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277,055 | mTOR, specifically mTORC1, was first shown to be important in aging in 2003, in a study on worms; sirolimus was shown to inhibit and slow aging in worms, yeast, and flies, and then to improve the condition of mouse models of various diseases of aging. Sirolimus was first shown to extend lifespan in wild-type mice in a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=529476 | 276,905 |
480,865 | In theory, the use of expert knowledge would improve Go software. Hundreds of guidelines and rules of thumb for strong play have been formulated by both high-level amateurs and professionals. The programmer's task is to take these heuristics, formalize them into computer code, and utilize pattern matching and pattern r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=227021 | 480,621 |
1,308,720 | In order to ensure that no predictor can have prior information about a protein's structure that would put them at an advantage, it is important that the experiment be conducted in a double-blind fashion: Neither predictors nor the organizers and assessors know the structures of the target proteins at the time when pre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=461517 | 1,308,004 |
341,245 | To prevent gases from compromising the tube's vacuum, modern tubes are constructed with getters, which are usually metals that oxidize quickly, barium being the most common. For glass tubes, while the tube envelope is being evacuated, the internal parts except the getter are heated by RF induction heating to evolve any... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32496 | 341,064 |
1,297,816 | Bioprospecting of marine and oceanic resources, through which the institute has produced several nutraceuticals useful for treating life style diseases and dietary supplements from seaweeds has been recognised. The institute has developed and commercialized the nutraceutical products CadalminTM Green Algal extract (Cad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5116330 | 1,297,104 |
1,233,094 | LASL next intended to test Kiwi B2, but structural flaws were found that required a redesign. Attention then switched to B4, a more radical design, but when they tried to put the fuel clusters into the core, the clusters were found to have too many neutrons, and it was feared that the reactor might unexpectedly start u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23821416 | 1,232,431 |
1,515,953 | In practice it is not possible to obtain the quoted theoretical maximum throughput rate for machines in a placement system. It is necessary to derate the theoretical numbers to obtain realistic values, due to unexpected downtime, board load and unload time and machine configuration. Other factors include PWB size, comp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42835913 | 1,515,101 |
460,753 | Details of the pratfall effect were first described by Aronson in his experiment testing the effects of a simple blunder on perceived attraction. The experimental subjects consisted of male students from the University of Minnesota who would listen to tape recordings of a confederate (actor) pretending to be a contesta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8260995 | 460,527 |
2,020,177 | Circuit Scribe allows users to create a paper Arduino (or a ‘paperduino’), which is demonstrated by the research team. The team first found the schematics on the Arduino website and modified them so that they would work on a pen plotter. With a few modifications, they arranged the components and traces so that the boar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44390229 | 2,019,014 |
964,615 | Windows Server 2012 includes a new version of Windows Task Manager together with the old version. In the new version the tabs are hidden by default, showing applications only. In the new Processes tab, the processes are displayed in varying shades of yellow, with darker shades representing heavier resource use. Informa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34201152 | 964,106 |
809,419 | "Wholesale buyers, particularly the military food supply system, hav[ing] been implicated multiple times in the illegal distribution of contaminated meat" were vectors for the virus's spread, said the Food and Agriculture Organization report—and evidence of that was "repeated outbreaks in Leningrad oblast". The report ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5094165 | 808,989 |
1,920,034 | In 1933, Schoenheimer emigrated to the United States, where his scientific research took a different focus. Prior to his emigration, his work was mostly focused on the metabolism of cholesterol. In 1934 Schoenheimer began his work on intermediary metabolism, and how stable isotopes could be applied to the study. Schoen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=669677 | 1,918,932 |
1,172,560 | The field of vision of the diver is reduced by opaque parts of the helmet or mask. Peripheral vision is particularly reduced in the lower areas due to the bulk of the demand valve. Helmet design is a compromise between low mass and inertia, with relatively small interior volume and viewports affording restricted field ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63557168 | 1,171,941 |
953,314 | One frequently cited text is the Syrian-Greek writer Lucian of Samosata's 2nd-century satire "True History", which uses a voyage to outer space and conversations with alien life forms to comment on the use of exaggeration within travel literature and debates. Typical science fiction themes and topoi in "True History" i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3387802 | 952,809 |
