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1,516,767 | Manuel Núñez Tovar (Caicara, Monagas, September 24, 1872 – Maracay, Aragua, January 27, 1928) was naturalist, researcher, parasitologist and entomologist. Nuñez Tovar began his studies at Caicara and later continued in Maturin, where he graduated from high school at age 16. The first two years studied medicine at the F... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29302481 | 1,515,915 |
98,348 | In the original series, divisions in ship assignments were denoted by shirt color; for the movie, these color codes were moved to small patches on each person's uniform. The Starfleet delta symbol was standardized and superimposed over a circle of color indicating area of service. The blue color of previous uniforms wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=277006 | 98,306 |
127,426 | The LAV platform is planned to remain in service with the Marine Corps until 2035. The Marines aim to have prototypes for the LAV's replacement, dubbed the Armored Reconnaissance Vehicle (ARV), by 2023. The ARV was initially planned to be a networked family of wheeled vehicles capable of performing various mission sets... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2281152 | 127,374 |
1,650,589 | More recently it was shown that TCF7L2 plays a crucial role in both the embryonic development and postnatal maturation of the thalamus through direct and indirect regulation of many genes previously reported to be important for both processes. In late gestation TCF7L2 regulates the expression of many thalamus-enriched ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11157092 | 1,649,657 |
1,899,375 | Prevention of undiagnosed and repeat injury is of importance in sports-related concussions. Every three minutes, a child in the United States is treated for a sports-related concussion. Between 2010 and 2014, sports-related concussions experienced a 500% uptick. Rapid sideline testing using short neuropsychological tes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35565406 | 1,898,290 |
2,008,004 | The PSMB8 protein has a significant clinical role in autoimmune diseases and inflammatory reactions. For instance, patients with a homozygous missense mutation (G197V) in the immunoproteasome subunit, β type 8 (PSMB8) suffered from autoinflammatory responses that included recurrent fever and nodular erythema together w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14723094 | 2,006,852 |
4,360 | The first potential evidence for herding or flocking as a widespread behavior common to many dinosaur groups in addition to birds was the 1878 discovery of 31 "Iguanodon", ornithischians that were then thought to have perished together in Bernissart, Belgium, after they fell into a deep, flooded sinkhole and drowned. O... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8311 | 4,358 |
1,931,681 | Molpro was designed and maintained by Wilfried Meyer and Peter Pulay in the late 1960s. At that moment, Pulay developed the first analytical gradient code called Hartree-Fock (HF), and Meyer researched his PNO-CEPA (pseudo-natural orbital coupled-electron pair approximation) methods. In 1980, Werner and Meyer developed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=638971 | 1,930,573 |
1,768,158 | "The Structure of Science" is considered a classic work. The book has been praised by philosophers such as Horace Romano Harré, Douglas Hofstadter, Alexander Rosenberg, Isaac Levi, Roger Scruton, and Colin Klein, as well as by the historian Peter Gay and the economists H. Scott Gordon and Grażyna Musiał. It was describ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37426736 | 1,767,164 |
1,642,594 | Published in 1926, the book ""The Nervous Mechanism of Plants"" by Jagadish Chandra Bose was revolutionary as he was one of the first plant biologists to be recognised for his research on the nervous system of plants. He had already achieved recognition for his endeavours in physics where he studied optical properties ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66293898 | 1,641,667 |
98,984 | In 1993 Dale A. Russell and Donald E. Russell analyzed "Therizinosaurus" and "Chalicotherium," and noted similarities in their respective body plan, even though they form part of different groups. Both genera had large, well-developed, and relatively strong arms; the pelvic girdle was robust and suited for a sitting be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=851586 | 98,941 |
1,002,937 | "The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art", the title of which first appeared by 179 AD on a bronze inscription, was edited and commented on by the 3rd century mathematician Liu Hui from the Kingdom of Cao Wei. This book included many problems where geometry was applied, such as finding surface areas for squares and c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11953 | 1,002,419 |
