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348,365 | In the 1990s it became apparent that the old Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh buildings in Lauriston Place were no longer adequate for a modern teaching hospital. Donald Dewar, the Scottish Secretary at the time, authorized a joint project between private finance, local authorities, and the university to create a modern ho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23592200 | 348,183 |
1,415,443 | Weissenberger became an "ace-in-a-day" for the first time on 10 May 1942 when he shot down five enemy aircraft, aerial victories 14–18, between 16:45 and 16:57 while on a Ju 87 escort mission. These victories were claimed over aircraft of 2 "Gvardeyskiy Smeshannyy Aviatsionny Polk" (2 GSAP—2nd Soviet Guards Composite A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10301408 | 1,414,646 |
236,568 | There is no standardized, defined set of diagnostic criteria for the diagnosis of tracheomalacia, mainly due to the nonspecific symptoms associated with it. Current diagnostic approaches include pulmonary function testing which shows a characteristic reduction in peak expiratory flow (PEF), physical examination, and im... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=195508 | 236,449 |
897,969 | Following World War II, the US Atomic Energy Commission was created to support government-sponsored peacetime research on atomic energy. The effort to build a nuclear reactor in the American northeast was fostered largely by physicists Isidor Isaac Rabi and Norman Foster Ramsey Jr., who during the war witnessed many of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53299 | 897,495 |
913,997 | Articles published in the 1970s and later suggest that Debierne's results published in 1904 conflict with those reported in 1899 and 1900. Furthermore, the now-known chemistry of actinium precludes its presence as anything other than a minor constituent of Debierne's 1899 and 1900 results; in fact, the chemical propert... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=899 | 913,518 |
1,169,175 | Schizophrenia is a poorly understood disease with complicated symptoms. In an effort to find a cause for this problem, these researchers looked at the brains of schizophrenic patients. It had been shown previously that abnormal gyrification, asymmetry, complexity, and variability occur in patients with schizophrenia. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=524233 | 1,168,557 |
667,714 | Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze and her husband Antoine Lavoisier rebuilt the field of chemistry, which had its roots in alchemy and at the time was a convoluted science dominated by George Stahl's theory of phlogiston. Paulze accompanied Lavoisier in his lab, making entries into lab notebooks and sketching diagrams of his... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3135183 | 667,366 |
2,213,745 | After returning from the semester break, Heyliger's team found themselves shorthanded. The team lost the services of Chuck Mettler due to graduation and Wayne McKibbin due to withdrawal. Joe Gannon and Amo Bessone were suffering from colds and, if that weren't enough, Starr Owen and Aldo Palazzari had been ruled inelig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67605108 | 2,212,485 |
1,653,347 | AlO commonly exists as a gas, since the solid state is not stable at room temperature and is only stable between 1050 and 1600 °C. Aluminium(I) oxide is formed by heating Al and AlO in a vacuum while in the presence of SiO and C, and only by condensing the products. Information is not commonly available on this compoun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23022776 | 1,652,415 |
1,947,468 | Piecuch studied chemistry at the undergraduate and graduate levels at the University of Wrocław, Poland. He received his M.S. degree in 1983 and Ph.D. degree in 1988. After postdoctoral and research faculty appointments at the University of Waterloo, Canada (1988–91, 1994–95), where he worked with Professors Josef Pald... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39731430 | 1,946,355 |
1,506,499 | Acetylcholine, once released, is degraded in the extracellular space by acetylcholinesterase, which faces that space. In the case the catecholamines, however, the enzymes of degradation monoamine oxidase and catechol-O-methyl transferase, like the enzymes of synthesis, are intracellular. Not metabolism but uptake throu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38791208 | 1,505,653 |
1,922,626 | Based on the 4-door, 5-passenger Renault R-10, 45 of these vehicles were produced in Ferndale, Michigan, during the years 1967 and 1968, and were sold primarily to utility companies in the USA. The Mars II operated on a 120-volt system, using tri-polar, lead-cobalt batteries (lead-acid) which could be charged to 80% ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18298017 | 1,921,523 |
845,481 | Reptiles and amphibians are susceptible to 1080, although much less sensitive than mammals. Amphibian and reptile species that have been tested in Australia are generally more tolerant to 1080 poison than are most other animals. McIlroy (1992) calculated that even if lizards fed entirely on insects or other animals poi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1190114 | 845,031 |
338,360 | In the early years of using the technique, it was understood that it depended on the atmospheric / ratio having remained the same over the preceding few thousand years. To verify the accuracy of the method, several artefacts that were datable by other techniques were tested; the results of the testing were in reasonabl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26197 | 338,180 |
