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700,103 | The officially named University of San Marcos, then also known as ""University of Lima"", began its work in the viceregal era with the faculties of Theology and Arts, later the canons of Law and Medicine would be created, however in the academic field the norms that governed in Spain were adopted, that is to say, it be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1070670 | 699,738 |
1,012,521 | Since its inception, the 4 Cs have gradually gained acceptance as important elements of many school syllabi. This development triggered a modification in platforms and directions such as inquiry, project-based, and more profound learning across all K–12 levels. Many countries have introduced computer thinking to all st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19850468 | 1,012,000 |
938,052 | Also in 1885 George Westinghouse, an American entrepreneur, obtained the patent rights to the Gaulard-Gibbs transformer and imported a number of them along with a Siemens generator, and set his engineers to experimenting with them in hopes of improving them for use in a commercial power system. In 1886, one of Westingh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14105333 | 937,552 |
481,460 | In considering the merger of the Faculty of Adult Education and Human Resources Development and the Illyés Gyula Teacher Training College of Szekszárd the Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Education and Regional Development is formed. In 2015 the university had nine faculties. In 2016 The Faculty of Pharmacy will soon be e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2519422 | 481,216 |
1,881,876 | Project 971 has a double-hull design. The robust body is made of high quality alloy steel with σт = 1 GPa (10,000 kgf / cm²). To simplify the installation of equipment, the boat was designed using zonal blocks, which made it possible to transfer a significant amount of work from the cramped conditions of the sub's comp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68760139 | 1,880,795 |
1,814,221 | The elpistostegalid fish are considered the most apomorphic of fish in comparison to tetrapods. From well-preserved fossils, it is observed that they share a paltybasic skull with eye ridges, and external nares situated on the margin of the mouth. Development of eye ridges and flatting of the skull are also observed in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46324244 | 1,813,187 |
1,112,887 | Created in 1999, the Territory of Nunavut is located in the Canadian Arctic. Nunavut has developed some creative solutions to the delivery of post-secondary education considering challenges that include a huge geographic region, a sparse and isolated populace, and four official languages. To address these challenges, N... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17661972 | 1,112,321 |
628,492 | China emerged as the world's third largest producer of ethanol-based bio-fuels (after the U.S and Brazil) at the end of the 10th Five Year Plan Period in 2005 and at present ethanol accounts for 20% of total automotive fuel consumption in China. In the 11th Five Year Plan period (2006 through 2010) China planned to dev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13556279 | 628,157 |
410,346 | A wide range of fluorophores can be used as labels in flow cytometry. Fluorophores, or simply "fluors", are typically attached to an antibody that recognizes a target feature on or in the cell; they may also be attached to a chemical entity with affinity for the cell membrane or another cellular structure. Each fluorop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=501216 | 410,144 |
1,223,381 | George Ellery Hale was born on June 29, 1868, in Chicago, Illinois, to William Ellery Hale and Mary Browne. He is descended from Thomas Hale of Watton-on-Stone, Hertfordshire, England, whose son emigrated to America about 1640. His father acquired a considerable fortune manufacturing and installing passenger elevators ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=623538 | 1,222,721 |
939,231 | Conservation biologists study trends and process from the paleontological past to the ecological present as they gain an understanding of the context related to species extinction. It is generally accepted that there have been five major global mass extinctions that register in Earth's history. These include: the Ordov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=216216 | 938,730 |
450,952 | The company has been developing a vaccine to counter chikungunya, a mosquito-borne virus that was mostly found, until the past decade, only in central and East Africa. Then it began growing. E.g., in 2011, there were zero cases reported in Latin America; in 2014 the region suffered from one million cases. Between 2010 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6262709 | 450,733 |
847,674 | The Mk I PR Type D (also called the "Extra Super Long Range Spitfire") was the first PR variant that was not a conversion of existing fighter airframes. The Type D carried so much fuel that it was nicknamed "the bowser". The D shaped wing leading edges, ahead of the main spar, proved to be an ideal location for an inte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16070159 | 847,224 |
621,822 | The Military Revolution is the theory that a series of radical changes in military strategy and tactics during the 16th and 17th centuries resulted in major lasting changes in governments and society. The theory was introduced by Michael Roberts in the 1950s as he focused on Sweden (1560–1660) searching for major chang... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1008992 | 621,490 |