1,731,773 | A concussion, which is known as a subset of traumatic brain injury (TBI), is when a force comes in contact with the head, neck or face, or fast movement of the head, causing a functional injury to the brain. The severity of any injury depends on the location & strength of the impact. It is short-lived impairment of neu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47677251 | 1,730,797 |
479,644 | Clinical neuropsychology is a fairly new practice in comparison to other specialty fields in psychology with history going back to the 1960s. The specialty focus of clinical neuropsychology evolved slowly into a more defined whole as interest grew. Threads from neurology, clinical psychology, psychiatry, cognitive psyc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=605564 | 479,404 |
1,677,215 | Janus kinase 3 is a tyrosine kinase that belongs to the janus family of kinases. Other members of the Janus family include JAK1, JAK2 and TYK2. Janus kinases (JAKs) are relatively large kinases of approximately 1150 amino acids with apparent molecular weights of 120-130 kDa. They are cytosolic tyrosine kinases that are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11849161 | 1,676,273 |
606,308 | The story of Christopher Columbus's origins and young life preceding his sea-faring voyages is still largely unknown. Columbus survived the sinking of a Portuguese ship, worked for a merchant, and began mapping with his brother Bartholomew before his marriage to Dona Filipa Moniz Perestrelo in 1478. Columbus was intere... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47594693 | 605,998 |
1,963,510 | The final (11th) impression (in fact variant editions) of the English edition was in September 1949. This constant revision reflected the fact that the book, with all its shortcomings, was the best encyclopedic account of operas from Gluck to Mascagni in existence. It was therefore this work which was chosen by the dis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15489424 | 1,962,382 |
90,825 | Modern commercial robotic control systems are highly complex, integrate multiple sensors and effectors, have many interacting degrees-of-freedom (DOF) and require operator interfaces, programming tools and real-time capabilities. They are oftentimes interconnected to wider communication networks and in many cases are n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20903754 | 90,785 |
1,057,884 | The primary game mode of "SpaceChem" depicts the internal workings of a Reactor, mapped out to a 10 × 8 regular grid. Each reactor has up to two input and up to two output quadrants, and supports two waldos, red and blue, manipulated through command icons placed on the grid. The player adds commands from an array to di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31625168 | 1,057,335 |
1,957,312 | The question of the origins of chromids is tied to the question of why they evolved. One possibility is that chromids are a "frozen accident", where they simply happened to evolve by chance and for no particular reason and so, for this reason alone, are present in the lineage descendant from the organism in which they ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69964722 | 1,956,188 |
485,997 | In 1948 a University Education Commission had been started under S. Radhakrishnan with members that included Zakir Hussain and the American educationist J.J. Tigert, and Arthur Ernest Morgan. They examined the Land-Grant colleges of the United States as a potential model for rural and agricultural education. This recom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=151960 | 485,748 |
91,061 | The first lunar excursion began four hours after landing, at 6:54 p.m. EST on December 11. After exiting through the hatch of the LM and descending the ladder to the footpad, Cernan took the first step on the lunar surface of the mission. Just before doing so, Cernan remarked, "I'm on the footpad. And, Houston, as I st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1971 | 91,021 |
1,793,249 | Perhaps because of the centrality of funding to the whole reform scheme and because the administrative machinery for handling budgets was already in place, many concrete provisions for funding research were adopted following the March 1985 Central Committee decision. In February 1986 the State Council promulgated provi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14246598 | 1,792,240 |
896,839 | In 1832, Carl Friedrich Gauss studied the Earth's magnetic field and proposed adding the second to the basic units of the metre and the kilogram in the form of the CGS system (centimetre, gram, second). In 1836, he founded the "Magnetischer Verein", the first international scientific association, in collaboration with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20353 | 896,367 |
1,743,984 | The initial derivation of SEA arose from independent calculations made in 1959 by Richard Lyon and Preston Smith as part of work concerned with the development of methods for analyzing the response of large complex aerospace structures subjected to spatially distributed random loading. Lyon's calculation showed that un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12581344 | 1,743,000 |