1,263,058 | Safety standards are being developed by the Robotic Industries Association (RIA) in conjunction with the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).[2] On October 5, 2017, OSHA, NIOSH and RIA signed an alliance to work together to enhance technical expertise, identify and help address potential workplace hazards asso... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56830451 | 1,262,370 |
951,658 | Safety standards are being developed by the Robotic Industries Association (RIA) in conjunction with the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). On October 5, 2017, OSHA, NIOSH and RIA signed an alliance to work together to enhance technical expertise, identify and help address potential workplace hazards associa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=147918 | 951,153 |
577,891 | Because of its direct relevance to products of commerce, solid state inorganic chemistry has been strongly driven by technology. Progress in the field has often been fueled by the demands of industry, sometimes in collaboration with academia. Applications discovered in the 20th century include zeolite and platinum-base... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66315 | 577,595 |
1,041,724 | Buffer tanks store the hot water the biomass appliance generates and circulates it around the heating system. Sometimes referred to as 'thermal stores', they are crucial for the efficient operation of all biomass boilers where the system loading fluctuates rapidly, or the volume of water in the complete hydraulic syste... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9774491 | 1,041,181 |
1,290,264 | In 2000, the missions were very different: for instance, calculating the opening of a landing system using data provided by the barometer or making use of a differential GPS system. The project came to a more complex situation in 2001 when the ComeBack category was added, according to which the satellite should be dire... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33410235 | 1,289,554 |
1,486,833 | With the death of his father in 1848, he inherited the large fortune created by both his father's and grandfather's enterprises, permitting him, his large household and his relatives a comfortable life. Up to 11 servants were employed to administer to his manor and estate. Boulton's inheritance made him wealthy, but he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39213072 | 1,485,995 |
637,438 | In a 1966 Ph.D. thesis, "The On-line Graphical Specification of Computer Procedures", Bert Sutherland created one of the first graphical dataflow programming frameworks in order to make parallel programming easier. Subsequent dataflow languages were often developed at the large supercomputer labs. POGOL, an otherwise c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1079396 | 637,099 |
140,214 | On 16 October 2017, the LIGO and Virgo collaborations announced the first-ever detection of gravitational waves originating from the coalescence of a binary neutron star system. The observation of the GW170817 transient, which occurred on 17 August 2017, allowed for constraining the masses of the neutron stars involved... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8111079 | 140,157 |
1,760,974 | However, for the endurance races and the Australian Grand Prix support races, Perkins Engineering picked up significant sponsorship from Bob Jane T-Marts, and the car was painted yellow and blue, the colors of the T-Marts. Driving with Steve Harrington, Perkins proved there was life in the older model VL Commodore whic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6922736 | 1,759,981 |
95,672 | Jaguars were successfully sold to a number of overseas countries, India being the largest operator. The "Jaguar International" was an export version which was sold to Ecuador, Nigeria and Oman. The Ecuadorian Air Force, the only Latin American export customer, purchased 10 single- and 2 two-seat variants, officially de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=176232 | 95,631 |
790,438 | The Winkler index uses the standard method of calculating growing degree-days in viticulture and is based on using a base temperature of 50 °F (10 °C) with no upper temperature cut-off. The first issue is that 50 °F (10 °C) is not likely the best base temperature even though it is the most commonly used value. Even the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6569214 | 790,013 |
1,472,264 | Schur found himself lonely after the flight of many of his students and the expulsion of renowned scientists from his previous place of work. Only Dr. Helmut Grunsky had been friendly to him, as Schur reported in the late thirties to his expatriate student Max Menachem Schiffer. The Gestapo was everywhere. Since Schur ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=617522 | 1,471,435 |
1,792,869 | Each gun is supported by an installation built in a tunnel connected to the gun turret and magazine. This installation provides fire control, power supply and accommodation for the gun crew and is designed to provide power, food and water for weeks despite being sealed off from the outside world.<br> It uses an older c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23079435 | 1,791,860 |
1,882,527 | Baxter was born in Wales, but grew up in England, entering the University of Birmingham at age 16. He joined Imperial Chemical Industries as a chemical engineer, and became head of the Central Laboratory of its General Chemicals Division in Widnes, investigating the chemistry of chlorine and fluorine. He was elected to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18243283 | 1,881,446 |
1,232,380 | Pressureless sintering is another method for processing and densifying UHTCs. Pressureless sintering involves heating powdered materials in a mold in order to promote atomic diffusion and create a solid material. Compacts are prepared by uniaxial die compaction, and then the compacts are fired at chosen temperatures in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38050893 | 1,231,718 |
