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733,991 | The 19th century scholars saw these sources as independent documents which had been carefully edited together, and for most of the 20th century this was the accepted consensus. But in 1973 the American biblical scholar Frank Moore Cross published an influential work called "Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic", in which he ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1365728 | 733,604 |
354,694 | In 2003, Webber began the ten-day adventure challenge trek Mark Webber Challenge featuring cross-country running, cycling and kayaking in Tasmania to raise money for children's cancer charities. He organised it following his grandfather's death from cancer as well as his experiences of friends whose children had cancer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=564161 | 354,511 |
1,399,352 | When he moved to Chicago, he began a long series of experiments on particle production at high transverse momentum. With physicist Pierre Piroue and colleagues we learned about many things. These are summarized in Physical Review D, vol 19, page 764 (1977). Following these experiments Cronin took a sabbatical at CERN i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=396732 | 1,398,577 |
1,876,976 | He has produced DVD courses for The Teaching Company in the Great Courses Series on calculus, statistics, probability, geometry, and the joy of thinking, which have reached hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. Since 2000, he has given over 200 invited lectures and presented more than 35 workshops on effective tea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10592650 | 1,875,898 |
126,843 | As derived below, the electron density within the crystal and the diffraction patterns are related by a simple mathematical method, the Fourier transform, which allows the density to be calculated relatively easily from the patterns. However, this works only if the scattering is "weak", i.e., if the scattered beams are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34151 | 126,791 |
76,600 | Externally, "Columbia" was the first orbiter in the fleet whose surface was mostly covered with High & Low Temperature Reusable Surface Insulation (HRSI/LRSI) tiles as its main thermal protection system (TPS), with white silicone rubber-painted Nomex – known as Felt Reusable Surface Insulation (FRSI) blankets – in some... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28237 | 76,571 |
742,316 | Although various minimum bandwidths have been used in definitions of Broadband Internet access, ranging up from 64 kbit/s up to 1.0 Mbit/s, the 2006 OECD report is typical by defining broadband as having download data transfer rates equal to or faster than 256 kbit/s, while the United States FCC, as of 2008, defines br... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15231 | 741,924 |
1,487,942 | While the origins of tumbling are unknown, ancient records have shown acts of tumbling in many parts of the world including China, India, Japan, Egypt and Iran. Tumbling became part of the educational system of ancient Greece, from which early Romans borrowed the exercise for use in military training. During the Middle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11922709 | 1,487,103 |
2,098,929 | High-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) is used to obtain the HRTEM images (FEI Tecnai G2 F20 S-Twin working at 200 kV) and double beam UV-visible spectrophotometer is used for the extinction, or removal, of the NPs gold spectra. A combination of scanning electron microscope and an energy dispersive X-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45714927 | 2,097,721 |
1,666,429 | Consistent with what has been seen with other animals, the behaviour of goats has altered since domestication in response to accelerated evolution from thousands of years of interacting with humans and selective breeding. Research performed by the Queen Mary University has determined the various ways in which goats hav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60746925 | 1,665,490 |
461,504 | Magnetic disks are the predominant storage media in personal computers. Optical discs, however, are almost exclusively used in the large-scale distribution of retail software, music and movies because of the cost and manufacturing efficiency of the molding process used to produce DVD and compact discs and the nearly-un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=455719 | 461,277 |
939,638 | The recent liberalization of the electricity market in many countries has made the economics of nuclear power generation less enticing, and no new nuclear power plants have been built in a liberalized electricity market. Previously, a monopolistic provider could guarantee output requirements decades into the future. Pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10838742 | 939,137 |
799,763 | A visually striking effect is seen every March and September as an unusual shadow occurs around the equinoxes. Light and shadow phenomena have been proposed to explain a possible architectural hierophany involving the sun at Chichén Itzá in a Maya Toltec structure dating to about 1000 CE. A shadow appears to descend th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2864 | 799,337 |
1,136,465 | While this was the earliest genus of mesonychid to be named (by Edward Drinker Cope in 1872) and the group is named after it, "Mesonyx" was one of the most derived genera of mesonychids, evolving features for active running. These animals had a reduced sense of smell and likely relied on sight and hearing to find food.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5225881 | 1,135,872 |
