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1,417,243 | The presence of an environmental chemical in the body does not necessarily indicate harm. The analytical chemistry of detecting chemicals has advanced more rapidly than the ability to interpret the potential health consequences. Health risks are usually established from toxicity studies in laboratory animals and epidem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25058762 | 1,416,445 |
1,949,629 | The tawny owl is thought to be a close relative of the Ural owl. Authors have hypothesized that the origin of the two species divide followed Pleistocene continental glaciations segregated a southwest or southern group in temperate forest (i.e. the tawny) from an eastern one inhabiting cold, boreal ranges (i.e. the Ura... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68959959 | 1,948,508 |
2,028,898 | Only minor damage had been done to the telescope in transit. However, the dome had arrived badly rusted and repairs were necessary. The ground for the observatory was broken on May 27. The dome consisted of a steel framework sheathed in wood and covered in heavy painted canvas, which did not prove watertight. The obser... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67773743 | 2,027,730 |
1,030,364 | In 1801, accompanied by his elder brother Richard, he attempted to embark on a Grand Tour, but was forced to return to England because war with France made it impossible to travel safely without fear of arrest. The short-lived Peace of Amiens the following year allowed British travellers to visit France, and Smirke set... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1484094 | 1,029,830 |
1,528,171 | The overall ineffective and illegitimate result of the war on terror means that the costs have thus far outweighed the successes. Counter-terrorism efforts such as Targeted killing and drone strikes have backfired and are not proven to work, and have even perpetuated the number of terrorist attacks, including suicide b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19455353 | 1,527,307 |
2,194,297 | Phobotaxis is a random behavioral response to all forms of aversive stimuli. A positive phobic response is one in which either activity is increased or the organism moves toward the stimulus, while a negative phobic response is when activity is decreased or the organism moves away from the stimulus. On the bacterial le... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58628100 | 2,193,047 |
10,342 | The Sustainable development process in Bhutan has a more meaningful purpose than economic growth alone. The nation's holistic goal is the pursuit of Gross National Happiness (GNH), a term coined in 1972 by the Fourth King of Bhutan, Jigme Singye Wangchuck, which has the principal guiding philosophy for the long term jo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38647790 | 10,338 |
1,663,330 | In 2017, Borexino provided the , featuring the simultaneous and most precise measurements available of the Be, "pep" and "pp" neutrino fluxes, furthermore extracted from a single extended energy window (190-2930 keV). These measurements reached a precision of up to 2.7% (in the case of the beryllium solar neutrinos) an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22137484 | 1,662,395 |
1,076,391 | Organized crime groups operating in East and Southeast Asia have demonstrated significant sophistication in recent years, as well as their comparative advantage when it comes to sourcing precursors and specialized non-controlled precursor and pre-precursor chemicals for the illicit manufacture of drugs. Aside from regu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36201623 | 1,075,836 |
1,932,809 | As a consequence of the late Counter-Reformation, the university lost its Protestant character, and was channeled by Jesuits. In 1735, the Old University was constructed at University Square, then known as Domus Wilhelmina. Through the efforts of the Jesuits a preparatory seminary was established, the Seminarium ad Car... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29278708 | 1,931,701 |
1,751,330 | China won the gold medal in the open event for the second time after they have previously claimed the title in 2014. They scored eight wins, two draws and one loss for a total of 18 match points. The same result was achieved by the United States and Russia, who had inferior tie-breakers and came up on the podium by win... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58563619 | 1,750,344 |
698,741 | China won the gold medal in the open event for the second time after they have previously claimed the title in 2014. They scored eight wins, two draws and one loss for a total of 18 match points. The same result was achieved by the United States and Russia, who had inferior tie-breakers and came up on the podium by win... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51473085 | 698,377 |
