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1,803,717 | The concerto was initially the result of a commission from Oscar Levant. Despite paying at least $200 for the work, Levant found out that Schoenberg was demanding $1500. Levant stated he could not pay that fee, and although the two continued to exchange telegrams, in October 1942, Schoenberg rejected Levant's final off... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1297235 | 1,802,703 |
1,657,766 | Another chemical modification is the attachment of glycosyl (carbohydrate) units to the peptide to help with peptide delivery to target sights. The introduction of carbohydrates to peptides can alter the physiological properties, to improve bioavailability. Advantages of this technique include increased metabolic stabi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67051842 | 1,656,833 |
1,935,795 | The Sachrang Formation or "Posidonienschiefer" Formation (Whose Vulgar name is "Posidonia Shale") is a geological formation of southwestern Germany, northern Switzerland, northwestern Austria, southeast Luxembourg and the Netherlands, that spans about 3 million years during the Early Jurassic period (early Toarcian sta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62853123 | 1,934,687 |
1,087,577 | High-reflection (HR) coatings work the opposite way to antireflection coatings. The general idea is usually based on the periodic layer system composed from two materials, one with a high index, such as zinc sulfide ("n"=2.32) or titanium dioxide ("n"=2.4), and one with a low index, such as magnesium fluoride ("n"=1.38... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=584887 | 1,087,018 |
1,304,454 | Cosmetic neuro-pharmacology, the use of drugs to improve cognition in normal healthy individuals, is highly controversial. Some case reports with the antidepressant Prozac indicated that patients seemed "better than well", and authors hypothesized that this effect might be observed in individuals not afflicted with psy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=703002 | 1,303,738 |
1,024,584 | Domain specific GRC vendors understand the cyclical connection between governance, risk and compliance within a particular area of governance. For example, within financial processing — that a risk will either relate to the absence of a control (need to update governance) and/or the lack of adherence to (or poor qualit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6987871 | 1,024,051 |
542,901 | The "Animal Locomotion" project was a collaborative endeavor between the photographer and the institutional commissioning committee at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1883, Muybridge met with William Pepper and J.B. Lippincott to discuss a plan for a scientific study focused on the analysis of animal and human movem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70173577 | 542,621 |
85,871 | The young Stravinsky was sympathetic to bourgeois liberalism and the aims of the Constitutional Democratic Party, even composing an anthem for the Russian Provisional Government, before shifting heavily towards the right following the October Revolution. In 1930, he remarked, "I don't believe that anyone venerates Muss... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38172 | 85,837 |
2,050,354 | Alan Neville Little was born on 12 July 1934, the son of Charles Henry Little and Lilian Little. In 1955, he married Dr Valerie Hopkinson; they had three children. Little attended Northgate Grammar School in Ipswich, before studying at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), receiving a Bachelor of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56468746 | 2,049,173 |
51,960 | The second big redesign during 1939–40 gave birth to the F series. The "Friedrich" had new wings, cooling system and fuselage aerodynamics, with the DB 601N (F-1, F-2) or the DB 601E (F-3, F-4). Considered by many as the high-water mark of Bf 109 development, the F series abandoned the wing cannon and concentrated all ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=186739 | 51,940 |
1,623,617 | Robin Fåhræus was a pathologist at the University of Uppsala in Sweden, and his interest in the suspension stability of blood and later in hemorheology was motivated by the desire to understand the clinical effects of abnormalities in the aggregation and flow behavior of the formed elements. The aim was to ascertain wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31579327 | 1,622,701 |
976,806 | Four members of the class saw action during the 1982 Falklands War, three Batch Two conversions, HMS "Argonaut", HMS "Minerva" and HMS "Penelope" "Argonaut" experienced 15 air attacks in San Carlos Sound and was hit by a number of bombs and cannon fire; it was stranded for six days, with two bombs lodged in the forward... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=545031 | 976,295 |