422,004 | The democratic peace theory is one of the great controversies in political science and one of the main challenges to realism in international relations. More than a hundred different researchers have published multiple articles in this field according to an incomplete bibliography until 2000, and from 2000 to August 20... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=356324 | 421,798 |
1,053,883 | Anatoxin-a, also known as Very Fast Death Factor (VFDF), is a secondary, bicyclic amine alkaloid and cyanotoxin with acute neurotoxicity. It was first discovered in the early 1960s in Canada, and was isolated in 1972. The toxin is produced by multiple genera of cyanobacteria and has been reported in North America, Sout... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10795030 | 1,053,336 |
1,744,210 | When the initial results were released, and found to support the existing consensus, the study was widely decried by deniers. Watts spoke to "The New York Times", which wrote: "Mr. Watts ... contended that the study's methodology was flawed because it examined data over a 60-year period instead of the 30-year-one that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31299401 | 1,743,226 |
360,609 | Understanding of others' intentions is another critical precursor to understanding other minds because intentionality, or "aboutness", is a fundamental feature of mental states and events. The "intentional stance" was defined by Daniel Dennett as an understanding that others' actions are goal-directed and arise from pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=488083 | 360,421 |
1,971,648 | Many annelids possess the capability to regenerate their anterior, posterior, or both ends of their body. "C. teleta" is capable of posterior regeneration. Both juveniles and adults can regenerate their posterior halves quite well. A staging system has been established, describing the sequential regeneration events in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30545094 | 1,970,514 |
19,659 | Psilocybin is metabolized mostly in the liver. As it becomes converted to psilocin, it undergoes a first-pass effect, whereby its concentration is greatly reduced before it reaches the systemic circulation. Psilocin is broken down by the enzyme monoamine oxidase to produce several metabolites that can circulate in the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38468 | 19,651 |
9,167 | Go's approach to concurrency can be summarized as "don't communicate by sharing memory; share memory by communicating". There are no restrictions on how go-routines access shared data, making race conditions possible. Specifically, unless a program explicitly synchronizes via channels or other means, writes from one go... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25039021 | 9,163 |
576,944 | More specifically, several "Paenibacillus "species serve as efficient plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR), which competitively colonize plant roots and can simultaneously act as biofertilizers and as antagonists (biopesticides) of recognized root pathogens, such as bacteria, fungi, and nematodes. They enhance p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2154701 | 576,648 |
1,558,758 | Photoechoes show an ultra-wide frequency profile, which is determined by the pulse width of the illuminating pulse and the size of the object. Ultimately, though, the frequencies that can be collected and processed for image reconstruction are determined by the ultrasound detector. Macroscopic MSOT typically uses detec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37749401 | 1,557,873 |
853,685 | In 2004, a number of concerned plant enthusiasts founded the North American Sarracenia Conservancy (NASC), which aims to "serve as a living record of the taxonomic, morphological and genetic diversity of the genus Sarracenia for purposes of conservation and cultivation." The NASC is a grassroots Nebraska nonprofit orga... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=871268 | 853,230 |
1,886,877 | Projects related to research in space are an important topic area to investigate the potential for the hygienic properties of surface texturing by DLIP. The impact of biofilms is greater in space than on Earth because, on the one hand, crew life and mission success depend on the nominal operation of mechanical systems,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66774578 | 1,885,795 |
1,041,853 | With the Suns' Summer League team in 2016, Williams was the only player to average a double-double throughout the event, averaging 11.8 points and a league-leading 11.2 rebounds over six games, which earned him All-NBA Summer League First Team honors. On September 1, 2016, his contract for the 2016–17 season was fully ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42171768 | 1,041,310 |
1,098,067 | Tests of the system were carried out using Ferranti Test Flight's existing DC-3 Dakota and, starting over the winter of 1961/62, an English Electric Canberra. The test aircraft carried cameras looking in various directions, including some looking at the aircraft instruments and radar displays. This allowed the system t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2220931 | 1,097,507 |
1,762,629 | Cryo-EM is a newer, less perturbative version of transmission electron microscopy (TEM). It is less perturbative because the sample is not dried onto a surface, this drying process is often done in negative-stain TEM, and because Cryo-EM does not require contrast agent like heavy metal salts (e.g. uranyl acetate or pho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22217265 | 1,761,636 |
