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1,055,968 | In 1991 she joined the Rowland Institute for Science at Cambridge, Massachusetts as a scientific staff member, beginning to explore the possibilities of slow light and cold atoms. In 1999 at the age of 40, Hau accepted a two-year appointment as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University. Her formalized training is in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1300275 | 1,055,420 |
1,625,488 | At-home long-term video-EEG monitoring reduces the financial burden, since the individual is no longer at a hospital, or place of care, for long periods of time, as well as allowing for possible epileptic triggers to remain. For example, how an individual has habits at their home, the feeling of their bed when sleeping... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2566101 | 1,624,572 |
1,770,018 | Spector described the team as interested in multiple genres of gaming, consisting of both maximalists who wanted to "do everything" and minimalists who wanted to do few things well. Close friends who understood the team's intents were invited to test the game and give feedback. The wide range of input led to debates in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43210943 | 1,769,023 |
496,669 | By the early 20th Century radiogenic isotopes had been discovered and Radiometric Dating had been developed. In 1911 Arthur Holmes, among the pioneers in the use of radioactive decay as a mean to measure geological time, dated a sample from Ceylon at 1.6 billion years old using lead isotopes. In 1913 Holmes was on the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8245348 | 496,413 |
281,526 | On 11 September 1877, Joseph and Aggie moved to London and the couple found a house at 12 Park Crescent, Regent's Park. Lister began teaching on the first day of October. The hospital made it mandatory that all students should attend Lister's lecturers. Attendance was small compared to the four hundred who would regula... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16535 | 281,373 |
1,243,265 | There are several problems not seen in the above. First, mutations occur as random events. Second, the chance that any site in the genome varies is different from the next site, a very good example is the codons for amino acids, the first two nt in a codon may mutate at 1 per billion years, but the third nt may mutate ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3295330 | 1,242,592 |
742,480 | Quantum evolution was a controversial hypothesis advanced by Columbia University paleontologist George Gaylord Simpson, regarded by Gould as "the greatest and most biologically astute paleontologist of the twentieth century." Simpson's conjecture was that according to the geological record, on very rare occasions evolu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24980 | 742,087 |
1,592,411 | Tectonic movement of the cordilleras continues today, as evidenced by frequent seismic activity. Indeed, Colombia remains part of the Pacific Ring of Fire, an active seismic area that surrounds the Pacific basin. The country is located where three lithospheric plates—Nazca, Caribbean, and South American—converge, and t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14046076 | 1,591,514 |
1,727,171 | The school of medicine was called el-Demerdash School of Medicine, before establishment of the university. The original El-Demerdash Hospital was established on August 5, 1928, by a generous grant from El-Demerdash Pasha and his wife and daughter. It was built on 12,400 square metres, and had 90 beds and the following ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18378049 | 1,726,197 |
313,080 | Although given the unflattering sobriquet "Almirante Lija" ("Admiral Sandpaper") by locals, based on his surname, Leahy was regarded as one of the most lenient American governors of the several who served Puerto Rico in the first half of the 20th century. He took an open stance of not intervening directly in local poli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=448716 | 312,912 |
1,815,374 | Many proteins undergo phosphorylation, or the addition of phosphate groups to amino acids subunits. Phosphorylation is modulated by kinases, which add phosphate groups, and phosphatases, which remove phosphate groups. In its phosphorylated state, KCNB1 is a poor conductor of current. There are 16 phosphorylation sites ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14773966 | 1,814,340 |
1,968,837 | In 1883, on a visit to Cambridge to visit his sister, Fripp called on his godfather, John Neale Dalton, at Trinity, where the Canon was acting as 'chaperone' to Prince Albert Victor to whom Fripp was introduced. A year later he spent a few days at Cambridge in Prince "Eddy's" company. Six years passed in medical studie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3581938 | 1,967,704 |
1,174,159 | Since the release of the Evans & Sutherland Digistar in 1983, a single projector with a fish eye lens was able to for the first time show stars from points of view other than Earth's surface, travel through the stars, and accurately show celestial bodies from different times in the past and future. In more recent years... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3810997 | 1,173,537 |
719,557 | The wide range of size variation in skull specimens seems to indicate a great degree of sexual dimorphism with males being notably bigger than females. However, it is difficult to predict with accuracy the true dimensions of living males and females due to the lack of definitive "P. boisei" skeletal remains, save for t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2165275 | 719,177 |