1,226,942 | Green and Swets formulated the Signal Detection Theory, or SDT, in 1966 to characterize detection task performance sensitivity while accounting for both the observer's perceptual ability and willingness to respond. SDT assumes an active observer making perceptual judgments as conditions of uncertainty vary. A decision ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27120661 | 1,226,281 |
391,733 | In 1999, the USAF identified a need for a helicopter with improved range, speed, and cabin space. An options analysis was completed in 2002 and funding for 141 aircraft under the "personnel recovery vehicle" program began in 2004. In 2005, it was renamed "CSAR-X", meaning combat search and rescue. Sikorsky entered the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38861 | 391,538 |
896,262 | In 1903, Littlewood entered the University of Cambridge, studying in Trinity College. He spent his first two years preparing for the Tripos examinations which qualify undergraduates for a bachelor's degree where he emerged in 1905 as Senior Wrangler bracketed with James Mercer (Mercer had already graduated from the Uni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=158371 | 895,791 |
1,348,977 | The find material of the Upper Pleistocene is much more extensive, coming from more than 100 localities, in California alone "Paramylodon" is known from more than 60 localities. The distribution of the genus is similar to the Lower Pleistocene, but in addition it occurs somewhat further east in the Midwest, such as in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16886646 | 1,348,232 |
2,022,330 | Delaware squared off against #1 Richmond on Saturday September 12 in front of 20,000 plus fans, with the Spiders coming off a big win over the Duke Blue Devils. Delaware's defense opened the scoring by forcing a punt which resulted in a muffed snap that went over the Richmond punters head in the end zone. The punter ki... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24227834 | 2,021,167 |
523,756 | Pre-calculus follows from the above, and is usually taken by college-bound students. Pre-calculus combines algebra, analytic geometry, trigonometry, and analytic trigonometry. Topics in algebra include the binomial theorem, complex numbers, the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra, root extraction, polynomial long division, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24836125 | 523,484 |
1,038,025 | He moved from Harvard to Carnegie Mellon University from 1950 to 1960, after a short stint in Copenhagen as a National Research Council of Canada post-doctoral fellow. At Carnegie Mellon he did much of his seminal work on multiple-scattering band-structure work, now known as the KKR method. His association with Bell La... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=684854 | 1,037,484 |
1,339,488 | Eight years later in 1918, Alabama passed a law requiring all midwives currently practicing in the state to register with the state board of health and to pass an elementary examination. In response to this new law, the John A. Andrew Hospital of Tuskegee University organized a training program for midwives in Macon Co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42613483 | 1,338,755 |
1,774,052 | The latter years of Matheson's presidency were troubled by a chronic shortage of funds. In 1919–1920, facilities designed for 700 students had to serve 1,365 students, and the school received the same $100,000 appropriation () that it had received since 1915, made worse by inflation which nearly halved its value in tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8753550 | 1,773,055 |
575,558 | In January 2008 the Terlouw Commission advised "the Boards of Utrecht and Maastricht Universities to continue to use Peter Debye’s name for the chemistry and physics institute in Utrecht, and to continue awarding the science prize in Maastricht". The Commission concluded that Debye was not a party member, was not an an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37067 | 575,264 |
35,331 | In the 1990s and into the 2000s, Carnegie Mellon solidified its status among American universities, consistently ranking in the top 25 in the national "U.S. News & World Report" rankings, and in the top 30 (ranking 28th in 2022) amongst universities worldwide. Carnegie Mellon is distinct in its interdisciplinary approa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48093 | 35,319 |
1,721,992 | Although initially intended as a Scientific Computer System, the 900 series and the Sigma series were used extensively in commercial time-sharing systems. The biggest such user was Comshare Inc. of Ann Arbor, Michigan, who extensively developed the hardware during the 1980s and the Sigma 9 was operated commercially unt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1302953 | 1,721,022 |
384,165 | After transfer to Spaceport America in New Mexico in February 2020, a couple of 15 km altitude test flights were carried out. Due to a surge in the number of Covid-19 cases in New Mexico, Virgin Galactic had to postpone a key test flight of its spacecraft in November 2020, and then in December 2020, a computer connecti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1021879 | 383,970 |