1,142,850 | bind to the sulfur residues in the KEAP1 component of the KEAP1-NFE2L2 protein complex in the cytosol of cells. This negates KEAP1's ability to bind NFE2L2; in consequence, NFE2L2 becomes free to translocate to the nuclease and stimulate the transcription of genes that encode proteins active in detoxifying reactive oxy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50704695 | 1,142,253 |
293,462 | All cavity magnetrons consist of a heated cylindrical cathode at a high (continuous or pulsed) negative potential created by a high-voltage, direct-current power supply. The cathode is placed in the center of an evacuated, lobed, circular metal chamber. The walls of the chamber are the anode of the tube. A magnetic fie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20861 | 293,304 |
1,087,391 | The research on dnaA(Ts) mutants provided the first proof that the dnaA gene is autoregulated. DnaA protein is still produced at non-permissive temperatures where it is inactive, but in some mutants it can be made active again by returning to a temperature that is conducive to development. This reversible initiation ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=505457 | 1,086,832 |
2,109,613 | It was developed by Dr. Mark O'Neill during the mid-1990s. Development was supported by funding from the Darwin Initiative in 1997 and BBSRC. The intellectual property rights were acquired by O'Neill's company, Tumbling Dice Ltd, in February 2000 at the end of the grant funded Darwin Project. The system underwent furth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30114967 | 2,108,399 |
101,101 | Around 2011, Digital Extremes were finding themselves struggling for work-for-hire contracts. While the studio had been forced to issue some layoffs, they were still at about 250 people at this time. Looking again to develop their own IP and to try to take advantage of the growth in free-to-play games, Digital Extremes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38333096 | 101,056 |
2,077,028 | Minimally Disruptive Medicine is an approach to patient care in chronic illness proposed by Carl R May, Victor Montori, and Frances Mair. In a 2009 article in the British Medical Journal they argued that the burden of illness (the pathophysiological and psychosocial impact of disease on the sufferer) has its counterpar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23966099 | 2,075,829 |
195,783 | Throughout UCR's history, researchers have developed more than 40 new citrus varieties and invented new techniques to help the $960 million-a-year California citrus industry fight pests and diseases. In 1927, entomologists at the CES introduced two wasps from Australia as natural enemies of a major citrus pest, the cit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=230311 | 195,683 |
1,025,130 | The Instituto Aerotécnico later became Argentina's military aeroplane factory, the Fábrica Militar de Aviones. While there, Tank designed the IAe Pulqui II based on the Focke-Wulf Ta 183 design that had reached mock-up stage by the end of World War II. It was a state-of-the-art design for its day, but the project was c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=241414 | 1,024,597 |
869,488 | The isolation and detection of exosomes has proven to be complicated. Due to the complexity of body fluids, physical separation of exosomes from cells and similar-sized particles is challenging. Isolation of exosomes using differential ultracentrifugation results in co-isolation of protein and other contaminants and in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9577488 | 869,028 |
1,586,827 | A second difficulty has emerged much more recently : The actual passages from the Rigveda cited in Edgerton's two large articles in 1934 and 1943 as examples of the effects of his theory in action seriously misrepresent the facts in all but a handful of cases. No more than three Rigvedic passages cited in the 1934 arti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5500144 | 1,585,933 |
142,437 | In 1950, Alan Turing proposed a "learning machine" which would parallel the principles of evolution. Computer simulation of evolution started as early as in 1954 with the work of Nils Aall Barricelli, who was using the computer at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. His 1954 publication was not w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40254 | 142,379 |
1,643,927 | In February 2014, the CSA released a report detailing the results of an audit of the NEOSSat program, commissioned by CSA and conducted by external companies. This audit, carried out as "a requirement of the CSA five-year evaluation plan", covers only the period beginning with the signing of the CSA's NEOSSat contracts... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17231430 | 1,643,000 |
533,804 | Because of its high information transmission ability, people are more and more interested in its application in the field of quantum information. Structured light can carry orbital angular momentum, which must be stored in the memory to faithfully reproduce the stored structural photons. An atomic vapor quantum memory ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60448457 | 533,525 |
2,053,231 | "M. burtonii" are thermally regulated, thus highlighting the role that energy generation and biosynthesis pathways play in cold adaptation. proteomic research shows that cellular levels of subunit E are higher during growth at low temperatures. This could possibly indicate that Subunit E is fulfilling a specific role i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40235000 | 2,052,049 |
2,024,675 | In numerical analysis, the balancing domain decomposition method (BDD) is an iterative method to find the solution of a symmetric positive definite system of linear algebraic equations arising from the finite element method. In each iteration, it combines the solution of local problems on non-overlapping subdomains wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16252572 | 2,023,511 |