2,195,600 | In 1931 JPVM delivered a lecture to celebrate the life & work of Michael Faraday and the applications of his discovery of electro-magnetic induction. Faraday was one of the greatest experimental scientists working both in the fields of physics & chemistry. In his original notes Faraday describes his " experiments upon ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52676648 | 2,194,349 |
670,992 | In March 1918 Horthy's position within the navy was secured, and he had begun to reorganize it according to his own vision, with strong support from Emperor Karl I. By this time, the United States had declared war on both Germany and Austria-Hungary and had begun to send ships to aid the French, British, and Italians i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1089216 | 670,640 |
87,247 | In the mid-1950s the USAF issued a General Operating Requirement for a supersonic trainer, planning to retire its 1940s-era Lockheed T-33s. Northrop officials decided to adapt the N-156 to this competition. The only other candidate was the two-seat version of the North American F-100 Super Sabre. Although the F-100 was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=357874 | 87,212 |
2,026,244 | Benitez-Nelson’s research centers on the mechanisms that influence the formation, composition, and downward transport of material from the surface ocean to depth. This research directly relates to biological production and diversity and the ocean’s role in the uptake and sequestration of greenhouse gases, nutrients, t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58863046 | 2,025,078 |
260,632 | A procedure using a long thin tube with a camera that is passed through the mouth to view the esophagus ("esophago-"), stomach ("gastro-"), and the duodenum ("duodeno-"). It is also referred to as upper endoscopy or just endoscopy. The procedure is performed for further evaluation of symptoms including persistent heart... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12976 | 260,498 |
650,510 | Attitude control is needed to keep a spacecraft's instruments and antennas aimed in the correct direction. During course correction maneuvers, the spacecraft may need to rotate so that its rocket engine faces the proper direction before being fired. "Mariner 10" determined its attitude using two optical sensors, one po... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38785 | 650,169 |
636,224 | Despite the advantages of high spatial resolution and precise chemical sensitivity attributed to AES, there are several factors that can limit the applicability of this technique, especially when evaluating solid specimens. One of the most common limitations encountered with Auger spectroscopy are charging effects in n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36835 | 635,885 |
612,828 | In order to make the principle of relativity as required by Poincaré an exact law of nature in the immobile aether theory of Lorentz, the introduction of a variety ad hoc hypotheses was required, such as the contraction hypothesis, local time, the Poincaré stresses, etc.. This method was criticized by many scholars, si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1790788 | 612,517 |
2,121,278 | Douglas Emlen (born April 29, 1967) is an evolutionary biologist and Professor of Biology at the University of Montana. He has received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from the Office of Science and Technology Policy at the White House, multiple research awards from the National Science... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45716200 | 2,120,059 |
1,158,420 | A study was conducted to observe the responses of colonies by introducing heterospecific intruders. The results were dramatic: contact between a resident and an intruder generally resulted in an intense battle, with both individuals snapping at each other with their powerful major chelae. However, contacts between resi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37277298 | 1,157,806 |
2,195,517 | In 1986, the U.S. government passed the Federal Technology Transfer Act of 1986 to gradually disseminate technology developed by federal government agencies to the commercial sector. In cooperation with the Federal Technology Transfer Act, ETDL established several Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRDAs)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70093163 | 2,194,267 |
1,296,011 | Progeria is a single-gene genetic disease that cause acceleration of many or most symptoms of ageing during childhood. It affects about 1 in 4-8 million births. Those who have this disease are known for failure to thrive and have a series of symptoms that cause abnormalities in the joints, hair, skin, eyes, and face. M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5914541 | 1,295,300 |
1,871,231 | Domestic construction has witnessed the introduction of improved building techniques and the smart home (home automation). Both the hydraulic lift and the concrete pump/crane, are now commonly used for home construction. Furthermore, homes are built with the electronics necessary for Internet connection throughout the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29991137 | 1,870,154 |