436,359 | Viewed as out-of-date and emblematic of the excesses of the 19th century, Second Empire architecture was derided in the 20th century, particularly starting in the 1930s.The destruction of such notable buildings as Toronto's forty-five year old Customs House (1876-1919) exemplify the desire to transition away from Frenc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52026515 | 436,145 |
960,803 | Chobham armour defeats HEAT warheads by disrupting the high speed jet generated by the warhead. The outer steel "burster" plate detonates the shell and protects the composite array from the blast, increasing the armour's multi hit abilities. After making it through the burster plate, the jet penetrates into the first N... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=81825 | 960,294 |
282,266 | The theory of an anti-tumoral response of the immune system "in vivo" was recognized by the physician William B. Coley. In 1968, Gale A Granger from the University of California, Irvine, reported a cytotoxic factor produced by lymphocytes and named it lymphotoxin (LT). Credit for this discovery is shared by Nancy H. Ru... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=240843 | 282,113 |
144,349 | The targeting of infectious diseases for eradication is based on narrow criteria, as both biological and technical features determine whether a pathogenic organism is (at least potentially) eradicable. The targeted pathogen must not have a significant non-human (or non-human-dependent) reservoir (or, in the case of ani... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14499186 | 144,291 |
900,417 | Cultural and heterodox applications of economic interaction around the world have begun to be included as ecological economic practices. E.F. Schumacher introduced examples of non-western economic ideas to mainstream thought in his book, "Small is Beautiful", where he addresses neoliberal economics through the lens of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=177694 | 899,942 |
1,509,969 | The mechanisms governing the basic subsistence of eukaryotic cells are immensely complex; it is therefore unsurprising that regulation occurs at a number of stages of protein synthesis – the regulation of translation has become a well-studied field. Human translational control is of increasing research interest as it h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20246302 | 1,509,119 |
15,258 | The first order included an option for another 110, which was exercised in June 1992. Batch II consisted of 96 one-seat JAS 39As and 14 two-seat JAS 39Bs. The JAS 39B variant is 66 cm (26 in) longer than the JAS 39A to accommodate a second seat, which also necessitated the deletion of the cannon and a reduced internal ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=87577 | 15,253 |
1,411,667 | The NTPS grew out of a successful series of introductory flight test courses taught for military test organizations in the United States and Canada. Using an instrumented De Havilland Dove (DH-104), introductory, two-week performance and flying qualities flight test courses were taught for Edwards AFB, California; Patu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8055335 | 1,410,873 |
1,820,647 | In the late 1970s, telephone engineers were attempting to create technology with sufficient performance to enable digital touch-tone dialing. Existing digital signal processing solutions required over a hundred chips and consumed significant amounts of power. Intel responded to this potential market by introducing the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2824676 | 1,819,610 |
904,974 | Autogas, also known as LPG or propane, has a different chemical composition. However, it is still a petroleum-based gas produced from refining petroleum oil and has several inherent advantages and disadvantages, as well as noninherent ones. The inherent advantage of autogas over CNG is that it requires far less compres... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1038887 | 904,498 |
1,259,812 | In 2009, "Marvel Heroes" #15-16 featured the return of the Fury. In #15, Captain Britain returned to Earth with a warning that the Fury was coming back: repeated simulations by a Panini equivalent of the Illuminati ran hundreds of combat simulations, finding that in each one the Fury would slaughter them. The Silver Su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1363343 | 1,259,125 |
93,982 | Government incentives to increase adoption were first introduced in the late 2000s, including in the United States and the European Union, leading to a growing market for the vehicles in the 2010s. Increasing public interest and awareness and structural incentives, such as those being built into the green recovery from... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=279350 | 93,941 |
39,954 | In the 1980s, the university received increased grants for research in the social and physical sciences. During the 1980s and 1990s, the university devoted substantial resources to renovating its massive hospital complex and improving the academic facilities on the North Campus. In its 2011 annual financial report, the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31740 | 39,939 |
1,391,590 | The term 'hyperdiffusionism' seems to have been coined by the British archaeologist Glyn Daniel in his book "The Idea of Prehistory" (1962) with a somewhat derogatory intention. It was intended to represent extremes of diffusionism, a theme popular in early 20th century archaeology that itself has been subject to criti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=467534 | 1,390,819 |