2,143,149 | Born in Vienna, Kreith fled Austria after the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany in 1938 as a member of the Kindertransport. He obtained degrees from the University of California, Berkeley (1945), the University of California, Los Angeles (1949) and the University of Paris (1965). Kreith worked at the Jet Propulsi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56434840 | 2,141,918 |
107,738 | As the Space Shuttle was being designed, NASA received proposals for building alternative launch-and-landing sites at locations other than KSC, which demanded study. KSC had important advantages, including its existing facilities; location on the Intracoastal Waterway; and its southern latitude, which gives a velocity ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16421 | 107,693 |
1,991,331 | The ARD was developed and operated as a cooperative civilian space programme under the oversight of the ESA; it fell within the agency's Manned Space Transportation Program (MSTP) framework. Under this framework, the programme was pursued with a pair of expressed principal objectives. First, the ESA was keen to perform... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2459800 | 1,990,188 |
256,377 | "Compute!'s Gazette" in 1986 stated that although individuals developed most early video games, "It's impossible for one person to have the multiple talents necessary to create a good game". By 1987 a video game required 12 months to develop and another six to plan marketing. Projects remained usually solo efforts, wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=700265 | 256,243 |
399,687 | Radio waves in the VHF band propagate mainly by line-of-sight and ground-bounce paths; unlike in the HF band there is only some reflection at lower frequencies from the ionosphere (skywave propagation). They do not follow the contour of the Earth as ground waves and so are blocked by hills and mountains, although becau... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69480 | 399,488 |
962,668 | Due to the high cost of an omalizumab, and the concern over long-term safety, treatment is not yet very common, especially in developing countries. Another barrier to wide use is its injectable dosage form. In August 2010, the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) in the United Kingdom ruled that omalizumab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1255131 | 962,159 |
913,062 | The most iconic and prominent of the JT systems in coordination chemistry is probably the case of Cu(II) octahedral complexes. While in perfectly equivalent coordination, like a CuF complex associated to a Cu(II) impurity in a cubic crystal like KMgF, perfect octahedral (O) symmetry is expected. In fact a lower tetrago... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1964288 | 912,583 |
267,110 | Chronographs were very popular with aviators as they allowed them to make rapid calculations and conduct precise timing. The demand for chronographs grew along with the aviation industry in the early part of the 20th century. As the US exploration of outer space initially involved only test pilots, by order of Presiden... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1028624 | 266,966 |
817,517 | A hare runs along the track in the bottom right of the painting, possibly symbolizing speed itself. Some think this is a reference to the limits of technology. Others believe the animal is running in fear of the new machinery and Turner meant to hint at the danger of man's new technology destroying the sublime elements... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8161097 | 817,081 |
663,081 | On December 7, 1941, Japanese forces launched a surprise attack on the US Naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, causing the United States to enter the war. This meant that Lockheed's production lines were now under control by the military for the war effort. In March 1942, the 80 L-049 Constellations planned for airline ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32991673 | 662,736 |
1,094,541 | The oldest section of the supergroup is the Unkar Group. It accumulated in a variety of fluvial, deltaic, tidal, nearshore marine, and offshore marine environments. The first formation to be laid down in the Unkar Group was the Bass Formation. Fluvial gravels initially accumulated in shallow river valleys. They later l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=621004 | 1,093,981 |
700,445 | Mammalian nuclear DNA may sustain more than 60,000 damage episodes per cell per day, as listed with references in DNA damage (naturally occurring). If left uncorrected, these adducts, after misreplication past the damaged sites, can give rise to mutations. In nature, the mutations that arise may be beneficial or delete... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19599 | 700,080 |
1,707,000 | A diver training standard is a document issued by a certification, registration regulation or quality assurance agency, that describes the prerequisites for participation, the aim of the training programme, the specific minimum competences that a candidate must display to be assessed as competent, and the minimum requi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60600229 | 1,706,042 |
1,679,042 | Other developments, often spin-offs from wartime technology, led to other scientific advances. For field archaeologists, the most significant of these was the use of the geophysical survey. This encompasses a number of remote sensing techniques, such as aerial photography and satellite imagery. Also used is light detec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58628442 | 1,678,099 |
388,329 | Central nervous system lesions occur occasionally due to inflammation and granuloma development around eggs or worms that find their way to the brain or spinal cord through the circulatory system, and they can potentially develop irreversible scarring without proper treatment. Cerebral granulomatous disease may be caus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=191304 | 388,134 |
