994,326 | In October 1941, BuNav authorized a school to be established on Treasure Island, the site of the 1939–1940 Golden Gate International Exposition. The curriculum basically replicated that existing at RMS-Bellevue, but with a much larger student body. When the ETP was formed the following January, this became the ARM Trea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36494078 | 1,993,183 |
660,874 | The production of a relative surplus-population, or the setting free of labourers, goes on therefore yet more rapidly than the technical revolution of the process of production that accompanies and is accelerated by, the advances of accumulation; and more rapidly than the corresponding diminution of the variable part o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8937649 | 660,529 |
153,530 | The report found that the cause was a single sale of $4.1 billion in futures contracts by a mutual fund, identified as Waddell & Reed Financial, in an aggressive attempt to hedge its investment position. The joint report also found that "high-frequency traders quickly magnified the impact of the mutual fund's selling."... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23550923 | 153,460 |
1,679,193 | MCCs commonly develop from the merging of thunderstorms into a squall line which eventually meet the MCC criteria. Furthermore, some MCC formation can be tracked from the plains in Colorado back to the Rocky Mountains. These are called "orogenic" complexes. The characteristics of the meteorological environment that MCC... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2348018 | 1,678,250 |
326,443 | The codex's bookbinding is wooden boards covered in leather, with ornate metal guards and fittings. At long, wide and thick, it is the largest known medieval manuscript. Weighing , "Codex Gigas" is composed of 310 leaves of vellum claimed to be made from the skins of 160 donkeys, or perhaps calfskin, covering in total.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1664745 | 326,269 |
341,625 | Despite their precision, JDAM employment has risks. On 5 December 2001, a JDAM dropped by a B-52 in Afghanistan nearly killed Hamid Karzai while he was leading anti-Taliban forces near Sayd Alim Kalay alongside a US Army Special Forces (SF) team. A large force of Taliban soldiers had engaged the combined force of Karza... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=201690 | 341,444 |
2,011,359 | The procedure begins with orotracheal intubation using a laser-safe endotracheal tube. The eyes of the patient are padded and taped followed by draping of the head and application of upper tooth guard. When the patient is anesthetized sufficiently and full relaxation is seen. The largest feasible laryngoscope is introd... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51078133 | 2,010,206 |
802,761 | The history of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) includes the work of many researchers who contributed to the discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and described the underlying physics of magnetic resonance imaging, starting early in the twentieth century. MR imaging was invented by Paul C. Lauterbur who develop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55363309 | 802,332 |
2,005,287 | Following LeMaitre's incorporation of the company, LeMaitre's son, George W. LeMaitre, joined the company and helped grow it from a family-owned company to a publicly held global corporation. In 1996, LeMaitre Vascular introduced the expandable LeMaitre valvulotome, which superseded the original circular-blade LeMaitre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71318055 | 2,004,138 |
226,074 | The VIGOR trial results were published in 2000 in the "New England Journal of Medicine" Bombardier and his research team claimed that there was "an increase in myocardial infarction in the patients given rofecoxib (0.4%) compared with those given naproxen (0.1%)" and "patients given naproxen experienced 121 side effect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=772572 | 225,958 |
56,410 | Given the relatively nonspecific symptoms of initial hypothyroidism, Hashimoto's thyroiditis is often misdiagnosed as depression, cyclothymia, premenstrual syndrome, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, and less frequently, as erectile dysfunction or an anxiety disorder. On gross examination, a hard goiter that is n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=660960 | 56,386 |
944,579 | On 28 September, she became the 2019 World Champion in the 10,000 metres in her second race for that distance. Her first race at the event was in Stanford in a time of 31:18.12, just fast enough to achieve the qualifying standard for the World Championships. The winning time of 30:17.62 was the best time of the year on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42019907 | 944,077 |
1,970,765 | Solar camera enlargements were newsworthy, reported in 1862 as "a most important and interesting application of science to the photographic art," and contemporaneous discussions of them make it apparent that they were compared in aesthetic terms to painting and drawing. In 1861 the "British Journal of Photography" pres... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65795119 | 1,969,631 |