1,933,773 | The station has been the site for many research projects and has led to the publication of many papers. Bird population studies, reproductive behavior, social structure, and seed dispersal characteristics have all been studied across multiple bird species. Primatology is a large topic of study in this area because of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5647369 | 1,932,665 |
1,350,773 | The establishment of a hereditary oligarchy obviously excluded wealthy non-patricians from political power and it is this class that led plebeian opposition to the early Republican settlement. The early Republic (510–338 BC) saw a long and often bitter struggle for political equality, known as the Conflict of the Order... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25818724 | 1,350,027 |
696,230 | Gabor was born as Günszberg Dénes, into a Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary. In 1918, his family converted to Lutheranism. Dennis was the first-born son of Günszberg Bernát and Jakobovits Adél. Despite having a religious background, religion played a minor role in his later life and he considered himself agnostic. In ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=172883 | 695,866 |
987,483 | Eight Maybach VL II gasoline engines were mounted inside the hull. Each engine turned a two-bladed, diameter, fixed pitch, wooden propeller via a driveshaft and bevel gearing which allowed the propeller to swivel from the vertical plane to the horizontal. With the engines' ability to reverse, this allowed thrust to be ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60944 | 986,967 |
1,276,221 | By the late 1950s, working at General Automation, Ovshinsky brought together these disparate studies in an invention. Crossing scientific disciplines that academics traditionally hold separate, including neurophysiology and cybernetics, Stan invented, and Herb Ovshinsky helped build, a mechanical model of a nerve cell ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2785878 | 1,275,528 |
121,578 | The traps are very similar, with leaves whose terminal section is divided into two lobes, hinged along the midrib. Trigger hairs (three on each lobe in "Dionaea muscipula", many more in the case of "Aldrovanda") inside the trap lobes are sensitive to touch. When a trigger hair is bent, stretch-gated ion channels in the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18952739 | 121,529 |
161,846 | While Noyce was considered the natural successor to Carter, the board decided not to promote him. Sherman Fairchild led the board to choose Richard Hodgson. Within a few months Hodgson was replaced by a management committee led by Noyce, while Sherman Fairchild looked for a new CEO other than Noyce. In response, Noyce ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=180263 | 161,761 |
866,447 | During the mid-15th century, tapestry was one of the most expensive and prized artistic products in Europe. Commercial production proliferated across the Netherlands and northern France from the early 15th century, especially in the cities of Arras, Bruges and Tournai. The perceived technical ability of these artisans ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=799881 | 865,987 |
1,710,137 | One of the most common use of mycelium based composites is for the alternatives for petroleum and polystyrene based materials. These synthetic foams are usually used for sustainable design and architecture products. The use of mycelium based composites are based on their properties. There are several bio-sustainable co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62859875 | 1,709,177 |
669,727 | In non-arid parts of Australia, colonies are often occupied year-round. During cold days in the non-breeding season, members of these colonies usually feed in flocks for about two hours, breaking up into small groups to rest, preen, sing, and court before foraging again in a large flock until about one hour before suns... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=424730 | 669,377 |
680,392 | The massive modularity theory thesis posits that there is a huge number of tremendously interlinked but specialized modules running programs called Darwinian algorithms, or DA. DA can be selected for just as a gene can, eventually improving cognition. The contrary theory, of generalist mind, suggests that the brain is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=160313 | 680,037 |
831,716 | Remote usability testing (also known as unmoderated or asynchronous usability testing) involves the use of a specially modified online survey, allowing the quantification of user testing studies by providing the ability to generate large sample sizes, or a deep qualitative analysis without the need for dedicated facili... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=288276 | 831,267 |
916,663 | The war started badly for the US and UN. The Korean People's Army struck massively in the summer of 1950 and nearly drove the outnumbered US and ROK defenders into the sea. However the United Nations intervened, naming Douglas MacArthur commander of its forces, and UN-US-ROK forces held a perimeter around Pusan, gainin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=161323 | 916,180 |
955,277 | A hypernova (sometimes called a collapsar) is a very energetic supernova thought to result from an extreme core-collapse scenario. In this case, a massive star (>30 solar masses) collapses to form a rotating black hole emitting twin energetic jets and surrounded by an accretion disk. It is a type of stellar explosion t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52880788 | 954,772 |