1,916,759 | Wright attended a comprehensive school in the town of Hamilton, where she studied for Scottish Highers in Chemistry, English, French, Maths and Physics, then went on to study Natural Philosophy (Physics) at the University of Glasgow. She then pursued postgraduate studies at Imperial College London, firstly obtaining an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63715181 | 1,915,660 |
2,058,353 | The holotype consists of numerous semi-articulated remains, including an incomplete skull roof, snout, palate, cheeks, lower jaws and associated dermal bones, a left shoulder girdle, and assorted scales. Reconstructions suggest a skull length of 30 cm (12 in) and lower jaw length of about 48 cm (19 in). The endoskeleto... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41885924 | 2,057,168 |
819,804 | The origins of the EAP can be found within the "Agile Combat Aircraft" (ACA) programme performed by British Aerospace (BAe) during the late 1970s and early 1980s. It is known that ACA had involved the combining of several years of private venture research conducted by BAe, costed at around £25 million, together with si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=979983 | 819,363 |
768,287 | Soils represent a short to long-term carbon storage medium, and contain more carbon than all terrestrial vegetation and the atmosphere combined. Plant litter and other biomass including charcoal accumulates as organic matter in soils, and is degraded by chemical weathering and biological degradation. More recalcitrant ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5980 | 767,875 |
2,159,868 | Annexin VII is a member of the annexin family of calcium-dependent phospholipid binding proteins. The Annexin VII gene contains 14 exons and spans approximately 34 kb of DNA. An alternatively spliced cassette exon results in two mRNA transcripts of 2.0 and 2.4 kb which are predicted to generate two protein isoforms dif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14776459 | 2,158,636 |
188,319 | Chrome-lining protects the barrel or chamber of arms from corrosion and makes these parts also easier to clean, but this is not the main purpose for lining a barrel or chamber. Chrome-lining was introduced in machine guns to increase the wear resistance and service life of highly stressed arms parts like barrels and ch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=517737 | 188,222 |
857,609 | In October 2014, it was announced that, for the first time, a healthy baby had been born to a uterine transplant recipient, at an undisclosed location in Sweden. The British medical journal "The Lancet" reported that the baby boy had been born in September, weighing 1.8 kg (3.9 lb) and that the father had said his son ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8784037 | 857,154 |
1,323,427 | Rather than developing new platforms, some groups have focused on the optimization of existing methods, tools and platforms to simplify and improve their ease of use by non-experts. In 2017, Sukovitch "et al."created a system to produce monodisperse or approximately equal size DEs by cutting out the coating process req... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54022162 | 1,322,701 |
1,171,226 | An important question in discussing the role of the acid is whether the "N"-haloamine reacts in the free base or the salt form in the initiation step. Based on the pK values of the conjugate acids of 2° alkyl amines (which are generally in the range 10–11), it is evident that "N"-chloroamines exist largely as salts in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15758126 | 1,170,607 |
533,101 | Gemini 5 doubled the U.S. space-flight record of the Gemini 4 mission to eight days, the length of time it would take to fly to the Moon, land and return. This was possible due to new fuel cells that generated enough electricity to power longer missions, a pivotal innovation for future Apollo flights, instead of the ch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=362160 | 532,822 |
1,488,455 | "Genetics and the Origin of Species" provided the outline for a synthesis of genetics with evolution, and was enthusiastically received by both geneticists and naturalists. Dobzhansky laid out an advanced account of the evolutionary process in genetic terms, and he backed up his work with experimental evidence supporti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1111991 | 1,487,616 |
939,540 | For orbital launches, there were strong advantages to using higher-performance liquid hydrogen or RP-1 fueled vehicles with liquid oxygen; the high cost of using hydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide, along with the special care that was needed due to their toxicity, were a further consideration. Lockheed Martin decided to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67428 | 939,039 |
1,061,385 | In nature, the fungus forms a network of thread-like mycelium that penetrates the substratum on which it grows, and then after 3–5 days of growth begins to reproduce asexually with small (2–10 µm) conidia (asexual spores). These conidia are probably the main infectious particles produced by the fungus. They form on ind... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12618169 | 1,060,832 |
1,811,002 | Czekanowskiales, also known as Leptostrobales, are an extinct group of seed plants. Members of the family are distinguished by persistent leaves borne on deciduous short shoots, subtended by scale-like leaves. The leaves are highly dissected (divided into partitions). They likely grew as trees and shrubs. The main repr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68352470 | 1,809,969 |