1,668,824 | In 1933 Frederick William Hill and his 13 year old daughter Hazel had analysed data from gun firing trials and concluded that eight .303 machine guns would be needed to give sufficient firepower at the predicted high speeds of the new generation of fighters. Following a recommendation by Squadron Leader Ralph Sorley of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57082298 | 1,667,884 |
1,430,337 | All of these examples are part of a larger theory of a brain–gut connection. This theory states that the vagus nerve provides a direct link between the brain and the gut so that emotions can affect stomach rhythms and vice versa. This idea originated in the mid-1800s when Alexis St. Martin, a man with a gunshot-induced... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3055035 | 1,429,533 |
763,140 | At Pydna the contenders deployed on a relatively flat plain, and the Macedonians had augmented the infantry with a sizeable cavalry contingent. At the hour of decision, the enemy phalanx advanced in formidable array against the Roman line and made some initial progress. However, the ground it had to advance over was ro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30855309 | 762,731 |
24,948 | On 1 December 2006, the Airbus board of directors approved the industrial launch of the A350-800, -900, and -1000 variants. The delayed launch decision was a result of delays to the Airbus A380 and discussions on how to fund development. EADS CEO Thomas Enders stated that the A350 programme was not a certainty, citing ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1006446 | 24,939 |
1,299,086 | A cosmic microwave background was predicted in 1948 by George Gamow and Ralph Alpher, and by Alpher and Robert Herman as due to the hot Big Bang model. Moreover, Alpher and Herman were able to estimate the temperature, but their results were not widely discussed in the community. Their prediction was rediscovered by Ro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=658074 | 1,298,372 |
1,713,349 | In 1956, Norman A. Phillips developed a mathematical model which could realistically depict monthly and seasonal patterns in the troposphere, which became the first successful climate model. Following Phillips's work, several groups began working to create general circulation models. The first general circulation clima... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30890995 | 1,712,383 |
127,368 | The Dornier 228 has been promoted in various capacities, including as a commuter aircraft, a military transporter, cargo hauler, or as a special missions aircraft. Special missions include maritime surveillance, border patrol, medevac, search and rescue, paradrop and environmental research missions, in which capacity t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1244920 | 127,316 |
1,738 | After taking power and distancing himself from the Vietnamese, pro-China Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot killed 1.5 to 2 million Cambodians in the killing fields, roughly a quarter of the Cambodian population (an event commonly labelled the Cambodian genocide). Martin Shaw described these atrocities as "the purest genocide ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=325329 | 1,738 |
964,232 | As a part of the embodied cognition theory, proponents suggest that an organism's sensory and the motor systems are dynamically integrated. This idea is known as sensorimotor coupling which allows sensory information to be efficiently used during action. Similarly, the concept of sensorimotor contingencies (SMCs) state... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33034640 | 963,723 |
2,046,446 | The visit to West Bromwich Albion in the first round of the Mayor of Birmingham's Charity Cup gave the 2,000 spectators more goals than they might have expected. Small Heath led 3–1 at the interval, but the home side brought the scores level after 90 minutes, and scored three times more during extra time to win the tie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34698933 | 2,045,265 |
1,970,937 | As the final began, the runner with the fastest personal best, =#3 all time Nigel Amos (Botswana) ran a fast turn and was attempting to take the tangent from the break line in his lane 5, but Brandon McBride (Canada), ran a faster turn and cut more sharply from lane 7, effectively interrupting Amos from taking control ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54711896 | 1,969,803 |
1,914,142 | The formation of the hopene skeleton is one of the most complex single-step reactions in biochemistry. In a single step, 13 covalent bonds are broken or formed, 9 chiral centers are established, and 5 rings are produced. Squalene–hopene cyclase catalyses the conversion of the acyclic molecule of squalene into the penta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39563303 | 1,913,043 |
1,132,016 | The ESEM has appeared under different manufacturing brand names. The term ESEM is a generic name first publicly introduced in 1980 and afterwards unceasingly used in all publications by Danilatos and almost all users of all ESEM type instruments. The ELECTROSCAN ESEM trademark was obtained intermittently until 1999, wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9778156 | 1,131,424 |
1,778,517 | Underwater computer vision is a subfield of computer vision. In recent years, with the development of underwater vehicles ( ROV, AUV, gliders), the need to be able to record and process huge amounts of information has become increasingly important. Applications range from inspection of underwater structures for the off... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44722153 | 1,777,515 |