815,614 | Moses was born in Dayton, Ohio. Having accepted an academic scholarship to Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, he majored in physics and industrial engineering, while competing for the school track team. Morehouse did not have its own track, so he used public high school facilities around the city to train and run. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=578206 | 815,180 |
1,812,100 | Tantalum(V) oxide films have a variety of applications including as optical films with refractive indices as high as 2.039 and as a thin-film dielectric material in dynamic random access memory and semiconductor field-effect transistors. The approach chosen for preparation of these materials is determined by the desire... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37375114 | 1,811,067 |
1,736,898 | More recently, DMATs have aided in the response to Hurricane Sandy, which was particularly devastating to areas of New York and New Jersey. Following Hurricane Harvey, DMATs provided shelter care as well as acute care in field locations in, around and south of Houston, TX. A prolonged response for Hurricanes Irma and M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3274996 | 1,735,921 |
969,062 | Because of the incomplete understanding of hadrosaurids at the time, following Marsh's death in 1897 "Claosaurus annectens" was variously classified as a species of "Claosaurus", "Thespesius" or "Trachodon". Opinions varied greatly; textbooks and encyclopedias drew a distinction between the ""Iguanodon"-like" "Claosaur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1585380 | 968,552 |
1,317,715 | Cyclical variations in moods and energy levels have been recorded at least as far back as several thousand years. The words "melancholia" (an old word for depression) and "mania" have their etymologies in Ancient Greek. The word melancholia is derived from "melas"/μελας, meaning "black", and "chole"/χολη, meaning "bile... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7538869 | 1,316,990 |
1,864,094 | Due to the ablative nature of the patterning process, no development step (as in: selective removal of either the exposed or non-exposed regions of the resist as for e-beam and optical lithography) is needed, neither are optical proximity corrections. Maximum linear writing speeds of up to 20 mm/s have been shown with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29284770 | 1,863,022 |
1,150,183 | A key project is Yeang’s own house, the 'Roof-Roof' House (1985) which is his early experimental bioclimatic built work. The dwelling has an identifiable curved louvred umbrella-like upper roof-structure that functions as a solar-filtering device and device that shades the building's lower roof terrace. Its side 'wind ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1879224 | 1,149,576 |
1,872,183 | Gastric tonometry has been introduced as a novel method of monitoring tissue perfusion in critically ill patients. Tonometry is based on the principle that at equilibrium the partial pressure of a diffusible gas such as CO is the same in both the wall and lumen of a viscus. The technique therefore can estimate gut muco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20549307 | 1,871,106 |
1,635,059 | Japanese sources universally give the date for "Kongō"s keel-laying as 24 September 1875—the same as that for the awarding of the contract—but historian Hans Langerer describes this as improbable, arguing that no shipyard would order enough material to begin construction without cash in hand. "Kongō" was launched on 17... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2917111 | 1,634,136 |
1,562,675 | Sugarbaker began his career in 1988, focusing primarily on pleural mesothelioma. Following the completion of his residency training, Sugarbaker was appointed chief at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, where he founded and built the first non-cardiac division of thoracic surgery in the United States. The division ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47956675 | 1,561,788 |
535,111 | Central to the success of the Europeans was the use of firearms. However, the advantages afforded by firearms have often been overstated. Prior to the late 19th century, firearms were often cumbersome muzzle-loading, smooth-bore, single shot muskets with flint-lock mechanisms. Such weapons produced a low rate of fire, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1323516 | 534,832 |
823,185 | Habituation is a form of non-associative learning in which an innate (non-reinforced) response to a stimulus decreases after repeated or prolonged presentations of that stimulus. Responses that habituate include those that involve the intact organism (e.g., full-body startle response) or those that involve only compone... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=599837 | 822,743 |
512,067 | At the heart of the 50-acre York College campus is the Academic Core Building, which houses classrooms, lecture halls, laboratories, art studios, the library, computer facilities, academic and administrative offices, as well as dining facilities and a bookstore. On adjacent super blocks are located the 1,500 seat Perfo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1572369 | 511,801 |
1,718,039 | The 203rd deployed personnel to Bosnia with the NATO Implementation Force (IFOR) two days before Thanksgiving in 1996. The unit touched down in the region as part of Operation Joint Endeavor just as the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia began in earnest, with highly publicized arrest warrants fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67447284 | 1,717,069 |
1,353,636 | In 2016, the 'Raise the Roof' fundraising campaign was launched to raise funds to build a 700-seat auditorium. The campaign was criticised by members of the school’s community. In 2016, students were suspended for criticising the principal via cartoons and social media. Their criticisms arose from funds advertised as b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3632576 | 1,352,889 |