274,663 | Syringomyelia is most often chronic progressive degenerative disorder characterized by a fluid-filled cyst located in the spinal cord. However, there can be also cases where the syrinx in terms of size and extent of symptoms actually stays stable throughout a lifetime. Syringomyelia symptoms include pain, weakness, num... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=208893 | 274,515 |
665,689 | With the cancellation of home-grown programmes and the need to replace the Hawker Hunter and English Electric Canberra in the ground-attack and tactical reconnaissance roles, the RAF ordered 118 aircraft in 1965. The aircraft were designated Phantom FGR.2 ("Fighter/Ground attack/Reconnaissance") by the British and the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13567676 | 665,342 |
356,834 | HNMT is expressed in the central nervous system, where deficiencies have been shown to lead to aggressive behavior and abnormal sleep-wake cycles in mice. Since brain histamine as a neurotransmitter regulates a number of neurophysiological functions, emphasis has been placed on the development of drugs to target histam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=395877 | 356,648 |
503,296 | On 22 October 2019, the 26-member National Hazardous Substances Committee (NHSC) changed paraquat, glyphosate ("Roundup"), and chlorpyrifos from Type 3 toxic substances to Type 4, effectively prohibiting their production, import, export, or possession. Their use will be prohibited as of 1 December 2019. On 27 November ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3467679 | 503,038 |
1,157,848 | A key difference between the diets of "Homo sapiens" and our closest extinct relatives "H. neanderthalensis" is the ability to effectively digest cooked starches, with some evidence found linking cooked starch and a further increase in "H. sapiens" brain size. Roots and tubers were introduced into the broader human die... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53970984 | 1,157,235 |
1,785,077 | The project was developed primarily by academics and teachers in private and selective schools, in the context of the early objective of having comprehensive schools provide a "grammar school education for all", and the first two years of Nuffield physics and chemistry were found to be difficult even for able pupils. A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48393333 | 1,784,073 |
537,399 | Liu has earned several university-wide distinctions for teaching at Harvard, including the Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize, the Roslyn Abramson Award, and a Harvard College Professorship. Liu has published more than 225 papers and is the inventor of more than 90 issued U.S. patents. His research accomplishme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39487312 | 537,120 |
1,898,294 | The squadron was established at RAF Boreham, which was to be its station until after D-Day, in mid March, and flew its first combat mission on 23 March, less than two weeks after its arrival in the ETO. It helped prepare for the invasion of Normandy by participating in Operation Crossbow, striking V-1 flying bomb and V... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21078487 | 1,897,210 |
1,741,197 | To diagnose lumpy jaw, the fluids exuding from the bony lump or other abscesses are sampled or aspirated if the infection has not broken through the skin. Tissue samples from the lesion can be examined by histopathology after being embedded in paraffin wax, cut into 4- to 5-mm sections, and stained with hemolysin and e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48620068 | 1,740,215 |
1,590,359 | The Manhattan District and DuPont set about recruiting a sizeable construction workforce with the help of the United States Employment Service and the War Manpower Commission. DuPont advertised for workers in newspapers for an unspecified "war construction project" in southeastern Washington, offering "attractive scale... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72002318 | 1,589,465 |
1,189,739 | Computational organic chemist Steven Bachrach discussed the dication, noting that the weak bonds forming the upright edges of the pyramid, shown as dashed lines in the structure he drew, have a Wiberg bond order of about 0.54; it follows that the total bond order for the apical carbon is 5 × 0.54 + 1 = 3.7 < 4, and thu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7489527 | 1,189,107 |
613,991 | The creation of a complete organ often requires incorporation of a variety of different cell types, arranged in distinct and patterned ways. One advantage of 3D-printed organs, compared to traditional transplants, is the potential to use cells derived from the patient to make the new organ. This significantly decreases... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3160379 | 613,679 |
23,569 | For the 2016–2017 academic year, Cornell had over 1,000 registered student organizations. These clubs and organizations run the gamut from kayaking to full-armor jousting, from varsity and club sports and a cappella groups to improvisational theatre, from political clubs and publications to chess and video game clubs. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 | 23,560 |
1,035,096 | As Altman reached adulthood, the family's financial situation had become secure enough that he was able to pursue a college education. He went to the United States to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While at MIT, he was a member of the ice hockey team. After achieving his bachelor's degree f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51775 | 1,034,556 |
265,660 | The final piece of the Martian climate puzzle was provided by Mariner 4 in 1965. Grainy television pictures from the spacecraft showed a surface dominated by impact craters, which implied that the surface was very old and had not experienced the level of erosion and tectonic activity seen on Earth. Little erosion meant... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21857752 | 265,516 |