261,357 | Penney worked on means to assess the effects of a nuclear explosion, and wrote a paper on what height the bombs should be detonated at for maximum effect in attacks on Germany and Japan. He served as a member of the target committee established by Groves to select Japanese cities for atomic bombing, and on Tinian with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2095669 | 261,218 |
1,881,404 | While temperature may play a key role in fungal and plant growth, there is equally as much dependence on the amount of CO that is absorbed. The amount of CO within the soil is different from the amount that is in the air; the presence of this CO is a vital part of many plant cycles (such as photosynthesis) and due to t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59393212 | 1,880,323 |
40,197 | Catheter ablation (CA) is a procedure performed by an electrophysiologist, a cardiologist who specializes in heart rhythm problems, to restore the heart's normal rhythm by destroying, or electrically isolating, specific parts of the atria. A group of cardiologists led by Dr Haïssaguerre from noted in 1998 that the pulm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20869694 | 40,182 |
1,468,598 | The first launch attempt was delayed by 24 hours due to weather concerns, including multiple weather violations in NASA's launch rules beginning over 2 hours before the scheduled launch. During the second attempt on Wednesday morning, a problem with a LH2 fill-and-drain fuel valve inside "Discovery"s aft compartment le... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6002600 | 1,467,774 |
373,740 | During the 1970s, Swedish aircraft manufacturer Saab AB became increasingly interested in the civil aircraft market. In 1974, the company decided to proceed with developing its first major civilian aircraft, having previously focused almost entirely upon military aircraft. During the late 1970s, internal studies had de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=469211 | 373,545 |
1,971,197 | "The medal which, in accordance with the usual rule has been devoted to mathematics and physics, has this year been awarded to Colonel A. Clarke for his comparison of standards of length, and determination of the figure of the earth. Col. Clarke was for some 25 years the scientific and mathematical adviser for the Ordn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6420474 | 1,970,063 |
405,339 | Four years later, in "Wings of Liberty", Kerrigan and the Zerg vanish from the Koprulu Sector, allowing the Protoss to once again take on a passive role in the galaxy. Meanwhile, Raynor forms a revolutionary group named Raynor's Raiders in order to overthrow Mengsk. On Mar Sara, Raynor liberates the local population fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14271726 | 405,139 |
940,776 | A study done by Rijkswaterstaat in 1937 showed that the sea defenses in the southwest river delta were inadequate to withstand a major storm surge. The proposed solution was to dam all the river mouths and sea inlets thereby shortening the coast. However, because of the scale of this project and the intervention of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4865141 | 940,275 |
1,313,433 | Fluid–structure interactions also play a major role in appropriate modeling of blood flow. Blood vessels act as compliant tubes that change size dynamically when there are changes to blood pressure and velocity of flow. Failure to take into account this property of blood vessels can lead to a significant overestimation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6061729 | 1,312,713 |
1,643,609 | Systemin is a plant peptide hormone involved in the wound response in the family Solanaceae. It was the first plant hormone that was proven to be a peptide having been isolated from tomato leaves in 1991 by a group led by Clarence A. Ryan. Since then, other peptides with similar functions have been identified in tomato... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5326585 | 1,642,682 |
1,396,322 | Bagian became a NASA astronaut in July 1980. He took part in both the planning and provision of emergency medical and rescue support for the first six Shuttle flights. He served as the Astronaut Office coordinator for Space Shuttle payload software and crew equipment, as well as supporting the development of a variety ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=596595 | 1,395,551 |
88,012 | Baley furthermore proposes that the Solarians may one day use robots for military purposes. If a spacecraft was built with a positronic brain and carried neither humans nor the life-support systems to sustain them, then the ship's robotic intelligence could naturally assume that all other spacecraft were robotic beings... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60136 | 87,977 |
783,145 | The earliest possible employment of volley fire for firearms occurred in late 14th century China during a military conflict between Ming and Mong Mao forces. Volley fire was also possibly implemented with firearms in 1414 during the Yongle Emperor's campaigns against the Mongols, and possibly again in another expeditio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33076634 | 782,726 |
592,778 | In February 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, using statistical models that considered data on the number of deaths and recoveries inside China, travellers outside China and in those affected that had returned home, Ferguson, Azra Ghani and their team estimated that detected cases of COVID-19 had significantly undere... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63073445 | 592,474 |