1,050,073 | The crew of STS-120 spent their first full day in space by performing the RCC survey, using the Shuttle Remote Manipulator System (SRMS), and the Orbiter Boom Sensor System (OBSS). The crew also worked on various tasks such as inspecting the Extravehicular Mobility Units (EMUs, or spacesuits) that will be used on the E... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2445038 | 1,049,527 |
710,817 | In "Man-Computer Symbiosis", Licklider in 1960 outlined the need for simpler interaction between computers and computer users. Licklider has been credited as an early pioneer of cybernetics and artificial intelligence (AI), but unlike other AI practitioners, Licklider never felt sure that men would be replaced by compu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=254150 | 710,446 |
858,541 | Philipp Lenard was born in Pressburg ("Pozsony", today's Bratislava), on 7 June 1862 in the Kingdom of Hungary. The Lenard family had originally come from Tyrol in the 17th century, while his mother's family originated from Baden, the parents were German-speaking. His father, Philipp von Lenardis (1812–1896), was a win... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=393676 | 858,083 |
5,952 | Lockheed's previous reconnaissance aircraft was the relatively slow U-2, designed for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). In late 1957, the CIA approached the defense contractor Lockheed to build an undetectable spy plane. The project, named Archangel, was led by Kelly Johnson, head of Lockheed's Skunk Works unit in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55245 | 5,949 |
1,977,077 | In July–August 1988 a $1 million passenger market analysis was completed and a feasibility study was started, for which the joint venture partners budgeted $19 million. In December, a VFT Concept Report was released, identifying the key issues for a high-speed rail system, to be built and operated by private enterprise... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=610478 | 1,975,939 |
401,372 | JPL traces its beginnings to 1936 in the Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology (GALCIT) when the first set of rocket experiments were carried out in the Arroyo Seco. Caltech graduate students Frank Malina, Qian Xuesen, Weld Arnold and Apollo M. O. Smith, along with Jack Parsons an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16459 | 401,173 |
1,159,304 | With the end of the war the Special Relationship between Britain and the United States "became very much less special". The British government had trusted that America would share nuclear technology, which it considered a joint discovery. On 8 August 1945 the Prime Minister, Clement Attlee, sent a message to President ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52573493 | 1,158,689 |
799,348 | In 2020 Yehia Z Gad and other researchers of the Hawass team published results of an analysis of the mitochondrial and Y-chromosomal haplogroups of several mummies of 18th Dynasty Including Tutankhamun in the journal Human Molecular Genetics, Volume 30, Issue R1, 1 March 2021, Pages R24–R28, Results were used to provid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16696142 | 798,923 |
399,642 | A parting line, sprue, gate marks, and ejector pin marks are usually present on the final part. None of these features are typically desired, but are unavoidable due to the nature of the process. Gate marks occur at the gate that joins the melt-delivery channels (sprue and runner) to the part forming cavity. Parting li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=325831 | 399,443 |
638,327 | 1993 – Bratislava, Slovakia – (17–29 July) – Held at the Park of Culture and Leisure, the Slovakian Federation played host to a record number of participants from a staggering 78 nations. Unfortunately the tournament got off to a bad start, before even a game had been played. The organisers had implemented an arduous r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=295488 | 637,988 |
82,486 | Deficiency of folate in pregnant women has been implicated in neural tube defects (NTDs), with an estimate of 300,000 cases worldwide prior to the implementation in many countries of mandatory food fortification. NTDs occur early in pregnancy (first month), therefore women must have abundant folate upon conception and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54117 | 82,452 |
167,634 | The new technologies introduced by Renault and Lotus became entangled in the FISA–FOCA war of the early 1980s. Turbo engines were complex machines whose layout limited the ground effect 'tunnels' under the car. They were an emerging technology and so they were difficult and expensive to develop and build and make relia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=640098 | 167,547 |
721,709 | "MALT lymphoma" is exquisitely immunotherapy sensitive. Chemotherapy is reserved for those uncommon patients with disseminated disease at presentation or lack of response to local treatment. Rituximab, the anti-CD20 chimeric antibody, is a key component of therapy. Responses vary from 55% to 77% with monotherapy and 10... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3394594 | 721,329 |