1,268,771 | Digital contact tracing has existed as a concept since at least 2007, and it was proven to be effective in the first empirical investigation using Bluetooth data in 2014. However, it was largely held back by the necessity of widespread adoption. A 2018 patent application by Facebook discussed a Bluetooth proximity-base... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63696174 | 1,268,081 |
1,914,610 | The 18 May issue of "Nature" contained two letters starting the controversy, the first was an anonymous response under the title "Fictitious Problems in Mathematics" from an author referring to themself only as "An Old Average College Don", while the second was a response from Brayan under the same title. The old colle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65496619 | 1,913,511 |
1,976,706 | By the early 1980s, however, the company was almost insolvent. In 1983 Levine had only $8,000 in his savings and became bedridden with an illness. He left the company in the hands of Gregory Boleslavsky and Vadim Brikman, two Soviet Ukraine expats whom Levine had hired earlier in the 1980s. Boleslavsky was hired as a w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69627446 | 1,975,568 |
54,673 | The "Rigveda" is considered particularly difficult to translate, owing to its length, poetic nature, the language itself, and the absence of any close contemporary texts for comparison. Staal describes it as the most "obscure, distant and difficult for moderns to understand". As a result, he says, it "is often misinter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36692953 | 54,650 |
2,013,168 | She resumed her duties on 2 July, and spent August escorting convoys between the Cape of Good Hope and Madagascar. In September she was nominated to support the final occupation of Madagascar. She joined the destroyers , and in the 3rd Destroyer Division of Force M. On 9 September they provided the escort for the ships... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16600743 | 2,012,011 |
175,102 | The MacPherson strut benefited from introduction of unitary construction, because its design requires substantial vertical space and a strong top mount, which unibody construction can provide. Unibody construction also distributes suspension stresses. The strut will usually carry both the coil spring, on which the body... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=234730 | 175,011 |
870,440 | Although an update to the FileCore functionality was delivered in 1995, initially to members of Acorn's enthusiast community, providing support for larger storage partitions (raising the limit to 128 GB), other improvements, such as those providing support for the use of longer filenames, were still only provided by th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63145 | 869,980 |
1,559,352 | In August 2013, Anthony Martin, a top executive of the company was arrested by Orland Park police officers under the charges of "solicitation to meet a child", for having attempted to solicit sex from a minor via text messages. Despite this, Morrison allowed Martin to remain on the job, managing 450 employees. In 2014,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65889052 | 1,558,466 |
1,292,076 | The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford was founded in 1963 in response to a shortage of higher education institutions in the North central / Northwestern region of Pennsylvania. While Pennsylvania State University had previously offered courses in Bradford in 1933 and 1948, these arrangements lasted only a year and, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3113284 | 1,291,366 |
987,221 | Games such as "The Sims" Series, and "Second Life" are designed to be non-linear and to depend on collective intelligence for expansion. This way of sharing is gradually evolving and influencing the mindset of the current and future generations. For them, collective intelligence has become a norm. In Terry Flew's discu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20756850 | 986,705 |
1,237,668 | After Iraq ignored the U.N. ultimatum to withdraw from Kuwait, Operation Desert Storm, the offensive portion of the campaign, commenced. The Defense Satellite Communications System performed over 700,000 transactions per day and enabled immediate updates of the Air Tasking Order (ATO). Over 1,500 satellite communicatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66185637 | 1,237,003 |
1,592,589 | As an individual's genomic sequence can reveal telling medical information about themselves, and their family members, privacy proponents believe that there should be certain protections in place to ultimately protect the privacy and identity of the user from possible discrimination by insurance companies or employers,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55251966 | 1,591,692 |