542,352 | The college steadily grew during its first 35 years, and by 1904, the campus had expanded to include Engle Hall, home of the music department, and a partially completed library funded by Andrew Carnegie. On Christmas Eve 1904, North College (not to be confused with the residence hall with the same name), which stood in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2328233 | 542,072 |
456,941 | From 1983 until 2000, the company – by now in its fourth generation – was headed up by Jürgen Heraeus, the son of Reinhard Heraeus and a company director since 1970. Under his management, the business grew into a global group of companies. To pave the way for this expansion, the company was fundamentally reorganised an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2511162 | 456,718 |
140,161 | After years of producing null results, improved detectors became operational in 2015. On 11 February 2016, the LIGO-Virgo collaborations announced the first observation of gravitational waves, from a signal (dubbed GW150914) detected at 09:50:45 GMT on 14 September 2015 of two black holes with masses of 29 and 36 solar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8111079 | 140,104 |
501,095 | During WWI, Daniel's son Harry Guggenheim became a pilot and both became avid supporters of aviation technology. In the 1920s they established the Daniel Guggenheim Medal for achievement in aeronautics and provided grants via the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics for aeronautics research at Califo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4650146 | 500,838 |
1,535,448 | Almost from the beginning, the journal’s editors have shown a “willingness to deal with controversial topics.” For example, Chandler and Edwards excerpted Morris Kline’s controversial 1977 book, "Why the Professor Can’t Teach", prompting numerous reactions. Their successor, Ewing, acknowledged that “the purpose of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3011900 | 1,534,580 |
133,924 | Since Germany had lost its African colonies following World War I, World War II did not reach Africa until Italy joined the war on June 10, 1940, controlling Libya and Italian East Africa. With the fall of France on June 25, most of France's colonies in North and West Africa were controlled by the Vichy government, tho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14099 | 133,870 |
526,528 | To sharpen the precision of description and classification Joachim Jung (1587–1657) compiled a much-needed botanical terminology which has stood the test of time. English botanist John Ray (1623–1705) built on Jung's work to establish the most elaborate and insightful classification system of the day. His observations ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25007304 | 526,255 |
283,274 | In transportation, state and local efforts in energy conservation and efficiency measures tend to be more targeted and smaller in scale. However, with more robust fuel economy standards, new targets for the use of alternative transportation fuels, and new efforts in electric and hybrid electric vehicles, EPAct05 and EI... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=478933 | 283,121 |
596,237 | Zeratul is a Nerazim prelate and one of the main Protoss protagonists. A renowned psionic warrior and assassin, Zeratul is somewhat secretive and calculating, but is nevertheless honorable and loyal to his species. He teaches Tassadar how to use dark templar energies and facilitates the final attack on the Overmind by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12123161 | 595,932 |
1,282,603 | Bacitracin has been used in clinical practice mainly as a topical medication due to its toxicity being too high for parental use, however evidence successful treatment in clinical trials is limited. Surgeons are able to use Bacitracin in skin grafting procedures, due to its non-toxic quality. Pseudomembranous colitis; ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17033084 | 1,281,907 |
146,571 | A totally different approach recently developed, which has been applied in the ELCAN DigitalHunter series and the ATN X-Sight series, essentially uses a video camera system to digitally capture, process and display the target image into the eyepiece, often with additional built-in rangefinder, ballistic calculator, sig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1052795 | 146,513 |
1,609,166 | The main criticism of the EA is that one cannot use biological terminology and simply apply it to other disciplines, such as anthropology and specifically archaeology. In other words, critics claim that there is no value of this approach and words such as ‘variation’, ‘selection’ and ‘drift’ are merely metaphorical. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51781074 | 1,608,261 |
1,305,580 | He began his postdoctoral work at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1957 as a fellow of the American Cancer Society in what was then called the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases. In 1959 he became a research biochemist at the NIH and began to study the steps that relate DNA, RNA and protei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=762368 | 1,304,864 |
1,339,021 | The promising application for MEMS micropumps lies in drug delivery systems for diabetes-, tumor-, hormone-, pain and ocular therapy in forms of ultra-thin patches, targeted delivery within implantable systems or intelligent pills. Piezoelectric MEMS micropumps can replace traditional peristaltic or syringe pumps for i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17114734 | 1,338,288 |
209,898 | Inertial guidance uses sensitive measurement devices to calculate the location of the missile due to the acceleration put on it after leaving a known position. Early mechanical systems were not very accurate, and required some sort of external adjustment to allow them to hit targets even the size of a city. Modern syst... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=419667 | 209,791 |