713,978 | In higher eukaryotes, particularly mammals, retrotransposition is a fairly common event that has had a huge impact on the composition of the genome. For example, somewhere between 30 and 44% of the human genome consists of repetitive elements such as SINEs and LINEs (see retrotransposons). In the process of retrotransp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=232323 | 713,606 |
1,633,817 | Very high dimensional integrals are common in finance. For example, computing expected cash flows for a collateralized mortgage obligation (CMO) requires the calculation of a number of formula_11 dimensional integrals, the formula_11 being the number of months in formula_13 years. Recall that if a worst case assurance ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8221717 | 1,632,894 |
1,580,919 | The ERAST project was one of three, large scale aeronautics industry partnerships launched by NASA Headquarters between 1992 and 1994. The partnerships were based on the industry model for multi-party, R&D partnerships, initially proposed for NASA Space Commercialization programs based on the US Department of Commerce'... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6443983 | 1,580,029 |
803,074 | The cause of calciphylaxis is unknown. Calciphylaxis is not a hypersensitivity reaction (i.e., allergic reaction) leading to sudden local calcification. The disease is also known as calcific uremic arteriolopathy; however, the disease is not limited to patients with kidney failure. The current belief is that in end-sta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5411455 | 802,645 |
1,729,283 | Besides the asexual reproduction mode, under certain conditions (e.g. nutritional stress) "Z. bailii" produces sexual spores (ascospores) in a sac called ascus (plural: asci). Normally, each ascus contains one to four ascospores, which are generally smooth, thin-walled, spherical or ellipsoidal. It should be mentioned ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4374802 | 1,728,309 |
1,942,251 | The Technology Management program spreads throughout one to two years, with one block seminar during the lecture-free period and two regular semesters. Technology Management is offered as a supplemental program to a traditional Bachelor's or Master's degree and thus represents an additional qualification. The program a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39695126 | 1,941,140 |
651,529 | Millimeter wavelength radiation is a subset of the microwave radio frequency spectrum. Even at its high-energy end, it is still more than 3 orders of magnitude lower in energy than its nearest radiotoxic neighbour (ultraviolet) in the electromagnetic spectrum. As such, millimeter wave radiation is non-ionizing and inca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16959357 | 651,187 |
1,060,502 | Bell has been a non-executive director of Roche since 2001. A "BMJ" campaign to make the results of unpublished studies on the anti-influenza drug oseltamivir (Tamiflu) available to researchers led to the journal's editor Fiona Godlee urging Bell "as an internationally respected scientist and clinician and a leader of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20796545 | 1,059,951 |
1,593,019 | As of 23 November 2012, the 2006-2012 reconstituted PRBoA regulated the practice of about 30,000 PH-registered architects (RAs) nationwide/overseas i.e. natural (not juridical) persons. Of this number of RAs, it is conservatively estimated that less than half (approx. 14,000) at the time had valid licenses to practice ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12661205 | 1,592,122 |
2,019,216 | He is active as session organizer or member of various committees for the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, NWO, American Geophysical Union, Soil Science Society of America, European Geosciences Union, International Society of Porous Media, and International Association of Hydrological Sciences. He has be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24115602 | 2,018,053 |
1,500,959 | Chivian is recognized as a leading proponent of efforts to create a greater awareness amongst policy makers and the public of the importance of biodiversity to human health, an issue on which he has contributed several book chapters, and published many scientific papers, literature reviews, and editorials. Chivian is t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15936535 | 1,500,113 |
1,998,152 | In an ultrapure CuO crystal: formula_16 = 10s. For an achievable T = 0.01K, a manageable optical pumping rate of 10/s should produce a condensate. More detailed calculations by J. Keldysh and later by D. Snoke et al. started a large number of experimental searches into the 1990s that failed to detect signs. Pulse metho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41449061 | 1,997,009 |
1,725,530 | Historically, resolution enhancements in photolithography have been achieved through the progression of stepper illumination sources to smaller and smaller wavelengths — from "g-line" (436 nm) and "i-line" (365 nm) sources based on mercury lamps, to the current systems based on deep ultraviolet excimer lasers sources a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20606961 | 1,724,559 |