38,984 | The three major constituents of Earth's atmosphere are nitrogen, oxygen, and argon. Water vapor accounts for roughly 0.25% of the atmosphere by mass. The concentration of water vapor (a greenhouse gas) varies significantly from around 10 ppm by mole fraction in the coldest portions of the atmosphere to as much as 5% by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=202898 | 38,969 |
1,258,981 | All told, in common with other HEBM processes, EMC Activation causes crystalline destruction because of extremely violent and disruptive factors that are occasioned at the nanoscale of the material being processed. Although over in short duration and highly focal, the processes are repeated at a high frequency: hence t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39204523 | 1,258,294 |
1,025,422 | In pulse-width modulation the switches are turned on at a constant chopping frequency. The total time period of one cycle of output waveform is constant. The average output voltage is directly proportional to the ON time of chopper. The ratio of ON time to total time is defined as duty cycle. It can be varied between 0... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1727746 | 1,024,889 |
873,148 | Bruce Charlton, a Newcastle University psychology professor, said what looks like immaturity — or in his terms, the "retention of youthful attitudes and behaviors into later adulthood" — is actually a valuable developmental characteristic, which he calls psychological neoteny. The ability of an adult human to learn is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50773588 | 872,688 |
585,283 | The bulk of the Spitfire squadrons, which by D-Day were incorporated into the Second Tactical Air Force, were progressively moved across the Channel, operating from advanced landing grounds in Normandy, close behind the front-lines. From late August 1944, as the Allied ground forces overran German forces in France and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15630676 | 584,983 |
776,637 | PKD results from defects in the primary cilium, an immotile, hair-like cellular organelle present on the surface of most cells in the body, anchored in the cell body by the basal body. In the kidney, primary cilia have been found to be present on most cells of the nephron, projecting from the apical surface of the rena... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20332751 | 776,221 |
395,108 | Ichthyosaurs had fin-like limbs of varying relative length. The standard interpretation is that these, together with the dorsal fin and tail fin, were used as control surfaces for directional stability, controlling yaw, and for stabilising pitch and roll, rather than propulsion. However, during the 1980s the German pal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=314101 | 394,913 |
1,198,031 | Since this is a surgical procedure complications can occur. Some patients may experience an infection at the incision site. If an infection occurs, they can almost always be cured with a course of oral antibiotics. Another complication is superficial peroneal nerve distribution sensation reduction. Generalized ligament... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3137196 | 1,197,390 |
1,808,227 | By 1937, the school had expanded operations to 41 staff and 500 students. In October 1938, General Arnold brought in the top three aviation school representatives to request they establish an unfunded startup of Civilian Pilot Training Program schools at their own risk. These were Oliver Parks of Parks Air College, C. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37161604 | 1,807,206 |
934,635 | Martin Stokes uses his book Ethnicity, Identity and Music to examine how the presence of records, tapes, and CD's, and the ability to listen to music removed from its social setting affects identity and social boundaries. Stokes mentions how modernity and new technology has created a separation between place or "locale... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=80077 | 934,141 |
860,847 | In 2004, the USFDA approved a therapy that reduces the frequency and volume of total parenteral nutrition (TPN), comprising: NutreStore (oral solution of glutamine) and Zorbtive (growth hormone, of recombinant DNA origin, for injection) together with a specialized oral diet. After 24 weeks of successful Phase III patie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1257053 | 860,388 |
1,417,494 | In 1983, Sieburth hypothesised that the SML was a hydrated gel-like layer formed by a complex mixture of carbohydrates, proteins, and lipids. In recent years, his hypothesis has been confirmed, and scientific evidence indicates that the SML is an aggregate-enriched biofilm environment with distinct microbial communitie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12264442 | 1,416,695 |
758,627 | Almost all private academies and colleges in the South were strictly segregated by race. The American Missionary Association supported the development and establishment of several historically black colleges, such as Fisk University and Shaw University. In this period, a handful of northern colleges accepted black stud... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9083795 | 758,221 |
1,661,040 | The metadyne-fitted locomotives had new bodies, but the bogies and motors were removed from redundant Metropolitan line stock and refurbished at Acton Works. Similarly, the metadyne equipment was removed from an experimental train and reused. A metadyne unit consists of a rotating machine, which converts the constant v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3170540 | 1,660,106 |