1,251,883 | In 1913, the Carnegie Institution published a report on New Mexico's Carboniferous and Permian life. In 1928, three boys discovered a completely articulated partial mummy of the ground sloth "Nothrotherium shasetnse" 100 feet below the surface of Aden Crater southwest of Las Cruces. In 1936 R. V. Witter and his wife we... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37799149 | 1,251,205 |
1,263,118 | Resuscitative equipment, monitoring and personnel must be immediately available prior to performance of this block. The retrobulbar block is performed with the patient either seated or supine and looking straight ahead. The head should be maintained in a neutral position. A needle (22–27 Gauge, 3 cm long) is inserted a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6194486 | 1,262,430 |
80,354 | By the time Washington state entered the Union in 1889, both Seattle and the university had grown substantially. Washington's total undergraduate enrollment increased from 30 to nearly 300 students, and the campus's relative isolation in downtown Seattle faced encroaching development. A special legislative committee, h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31776 | 80,321 |
1,581,030 | In 2011, Vladimir Alifanov and Sergey Savelyev described the natural braincase cast of "Ceratonykus". The authors noted that the brain anatomy is a linear structure, with no bends in the parasagittal plane at the boundaries between the mesencephalon and myelencephalon, a feature that is not seen in crocodiles, birds an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21110496 | 1,580,140 |
2,131,545 | Auguste was appointed to the faculty at Harvard University in 2006, becoming an Assistant Professor of Bioengineering in the Harvard School of Engineering Applied Sciences. As the principal investigator of the Auguste Lab, Auguste's research program focused on developing novel biomaterials for drug delivery systems thr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64384126 | 2,130,320 |
1,780,891 | Computer science started as a subsection of the Chemistry Department of UMass Amherst in 1961. Later, it was formally developed into the Research Computing Center (RCC). In 1965, the University began accepting graduate students for its M.S. program in Computer Science. Two years later, in 1967, Conrad Wogrin of Yale Un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48521355 | 1,779,887 |
809,279 | In Faiyum, Amenemhat built a huge temple dedicated to Sobek at Kiman Faras. He dedicated a chapel to Renenutet at Medinet Madi. This small temple with three chapels is the best preserved of his temple works. It was built toward the end of his reign and completed by his successor, Amenemhat IV. In Biahmu, he built a mas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=211710 | 808,849 |
1,255,679 | Book IV is primarily on the topic of biological inheritance. Aristotle is concerned with both the similarities between the offspring and parents and the differences that can arise within a particular species as a result of the generative process. Chapters 1 is an account of the origin of the sexes. Aristotle considers ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1692706 | 1,254,996 |
315,275 | Viruses can be present in humans due to direct infection or co-infections which makes diagnosis difficult using classical techniques and can result in an incorrect prognosis and treatment. The use of qPCR allows both the quantification and genotyping (characterization of the strain, carried out using melting curves) of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3487107 | 315,106 |
2,198,932 | With the development of micro-electronics and related disciplines the power requirement for electronic devices has drastically reduced. MFCs can run low-power sensors that collect data from remote areas. Anaerobic bacteria that naturally grow in the sediment produce the small current that can be used to charge a capaci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71759039 | 2,197,680 |
18,185 | Crichton had always planned on becoming a writer and began his studies at Harvard College in 1960. During his undergraduate study in literature, he conducted an experiment to expose a professor who he believed was giving him abnormally low marks and criticizing his literary style. Informing another professor of his sus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20762 | 18,179 |
1,320,045 | Out of this arose the mosquito-malaria theory, which suggested that the agent that causes malaria was also spread by a mosquito. In the British Medical Journal in 1894 he published 'On the Nature and Significance of The Crescentic and Flagellated bodies in Malarial Blood'. In this article he states, ""the mosquito, hav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2995870 | 1,319,319 |
1,701,629 | 20-Hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid (20-HETE), a product of arachidonic acid formed by Cytochrome P450 omega hydroxylases, and certain isoprostanes, which form by non-enzymatic free radical attack on arachidonic acid, constrict rodent and human artery preparations by directly activating TP. While significantly less potent ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6519036 | 1,700,674 |
1,781,464 | Flying Division is responsible for integrating air power expertise with test, evaluation, tactical-development and operational-employment activities, in order to deliver capability in support of current operations, while developing capabilities to meet requirements of the future. To achieve this, it conducts flight and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17479947 | 1,780,460 |