1,374,163 | As an experimental vehicle primarily intended to gather data, various assorted sensors and monitoring equipment were present and operational throughout the full length of the flight in order to gather data to support the evaluation effort, including the verification of the vehicle's critical reentry technologies. The r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4410085 | 1,373,405 |
1,262,876 | The Soviet annexation was accompanied by the widespread arrests of Polish government officials, police and military personnel, teachers, priests, judges, border guards, etc., followed by executions and massive deportation to Soviet interior and forced labour camps were many perished as a result of harsh conditions. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2125860 | 1,262,188 |
1,304,946 | Whether scientific method is at all suited for the study of the subjective aspect of emotion, feelings, is a question for philosophy of science and epistemology. In practice, the use of self-report (i.e. questionnaires) has been widely adopted by researchers. Additionally, web-based research is being used to conduct la... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2671192 | 1,304,230 |
1,280,842 | On 1 April Charles wrote to his older sister Susan that he had also seen the rhinoceros in the zoo let out for the first time that spring, "kicking & rearing" and galloping for joy. He then passed on the gossip that Miss Martineau had been "as frisky lately [as] the Rhinoceros. – Erasmus has been with her noon, morning... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1632764 | 1,280,147 |
988,700 | On January 16, 2019, the DIA released a list of 38 research titles pursued by the program in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by Steven Aftergood, director of the Federation of American Scientists’ Project on Government Secrecy. One such research topic, "“Traversable Wormholes, Stargates, and Neg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56065968 | 988,184 |
850,393 | The electron magnetic moment is intrinsically connected to electron spin and was first hypothesized during the early models of the atom in the early twentieth century. The first to introduce the idea of electron spin was Arthur Compton in his 1921 paper on investigations of ferromagnetic substances with X-rays. In Comp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1673288 | 849,941 |
1,049,262 | At Noije Bum, located on a ridge, amber is found within fine grained clastic rocks, typically medium to greyish green in colour, resulting from the constituent grains being black, yellow, grey and light green. The fine grained rocks are primarily fine to very fine grained sandstone, with beds of silt and shale and late... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48679019 | 1,048,717 |
1,888,992 | The Cornell Theory Center (CTC) was established in 1985 under the direction of Cornell Physics Professor and Nobel Laureate Kenneth G. Wilson. In 1984, the National Science Foundation began work on establishing five new supercomputer centers, including the CTC, to provide high-speed computing resources for research wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=140640 | 1,887,909 |
1,475,872 | Walker Hall was completed in 2002, funded by a gift from the Willard and Pat Walker Charitable Foundation of Springdale. With its massive 24-foot limestone columns, red granite steps and majestic wood doors, Walker Hall closely resembles its predecessor, Hurie Hall, which occupied the same area of the campus for almost... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1706961 | 1,475,040 |
339,860 | Although sporadic work at what became known as the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry in Emery County, Utah, had taken place as early as 1927, and the fossil site itself described by William L. Stokes in 1945, major operations did not begin there until 1960. Under a cooperative effort involving nearly 40 institutions, tho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1347 | 339,680 |
759,813 | Another effect from a vacuum is a condition called ebullism which results from the formation of bubbles in body fluids due to reduced ambient pressure, the steam may bloat the body to twice its normal size and slow circulation, but tissues are elastic and porous enough to prevent rupture. Technically, ebullism is consi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1614102 | 759,407 |
119,556 | The ancient Greeks were the first to make theories about the weather. Many natural philosophers studied the weather. However, as meteorological instruments did not exist, the inquiry was largely qualitative, and could only be judged by more general theoretical speculations. Herodotus states that Thales predicted the so... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19904 | 119,507 |