836,383 | Lieber obtained a B.A. in Chemistry from Franklin & Marshall College, graduating with honors in 1981. He went on to earn his doctorate at Stanford University in Chemistry, carrying out research on surface chemistry in the lab of Nathan Lewis, followed by a two-year postdoc at Caltech in the lab of Harry Gray on long-di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5890897 | 835,934 |
1,902,450 | In 2014, he was awarded the Prix d’innovation et d’excellence Dr Jean-A.-Vézina for Québec radiology and the University of British Columbia's Margolese National Brain Disorders Prize. In the same year, he was recognized as an ISI Highly Cited Researcher in the category "Neuroscience and Behavior", a ranking he has main... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58921903 | 1,901,360 |
676,768 | Unlike bloomery iron-workers in Europe, India or China, African metalworkers did not make use of water power to blow bellows in furnaces too large to be blown by hand-powered bellows. This is partly because sub-Saharan Africa has much less potential for water power than these other regions , but also because there were... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20255436 | 676,415 |
740,783 | Op art is a perceptual experience related to how vision functions. It is a dynamic visual art that stems from a discordant figure-ground relationship that puts the two planes—foreground and background—in a tense and contradictory juxtaposition. Artists create op art in two primary ways. The first, best known method, is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=178848 | 740,391 |
1,535,487 | Supersonic fracture was a phenomenon totally unexplained by the classical theories of fracture. Molecular dynamics simulations by the group around Abraham and Gao have shown the existence of intersonic mode I and supersonic mode II cracks. This motivated a continuum mechanics analysis of supersonic mode III cracks by Y... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2230778 | 1,534,619 |
202,018 | In 1905, Albert Einstein explained Brownian motion in a way that definitively proved atomic theory. Leo Baekeland invented bakelite, one of the first commercially successful plastics. In 1909, American physicist Robert Andrews Millikan – who had studied in Europe under Walther Nernst and Max Planck – measured the charg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1416046 | 201,915 |
535,344 | In 1905, Albert Einstein explained Brownian motion in a way that definitively proved atomic theory. Leo Baekeland invented bakelite, one of the first commercially successful plastics. In 1909, American physicist Robert Andrews Millikan - who had studied in Europe under Walther Nernst and Max Planck - measured the charg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56516812 | 535,065 |
1,907,292 | Towards the end of the 19th century and throughout most of the 20th century, the Argentinean Government was the primary investor in the country's hydraulic infrastructure development. Primarily focused on developing irrigation infrastructure, the first irrigation development project started in 1909 and continued throug... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24224089 | 1,906,196 |
897,370 | Lattice displacement is caused by neutrons, protons, alpha particles, heavy ions, and very high energy gamma photons. They change the arrangement of the atoms in the crystal lattice, creating lasting damage, and increasing the number of recombination centers, depleting the minority carriers and worsening the analog pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1041641 | 896,897 |
1,730,197 | K. Eric Drexler is generally considered to have written the first scholarly paper on the topic of nanotechnology, and was a key figure in popularizing these concepts through several publications and advocacy work. Trained as an engineer, Drexler was inspired by a then-obscure 1959 talk by physicist Richard Feynman call... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31838482 | 1,729,222 |
1,702,739 | The condition imposed by Federico Santa María was that, during the first 10 years, the university must receive academics from the best schools of sciences and engineering. Following this imperative, the executor of this project, Agustín Edwards Mac-Clure, traveled to Germany where he contacted Karl Laudien, at the time... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=309277 | 1,701,783 |
156,236 | Sperry's initial colleagues included his Caltech PhD students, Michael Gazzaniga and Jerre Levy. Even though Sperry is considered the founder of split-brain research, Gazzaniga's clear summaries of their collaborative work are consistently cited in psychology texts. In Sperry and Gazzaniga's "The Split Brain in Man" ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=490258 | 156,164 |
69,610 | Quasars' luminosities are variable, with time scales that range from months to hours. This means that quasars generate and emit their energy from a very small region, since each part of the quasar would have to be in contact with other parts on such a time scale as to allow the coordination of the luminosity variations... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25239 | 69,583 |
1,610,145 | Challenges that must be faced by designing and improving Rylene diimides based OSCs are mainly concerned by synthesis of PDIs because the planar structure of the molecule makes that it tends to aggregate into a crystal structure. This greatly enhances the domain size, larger than the preferred 20 nm, in the bulk hetero... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62793986 | 1,609,240 |