436,353 | It was not until the mid-nineteenth century that the origin of Second Empire architecture in the United States and Canada can be found. A series of major projects and events in French urban planning and design provided the inspiration for Second Empire architecture. Haussmann's renovation of Paris under Napoleon III in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52026515 | 436,139 |
1,507,257 | While working as a companion for Lord Shelburne, Priestley had a great deal of free time to engage in scientific investigations. The Earl even set up a laboratory for him. Priestley's experiments during his years in Calne were almost entirely confined to "airs" and from this work emerged his most important scientific t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13414217 | 1,506,411 |
648,345 | Outgassing is a challenge to creating and maintaining clean high-vacuum environments. NASA and ESA maintain lists of materials with low-outgassing properties suitable for use in spacecraft, as outgassing products can condense onto optical elements, thermal radiators, or solar cells and obscure them. Materials not norma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=774575 | 648,004 |
2,131,455 | Its primary tasks include basic and application-oriented research in an interdisciplinary setting in the fields of engineering, computer science, information technology, intelligent systems as well as process control, multimedia and wide area networking. Further tasks of SZTAKI include training, contract-based target r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35165338 | 2,130,230 |
241,563 | "The Final Hours of Portal 2" is a digital book written and created by Geoff Keighley. This digital book gives insight on the creation of "Portal 2". Keighley had previously worked as an editor at GameSpot, writing several 10,000-word "Final Hours" pieces on various games where he visited the studios during the late de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31697773 | 241,437 |
94,155 | Some ceramics are semiconductors. Most of these are transition metal oxides that are II-VI semiconductors, such as zinc oxide. While there are prospects of mass-producing blue LEDs from zinc oxide, ceramicists are most interested in the electrical properties that show grain boundary effects. One of the most widely used... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6458 | 94,114 |
1,441,668 | There were a few positive efforts for the Trojans: Tight end Fred Davis caught five passes for a career-best 152 yards, including a 63-yard touchdown; and nose tackle Sedrick Ellis had three sacks. However, there were many more errors and substandard performances: quarterback John David Booty, who broke a bone in the m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25428827 | 1,440,856 |
1,605,202 | In 1990, Ural metallurgy accounted for the production of 24.5% of all-Union cast iron, 26.1% of steel, 27.5% of rolled products, and 30.7% of steel pipes. In the last years of the existence of the USSR, in the Ural metallurgical industry, problems with an outdated equipment park and extensive development based on outda... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66141214 | 1,604,298 |
1,182,160 | As a young child at The Mount, Darwin avidly collected animal shells, postal franks, bird's eggs, pebbles and minerals. He was very fond of gardening, an interest his father shared and encouraged, and would follow the family gardener around. Early in 1817, soon after becoming eight years old, he started at the small lo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2087722 | 1,181,535 |
249,203 | An early application of a DNA database was the compilation of a Mitochondrial DNA Concordance, prepared by Kevin W. P. Miller and John L. Dawson at the University of Cambridge from 1996 to 1999 from data collected as part of Miller's PhD thesis. There are now several DNA databases in existence around the world. Some ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44290 | 249,074 |
750,978 | The first known report of TCE in groundwater was given in 1949 by two English public chemists who described two separate instances of well contamination by industrial releases of TCE. Based on available federal and state surveys, between 9% to 34% of the drinking water supply sources tested in the U.S. may have some TC... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=305050 | 750,580 |
1,157,031 | In the military sector, American Predators and Reapers are made for counterterrorism operations and in war zones in which the enemy lacks sufficient firepower to shoot them down. They are not designed to withstand antiaircraft defenses or air-to-air combat. In September 2013, the chief of the US Air Combat Command stat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47170708 | 1,156,419 |
1,580,459 | Peak pulse power handling, driven by voltage breakdown, is more or less frequency independent for any given size (and can be deduced by assuming ~300 V RMS per mm of inner to outer spacing), but the average power, limited by losses heating the centre conductors, increases approximately with the square root of the opera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12167287 | 1,579,569 |
1,235,540 | As the No. 1 seed in the Big Ten tournament, the Spartans faced Ohio State for third time on the season. The Buckeyes had beaten Indiana to advance to face Michigan State. Nick Ward returned for the Spartans, but did not start. He saw limited time, but played well, scoring eight points including a jump shot and free th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56903804 | 1,234,877 |