1,676,432 | The Ganz Works identified the significance of induction motors and synchronous motors commissioned Kálmán Kandó (1869–1931) to develop it. In 1894, Kálmán Kandó developed high-voltage three-phase AC motors and generators for electric locomotives. The first-ever electric rail vehicle manufactured by Ganz Works was a 6 H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35639573 | 1,675,490 |
1,286,941 | Because protein structures are composed of amino acids whose side chains are linked by a common protein backbone, a number of different possible subsets of the atoms that make up a protein macromolecule can be used in producing a structural alignment and calculating the corresponding RMSD values. When aligning structur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=474908 | 1,286,240 |
983,536 | Located on the fourth floor of the Cathedral of Learning, the current home of both the Cultural Studies, Film Studies, and Gender, Sexuality, & Women's Studies (GSWS) programs, was the prior home of the McCarl Center for Nontraditional Student Success until it moved to Wesley W. Posvar Hall in 2014. The space occupies ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=768929 | 983,022 |
1,958,306 | Scientific projects at the Center for Social Complexity focus on investigating social systems and processes on multiple scales: groups, organizations, economies, societies, regions, international systems. Researchers use a variety of interdisciplinary tools, including multi-agent systems and agent-based models (includi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2227943 | 1,957,179 |
976,580 | He served as director of the French National Centre for Scientific Research, and appointed by Charles De Gaulle in 1945, he became France's first High Commissioner for Atomic Energy. In 1948 he oversaw the construction of the first French atomic reactor. He and Irène visited Moscow for the two hundred and twentieth ann... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=324005 | 976,069 |
307,402 | The USGS produces several national series of topographic maps which vary in scale and extent, with some wide gaps in coverage, notably the complete absence of 1:50,000 scale topographic maps or their equivalent. The largest (both in terms of scale and quantity) and best-known topographic series is the 7.5-minute, 1:24,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23814944 | 307,238 |
2,056,156 | Before the late 19th century most American botanist and botanical studies were amateurish, which led to the creation of the Botanical Society of America. With developments in microscopy and methodologies, like staining, the study of botany moved from the field to the laboratory. The new laboratory methods in botany whi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69721151 | 2,054,972 |
1,244,108 | The highlight of Lovelock's career came in 1936, when he won the gold medal in the 1500 m at the Berlin Olympics, setting a world record in the final (3:47.8). Lovelock had plotted ever since his defeat at Los Angeles and developed a revolutionary tactic. The race is regarded as one of the finest 1500 m Olympic finals ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=211930 | 1,243,435 |
1,007,018 | Research leading to RDF technology in the United Kingdom was begun by Sir Henry Tizard's Aeronautical Research Committee in early 1935, responding to the urgent need to counter German bomber attacks. Robert A. Watson-Watt at the Radio Research Station, Slough, was asked to investigate a radio-based "death ray". In resp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27693223 | 1,006,499 |
1,985,758 | This is illustrated within Jonathan P. Goldstein's unified heterodox macroeconomic framework which aims to utilize "Keynesian uncertainty", "Marxian class conflict", "Marxian competition" and "Marxian crisis theory" in order to create a "realistic and flexible framework" which "sheds problematic aspects of existing the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63073736 | 1,984,617 |
184,341 | The sun set over Framheim on 21 April, not to reappear for four months. Amundsen was mindful of the boredom and loss of morale that had blighted the "Belgica" expedition's winter in the ice, and although there was no possibility of sledging he ensured that the shore party kept busy. One urgent task was to improve the s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15021680 | 184,244 |
702,921 | After Feynman's death, a scholar studying the historical development of nanotechnology has concluded that his actual role in catalyzing nanotechnology research was limited, based on recollections from many of the people active in the nascent field in the 1980s and 1990s. Chris Toumey, a cultural anthropologist at the U... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7064233 | 702,553 |
411,853 | In August 1883, the German government sent a medical team led by Koch to Alexandria, Egypt, to investigate a cholera epidemic there. Koch soon found that the intestinal mucosa of people who died of cholera always had bacterial infection, yet could not confirm whether the bacteria were the causative pathogens. As the ou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13722 | 411,651 |