45,085 | Conversely, one might expect that inertial motions, once identified by observing the actual motions of bodies and making allowances for the external forces (such as electromagnetism or friction), can be used to define the geometry of space, as well as a time coordinate. However, there is an ambiguity once gravity comes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12024 | 45,068 |
1,437,807 | All practicals are held in classrooms and labs of the university, in therapeutic-prophylactic establishments and in sanitary-epidemiological stations of the town and region. Powerful potential of the professional staff of clinical departments includes 42 Professors, 48 Doctors of Medical Science, 187 Associate Professo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28179573 | 1,436,998 |
1,612,316 | There is no single generally accepted model for the origin of life. Scientists have proposed several plausible hypotheses which share some common elements. While differing in details, these hypotheses are based on the framework laid out by Alexander Oparin (in 1924) and John Haldane (in 1929), that the first molecules ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69625765 | 1,611,411 |
1,456,074 | As the genus is only known from very fragmentary material, it has been problematic to determine the size of "Erlikosaurus", especially as most of the vertebral column of the holotype is missing. The skull of the holotype specimen length is approximately long, indicating a very small individual. Overall, "Erlikosaurus" ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4613539 | 1,455,254 |
932,099 | Another example of prey to predator communication is the pursuit-deterrent signal. Pursuit-deterrent signals occur when prey indicates to a predator that pursuit would be unprofitable because the signaler is prepared to escape. Pursuit-deterrent signals provide a benefit to both the signaler and receiver; they prevent ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=464447 | 931,607 |
410,977 | Unlike ICI, intrauterine insemination normally requires a medical practitioner to perform the procedure. One of the requirements is to have at least one permeable tube, proved by hysterosalpingography. The infertility duration is also important. A female under 30 years of age has optimal chances with IUI; A promising c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=213070 | 410,775 |
1,178,128 | Central to Franklin's pacifism and her view of life is what she calls "the Quaker vision of the world". Individual conscience is at the heart of that vision. So too, is the need to discern appropriate ways of working for peace in each time and place "rather than relying on a dogma of unvarying rules of conduct". She no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1094203 | 1,177,504 |
886,457 | Grazing (especially overgrazing) may detrimentally affect certain wildlife species, e.g. by altering cover and food supplies. The growing demand for meat is contributing to significant biodiversity loss as it is a significant driver of deforestation and habitat destruction; species-rich habitats, such as significant po... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15588468 | 885,993 |
1,606,221 | During spraying it is essential to maintain a constant top surface temperature and hence maintain steady-state conditions if a billet with consistent microstructure is to be produced. At the billet surface, during spraying an enthalpy balance must be maintained where the rate of enthalpy lost (H) from the billet by con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4927657 | 1,605,317 |
2,244,419 | Associations of ZIP12 with additional diseases or physiological functions have been reported. In broiler male chicks, ZIP12 mRNA expression in the duodenum, a region of the small intestine, decreases in response to an oral challenge with Salmonella. ZIP12 mRNA and protein increased in lung and liver of chickens after a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54312100 | 2,243,148 |
1,083,401 | With the rise of scholasticism and the decline of the Roman Empire, the atomic theory was abandoned for many ages in favor of the various four element theories and later alchemical theories. The 17th century, however, saw a resurgence in the atomic theory primarily through the works of Gassendi, and Newton. Among other... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7071490 | 1,082,844 |
1,153,146 | It was not long before the school, helped largely by private donations from individuals like Mary Kingsley (the author of "Travels in West Africa" and an expert in African culture), began to flourish. The school soon recruited the eminent physician Rubert Boyce as its inaugural dean. Boyce then set about the business o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1048406 | 1,152,536 |
1,277,958 | The "Lion"s explosion becomes one of the major accidents in spaceflight history and sets Japan's spaceflight program back by over a decade. In the years following the accident, the public accuses those involved with the "Lion" program of negligence. Rumors also begin to circulate about the offshore outsourcing of the r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4551091 | 1,277,265 |
444,689 | This book covers underground mining and surveying. When a vein below ground is to be exploited a shaft is begun and a wooden shed with a windlass is placed above it. The tunnel dug at the bottom follows the vein and is just big enough for a man. The entire vein should be removed. Sometimes the tunnel eventually connect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4484806 | 444,474 |