326,336 | The first-generation 4A-GE is nicknamed the "bigport" engine because it had intake ports of a very large cross-sectional area. While the port cross-section was suitable for a very highly modified engine at very high engine speeds, it caused a considerable drop in low-end torque due to the decreased air speeds at those ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=903321 | 326,162 |
246,506 | With funding from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, in 2012, Taubes co-founded the Nutrition Science Initiative (NuSI), with the aim of raising over $200 million to undertake a "Manhattan Project For Nutrition" and validate the hypothesis. Intermediate results, published in the "American Journal of Clinical Nutriti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=459560 | 246,379 |
1,756,067 | TN-X is constitutively expressed in adult tissues such as skin, ligaments, tendons, lungs, kidneys, optic nerves, mammary and adrenal glands, blood vessels, testis, and ovaries. It is also found in different compartments of the digestive tract, including pancreas, stomach, jejunum, ileum, and colon. In this wide variet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11577225 | 1,755,076 |
1,147,390 | On the third day of the mission, the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) was deployed from Discovery's payload bay above Earth to study human effects on the planet's atmosphere and its shielding ozone layer. The UARS mission objectives were to provide an increased understanding of the energy input into the upper... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=499421 | 1,146,785 |
1,847,229 | The "Annual Review of Biochemistry" was the creation of Stanford University chemist and professor J. Murray Luck. In 1930, Luck offered a course on current research in biochemistry to graduate students. In designing the course, he said he felt "knee-deep in trouble", as he believed he was sufficiently knowledgeable in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16094935 | 1,846,172 |
2,148,610 | A pioneering book on environmental psychology was published in 1976 by Gerhard Kaminski. Roger G. Barker published an important collection on the behavior-setting approach in 1986, which was edited by Kaminski. The handbook ' ["Ecological Psychology"] published by Lenelis Kruse-Graumann, Carl-Friedrich Graumann and Ern... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39119819 | 2,147,379 |
2,119,072 | Ashwani Kumar is a principal scientist at the Institute of Microbial Technology (ImTech) where he heads a laboratory, popularly known as "Ashwani Kumar's Lab". and serves as a principal investigator. He is known to have done extensive research on Mycobacterium tuberculosis and has served as a member of MDRIpred project... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59662324 | 2,117,854 |
1,746,929 | In 1973 the APA removed homosexuality from its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual yet it kept "ego dystonic" homosexuality as a condition until the DSM III-R (1987). In 1974 Ole Ivar Lovaas, pioneer of the use of discrete trial teaching (DTT) to treat autism, was the second author on a journal article describing the use... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14941587 | 1,745,943 |
1,484,364 | Neurogenesis in the hippocampus usually decreases after exposure to radiation and usually leads to a cognitive decline in patients undergoing radiation therapy. As discussed above, the decrease in neurogenesis is heavily influenced by changes in the microenvironment of the hippocampus upon exposure to radiation. Specif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14470857 | 1,483,527 |
1,156,482 | Galectins are a class of proteins that bind specifically to β-galactoside sugars, such as "N"-acetyllactosamine (Galβ1-3GlcNAc or Galβ1-4GlcNAc), which can be bound to proteins by either N-linked or O-linked glycosylation. They are also termed S-type lectins due to their dependency on disulphide bonds for stability and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9691122 | 1,155,872 |
84,847 | The J-7 only reached its Soviet-designed capabilities in the mid 1980s. Being relatively affordable, it was widely exported as the F-7, often with Western systems incorporated, such as to Pakistan. There are over 20 different export variants of the J-7, some of which are equipped to use European weaponry, such as Frenc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=377543 | 84,813 |
1,301,875 | It is traditional for an emergency physician to serve as the TMP for a law enforcement/military unit, though there have historically been other specialties which have filled the role such as family medicine practitioners and surgeons. However, additional training is generally required for specialties other than emergen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42748863 | 1,301,161 |
2,120,097 | Efforts to engineer plant cell wall formation for enhanced biofuel production commonly target lignin biosynthesis in order to reduce lignin content and thereby improve yields of ethanol from cellulose, a complex polysaccharide important for cell wall structure. Lignin is troublesome for biofuel production because it is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14132613 | 2,118,878 |
710,387 | Project Ara was developed and was led by Paul Eremenko, who in 2015 became CEO of the Airbus Group Silicon Valley technology and business innovation center. The project fell under Regina Dugan, who runs Google's Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) organization. Both Eremenko and Dugan worked previously at DARPA, wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40924236 | 710,016 |