1,827,455 | Formations such as the Graneros Shale, Carlile Shale and Greehorn Limestone that extended at greater thickness into neighboring states such as Wyoming, record a period leading up to an 88 Ma erosional unconformity in which the Western Interior Seaway expanded leading to new deposition of limestone and shale. Between 88... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55499502 | 1,826,416 |
684,475 | Rawlinson was the first of three reforming Commandants who transformed the Staff College into a real war school. The curriculum was modernised and updated, the teaching given a new sense of purpose and instructors became 'Directing Staff' rather than 'Professors', emphasising practicality. Major Godwin-Austen, historia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=889184 | 684,118 |
1,532,279 | Acute lung injury (ALI), also called non-cardiogenic pulmonary edema, is characterized by the abrupt onset of significant hypoxemia and diffuse pulmonary infiltrates in the absence of cardiac failure. The core pathology is disruption of the capillary-endothelial interface: this actually refers to two separate barriers ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36597555 | 1,531,412 |
1,296,380 | The utility of artificial intelligence for security does not exist in a vacuum, and its development was not driven by purely academic or scientific study. Rather, it is addressed to real-world needs, and hence, economic forces. Its use for non-security applications such as operational efficiency, shopper heat-mapping o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48653319 | 1,295,669 |
1,520,643 | The Lwandle single sex hostel near Cape Town, now preserved as the Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum, was established in 1958 as an accommodation facility for workers in the nearby fruit and canning industry. As such it was like scores of similar hostels around South Africa that were part of the migrant labour system under... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26216315 | 1,519,782 |
1,096,073 | In 1973, Rosenhan published "On Being Sane in Insane Places", which describes what is now called the Rosenhan experiment. In this study report, Rosenhan uses "hard labeling" to argue that mental illnesses are manifested solely as a result of societal influence. The study experiments arranged for eight individuals with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1977361 | 1,095,513 |
917,077 | In the late 1970s, two of the international joint ventures collected several hundred-ton quantities of manganese nodules from the abyssal plains ( + depth) of the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean. Significant quantities of nickel (the primary target) as well as copper and cobalt were subsequently extracted from this "o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=282473 | 916,594 |
265,695 | In August 2011, NASA announced the discovery by undergraduate student Lujendra Ojha of current seasonal changes on steep slopes below rocky outcrops near crater rims in the Southern hemisphere. These dark streaks, now called recurrent slope lineae (RSL), were seen to grow downslope during the warmest part of the Martia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21857752 | 265,551 |
1,853,621 | The key innovation of the MBA Polymers approach was that a mixed waste plastic stream could be sorted into usable pure plastic varieties. Recovery of durable plastic products in earlier processes required that each type of plastic part be identified and sorted by hand into separate batches. The sorted parts were ground... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39944068 | 1,852,559 |
1,237,281 | The Clock Tower destroyed in 1945 was restored to the roof of the main building on the 13th of May 2012. The tower is 18m high, weighs 15 tons and is crowned with a gilded image of the Allegory of Science. The main building encloses inner courtyards covered by glass domes designed by W. Czabański and Z. Wilk and instal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=785196 | 1,236,617 |
383,053 | According to the North American Neuroendocrine Tumor Society, the prevalence of pheochromocytoma is between 1:2500 and 1:6500, meaning that for every 2,500 – 6,500 people, there is (on average) one person with pheochromocytoma. In the United States, this equates to an annual incidence (new cases per year) of 500 to 160... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=277088 | 382,858 |
1,777,843 | Capitalizing on the success of his rabies venture, FitzGerald set out to address the much larger problem of diphtheria. Despite Paul Ehrlich's demonstration of the effectiveness of diphtheria antitoxin in the 1890s, the treatment remained slowly adopted on wider scale and diphtheria deaths in children continued to rise... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39983459 | 1,776,841 |
529,995 | Americans were fascinated with aviation in the 1920s and 1930s and refused to allow War Department conservatism to block innovation. General Billy Mitchell, the deputy director of the Air Service sought to wrest control of coastal defense away from the Navy. He went public insisting that his planes could sink battleshi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9895061 | 529,721 |