408,294 | Production of artificial manufactured fertilizer for agriculture was pioneered by Sir John Lawes at his purpose-built Rothamsted Research facility. In the 1840s he established large works near London for the manufacture of superphosphate of lime. Processes for the vulcanization of rubber were patented by Charles Goodye... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58721 | 408,093 |
190,246 | The is a single-seat fighter flown by the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service in the last two years of World War II. The Allied reporting name was "Frank"; the Japanese Army designation was . The Ki-84 is generally considered the best Japanese fighter to operate in large numbers during the conflict. The aircraft boasted... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1091403 | 190,149 |
100,756 | The men's basketball team has been one of the nation's most successful programs since Lute Olson was hired as head coach in 1983, and is still known as a national powerhouse in Division I men's basketball. Between 1985 and 2009, the team reached the NCAA Tournament 25 consecutive years, which is the third-longest strea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32015 | 100,711 |
305,116 | In Ancient Greece, while private property was an acknowledged part of society with the basic element of Greek economic and social life being the privately owned estate or "oikos", it was still understood that the needs of the city or "polis" always came before those of the individual property owner and his family. Anci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47246185 | 304,954 |
1,850,061 | Kinetic and kinematic measures together, are powerful tools that help infer joint patterns and understand how patterns may alter in the presence of physical or environmental changes. In kinetic measures of ground reaction force, the shape of the vertical ground-reaction force is consistent and well known. Researchers h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53874470 | 1,849,003 |
1,311,022 | Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002) claimed Samuel Morton had fudged data and "overpacked" the skulls. A subsequent study by John Michael concluded that "[c]ontrary to Gould's interpretation... Morton's research was conducted with integrity." In 2011 physical anthropologists at the university of, which owns Morton's collecti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39480604 | 1,310,304 |
157,413 | Meeting the appropriate nutritional needs of preterm infants is important for long-term health. Optimal care may require a balance of meeting nutritional needs and preventing complications related to feeding. The ideal growth rate is not known, however, preterm infants usually require a higher energy intake compared to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=429542 | 157,341 |
551,592 | The first Lego Space sets began an era of more complicated and less colorful designs with a heavy emphasis on space exploration. Much of the early Space sets consisted of blue, grey, white, and transparent yellow for ships and gray and transparent green for ground crafts. Designs began using more stacked plates instead... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3478140 | 551,304 |
963,231 | In October 2009, Saab proposed to replace the Swedish Air Force's Sk 60 trainers with the Embraer Super Tucano. In March 2014, the Swedish Air Force publicly acknowledged that it was to begin studying replacement options for the Saab 105; Major General Micael Bydén observed that multinational training opportunities wer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=848274 | 962,722 |
87,400 | I was visiting my friend and generous benefactor, Prof. Edward C. Pickering. With characteristic kindness, he had volunteered to have the spectra observed for all the stars – including comparison stars – which had been observed in the observations for stellar parallax which Hinks and I made at Cambridge, and I discusse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33501 | 87,365 |
435,967 | Throughout 2020–2021, Katz wrote essays in "The Wall Street Journal", "The Spectator", "Quillette", and "National Review", among others, criticizing political correctness. His July 2020 essay in the online magazine "Quillette", which opposed faculty recommendations to address racist aspects of Princeton's history, also... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70831845 | 435,753 |
736,426 | The true breadth of ethical consequences that come from the colonization of Europa cannot be known until such a colony is fully established. The United Nations Outer Space Treaty, ratified in 1967, states that no country may take claim to space or celestial bodies like Europa. It is unclear exactly how ownership over E... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4356870 | 736,038 |
305,225 | By the late 1960s, the people of several Eastern bloc countries had become discontented with the human and economic costs of the Soviet system, the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic especially so. As a result of the growing discontent, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia began to fear a popular uprising. They initiated... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47246185 | 305,062 |
868,357 | As they approached the high cliffs of the coastline, heavy seas made immediate landing impossible. For more than 24 hours they were forced to stand clear, as the wind shifted to the north-west and quickly developed into "one of the worst hurricanes any of us had ever experienced". For much of this time they were in dan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1048994 | 867,897 |