170,635 | By the end, most of the First Hundred are dead, and virtually all who remain have fled to a hidden refuge established years earlier by Ai and her followers. (One exception is Phyllis Boyle, who has allied herself with the transnats; she is on Clarke when the space elevator cable is cut and sent flying out of orbit to a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=89970 | 170,545 |
396,640 | The resumption of low-risk school activities should begin as soon as the student feels ready and has completed an initial period of cognitive rest of no more than 24–48 hours following the acute injury. Long absences from school are not suggested, however, the return to school should be gradual and step-wise. Prolonged... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=399231 | 396,444 |
822,037 | Unlike most biological groupings, it is difficult to find many common characteristics between all of the members of the gnetophytes. The two common characteristics most commonly used are the presence of enveloping bracts around both the ovules and microsporangia as well as a micropylar projection of the outer membrane ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=238281 | 821,596 |
775,007 | The skull of "Protoceratops" was relatively large compared to its body and robustly built. The skull of the type species, "P. andrewsi", had an average total length of nearly . On the other hand "P. hellenikorhinus" had a total skull length of about . The rear of the skull gave form to a pronounced neck frill (also kno... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1064031 | 774,591 |
255,670 | Agriculture is the field in science concerned with the different techniques of land cultivation and crop and livestock raising. The Department of Agriculture (Philippines) (DA) is a government agency responsible for the development of the Philippine's agriculture by generating policies, investments, and support service... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9629399 | 255,536 |
1,651,147 | Unlike most other chondrites, the minerals in enstatite chondrites contain almost no iron oxide; they are the most oxygen-poor silicate rocks known. They were supposed to be the driest objects in the solar system but a recent study shows they contain sufficient hydrogen to have delivered to Earth at least three times t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21177166 | 1,650,215 |
1,370,621 | Toward the end of 1938, work resumed on the RP-318 at the 'Scientific-Research Institute 3' (NII-3)N II-3, which was the new title for RNII. The aircraft was repaired and modified, with the addition of a new, more powerful engine to replace the OR-2. The new engine (the ORM-65) had been originally designed for a use in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49664317 | 1,369,865 |
1,711,475 | Kähler enrolled in the University of Leipzig in 1924. He read Galois theory, met the mathematician Emil Artin, and did research under the supervision of Leon Lichtenstein. Still fascinated by celestial mechanics, Kähler wrote a dissertation entitled "On the existence of equilibrium solutions of rotating liquids, which ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=383501 | 1,710,512 |
671,416 | On some pioneer designs, such as the Bleriot XI, the centre of gravity was between the neutral point and the tailplane, which also provided positive lift. However this arrangement can be unstable and these designs often had severe handling issues. The requirements for stability were not understood until shortly before ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=74235 | 671,064 |
1,343,114 | With the late Nicholas Kurti, he coined the scientific term "Molecular and Physical Gastronomy" in 1988, which he shortened to "Molecular Gastronomy" after Kurti's death in 1998. Graduated from École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la ville de Paris, he obtained a Ph.D from the University Paris VI,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4601790 | 1,342,378 |
1,815,075 | Tasmania’s cool temperate rainforest are currently under threat for a variety of reasons. One of the greatest threats to rainforests is from human induced activities. Fire is one of the largest problems facing rainforests today, either from direct or accidental origin. Although fire can be of benefit to some habitats, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45954710 | 1,814,041 |
688,244 | Light propagating in a restricted volume of space has its energy and momentum quantized according to an integer number of particles known as photons. Quantum optics studies the nature and effects of light as quantized photons. The first major development leading to that understanding was the correct modeling of the bla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=658955 | 687,886 |