1,015,649 | On 14 April 2016 the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report on the $16.7 billion Autonomic Logistics Information System (ALIS) expressing concerns that a failure in the logistics system, which serves as the "brains" of the F-35, could ground the entire fleet because it lacked a back-up for processing ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54719700 | 1,015,126 |
1,947,506 | As of July 6, 2018, his research has resulted in more than 200 publications that according to the Web of Science have received more than 10,100 citations and the h-index of 56. On July 6, 2018, Google Scholar reported more than 11,500 citations and the h-index of 61. In particular, Piecuch's original contributions to c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39731430 | 1,946,393 |
1,885,320 | Over his career, he has worked on a wide variety of problems ranging from drug design to user interfaces to computer security. His current focus is on ways that computer science methods can help advance ecological science and improve our management of the Earth's ecosystems. This passion has led to several projects inc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51344878 | 1,884,239 |
547,448 | The rapid growth in physiological sensors, low-power integrated circuits, and wireless communication has enabled a new generation of wireless sensor networks, now used for purposes such as monitoring traffic, crops, infrastructure, and health. The body area network field is an interdisciplinary area which could allow i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33989688 | 547,161 |
1,587,598 | Timiryazev was born to Arkady Semyenovich Timiryazev, a Russian statesman, and Adelaida Bode, an English woman of French origin, who later received Russian citizenship. He had at least three brothers: (1835–1906), a military officer, (1837–1903), a specialists in statistics, and Vasily (c. 1840–1912), a writer. Timirya... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3263402 | 1,586,704 |
532,229 | Her 34-year career included developing and implementing computer code that analyzed alternative power technologies, supported the Centaur high-energy upper rocket stage, determined solar, wind and energy projects, and identified energy conversion systems and alternative systems to solve energy problems. During the 1970... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1551099 | 531,955 |
113,582 | The French pharmacologist Raphaël Dubois carried out work on bioluminescence in the late nineteenth century. He studied click beetles ("Pyrophorus") and the marine bivalve mollusc "Pholas dactylus". He refuted the old idea that bioluminescence came from phosphorus, and demonstrated that the process was related to the o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=203711 | 113,537 |
1,185,547 | In 1841, two employees of Robert Stephenson and Company, draughtsman William Howe and pattern-maker William Williams, suggested the simple expedient of replacing the gabs with a vertical slotted link, pivoted at both ends to the tips of the eccentric rods. To change direction, the link and rod ends were bodily raised o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2842618 | 1,184,918 |
985,340 | In the United States, Admiral William Benson attempted to entirely dissolve the USN's program in 1919. Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Roosevelt and others succeeded in maintaining it, but the service continued to support battleship-based doctrines. To counter Billy Mitchell's campaign to establish a separate ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=899167 | 984,826 |
387,912 | Among the thousands of graduates from the University of Iowa, especially notable alumni include George Gallup, founder of the Gallup Poll (BA, 1923); Tennessee Williams, author of "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (BA 1938); Gene Wilder, comedic film and television actor (BA 1955, Communication and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=241119 | 387,717 |
1,662,386 | Because of the positive results, the Department of Defense identified the need for standardization of the IETM development. In 1987 a joint military and commercial group was formed consisting of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Computer-assisted Acquisition and Logistics Support (OSD CALS) and Aerospace Industrie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6169185 | 1,661,451 |
1,942,753 | By 1887, despite an enrolment of 300 that was quickly outgrowing the 1831 buildings, UCC came close to closing its doors when a Liberal provincial government, which supported university federation and saw the college's endowment and downtown campus as sources of funds for such an expensive venture, came to power. That ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9633735 | 1,941,642 |