953,760 | Once dubbed the "Methuselah Star" by the popular press due to its age, if the assumptions of stellar evolution are correct in the report, the star must have formed soon after the Big Bang and is one of the oldest stars known as of 2021. The search for such very iron-poor stars has shown they are almost all anomalies in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38621598 | 953,255 |
169,789 | New theory has recognized the layering and potential internal contradictions within all practices that construct masculinities. This is a departure from a unitary masculinity and focus on compromised formations between contradictory desires or emotions. Masculinities are configurations of practice that are constructed,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9928314 | 169,699 |
341,288 | In the summer of 1942, the paleontologist Charles L. Camp led a field party from the University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP) in search of fossil vertebrates in Navajo County in northern Arizona. Word of this was spread among the Native Americans there, and the Navajo Jesse Williams brought three members ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=444541 | 341,107 |
345,856 | The March 2010 announcement said that "Portal 2" would be released in late 2010. In August 2010, Valve postponed the release to February 2011, with a Steam release date of February 9, to allow it to complete changes to the game's dialogue, to fill and connect about sixty test chambers, and to finish refinements to the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15888290 | 345,675 |
12,925 | In the afternoon of October 9, Syrian command committed the Republican Guard independent 70th Armored Brigade, equipped with T-62's and BMP-1s. To hold the gap, 7th AB could by now muster only some two dozen tanks, elements from the 77th, 74th, 82nd and 71st Tank Battalion. Israeli command had directed all reserves to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34276 | 12,920 |
2,146,029 | In May 1829, Frémont entered Charleston College, where he studied, and taught at intervals in the countryside. Frémont, however, was expelled from the college for irregular attendance in 1831. Although Frémont did not graduate, he had been grounded in mathematics and natural sciences. After his college dismissal, emine... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54177870 | 2,144,798 |
270,655 | Color photography was attempted beginning in the 1840s. Early experiments were directed at finding a "chameleon substance" which would assume the color of the light falling on it. Some encouraging early results, typically obtained by projecting a solar spectrum directly onto the sensitive surface, seemed to promise eve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=444758 | 270,508 |
769,387 | In the early 1900s, Christian Bohr was a professor at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, already well known for his work in the field of respiratory physiology. He had spent the last two decades studying the solubility of oxygen, carbon dioxide, and other gases in various liquids, and had conducted extensive rese... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=618291 | 768,975 |
962,217 | Miranda explained that the song is an homage to his sister, Luz Miranda-Crespo: "That song is my love letter and apology to my sister. I watched my sister deal with the pressure of being the oldest and carrying burdens I never had to carry [...] I put all of that angst and all of those moments into Luisa". "Encanto" di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69624118 | 961,708 |
858,417 | Hyder Ali, prince of Mysore, developed war rockets with an important change: the use of metal cylinders to contain the combustion powder. Although the hammered soft iron he used was crude, the bursting strength of the container of black powder was much higher than the earlier paper construction. Thus a greater internal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1770300 | 857,959 |
1,066,543 | Much of the work carried out by palaeontologists studying evolutionary radiations has been using marine invertebrate fossils simply because these tend to be much more numerous and easy to collect in quantity than large land vertebrates such as mammals or dinosaurs. Brachiopods, for example, underwent major bursts of ev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1422728 | 1,065,989 |
1,296,065 | Research in active matter combines analytical techniques, numerical simulations and experiments. Notable analytical approaches include hydrodynamics, kinetic theory, and non-equilibrium statistical physics. Numerical studies mainly involve self-propelled-particles models, making use of agent-based models such as molecu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26053735 | 1,295,354 |
1,475,256 | The diagnosis is based on clinical presentation, quantitative HCG, ultrasound, and pathologic evaluation. A solid, heterogeneous, echogenic mass has a positive predictive value of 80%, but is present in only a minority of cases. A thickened endometrium of > 10 mm is usually considered abnormal, though no consensus exis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35574369 | 1,474,424 |
1,149,195 | In fact, from a high-level perspective, the 7600 was quite similar to the 6600. At the time computer memory could be arranged in blocks with independent access paths, and Cray's designs used this to their advantage. While most machines would use a single CPU to run all the functionality of the system, Cray realized tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=655742 | 1,148,588 |
752,391 | When conscription was introduced in Britain on 2 March 1916, Eddington intended to apply for an exemption as a conscientious objector. Cambridge University authorities instead requested and were granted an exemption on the ground of Eddington's work being of national interest. In 1918, this was appealed against by the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2274 | 751,989 |