1,244,481 | The first practical installation which supplied hydraulic power to the public was in Kingston upon Hull, in England. The Hull Hydraulic Power Company began operation in 1876. They had of pipes, which were up to in diameter, and ran along the west bank of the River Hull from Sculcoates bridge to its junction with the Hu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4488634 | 1,243,808 |
62,441 | A vaccine "licensure" occurs after the successful conclusion of the development cycle and further the clinical trials and other programs involved through PhasesI–III demonstrating safety, immunoactivity, immunogenetic safety at a given specific dose, proven effectiveness in preventing infection for target populations, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32653 | 62,416 |
1,596,650 | In 1972 the first x-ray beamline was constructed by Ingolf Lindau and Piero Pianetta as literally a "hole in the wall" extending off of the SPEAR storage ring. SPEAR had been built in an era of particle colliders, where physicists were more interested in smashing particles together in hope of discovering antimatter tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2690303 | 1,595,751 |
449,770 | Kremer is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship (1997) and a Presidential Faculty Fellowship, and was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He is a research affiliate at Innovations for Poverty Action(IPA), a New Haven, Connecticut-based research... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6640245 | 449,551 |
1,034,924 | In January 2006, the European Space Agency, together with the Australian National University, announced successful testing of an improved electrostatic ion engine, the Dual-Stage 4-Grid (DS4G), that showed exhaust speeds of 210 km/s, reportedly four times higher than previously achieved, allowing for a specific impulse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1424917 | 1,034,385 |
643,946 | An increase in the number of aircraft also means greater carbon emissions. Environmental scientists have voiced concern over the main kinds of pollution associated with aircraft, mainly noise and emissions. Aircraft engines have been historically notorious for creating noise pollution and the expansion of airways over ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29564581 | 643,606 |
708,116 | Other studies have examined the process of replay which has been described as a reactivation of patterns that were stimulated during a learning phase. Replay has been demonstrated in the hippocampus and this has lent support to the notion that it serves a consolidation purpose. However, replay is not specific to sleep ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21312297 | 707,747 |
1,700,350 | Since many autonomous vehicles are going to rely on electricity to operate, the demand for lithium batteries increases. Similarly, radar, sensors, lidar, and high-speed internet connectivity require higher auxiliary power from vehicles, which manifests as greater power draw from batteries. The larger battery requiremen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69239975 | 1,699,396 |
1,944,096 | Educational progressivism has generated the political will to bring about positive change in the regulatory framework and the conditions to implement the right to education and the improvement of learning opportunities, but this has not been matched by the political will to provide each and every child and young person... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53555527 | 1,942,984 |
1,337,096 | Starting in 1951, he received generous support from the Research Corporation in New York, and moved to Hawaii. In the 1950s, he wanted to return to active studies but much of the field was already filled with very large and expensive instruments. Instead he turned to a field that was being largely ignored, that of medi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=336860 | 1,336,365 |
135,372 | According to a study showing the different relationships between limbs of the body and coordination in infants, genetic components have a huge impact on motor development (Piek, Gasson, Barrett, & Case (2002)). Intra-limb correlations, like the strong relationship and distance between hip and knee joints, were studied ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9627698 | 135,317 |
1,857,133 | Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) establishes a lifelong latent infection in B lymphocytes. Viral LMP2A mRNA is frequently detected in peripheral blood B lymphocytes and the protein is often present in tumor biopsies from EBV malignancies. This suggests LMP2A plays an important role in viral latency, as well as in progression o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21859704 | 1,856,065 |
211,665 | Chronic diseases such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes, obesity and cancer have become the most common and costly health problems in the United States. In 2014, it was projected that by 2023 that the number of chronic disease cases would increase by 42%, resulting in $4.2 trillion in treatment and lost economic outpu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1032780 | 211,557 |
1,724,508 | However, the formation process through detachment faults hypothesis has its limitations, such as the scarce seismic evidence that low-angle normal faulting exists, where the presumably significant offset along such faults - which transect the lithosphere at a low angle - should be involved with some friction. The rarit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13605193 | 1,723,538 |
931,931 | In May 2013, a senior regulator at the Food & Drug Administration, Medical Team Leader Thomas A. Marciniak, revealed publicly that contrary to the FDA's official conclusion that there was no increased cancer risk, after a patient-by-patient examination of the available FDA data he had concluded that there was a lung-ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=757797 | 931,439 |