2,021,055 | Beyond the conventional leg band, field researchers use several other marking and data collection and analysis tools, among them colored bands visible in the field, radio and satellite transmitters, blood and feather samples, and advanced statistical modeling techniques. While studies of bird migrations are still impor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35915633 | 2,019,892 |
1,559,190 | The fourth and final point at the first Conservation Psychology convention was the discussion of the values people have to their environment. Understanding our relationship to the natural world well enough so that we have a language to celebrate and defend that relationship is another research area for conservation psy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14768005 | 1,558,304 |
242,911 | In some approaches alternative elements of expression can take place, such as active imagination, sandplay, drawing or painting, even music. The session may at times become semi-directed (in contrast to psychoanalytic treatment which is essentially a non-directive encounter). The patient is at the heart of the therapy,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=448370 | 242,784 |
2,007,188 | HAM is part of the family of analog, correlation-based, associative, stimulus-response memories, where information is mapped onto the phase orientation of complex numbers operating. It can be considered as a complex valued artificial neural network. The holographic associative memory exhibits some remarkable characteri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5176484 | 2,006,037 |
872,250 | In the 1920s, food fortification emerged as a strategy in the United States to address and prevent the lack of micronutrients in the population's diet. Specifically, it was discovered in the 1930s and 1940s, that micronutrient deficiency is often linked to specific diseases and syndromes. Consequently, The Committee o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4597367 | 871,790 |
503,852 | Polymers exhibiting a shape-memory effect have both a visible, current (temporary) form and a stored (permanent) form. Once the latter has been manufactured by conventional methods, the material is changed into another, temporary form by processing through heating, deformation, and finally, cooling. The polymer maintai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9111849 | 503,593 |
112,402 | Physically and functionally, the auditory system of an absolute listener evidently does not differ from that of a non-absolute listener. Rather, "it reflects a particular ability to analyze frequency information, presumably involving high-level cortical processing." Absolute pitch is an act of cognition, needing memory... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41879 | 112,357 |
305,118 | The basis for modern socialism primarily originates with the Age of Enlightenment and the accompanying rise of liberalism and the Industrial Revolution. The French philosophes such as Montesquieu, Voltaire, and Rousseau and other European intellectuals such as Adam Smith and Immanuel Kant criticized the traditional pur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47246185 | 304,956 |
891,630 | Engineer (a national level technical symposium) takes place typically around the last week of October and Incident (a cultural festival) is organized since 1980 during the last week of February. Over the years, the scale of these events has gradually expanded with students visiting from all over the country. Online tec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1090003 | 891,161 |
598,427 | The rise of mobile computing and high capacity mobile broadband networks in the 2010s, coupled with increasing reliance on web applications for everyday computing tasks, strained the existing location-addressed client–server model commonplace among Internet services, leading to an accelerated pace of link rot and an in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4062863 | 598,122 |
8,466 | Columbia University athletics has a long history, with many accomplishments in athletic fields. In 1870, Columbia played against Rutgers University in the second intercollegiate rugby football game in the history of the sport. Eight years later, Columbia crew won the famed Henley Royal Regatta in the first-ever defeat ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6310 | 8,463 |
632,875 | The controlled combustion engines, designed by Bradley Howell-Smith of Australian firm Revetec Holdings Pty Ltd, use opposed pairs of pistons to drive a pair of counter-rotating, three-lobed cams through bearings. These elements replace the conventional crankshaft and connecting rods, which enable the motion of the pis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7856656 | 632,537 |
313,870 | As early as 1912, designers at the British firm Vickers were experimenting with machine gun carrying aircraft. The first concrete result was the Vickers Experimental Fighting Biplane 1, which featured at the 1913 Aero Show in London. and appeared in developed form as the FB.5 in February 1915. This pioneering fighter, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=768600 | 313,701 |
762,756 | Futurists use scenarios—alternative possible futures—as an important tool. To some extent, people can determine what they consider probable or desirable using qualitative and quantitative methods. By looking at a variety of possibilities one comes closer to shaping the future, rather than merely predicting it. Shaping ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1508301 | 762,348 |
117,361 | In early 2008, Northrop Grumman paired up television documentary producer Michael Jorgensen and the National Geographic Channel to produce a documentary to determine whether the Ho 229 was the world's first true "stealth" fighter-bomber. Northrop Grumman built a full-size non-flying reproduction of the V3, made out of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=176778 | 117,316 |