1,246,244 | In February 2022, archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority, led by Professor Ella Been, announced the discovery of a 1.5-million-year-old complete hominin vertebra. According to the researchers, the fossilized bone belonging to a juvenile between the ages of 6-12 is the oldest evidence of ancient hominins i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14903408 | 1,245,569 |
690,172 | People who have two mutated copies of the "BRCA2" gene have one type of Fanconi anemia. This condition is caused by extremely reduced levels of the BRCA2 protein in cells, which allows the accumulation of damaged DNA. Patients with Fanconi anemia are prone to several types of leukemia (a type of blood cell cancer); sol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1248100 | 689,809 |
1,764,826 | The breakdown of shear layers into turbulence is routinely observed in flows with velocity gradients, but without systematic rotation. This is an important point, because rotation produces strongly stabilizing Coriolis forces, and this is precisely what occurs in accretion disks . As can be seen in equation , the K = 0... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12010787 | 1,763,833 |
1,515,104 | The progressive legacy is still evident in the modern curriculum, which retains many traditions and educational activities dating back to the beginning of the school. Students work a minimum of one year above their current grade level, and explore broad themes allowing them to learn across subjects and engage in creati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8052357 | 1,514,253 |
1,365,781 | Aside from the Earth, remote sensing has made planetary exploration possible without sending an astronaut into space. For most planetary explorations, due to the thick atmosphere, radar is a suitable instrumentation to investigate planetary surface. Radar can penetrate the atmosphere and detect the surface roughness. A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55514078 | 1,365,025 |
1,996,275 | There is an increasing call for the energy models and datasets used for energy policy analysis and advice to be made public in the interests of transparency and quality. A 2010 paper concerning energy efficiency modeling argues that "an open peer review process can greatly support model verification and validation, whi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47926105 | 1,995,132 |
1,427,241 | Most researchers in mainstream biology believe sexual orientation likely results from a complex interplay of genetic, hormonal, and non-social environmental factors. Examples include the fraternal birth order effect related to male sexual orientation; a progressive immunization of the mother that could alter male speci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2009840 | 1,426,438 |
1,320,319 | On January 20, 1661, King John II Casimir Vasa granted the privilege transforming the Jesuit College into an Academy with four faculties. There was no medical faculty at that time and this condition lasted until the closing of the university by the Austrian authorities in 1773. Emperor Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12714026 | 1,319,593 |
86,899 | The Fw 190, designed as a rugged interceptor capable of withstanding considerable combat damage and delivering a potent 'punch' from its stable gun platform, was considered ideal for anti-bomber operations. Focke-Wulf redesigned parts of the wing structure to accommodate larger armament. The Fw 190 A-6 was the first su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=241214 | 86,864 |
1,737,750 | Italy was split in two parts after the fall of the fascist regime in 1943 and the onset of the Italian Civil War, rendering a unified national championship impossible until the 1945–46 season. Despite this suspension, in early 1944, a regional championship was held in Northern Italy—the Campionato Alta Italia—in which ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66131596 | 1,736,773 |
1,684,902 | Albert Claude (; 24 August 1899 – 22 May 1983) was a Belgian-American cell biologist and medical doctor who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974 with Christian de Duve and George Emil Palade. His elementary education started in a comprehensive primary school at Longlier, his birthplace. He served in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1505548 | 1,683,957 |
774,991 | In 1923 the expedition prospected the Flaming Cliffs again, this time discovering even more specimens of "Protoceratops" and also the first remains of "Oviraptor", "Saurornithoides" and "Velociraptor". Most notably, the team discovered the first fossilized dinosaur eggs near the holotype of "Oviraptor" and given how ab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1064031 | 774,575 |
1,919,137 | Fibrin scaffold is an important element in tissue engineering approaches as a scaffold material. It is advantageous opposed to synthetic polymers and collagen gels when cost, inflammation, immune response, toxicity and cell adhesion are concerned. When there is a trauma in a body, cells at site start the cascade of blo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23037879 | 1,918,037 |