482,006 | Systemic capillary leak syndrome (SCLS), also called Clarkson's disease, or primary capillary leak syndrome, is a rare, grave and episodic medical condition observed largely in otherwise healthy individuals mostly in middle age. It is characterized by self-reversing episodes during which the endothelial cells which lin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7161873 | 481,762 |
1,683,516 | "Prospero" was built by the Royal Aircraft Establishment in Farnborough. Initially called Puck, it was designed to conduct experiments to test the technologies necessary for communication satellites. Two experimental solar cells setups were tested. One was a test of a lightweight cell and mounting. The other was an att... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=545051 | 1,682,573 |
1,104,368 | The concept was innovated within acoustic enclosure design, and originally termed an "acoustical labyrinth", by acoustic engineer and later Director of Research, Benjamin Olney, who developed the concept at the Stromberg-Carlson Telephone Co. in the early 1930s while studying the effect of enclosure shape and size on s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44224558 | 1,103,805 |
72,308 | Although the emancipation allowed Black families 40 acres and a mule, President Johnson revoked this and gave the land to white plantation owners instead. This prompted Black farmers to exchange what was once their land, and in turn, a small part of the land's harvest. This led to sharecropping. Carver soon realized th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12997 | 72,281 |
53,242 | For the first few centuries of Islam, educational settings were entirely informal, but beginning in the 11th and 12th centuries, the ruling elites began to establish institutions of higher religious learning known as madrasas in an effort to secure support and cooperation of the ulema. Madrasas soon multiplied througho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37477763 | 53,222 |
1,079,701 | A French scientist notable for his anti-GM perspective, Gilles-Eric Seralini, raised concerns about some of the differences between feeding trials using the genetically modified and unmodified brinjal, and criticized some of the testing protocols. The EC-II responded to the concerns raised by Seralini and other scienti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25889709 | 1,079,146 |
1,008,539 | The design of the SOMUA S35 comes from the changed specifications of 26 June 1934 for an "Automitrailleuse de Combat" (AMC) issued for cavalry use. These called for a much heavier design than had been originally specified in 1931. The new type had to be immune to contemporary anti-tank guns. By 17 May the Army had alre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2838334 | 1,008,018 |
530,068 | LMDB makes novel use of well-known computer science techniques such as copy-on-write semantics and B+ trees to provide atomicity and reliability guarantees as well as performance that can be hard to accept, given the library's relative simplicity and that no other similar key-value store database offers the same guaran... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44933473 | 529,794 |
750,351 | After "Kristallnacht", Bethe's mother had become afraid to remain in Germany. Taking advantage of her Strasbourg origin, she was able to emigrate to the United States in June 1939 on the French quota, rather than the German one, which was full. Bethe's graduate student Robert Marshak noted that the New York Academy of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=185853 | 749,953 |
1,815,640 | Reduced expression of this protein has been implicated in cardiomyopathies, and left ventricular assist device-based therapy does not restore S100A1 levels in patients. S100A1 has shown promise as an early diagnostic biomarker for acute myocardial ischemia, presenting with a distinct timecourse in human plasma followin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14753904 | 1,814,606 |
1,413,143 | A variety of UNIVAC embedded computers, including the first fielded version of the late 1950s, the CP-642A (AN/USQ-20), typically with 30 bit words, 32K words of magnetic core or thin film memory, 16 parallel I/O channels (also 30 bits wide) connected to radars and other peripherals, and a RISC-like instruction set, we... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2026808 | 1,412,347 |
1,051,301 | Human infection with "P. westermani" — the best understood species — occurs by eating inadequately cooked or pickled crab or crayfish that harbour metacercariae of the parasite. The metacercariae excyst in the duodenum, penetrate through the intestinal wall into the peritoneal cavity, then through the abdominal wall an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2489492 | 1,050,755 |
349,380 | I. M. Pei (1917–2019) was a major figure in late modernism and the debut of Post-modern architecture. He was born in China and educated in the United States, studying architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While the architecture school there still trained in the Beaux-Arts architecture style, Pei di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=315927 | 349,197 |