1,751,528 | The second set of experiments that Renthal et al. performed showed that chronic cocaine use induced upregulation of the NK receptor protein in HDAC5 knockout mice, which is associated with hyperacetylation of H3 at the NK1R gene promoter. The NK1R gene promoter has been associated with enhanced response to cocaine rewa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35822485 | 1,750,542 |
1,976,971 | Faustman and co-workers published efficacy data from the Phase I trial NCT00607230 in 2012. In the double-blind, placebo-controlled proof-of-concept study, six participants with long-term (mean duration of disease 15 years) type 1 diabetes were randomized to repeated BCG vaccinations (n=3) or placebo (n=3). The partici... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1149818 | 1,975,833 |
1,430,141 | SIU-Med employs problem-based learning, which involves using small groups of students, along with a faculty mentor. The students are presented with a clinical scenario and must approach it as if they were trying to diagnose and treat a real patient. Each clinical scenario is accessed on a secure website that provides i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5779099 | 1,429,337 |
601,230 | A historical note is necessary. The idea that the Schottky–Nordheim barrier needed a correction factor, as in eq. (9), was introduced by Nordheim in 1928, but his mathematical analysis of the factor was incorrect. A new (correct) function was introduced by Burgess, Kroemer and Houston in 1953, and its mathematics was d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=293392 | 600,922 |
671,350 | As database systems have become distributed, or started to cooperate in distributed environments (e.g., Federated databases in the early 1990s, and nowadays Grid computing, Cloud computing, and networks with smartphones), some transactions have become distributed. A distributed transaction means that the transaction sp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217356 | 670,998 |
1,435,499 | 7. "Staffel" then began a series of relocations which eventually took them to the North African theatre of operations. The "Staffel" first relocated to Greece at the end of May. The ground personnel were shipped from Catania to Piraeus and then to the airfield at Molaoi on the southern tip of the Peloponnese region. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10701662 | 1,434,693 |
918,866 | Because blood flow in the brain is tightly coupled to local brain metabolism and energy use, the Tc-exametazime tracer (as well as the similar Tc-EC tracer) is used to assess brain metabolism regionally, in an attempt to diagnose and differentiate the different causal pathologies of dementia. Meta-analysis of many repo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=291499 | 918,383 |
1,286,129 | As resources for the medical field become far and few in between, getting ahead on technological advancements and spending more time on creating increasingly efficient technology to be used in hospitals and other healthcare practices. Biomedical technology has been also known to link other healthcare professionals toge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4580942 | 1,285,428 |
51,959 | The first redesign came with the E series, including the naval variant, the Bf 109T (T standing for "Träger", carrier). The Bf 109E ("Emil") introduced structural changes to accommodate the heavier and more powerful Daimler-Benz DB 601 engine, heavier armament and increased fuel capacity. Partly due to its limited comb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=186739 | 51,939 |
627,690 | Selective breeding to enhance the most beneficial traits is the structure upon which agriculture is built, this expedited the evolution process to make crop plants and animals larger and more disease resistant. Genetic manipulation went further. Genetic alteration of plants leads to not only larger crop production, but... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33717 | 627,355 |
464,728 | Situated on land overlooking the Hudson River and separated from Columbia's undergraduate campus in Morningside Heights by approximately fifty blocks and the neighborhood of Harlem, the Columbia University Medical Center has its own unique standing and identity. The campus comprises not only VP&S, but also the College ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1170596 | 464,498 |
1,945,320 | First fic gene was discovered in the late 1980s in Escherichia coli. Mutation in this gene impaired cell division under stress conditions (cyclic AMP in growth medium at high temperature), which led to annotation as fic-1 for filamentation induced by cAMP. The product of fic-1 was later characterized as toxin from toxi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32762962 | 1,944,208 |
303,409 | The underlying principle is related to the use of biomarkers as surrogate endpoints in early clinical trials. In early development it is not practical to directly measure that a drug is effective in treating the desired disease, and a surrogate endpoint is used to guide whether or not it is appropriate to proceed with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=608668 | 303,247 |