12,108 | In 1841, Lovelace and Medora Leigh (the daughter of Lord Byron's half-sister Augusta Leigh) were told by Ada's mother that Ada's father was also Medora's father. On 27 February 1841, Ada wrote to her mother: "I am not in the least "astonished". In fact, you merely "confirm" what I have for "years and years" felt scarce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=974 | 12,103 |
955,066 | The typical configuration for a red dot sight is a tilted spherical mirror reflector with a red light-emitting diode (LED) at its off axis focus. The mirror has a partially silvered multilayer dielectric dichroic coating designed to reflect just the red spectrum allowing most other light to pass through it. The LED use... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25416290 | 954,561 |
338,317 | It was believed throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that sauropods like "Brachiosaurus" were too massive to support their own weight on dry land, and instead lived partly submerged in water. Riggs, affirming observations by John Bell Hatcher, was the first to defend in length that most sauropods wer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20598015 | 338,137 |
1,673,058 | In 1881, he observed the movement of bacteria towards the chloroplasts in a strand of "Spirogyra" algae. Engelmann hypothesized that the bacteria were moving in response to oxygen generated by the photosynthetically active chloroplasts in the algae. This was one of the first documented observations of positive aerotaxi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9977211 | 1,672,116 |
742,712 | A peroxisome () is a membrane-bound organelle, a type of microbody, found in the cytoplasm of virtually all eukaryotic cells. Peroxisomes are oxidative organelles. Frequently, molecular oxygen serves as a co-substrate, from which hydrogen peroxide (HO) is then formed. Peroxisomes owe their name to hydrogen peroxide gen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24062 | 742,318 |
1,204,594 | About 1 in 7 Americans suffer from active addiction to a particular substance. Addiction can cause physical, psychological, and emotional harm to those who are affected by it. The American Society of Addiction Medicine defines addiction as "a treatable, chronic medical disease involving complex interactions among brain... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37697843 | 1,203,949 |
1,515,111 | The Coonleys moved to Washington, D.C. in 1916, and while Queene continued to devote her time and money, she left the day-to-day direction of the school to Morse. Under her direction, the Junior Elementary School built upon the educational foundations established at the Cottage School, with its focus on the active part... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8052357 | 1,514,260 |
1,989,104 | Two examples of activities that can benefit when information systems are interoperable across domains are disaster response work (such as the 2013 typhoon relief in Philippines) and multi-national peacekeeping missions (such as the Allied Forces support of France during the 2012-2013 conflict in Mali). Another effort w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40890162 | 1,987,962 |
1,507,275 | Gillberg is also known for his role in a controversy relating to the confidentiality of medical records. The controversy involved public access under the Swedish Principle of Public Access ("offentlighetsprincipen") to medical records and other personal data about a group of children participating in an early longitudi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1410583 | 1,506,429 |
628,042 | Using such a technique, in 1994 Walter Gehring found that the "pax-6" gene, vital for forming the eyes of fruit flies, exactly matches an eye-forming gene in mice and humans. The same gene was quickly found in many other groups of animals, such as squid, a cephalopod mollusc. Biologists including Ernst Mayr had believe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57414 | 627,707 |
1,484,240 | Based on the RMCE technology, a particular resource of pre-characterized ES-strains that lends itself to further elaboration has evolved in the framework of the EUCOMM (European Conditional Mouse Mutagenesis) program, based on the now established Cre- and/or Flp-based "FlExing" (Flp-mediated excision/inversion) setups,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4385154 | 1,483,403 |
1,437,761 | Nanomanipulators such as the atomic force microscope are also suited to single-molecule experiments of biological significance, since they work on the same length scale of most biological polymers. Besides, atomic force microscopy (AFM) is appropriate for the studies of synthetic polymer molecules. AFM provides a uniqu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2781940 | 1,436,952 |
1,463,004 | A National Geographic article originally published in June 2016 (and updated in 2019 after the Australian government officially recognized the species as extinct) reported the Bramble Cay melomys’ (Melomys rubicola) disappearance from its island called Bramble Cay in the Torres Strait of the Great Barrier Reef as the f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31026536 | 1,462,181 |