285,348 | During the Song dynasty the emperors expanded both examinations and the government school system, in part to counter the influence of military aristocrats, increasing the number of degree holders to more than four to five times that of the Tang. From the Song dynasty onward, the examinations played the primary role in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=244479 | 285,194 |
452,203 | Superflares seem to be associated with a general high level of magnetic activity. As well as looking for individual events, it is possible to examine the isotope records to find the activity level in the past and identify periods when it may have been much higher than now. Lunar rocks provide a record unaffected by geo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24728109 | 451,984 |
1,440,901 | "Viatkogorgon" is known from the Kotelnich locality, which consists of a series of Permian red bed exposures along the banks of the Vyatka River in Russia. It is specifically from the Vanyushonki Member, which is the oldest rock unit in the Kotelnich succession, consisting of pale or brown mudstones (clay and silts, wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16984249 | 1,440,091 |
138,095 | There were three crew members: pilot, turret gunner and radioman/bombardier/ventral gunner. A single synchronized .30 caliber (7.62 mm) machine gun was mounted in the nose, a .50 caliber (12.7 mm) gun was mounted right next to the turret gunner's head in a rear-facing electrically powered turret, and a single 0.30 cali... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=507536 | 138,039 |
1,217,659 | Diastematomyelia usually occurs between 9th thoracic and 1st sacral levels of the spinal column with most being at the level of the upper lumbar vertebra. Cervical diastematomyelia is a very rare entity. The extent (or length of spinal cord involved) varies from one affected individual to another. In approximately 60% ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11139768 | 1,217,006 |
1,704,791 | Late in the year 1999 through early 2000, with funding from the Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST), Hiroaki Kitano and John C. Doyle assembled a small team of researchers to work on developing better software infrastructure for computational modeling in systems biology. Hamid Bolouri was the leader of the d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4461797 | 1,703,835 |
201,499 | Both governments spent massive amounts to increase the quality and quantity of their nuclear arsenals. Both nations quickly began the development of thermonuclear weapons, which can achieve vastly greater explosive yields. The United States detonated the first hydrogen bomb on November 1, 1952, on Enewetak, an atoll in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=585704 | 201,396 |
1,478,111 | In terms of armour and armament the military were completely satisfied but problems with the manoeuvrability and speed of the Garford would continue to affect them for their whole service life and meant that the Garford was unsuitable for escorting cavalry or for tactical manoeuvre, as a result the Garfords were mainly... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26354934 | 1,477,278 |
927,356 | With an increased interest in the ocean by many people, both young and old, and the increased availability of once expensive and non-commercially available equipment, ROVs have become a popular hobby amongst many. This hobby involves the construction of small ROVs that generally are made out of PVC piping and often can... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=299462 | 926,869 |
850,203 | Notable US political-military simulations run since World War II include the aforementioned "SAFE", "STRAW" ("Str"ategic "A"ir "W"ar) and "COW" ("Co"ld "W"ar). The typical political-military simulation is a manual or computer-assisted heuristic-type model, and many research organizations and think-tanks throughout the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10280894 | 849,751 |
2,142,794 | X-ray spectroscopy is a powerful experimental technique that provides qualitative information about the elemental composition and internal stresses and strain within a specimen. High energy X-rays have the ability to penetrate deeply into materials allowing the examination of dense objects such as welds in steel, geolo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40011187 | 2,141,563 |
73,647 | On hearing that Ribet had proven Frey's link to be correct, English mathematician Andrew Wiles, who had a childhood fascination with Fermat's Last Theorem and had a background of working with elliptic curves and related fields, decided to try to prove the Taniyama–Shimura conjecture as a way to prove Fermat's Last Theo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19021953 | 73,620 |
1,652,724 | One option is to trade off an intact sexual function for the possibility of a prolonged life expectancy by not having curative treatment. The choice involves a trade-off so it is of central importance for the person and the physician to have access to information on established treatment benefits and side effects. A Sw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23886057 | 1,651,792 |