591,727 | The long half-life of technetium-99 and its ability to form an anionic species make it (along with I) a major concern when considering long-term disposal of high-level radioactive waste. Many of the processes designed to remove fission products from medium-active process streams in reprocessing plants are designed to r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10977794 | 591,425 |
436,680 | In the western United States, much of what is seen as masonry is actually brick or stone veneer. Current construction rules dictate the amount of "tie–back" required, which consist of metal straps secured to vertical structural elements. These straps extend into mortar courses, securing the veneer to the primary struct... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=923301 | 436,466 |
908,503 | In 1983 Koerner retracted his earlier statement suggesting that transformational grammar was a 1960s fad that had spread across the U.S. at a time when the federal government had invested heavily in new linguistic departments. But he claims Chomsky's work is unoriginal when compared to other syntactic models of the tim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58439 | 908,025 |
692,888 | The first direct gravitational "N"-body simulations were carried out by Erik Holmberg at the Lund Observatory in 1941, determining the forces between stars in encountering galaxies via the mathematical equivalence between light propagation and gravitational interaction: putting light bulbs at the positions of the stars... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4917686 | 692,525 |
298,061 | On 30 June 2021 the Swiss Federal Council proposed the acquisition of 36 F-35As to Parliament at a cost of up to 6 billion Swiss francs (US$6.5 billion), citing the aircraft's cost- and combat-effectiveness. However, it was later confirmed that the costs were capped for a period of just 10 years. It has also been repor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28702755 | 297,901 |
965,254 | Women are often underrepresented in STEM fields when compared to their male counterparts. In the modern era prior to the 1960s, computing was widely seen as "women's work," since it was associated with the operation of tabulating machines and other mechanical office work. The accuracy of this association varied from pl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=386519 | 964,745 |
179,619 | In the United States, the US Public Health Service published "The International Classification of Diseases, Adapted for Indexing of Hospital Records and Operation Classification" (ICDA), completed in 1962 and expanding the ICD-7 in a number of areas to more completely meet the indexing needs of hospitals. The US Public... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15459 | 179,526 |
1,889 | The term "Solar System" entered the English language by 1704, when John Locke used it to refer to the Sun, planets, and comets. In 1705, Halley realised that repeated sightings of a comet were of the same object, returning regularly once every 75–76 years. This was the first evidence that anything other than the planet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26903 | 1,889 |
1,354,588 | Raised in Houston, she obtained her Bachelor of Arts in German and Humanities from the University of Texas in Austin in 1994. She was awarded a PhD in 2002 by Johns Hopkins University for "Near Eastern Studies". She was part of an archaeological team excavating at the artisans' village of Deir el Medina in Egypt, as we... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27920212 | 1,353,840 |
612,188 | Because of the usefulness of tuneable collimated coherent X-ray radiation, efforts have been made to make smaller more economical sources of the light produced by synchrotrons. The aim is to make such sources available within a research laboratory for cost and convenience reasons; at present, researchers have to travel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=379507 | 611,877 |
1,631,158 | Individuals initially diagnosed with LGFMS had been characterized as young adults (mean age: 33 years) or children >5 years old (13% to 19% of all cases), although a more recent study reported that individuals first diagnosed with the disease ranged in age between 6 and 67 years (mean age: 45.6 year). LGFMS generally p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33274493 | 1,630,237 |
892,643 | In addition to ARPA, various groups within the US government had been considering the formation of a civilian agency to handle space exploration. After the Sputnik launch, these efforts gained urgency and were quickly moved forward. NASA was formed on July 29, 1958, and immediately set about studying the problem of cre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=387135 | 892,174 |
1,163,883 | The gymnasium floor was built up above its surroundings, more in the nature of a stage. The areas out of bounds along the sidelines were very wide, in contrast with the small facility which it replaced, where the walls were right along the sidelines and players could scrape their shoulders bringing the ball up the cour... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=951825 | 1,163,266 |
479,967 | Rapid modernisation, and a focus on high technology, have allowed East Asia to register rapid economic growth. The region is home to some of the world's most affluent nations and sees high standards of living. Japan saw rapid re-modernisation in the aftermath of World War II and, during the 1950s and early 1960s, incre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16234875 | 479,726 |
1,755,431 | William Samuel Bialek (born 1960, in Los Angeles, California) is a theoretical biophysicist and a professor at Princeton University and The Graduate Center, CUNY. Much of his work, which has ranged over a wide variety of theoretical problems at the interface of physics and biology, centers around whether various functi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28355672 | 1,754,441 |