414,929 | In order to draw probabilistic inferences based on new evidence, it is necessary to already have a prior probability assigned to the proposition in question. But this is not always the case: there are many propositions that the agent never considered and therefore lacks a credence for. This problem is usually solved by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55503854 | 414,726 |
1,772,685 | Because T-RFLP relies on DNA extraction methods and PCR, the biases inherent to both will affect the results of the analysis. Also, the fact that only the terminal fragments are being read means that any two distinct sequences which share a terminal restriction site will result in one peak only on the electropherogram ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6997526 | 1,771,688 |
1,147,246 | After vaccination rates dropped, the incidence of two of the three diseases increased greatly in the UK. In 1998 there were 56 confirmed cases of measles in the UK; in 2006 there were 449 in the first five months of the year, with the first death since 1992. Cases occurred in inadequately vaccinated children. The age g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45300883 | 1,146,641 |
1,854,470 | The range of associated plants and fungi may be altered as climate changes, and not necessarily in a synchronous fashion. Plants may lose or gain endophytes, with as yet unknown impacts on defense and fitness, although generalist species may provide indirect defense in new habitats more often than not. Above-ground and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31533830 | 1,853,404 |
199,084 | In 1942, Parsons worked on arranging a major study of occupied countries with Bartholomew Landheer of the Netherlands Information Office in New York. Parsons had mobilized Georges Gurvitch, Conrad Arnsberg, Dr. Safranek and Theodore Abel to participate, but it never materialized for lack of funding. In early 1942, Pars... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54041 | 198,982 |
1,070,501 | According to the official guide of "Mobile Suit Gundam", Gundam Century and Gundam Officials, the Minovsky Physics Society, while working on the reactor, encountered a strange electromagnetic wave effect in U.C.0065 within the Minovsky-Ionesco reactor that could not be explained by conventional physics. Within the next... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20587324 | 1,069,947 |
1,458,450 | Recent progress in mass spectrometers made it possible to generate mass spectra of ultra-high resolution . The improved accuracy, together with the increased amount of mass spectrometry data that are being generated, draws the interests of applying deep learning techniques to de novo peptide sequencing. In 2017 Tran et... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43742131 | 1,457,630 |
1,521,056 | At Hopkins, his gift for administration led to his becoming secretary of the Academic Council in 1915, Dean of the College Faculty in 1924, and Provost in 1926. In 1929, when the University searched for a new president, Ames was appointed. He assumed office July 1, 1929 and commenced an administration which spanned six... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3035135 | 1,520,195 |
120,184 | Telex (TELegraph EXchange) was a public switched network of teleprinters. It used rotary-telephone-style pulse dialling for automatic routing through the network. It initially used the Baudot code for messages. Telex development began in Germany in 1926, becoming an operational service in 1933 run by the Reichspost (Re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30010 | 120,135 |
469,967 | where formula_12. However, while this "toy model" is superficially attractive, the Ehrenfest theorem seems to suggest that since the electronic motion in the formula_13 direction is that of a bound state that confines it to the 2D surface, the time-averaged electric field (i.e., including that of the potential that bin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33034775 | 469,731 |
1,816,978 | In 1894 Adolf Blümcke and Hans Hess began a series of expeditions to the Hintereisferner. As no ice drilling to any depth had been attempted since Agassiz's expedition, they had no recent examples to learn from, so they experimented in the winter of 1893–1894 with drill designs in the ice cellar of a brewery. From the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56017314 | 1,815,944 |
242,096 | The United States Air Force initiated a massive airlift effort to evacuate American service members and their families from the two affected bases during and immediately following the eruption, named Operation Fiery Vigil. The first sea-based evacuations departed June 16 from Alava Wharf, Naval Base Subic Bay aboard US... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25381140 | 241,969 |