362,531 | Hooke himself characterised his Oxford days as the foundation of his lifelong passion for science, and the friends he made there were of paramount importance to him throughout his career, particularly Christopher Wren. Wadham was then under the guidance of John Wilkins, who had a profound impact on Hooke and those arou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49720 | 362,341 |
844,640 | Amyloid beta (Aβ) was found to cause neurotoxicity and cell death in the brain when present in high concentrations. Aβ results from a mutation that occurs when protein chains are cut at the wrong locations, resulting in chains of different lengths that are unusable. Thus they are left in the brain until they are broken... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=546712 | 844,190 |
766,268 | More recent theories suggest that other forces, like close passage of other stars, or the angular effect of the galactic gravity plane working against the outer solar orbital plane (Shiva Hypothesis), may be the cause of orbital perturbations of some outer Solar System objects. In 2010, A. L. Melott and R. K. Bambach f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=89344 | 765,858 |
1,116,210 | Primary gallbladder EMZL (i.e. extranodal marginal zone lymphoma of the gallbladder, primary MALT lymphoma of the gall bladder) is an extremely rare disease with only 17 cases being reported in the literature as of 2017. Presenting features in individuals (aged 31–84 years, median age 74, >60% females) with the disease... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21339698 | 1,115,638 |
1,015,614 | Lockheed Martin Aeronautics is the prime contractor and performs aircraft final assembly, overall system integration, mission system, and provides forward fuselage, wings and aircraft flight control system. Northrop Grumman provides active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar, electro-optical AN/AAQ-37 Distributed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54719700 | 1,015,093 |
867,506 | In an arrangement highly unusual for launch vehicles, SpaceX began in 2013 using some first stages of the Falcon 9 v1.1 rockets for propulsive-return controlled-descent flight tests after they completed the boost phase of an orbital flight. Since the advent of spaceflight in 1957, launch vehicle boosters would ordinari... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34666187 | 867,046 |
1,818,652 | As temperatures rise and surface melting increases water flux to the bed in late spring, the winter stream system is disrupted. Distributed flow channels, lacking the capacity for increased volumes of meltwater, experience a rise in water pressure and are destabilized. High water pressures lead to the formation of larg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31213939 | 1,817,617 |
562,770 | Robert Zubrin (; born April 9, 1952) is an American aerospace engineer, author, and advocate for human exploration of Mars. He and his colleague at Martin Marietta, David Baker, were the driving force behind Mars Direct, a proposal in a 1990 research paper intended to produce significant reductions in the cost and comp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25894 | 562,481 |
774,005 | Recent human evolution refers to evolutionary adaptation, sexual and natural selection, and genetic drift within "Homo sapiens" populations, since their separation and dispersal in the Middle Paleolithic about 50,000 years ago. Contrary to popular belief, not only are humans still evolving, their evolution since the da... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54472601 | 773,589 |
33,555 | The modernization appeared to be split into two phases, first concentrating on life extension with some initial communication–navigation updates, followed by engine upgrades after 2016. In November 2014, a Tu-160 upgraded with new radar and avionics performed its first flight. The aircraft was delivered to the Russian ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=662636 | 33,543 |
1,741,920 | Another possible explanation was studied by Li H. et al. (2008). They showed that in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) non-selective NSAIDs and the coxibs produce oxidative stress, indicated by enhanced vascular superoxide(O) content and elevated peroxide in plasma, which is in tune with enhanced expression of NADP... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20187427 | 1,740,936 |
2,001,932 | Plofker has organized "Mathematics in India" into nine chapters, roughly chronologically, according to the "mainstream narrative" of Indian chronology in a subject where accurate chronology is difficult and disputed. It covers the mathematics of the entire Indian subcontinent, including the modern areas of Afghanistan,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66223516 | 2,000,784 |