1,672,152 | In the early 20th century, physicians began to use the tracheotomy in the treatment of patients affected by paralytic poliomyelitis who required mechanical ventilation. The currently used surgical tracheotomy technique was described in 1909 by Chevalier Jackson (1865–1958), a professor of laryngology at Jefferson Medic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28862297 | 1,671,211 |
1,611,571 | The company used a $4 million grant obtained from the United States Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program in December 2009 to fund research over an 18-month period. Grants from ARPA-E are designed to provide money to relatively small projects offering the potential for high-pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29261326 | 1,610,666 |
912,368 | Whereas technical problems, such as harvesting, are being addressed successfully by the industry, the high up-front investment of algae-to-biofuels facilities is seen by many as a major obstacle to the success of this technology. Only few studies on the economic viability are publicly available, and must often rely on ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14205946 | 911,889 |
2,187,475 | Following the merger of the Meteorology Department's research site and the weather station in 1987, the site has been used since the 1990s for both research and teaching. In the early 1990s, a recording system based on Campbell data loggers was implemented for air temperature and surface fluxes. A display was provided ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18112383 | 2,186,227 |
693,651 | Over several decades, Wharton lobbied successfully in Washington, D.C. for tariff laws protecting U.S. manufacturing. He was a defender of large business and evolved into a staunch Republican. He successfully lobbied for the use of nickel in the U.S. coinage, but his lobbying for nickel tariffs was only partially succe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=383305 | 693,288 |
30,235 | Symptoms of malaria can recur after varying symptom-free periods. Depending upon the cause, recurrence can be classified as recrudescence, relapse, or reinfection. Recrudescence is when symptoms return after a symptom-free period and the origin is parasites that survived in the blood as a result of inadequate or ineffe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20423 | 30,225 |
138,140 | The Arthashastra (, ) is an Ancient Indian Sanskrit treatise on statecraft, political science, economic policy and military strategy. Kautilya, also identified as Vishnugupta and Chanakya, is traditionally credited as the author of the text. The latter was a scholar at Takshashila, the teacher and guardian of Emperor C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=613818 | 138,084 |
534,433 | According to Bloor Research, RapidMiner provides 99% of an advanced analytical solution through template-based frameworks that speed delivery and reduce errors by nearly eliminating the need to write code. RapidMiner provides data mining and machine learning procedures including: data loading and transformation (ETL), ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5100865 | 534,154 |
1,645,329 | Thermosynthesis is a theoretical mechanism proposed by Anthonie Muller for biological use of the free energy in a temperature gradient to drive energetically uphill anabolic reactions. It makes use of this thermal gradient, or the dissipative structure of convection in this gradient, to drive a microscopic heat engine ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8047527 | 1,644,401 |
119,356 | Further advances in computing led to greater advancements in interactive computer graphics. In 1959, the TX-2 computer was developed at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory. The TX-2 integrated a number of new man-machine interfaces. A light pen could be used to draw sketches on the computer using Ivan Sutherland's revolutionary S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18567210 | 119,307 |
337,738 | His first aerodynamic experiments, investigating the air resistance of surfaces, were carried out by dropping the surface to be investigated together with a measuring apparatus down a vertical cable stretched between the second level of the Eiffel Tower and the ground. Using this Eiffel definitely established that the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12232 | 337,559 |
1,883,157 | Like the desert horizons I saw daily while it was being written, the First Quartet presents a continuous unfolding and changing of expressive characters—one woven into the other or emerging from it—on a large scale. The general plan was suggested by Jean Cocteau's film "Le Sang d'un poète", in which the entire dreamlik... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16130990 | 1,882,076 |
1,600,319 | The 4/10 processor was based on a pair of custom LSI integrated circuits, the DATA chip and the CONTROL chip. The custom chips were fabricated by Western Digital and another California-based company was a second source. The microcode for controlling these chips was stored in four 8-bit wide bipolar PROMs. In 1978, the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33759724 | 1,599,418 |
1,495,795 | These developments in cognitive studies of resistance to conceptual change, cognitive developmental psychology and science education occurred against a background of (and were influenced by) developments within the history and philosophy of science. Arguably, most important was the novel approach to how scientific conc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28037332 | 1,494,953 |
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