754,602 | John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) was born in Cambridge, educated at Eton, and supervised by both A. C. Pigou and Alfred Marshall at Cambridge University. He began his career as a lecturer before working for the British government during the Great War, rising to be the British government's financial representative at the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7881361 | 754,199 |
1,297,810 | Climate change is now recognized as one of the greatest long-term challenges to marine ecosystems and fisheries. Under the National Innovations on Climate Resilient Agriculture (NICRA), a network project of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), to deal with climate change in marine ecosystem CMFRI has focusse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5116330 | 1,297,098 |
192,379 | The first F-111C was officially delivered in 1968, finally giving Australia an aircraft that could fly to Jakarta, drop bombs, and return without refueling. (The RAAF only acquired air-to-air refueling for the F/A-18, possibly to avoid causing difficulties with other Asian countries by increasing the F-111C's already g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25595226 | 192,280 |
1,056,611 | Another round of evaluation on SAPARS competitors lasted three days from May 4 thru May 6, 1995. This time, the CAS academicians selected were kept secret to prevent anyone from be bribed or politically pressure/influence. It was after this evaluation the 14th Institute was basically selected as the winner, with the ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51215241 | 1,056,062 |
1,516,809 | José María Vargas (La Guaira, March 10, 1786 – New York City, April 13, 1854) graduated with a degree in philosophy from the Seminario Tridentino obtained in 1809 his medical title from the Real y Pontificia Universidad de Caracas. Vargas was imprisoned by the Spanish in 1813 for revolutionary activities. Upon his rele... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29302481 | 1,515,957 |
1,949,472 | In 2020, in the aftermath of the MV Wakashio oil spill reaching Ile aux Aigrettes which occurred during the Corona Virus Pandemic lockdown, an important rescue was coordinated, engineered and financed by the Jean Boulle Group (owned by Mauritian Jean-Raymond Boulle) working closely with Mauritian Wildlife Foundation, (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3071179 | 1,948,351 |
79,286 | Since 2012, research focuses on organic materials exhibiting thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF), discovered at Kyushu University OPERA and UC Santa Barbara CPOS. TADF would allow stable and high-efficiency solution processable (meaning that the organic materials are layered in solutions producing thinner l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=191646 | 79,253 |
1,622,744 | The Vuilleumier cycle was patented by a Swiss-American engineer named Rudolph Vuilleumier in 1918. The purpose of Vuilleumier's machine was to create a heat pump that would use heat at high temperature as energy input. The Vuilleumier cycle...utilize[s] working gas expansion and compression at three variable volume spa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28465562 | 1,621,828 |
2,179,080 | In August 1880, Griffith was transferred to Dera Ismail Khan to investigate cases of surra (from the Marathi "sūra", meaning the sound of heavy breathing through nostrils), another disease common in horses, cattle and camels. On 22 September 1880, he obtained blood sample of diseases horses which he noticed were swarmi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71059307 | 2,177,835 |
196,615 | Newton (test plate) interferometry is frequently used in the optical industry for testing the quality of surfaces as they are being shaped and figured. Fig. 13 shows photos of reference flats being used to check two test flats at different stages of completion, showing the different patterns of interference fringes. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=166689 | 196,515 |
526,979 | "C. immitis" can cause a disease called coccidioidomycosis (valley fever). Its incubation period varies from 7 to 21 days. Coccidioidomycosis is not easily diagnosed on the basis of vital signs and symptoms, which are usually vague and nonspecific. Even a chest X-ray or CT scan cannot reliably distinguish it from other... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=853170 | 526,706 |
1,831,218 | The needed airlift capability was forthcoming from a select group of USAF officers selected for service outside of official Air Force channels. Detachment 2, 1045th Observation, Evaluation and Training Group (OE&TG) was established at Kadena AB, Okinawa in 1955. Det. 2's mission was to conduct high-altitude, high-risk,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18495171 | 1,830,171 |
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