1,122,471 | Following this research, in 2007, John McCaskill proposed to concentrate on an electronically complemented artificial cell, called the Electronic Chemical Cell. The key idea was to use a massively parallel array of electrodes coupled to locally dedicated electronic circuitry, in a two-dimensional thin film, to compleme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4630125 | 1,121,897 |
301,522 | In the freight segment, IR ferries various commodities and fuels in industrial, consumer, and agricultural segments across India. IR has historically subsidised the passenger segment with income from the freight business. As a result, freight services are unable to compete with other modes of transport on both cost and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=167609 | 301,361 |
1,229,177 | As maximum aperture continued to increase, the Double Gauss's greater symmetry promised easier aberration correction. This was especially important for SLRs because, without the parallax error of RFs, they also began offering much closer focusing distances (typically a half meter instead a whole meter). The Double Gaus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38186969 | 1,228,515 |
355,247 | In 1949, the 332nd entered the annual U.S. Continental Gunnery Meet in Las Vegas, Nevada. The competition included shooting aerial and ground targets and dropping bombs on targets. Flying the long-range Republic P-47N Thunderbolt (built for the long-range escort mission in the Pacific theatre of World War II), the 332n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71753 | 355,064 |
1,129,513 | Typically the top (also known as the belly or table, in the U.K.) -- the soundboard) is made of quarter-sawn spruce, bookmatched at a strongly glued joint down the center, with two soundholes (or "f-holes", from their resemblance to a stylized letter ""f"") precisely placed between the C-bouts and lower corners. The so... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3626270 | 1,128,935 |
1,517,584 | The late part of the 19th century in comparative anatomy was heavily influenced by the work of Charles Darwin in the "On the Origin of Species" in 1859. This work completely changed the views of comparative anatomists. Within 8 years of Darwin's release of the "Origin of Species", his views on descent from a common anc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27043983 | 1,516,732 |
1,588,126 | After obtaining her doctoral degree from Indiana University in 1962, Dr. Martha E. Bernal applied for various faculty jobs. Unable to get a faculty position, she obtained a U.S. Public Health Service Postdoctoral Fellowship at UCLA and conducted research for two years. Dr. Bernal faced systemic racism, discrimination a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39206022 | 1,587,232 |
165,513 | While the main campus' address is officially within the jurisdiction of Richardson and Collin county, approximately one-third of the college today (one-half in 1969) is physically located within the border of Dallas county (which the city of Dallas typically governs). This section contains major areas in the south end ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=537010 | 165,428 |
2,076,945 | After the success of the Berlin scientific balloon flights became generally known, the British aviation pioneer and promoter Patrick Young Alexander came to Berlin to participate in the flights with his ballon "Majestic". Among other flights, he participated in the flight on 4 December 1894 from Berlin. Berson started ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55432762 | 2,075,746 |
1,410,841 | Archives of climate proxies were developed: in 1993 Raymond S. Bradley and Phil Jones composited historical records, tree-rings and ice cores for the Northern Hemisphere from 1400 up to the 1970s to produce a decadal reconstruction. Like later reconstructions including the MBH "hockey stick" studies, the reconstruction... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5354105 | 1,410,049 |
223,257 | On 25 January 1858, prince Frederick William of Prussia (later German emperor), was given a donation of 5,000 talers from the "Aachener und Münchener Feuer-Versicherungs-Gesellschaft", the precursor of the AachenMünchener insurance company, for charity. In March, the prince chose to use the donation to found the first ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=243937 | 223,143 |
979,184 | The general explanation of increased infectious comorbidity in malnourished people is that (1) the immune system is what prevents such diseases from being more widespread in healthy, well-nourished people and (2) malnutrition stresses and diminishes immune function. In other words, malnutrition tends to cause (mild or ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5877337 | 978,673 |
1,491,616 | William H. Thomas (born October 13, 1959), also known as Bill Thomas, is an American author, performer and authority on geriatric medicine and eldercare from New York State. In 2014, Thomas organized a 25-city "non-fiction" theatrical tour to launch his book and to promote the documentary film . He is the founder of Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9595600 | 1,490,777 |