400,540 | Various shuttle concepts had been explored since the late 1960s. The program formally commenced in 1972, becoming the sole focus of NASA's human spaceflight operations after the Apollo, Skylab, and Apollo–Soyuz programs in 1975. The Shuttle was originally conceived of and presented to the public in 1972 as a 'Space Tru... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38458 | 400,341 |
1,043,258 | As of January 2013, the proof of concept and pre-project trials were completed. The first experimental launch without the main turbojet engine of the Abhyas was held at the Chitradurga Aeronautical Test Range on 23 June 2012 to check the launch and configuration capability. The gas turbine engine has been identified an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38572085 | 1,042,714 |
781,989 | In 1943 Arturo Rosenblueth, Norbert Wiener and Julian Bigelow adopted the human central nervous system as control paradigm for automatic weapons systems. In doing so they pioneered cybernetics (Greek for "steersman") and modelled data processing on the assumption that an animal continually communicates its sensorial ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13946920 | 781,570 |
1,056,205 | In the 1990s a new class of meshfree methods emerged based on the Galerkin method. This first method called the diffuse element method (DEM), pioneered by Nayroles et al., utilized the MLS approximation in the Galerkin solution of partial differential equations, with approximate derivatives of the MLS function. Thereaf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6243282 | 1,055,657 |
1,643,025 | Meijer's discovery of ureidopyrimidinone-based supramolecular polymers is a landmark in supramolecular chemistry. He designed a simple quadruple hydrogen-bonded building block that is self-complementary and exhibits a very large association constant. Bringing two of these units together with a spacer resulted in a supr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24635472 | 1,642,098 |
1,597,080 | Rodney Thornton Jackson (born 1954) is a New Zealand medically-trained epidemiologist who has had lead roles in publicly-funded research focussing on systems to effectively identify risk factors in the epidemiology of chronic diseases, in particular cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). This involved linking large cohort stu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69753744 | 1,596,181 |
1,250,937 | Alekhine won Game 7 in 40 moves. Play followed Game 5 until Alekhine deviated with 7.g4, a riskier option which signalled his intention to take the game into sharper territory than seen in the earlier game. Alekhine continued to play aggressively with 11.g5 and 14.Nf6!, based on 14...gxf6?! 15.gxf6 Bxf6?? 16.Be4, matin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18398938 | 1,250,259 |
565,350 | Oligonucleotides are chemically synthesized using building blocks called nucleoside phosphoramidites. These can be normal or modified nucleosides which have protecting groups to prevent their amines, hydroxyl groups and phosphate groups from interacting incorrectly. One phosphoramidite is added at a time, the 5' hydrox... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11913227 | 565,060 |
573,493 | In June 2015, it was reported that Kuwait was in talks with the Italian Air Force and Alenia Aermacchi about the potential purchase of up to 28 Eurofighter Typhoons for two squadrons. On 11 September 2015, Eurofighter confirmed that an agreement had been reached to supply Kuwait with 28 aircraft. On 1 March 2016, the K... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59468861 | 573,199 |
1,744,738 | After the liberation of Czechoslovakia in 1945, VSB in Příbram resumed its activities in May, but based on the decree of the President of the Republic Edvard Beneš of 8 September 1945, it was transferred from Příbram to Ostrava. The teaching of the winter semester of the academic year 1945/1946 started in Ostrava in No... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2819502 | 1,743,754 |
307,773 | WANs allow companies to extend their computer networks over large distances, connecting remote branch offices to data centers and to each other, and delivering applications and services required to perform business functions. Due to the physical constraints imposed by the propagation time over large distances, and the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50957870 | 307,608 |
763,106 | Construction of fortified camps. Legions on a campaign typically established a strong field camp, complete with palisade and a deep ditch, providing a basis for supply storage, troop marshalling, and defense. Camps were recreated each time the army moved and were constructed with a view to both military necessity and r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30855309 | 762,697 |
478,267 | Reviewing the Amiga version for "Amiga Power", Jonathan Davies described how review copies had only been released to the press a few days before the game went on sale, and concluded by stating that "it's probably because the graphics are [so] good that the game plays so poorly—every move the robots make takes so many f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=224662 | 478,027 |
554,428 | The heading indicator works using a gyroscope, tied by an erection mechanism to the aircraft yawing plane, i. e. the plane defined by the longitudinal and the horizontal axis of the aircraft. As such, any configuration of the aircraft yawing plane that does not match the local Earth horizontal results in an indication ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=315963 | 554,139 |
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