319,116 | Present-day (2021) atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO) levels of around 415 ppm are around 50% higher than preindustrial concentrations. The current elevated levels and rapid growth rates are unprecedented in the past 55 million years of the geological record. The source for this excess CO is clearly established as human d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2801560 | 318,945 |
56,028 | The study of human physiology began with Hippocrates in Ancient Greece, around 420 BCE, and with Aristotle (384–322 BCE) who applied critical thinking and emphasis on the relationship between structure and function. Galen (ca. 126–199) was the first to use experiments to probe the body's functions. The term physiology ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54176 | 56,004 |
1,993,263 | Traumatic brain injury involves the necrotic and apoptotic death of brain cells in vulnerable and delicate areas such as the cerebral cortex and hippocampus, where it is known that there is an expression of Lingo-1 in both development and the adult stage of life. RhoA signaling is largely responsible for the neuronal r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15417830 | 1,992,120 |
1,396,429 | The fleece is skirted to remove excess fibres, seeds, burrs, etc. to leave the fleece as reasonably even as possible. The wool taken from different parts of a sheep are graded separately. The fleece forming the bulk of the yield is placed with other fleece wool as the main line, while other pieces such as the neck, bel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=185520 | 1,395,658 |
105,366 | Late in October 1970, Gygax lost his job at the insurance company after almost nine years. Unemployed and now with a family of five children—Ernest ("Ernie"), Lucion ("Luke"), Heidi, Cindy, and Elise—he tried to use his enthusiasm for games to make a living by designing board games for commercial sale. This clearly pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12848 | 105,321 |
379,174 | Patients with variant forms of the gene CYP2D6 may not receive full benefit from tamoxifen because of too slow metabolism of the tamoxifen prodrug into its active metabolites. On 18 October 2006, the Subcommittee for Clinical Pharmacology recommended relabeling tamoxifen to include information about this gene in the pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1269557 | 378,979 |
504,873 | Spin waves are observed through four experimental methods: inelastic neutron scattering, inelastic light scattering (Brillouin scattering, Raman scattering and inelastic X-ray scattering), inelastic electron scattering (spin-resolved electron energy loss spectroscopy), and spin-wave resonance (ferromagnetic resonance).... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2629646 | 504,611 |
75,792 | Prior to Mendel, Imre Festetics, a Hungarian noble, who lived in Kőszeg before Mendel, was the first who used the word "genetic" in hereditarian context. He described several rules of biological inheritance in his works "The genetic laws of the Nature" (Die genetischen Gesetze der Natur, 1819). His second law is the sa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12266 | 75,763 |
1,792,980 | During the 1980s, plant collectors began to visit Mount Kelam with increased frequency, placing pressure on wild populations of "N. clipeata". Local guides also started to collect specimens for their villages, particularly those growing near the base of the mountain. Many of these plants did not survive and so more wer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4676595 | 1,791,971 |
149,478 | There we no changes in the entry after the Belgian GP and so it was business as usual at Monaco where the three leading Honda-engined cars were at the front as usual with Nigel Mansell taking pole in his Williams, Ayrton Senna second in the Lotus and Nelson Piquet third in the second Williams. Alain Prost was fourth fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1139093 | 149,415 |
369,991 | Another early influence was William Morris. In Vaughan Williams's words, "It was now that Holst discovered the feeling of unity with his fellow men which made him afterwards a great teacher. A sense of comradeship rather than political conviction led him, while still a student, to join the Socialist League which met at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49241 | 369,797 |
1,484,488 | Amongst almost all populations, the likelihood that an individual will reproduce is related directly to their age. Starting at 0 at birth, the probability increases to its maximum in young adulthood once sexual maturity has been reached, before gradually decreasing with age. This decrease is caused by the increasing li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60885357 | 1,483,651 |
1,882,876 | The LPB process includes a unique and patented way of analyzing, designing, and testing metallic components in order to develop the unique metal treatment necessary to improve performance and reduce metal fatigue, SCC, and corrosion fatigue failures. Lambda modifies the process and tooling for each component to provide... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20644699 | 1,881,795 |