285,623 | Intending to boost profit margins, Bombardier announced on 12 January 2016 that it would cancel deals with third party sales agent Tag Aeronautics, as well as cancelling 24 firm and 30 optional orders, aiming to later resell these aircraft without a sales agency fee. The CSeries was adversely hit by production delays a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=81581 | 285,469 |
1,788,186 | In December 1874, Grant held a state dinner at the White House for the King of Hawaii, David Kalakaua, who was seeking the importation of Hawaiian sugar duty-free to the United States. Grant and Fish were able to produce a successful free trade treaty in 1875 with the Kingdom of Hawaii, incorporating the Pacific island... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61305749 | 1,787,180 |
141,994 | All students at the university are eligible to vote in the election of the Rector (officially styled "Lord Rector"), who holds office for a three-year term and chairs the University Court. In the past, this position has been a largely honorary and ceremonial one, and has been held by political figures including William... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39569 | 141,936 |
221,631 | Germany's swept wing research was also obtained by the Swedish aircraft manufacturer SAAB, with the help of ex-Messerschmitt engineers that had fled to Switzerland during late 1945. At the time, SAAB saw the need to make aeronautical advances, particularly in the new field of jet propulsion. The company incorporated bo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=246851 | 221,522 |
939,821 | Reproductive isolation acts as the primary mechanism driving genetic divergence in allopatry and can be amplified by divergent selection. Pre-zygotic and post-zygotic isolation are often the most cited mechanisms for allopatric speciation, and as such, it is difficult to determine which form evolved first in an allopat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=334986 | 939,320 |
2,025,790 | Near the end of 1949, the RRDE staff were shown the ongoing work on the Comprehensive Display System being developed for the Navy by Elliott Brothers. This quickly led to a project to modify the same basic system to the needs of the AA Command. The main change was the ability to take a location measurement and then off... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56407327 | 2,024,624 |
1,460,888 | Some of the same properties that make nanoparticles efficient drug carriers also contribute to their toxicity. For example, gold nanoparticles are known to interact with proteins through surface adsorption, forming a protein corona, which can be utilized for cargo loading and immune shielding. However, this protein-ads... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59383794 | 1,460,066 |
435,269 | In more recent times, new discoveries have been made at Charmouth, not through commercial quarrying but by the efforts of amateur palaeontologists. In 1968 a second partial juvenile skeleton was described, specimen BMNH R6704, that had already been reported in 1959. Found by geologist James Frederick Jackson (1894-1966... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2469650 | 435,055 |
1,660,832 | In January 2009, the Texas SBOE voted to remove the 'Strengths and Weaknesses" language, but its conservative faction, led by Don McLeroy, managed to pass several amendments to the science curriculum that opponents describe as opening the door to teaching objections to evolution that might lead students to reject it. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20690739 | 1,659,898 |
1,484,239 | In its natural host (S. cerevisiae) the Flp/"FRT" system enables replication of a "2μ plasmid" by the inversion of a segment that is flanked by two identical, but oppositely oriented "FRT" sites ("flippase" activity). This inversion changes the relative orientation of replication forks within the plasmid enabling "roll... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4385154 | 1,483,402 |
274,624 | Ideally, EDM can be seen as a series of breakdown and restoration of the liquid dielectric in-between the electrodes. However, caution should be exerted in considering such a statement because it is an idealized model of the process, introduced to describe the fundamental ideas underlying the process. Yet, any practica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=75485 | 274,476 |
560,568 | Another application is the Lévy flight foraging hypothesis. When sharks and other ocean predators cannot find food, they abandon Brownian motion, the random motion seen in swirling gas molecules, for Lévy flight — a mix of long trajectories and short, random movements found in turbulent fluids. Researchers analyzed ove... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=370874 | 560,279 |
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