298,413 | The difference in gene frequencies between the original population and colony may also trigger the two groups to diverge significantly over the course of many generations. As the difference, or genetic distance, increases, the two separated populations may become distinct, both genetically and phenetically, although no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72016 | 298,253 |
1,903,218 | From 1982 to 1988 he worked at University of Texas at Austin as a teaching assistant, lecturer and research associate. He is now an Associate Professor of General Physics at University of Salento (Italy), tenured since 1999, and a member of Centro Fermi, Rome. He collaborated with John Archibald Wheeler in 1995 to writ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39868218 | 1,902,126 |
988,652 | Beamon entered the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City as the favorite to win the gold medal, having won 22 of the 23 meets he had competed in that year, including a career best of 8.33 m (equivalent to 27 feet 4 inches) and a world's best of 8.39 m that was ineligible for the record books due to excessive wind assista... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=305498 | 988,136 |
1,423,736 | Today, the small size of fully automatic camcorders with large view screens and long-life rechargeable batteries has reduced the housing size and made underwater videography an easy, fun activity for the diver. Low-cost wide-angle lens add-ons are available for many cameras and some can even be fitted outside the camer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=297297 | 1,422,934 |
1,668,866 | Canadian public health at the turn of the 20th century was defined by increasing local and provincial efforts to control the spread of infectious diseases which worsened with urbanization. In particular, diphtheria (known as "The Strangler" for its infection of the respiratory system) was the leading cause of death amo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61019378 | 1,667,926 |
37,197 | In early 2014, the Nicholas School of the Environment opened a new home, Environmental Hall, a five-story, glass-and-concrete building that incorporates the highest sustainable features and technologies, and meets or exceeds the criteria for LEED platinum certification. The School of Nursing in April 2014 opened a new ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53273 | 37,184 |
919,454 | Even though opioid receptor families are similar to each other in many ways, their structural differences lead to differences in functionality. Thus, mu-opioid receptors induce relaxation, trust, satisfaction and have a strong analgesic effect. This system is also thought to be important in mediating complex social beh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=736407 | 918,969 |
897,792 | This idea was received with disbelief, denial and strong scepticism, but further evidence is emerging to support it. In 2007, isotopic analyses by a team including Hueber and Kevin Boyce of the University of Chicago concluded that "Prototaxites" was a giant fungus. They detected a highly variable range of values of car... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10857884 | 897,318 |
46,666 | Molecular evidence indicates that the lineage of gibbons (family Hylobatidae), the "lesser apes", diverged from that of the great apes some 18–12 million years ago, and that of orangutans (subfamily Ponginae) diverged from the other great apes at about 12 million years. There are no fossils that clearly document the an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19773811 | 46,648 |
1,937,949 | The number of tenure-tracked female faculty spiked from 150 in 1992 to 240 that year; 265 women played on university-sponsored intercollegiate athletic teams. In 1993, Barbara Ross-Lee, D.O., was appointed Dean of the Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, becoming the first female African American to serve as dean ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38411419 | 1,936,839 |
1,439,196 | Certain number formats may be chosen for an application for convenience in programming, or because of certain advantages offered by the hardware for that number format. For instance, early processors did not natively support the IEEE floating-point standard for representing fractional values, so integers were used to s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4252019 | 1,438,386 |
561,810 | For either process to occur the molecules must form a stable aqueous suspension. There are four common processes by which the particle can obtain surface charge needed to form a stable dispersion: 1. Dissociation or ionization of a surface group 2. Reabsorption of ions 3. Adsorption of ionized surfactants 4. Isomorphic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1476858 | 561,521 |
1,891,460 | Robbie Davis-Floyd is a fellow recipient of the Society for Applied Anthropology at the University of Texas, Austin. She was a fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1980. Davis-Floyd was awarded a faculty development grant from Trinity University around 1988 and 1989. She was recognized as a research f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52996023 | 1,890,377 |
339,744 | The ride of Revere, Dawes, and Prescott triggered a flexible system of "alarm and muster" that had been carefully developed months before, in reaction to the colonists' impotent response to the Powder Alarm. This system was an improved version of an old notification network for use in times of emergency. The colonists ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4321886 | 339,564 |
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