1,628,441 | His predictions with A. L. Ruoff about the mechanical response of fullerite under high pressure, and his work with colleagues on the unique solvation phenomena of C in various solvent systems, and of synthesis and structural characterization of supergiant fullerenes containing single crystal metal ‘encapsulates’, have ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26817130 | 1,627,522 |
155,701 | According to scholar Guido Tavassi, the "revolutionary" mecha design can be counted among the innovations introduced by "Neon Genesis Evangelion", "which, on the one hand, brings the Eva units closer to the human figure, but on the other hand proposes a complete abstraction of the forms of the enemies, the Angels, with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=577372 | 155,630 |
1,273,505 | CP2K is a freely available (GPL) quantum chemistry and solid state physics program package, written in Fortran 2008, to perform atomistic simulations of solid state, liquid, molecular, periodic, material, crystal, and biological systems. It provides a general framework for different methods: density functional theory (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20593510 | 1,272,813 |
1,720,455 | In June 2000, a US Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) delegation visited Cuba to meet with Castro. Representative Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) mentioned to Castro that his district had a shortage of doctors; he responded by offering full scholarships for US nationals from Mississippi at ELAM. Later that same June, in a Wash... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3322846 | 1,719,485 |
328,294 | To increase the mission range and flight time for Vulcan operations, in-flight refuelling capabilities were added from 1959 onwards; several Valiant bombers were refurbished as tankers to refuel the Vulcans. Continuous airborne patrols proved untenable, however, and the refuelling mechanisms across the Vulcan fleet fel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44070 | 328,120 |
1,902,127 | If a compact object (which may be dark or bright) is located very close to the line of sight to a background star, then gravitational lensing causes the star to appear to split into two images on opposite sides of the compact object (or a complete ring if the alignment is almost perfect). Microlensing refers to the spe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43341809 | 1,901,037 |
1,624,468 | At first, all micro size stereolithography method utilized the same method as the macro size stereolithography that they direct write materials on the base. The first micro size stereolithography that use the UV light to cure the liquid resin surface is developed by professor Ikuta and Hirowatari in 1993. This fabricat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46402433 | 1,623,552 |
2,092,307 | The VSEL Heavy Engineering Workshop located at Michaelson Road in the Barrow Island area of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England is a Grade II listed former ammunitions workshop that belonged to Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering. Known locally as the 'Gun Shop' the vast complex was constructed in stages between 1875 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40713970 | 2,091,102 |
12,114 | Throughout her life, Lovelace was strongly interested in scientific developments and fads of the day, including phrenology and mesmerism. After her work with Babbage, Lovelace continued to work on other projects. In 1844, she commented to a friend Woronzow Greig about her desire to create a mathematical model for how t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=974 | 12,109 |
1,792,112 | On September 8, 2011, the New York Power Authority, Long Island Power Authority, and Con Edison (the Offshore Wind Collaborative) filed a request with the US Department of the Interior, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to issue a commercial lease on the outer continental shelf to the New York Power Authority fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21401237 | 1,791,105 |
907,059 | The diabolo pellet (or "wasp waist pellet") is the most common design traditionally found in airguns. It consists of a solid front portion called the "head", which can have a flat ("wadcutter"), hemispherical ("round nose"), hollow point or conical ("pointed") front end profile, and a thin-walled funnel-shaped hollow r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11060151 | 906,581 |
352,223 | The family's keenest customer was Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas James Birch, later Bosvile, a wealthy collector from Lincolnshire, who bought several specimens from them. In 1820 Birch became disturbed by the family's poverty. Having made no major discoveries for a year, they were at the point of having to sell their furni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38334 | 352,040 |
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