654,733 | The Hotchkiss machine gun was gas actuated and air-cooled, in contrast to the Maxim gun which was recoil operated and water-cooled. The Hotchkiss machine gun barrel features five large rings which materially assisted natural cooling and retarded overheating. The gas cylinder under the barrel features a regulator piston... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1876110 | 654,389 |
1,305,718 | In 1911, Dr. Charles Leroy Lowman began to use therapeutic tubs to treat cerebral palsy and spastic patients in California at Orthopedic Hospital in Los Angeles. Lowman was inspired after a visit to Spaulding School for Crippled Children in Chicago, where wooden exercise tanks were used by paralyzed patients. The inven... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15048490 | 1,305,002 |
1,640,344 | Since then, in the case of a flight originating in Missouri, the ARCHER system proved its usefulness in October 2006, when it found the wreckage in Antlers, Okla. The National Transportation and Safety Board was extremely pleased with the data ARCHER provided, which was later used to locate aircraft debris spread over ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13160311 | 1,639,417 |
706,312 | Platters are typically made using an aluminium, glass or ceramic substrate. As of 2015, laptop hard drive platters are made from glass while aluminum platters are often found in desktop computers. In disk manufacturing, a thin coating is deposited on both sides of the substrate, mostly by a vacuum deposition process ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55383 | 705,943 |
1,860,144 | A range of industries, including aerospace, automotive, household, industrial, medical, and telecommunication, actively use CALCE Simulation Assisted Reliability Assessment (SARA) software and accelerated testing approaches. Among organizations applying CALCE methods, the U.S. Army leads the way, creating and maintaini... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41960662 | 1,859,076 |
1,869,140 | Levy's research concerns operating systems, distributed systems, the internet, and computer architecture. In his early career, Levy worked at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), where he was a member of the design and engineering team for the VMS operating system for the VAX computer. His graduate work resulted in the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14578744 | 1,868,064 |
1,482,331 | The game's events are set in the year 2877. In 2077, the world's peacekeeping unions, such as the United Nations and the European Union, collapsed after years of global tensions, forcing humanity to establish a planetary government in order to maintain order. A government operating as the World Silent Security Service,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5791291 | 1,481,496 |
1,210,820 | In 2009, two very large genome-wide association studies of body mass index (BMI) confirmed the association of variants about 150 kilobases downstream of the "MC4R" gene with insulin resistance, obesity, and other anthropometric traits. "MC4R" may also have clinical utility as a biomarker for predicting individual susce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14119425 | 1,210,173 |
549,375 | Onset of PLS usually occurs spontaneously after age 50 and progresses gradually over a number of years, or even decades. The disorder usually begins in the legs, but it may start in the tongue or the hands. Symptoms may include difficulty with balance, weakness and stiffness in the legs, and clumsiness. Other common sy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3592897 | 549,087 |
840,365 | Although the electronic transitions of an isolated ion are very well defined, broadening of the energy levels occurs when the ions are incorporated into the glass of the optical fiber and thus the amplification window is also broadened. This broadening is both homogeneous (all ions exhibit the same broadened spectrum) ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41148 | 839,915 |
1,516,838 | Estrella de Laredo (born in Melilla, Spain, February 7, 1940) is a Venezuelan researcher and academic in the area of the Material Science. Graduated from the French Lyceum Regnault, Tangier, Morocco, as bachelor in mathematics, obtained a degree in physics from the University of Paris in 1962 and three years later obta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29302481 | 1,515,986 |
522,216 | A grandson of slaves, Bailey was born on December 14, 1899, near the Bellwood community in Smith County, Tennessee. His mother died when he was about a year old and he was then taken in by his aunt Barbara Lou. He learned to play the harmonica at the age of three when he contracted polio. Bailey was confined to bed for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1007767 | 521,944 |
2,186,911 | Phase change random access memory (PCRAM) has attracted considerable interest as a candidate for non-volatile devices for higher density and operation speed. The ternary GeSbTe (GST) compound is widely regarded as the most viable and practical phase change family of materials for this application. CVD techniques have b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38430890 | 2,185,663 |
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