317,160 | The spark across the spark plug's electrodes forms a small kernel of flame approximately the size of the spark plug gap. As it grows in size, its heat output increases, which allows it to grow at an accelerating rate, expanding rapidly through the combustion chamber. This growth is due to the travel of the flame front ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=228468 | 316,991 |
1,638,056 | In the absence of NS1, HMG1 binds the hairpin sequence independently, causing it to bend, without protecting any region from digestion. HMG1 can also directly bind to NS1 and mediates interactions between NS1 molecules bound to their recognition elements in the origin, so it is essential for formation of the cleavage c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66387043 | 1,637,131 |
958,011 | As of October 2015, the weapon was in the second round of contractor validation testing, with a Pre-Production Qualification Test (PPQT) to be conducted in spring 2016, which could lead to a Milestone C decision by August 2016. Since its first deployment, the XM25 has been updated by replacing the boxy 2X Fire Control ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1608120 | 957,505 |
1,661,200 | Lalita Ramakrishnan (born 1959) is an American microbiologist who is known for her contributions to the understanding of the biological mechanism of tuberculosis. she serves as a professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the University of Cambridge, where she is also a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50305566 | 1,660,266 |
910,960 | The United Kingdom was the world's foremost power during the 19th and early 20th centuries, most notably during the so-called "Pax Britannica"a period of totally unrivaled supremacy and unprecedented international peace during the mid-to-late 1800s. The country continued to be widely considered a superpower until the S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31731 | 910,481 |
1,005,033 | KNM-ER 1470 was much larger than the Olduvai remains, so the terms "H. habilis sensu lato" ("in the broad sense") and "H. habilis sensu stricto" ("in the strict sense") were used to include or exclude the larger morph, respectively. In 1986, English palaeoanthropologist Bernard Wood first suggested these remains repres... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=303612 | 1,004,515 |
122,742 | Other important evidence for executive functions processes in the prefrontal cortex have been described. One widely cited review article emphasizes the role of the medial part of the PFC in situations where executive functions are likely to be engaged – for example, where it is important to detect errors, identify situ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3704475 | 122,693 |
1,692,095 | The dates for the Asuka period are debated, however it is agreed upon that the period extends from mid 500s to early 700s AD. This period is marked by an emphasis on political and cultural relationships with Korea. The Asuka period (552–645) saw the gradual growth of Chinese and Korean artistic and religious influences... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17616212 | 1,691,144 |
1,614,376 | Spawning occurs in the springtime beginning in May as water temperature warms and continues until around October with species tending to only live for approximately one year. "Aplysia punctata" are simultaneous hermaphrodites with their individual sexual role being determined by either mass or egg-laying specialization... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20522147 | 1,613,470 |
265,710 | In 2017, using the HiRISE camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), researchers found at least eight eroding slopes showing exposed water ice sheets as thick as 100 meters, covered by a layer of about 1 or 2 meters thick of soil. The sites are at latitudes from about 55 to 58 degrees, suggesting that there... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21857752 | 265,566 |
349,070 | For those types of ROM that can be electrically modified, writing speed has traditionally been much slower than reading speed, and it may need unusually high voltage, the movement of jumper plugs to apply write-enable signals, and special lock/unlock command codes. Modern NAND Flash achieves the highest write speeds of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18934934 | 348,888 |
522,717 | In the interview, published in 1977 by "Kansan Uutiset" and "Uusi Suomi", the employee of Nurmijärvi geophysical observatory Matti Kivinen assumed that an unidentified object over Finland could be the remnant of a launch vehicle or satellite. James Oberg attributed the Petrozavodsk object to the launch of the Soviet sa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36918866 | 522,445 |
1,568,596 | Most women could not afford to pay for the treatment themselves, due to high cost of US $50,000 to $400,000 per patient. As long as HMOs and other insurers regarded the regime as "experimental" or "investigational", there was no contractual obligation to cover it. While, in the mid-1980s, fewer than 100 bone marrow tra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38028125 | 1,567,709 |
420,671 | Arthur Janszen was granted in 1953 for an electrostatic loudspeaker. He had worked in the Navy to develop a low-distortion, high-frequency source for targeting torpedoes. After the war, he developed manufacturing technique for electrostatic speakers, to be used with conventional cone woofers, known as electrostatic hyb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=196048 | 420,466 |
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