2,082,228 | The transcriptional landscape of the wild-type DB110 strain and of the "toxR" mutant TW30 were investigated by means of next generation sequencing. ToxR is a transmembrane DNA-binding protein first discovered in "Vibrio cholerae", where it regulates a considerable number of genes involved in environmental adaptation an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14781668 | 2,081,028 |
351,298 | Early humans evolved to have dark skin color around 1.2 million years ago, as an adaptation to a loss of body hair that increased the effects of UV radiation. Before the development of hairlessness, early humans had reasonably light skin underneath their fur, similar to that found in other primates. The most recent sci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50513 | 351,115 |
1,071,650 | For this species, the timing of egg-laying has much to do with male behavior. Males can affect female reproductive success so strongly because for the 20 days up to egg-laying, females spend up to 80% of their time in the nest. This leaves males with the responsibility of providing food regularly and securing (and main... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12664042 | 1,071,096 |
1,038,682 | Many of the commands for the experimental parts were programmed "by hand" to produce the punch tapes that were used as input. During the development of Whirlwind, MIT's real-time computer, John Runyon coded a number of subroutines to produce these tapes under computer control. Users could enter a list of points and spe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39469106 | 1,038,141 |
524,317 | The mitochondria present in eukaryotic cells contain multiple copies of mitochondrial DNA referred to as mtDNA which is housed within the mitochondrial matrix. In multicellular animals, including humans, the circular mtDNA chromosome contains 13 genes that encode proteins that are part of the electron transport chain a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4110763 | 524,045 |
1,780,588 | The process of pinning insect specimens is a dry method to preserve and display collections and requires special entomological equipment to accomplish effectively. It is used primarily for hard-bodied, medium to large specimens and is beneficial for easier study and color preservation. Flies and butterflies, though the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53643626 | 1,779,584 |
1,686,375 | Nicollet encountered financial and professional difficulties resulting from political turbulence in France following the July Revolution (1830) and the rising dominance of physics as a laboratory science. Penniless, he emigrated to the United States in 1832, sailing from the port of Brest. Nicollet hoped to boost his r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=442757 | 1,685,429 |
821,027 | Since 1948, the test has been used by neuropsychologists and clinical psychologists in patients with acquired brain injury, neurodegenerative disease, or mental illness such as schizophrenia. It is one of several psychological tests which can be administered to patients to measure frontal lobe dysfunction. When adminis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1803792 | 820,586 |
1,024,885 | "Leedsichthys" is the largest known member of the Osteichthyes or bony fishes. The largest extant non-tetrapodomorph bony fish is the ocean sunfish, "Mola mola", being with a weight of up to two tonnes an order of magnitude smaller than "Leedsichthys". The extant giant oarfish might rival "Leedsichthys" in length but i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1987761 | 1,024,352 |
54,490 | The R-7 rocket was initially designed as an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) by OKB-1. The decision to build it was made by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Council of Ministers of the USSR on 20 May 1954. The rocket was the most powerful in the world; it was designed wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28484 | 54,467 |
1,757,817 | Molluscs appear to lack an adaptive immune system like that found in vertebrates and, instead, are considered to use various innate mechanisms involving cell-mediated and humoral reactions (non-cellular factors in plasma/serum or hemolymph) that interact to recognize and eliminate invading pathogens or parasites in inc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23596197 | 1,756,824 |
623,067 | Many radio systems also require the operator to wait a few seconds after depressing the PTT button before speaking, and so this is a recommended practice on all systems. The California Statewide EMS Operations and Communications Resource Manual explains why:Key your transmitter before engaging in speech. The complexiti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=633263 | 622,735 |
219,008 | The preparations contained in these three pharmacopoeias were not all uniform in strength, a source of much inconvenience and danger to the public, when powerful preparations such as dilute hydrocyanic acid were ordered in the one country and dispensed according to the national pharmacopoeia in another. As a result, th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=300705 | 218,900 |
1,577,838 | Ground-penetrating radar (or GPR) has a typical maximum depth below ground level (bgl) of 10 m, depending upon the antennae frequencies used, typically 50 MHz to 1.2 Gz. The higher the frequency the smaller the object that can be resolved but also penetration depths decrease, so operators need to think carefully when c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34713249 | 1,576,949 |
32,294 | The arrival of PSLV in 1990s became a major boost for the Indian space program. With the exception of its first flight in 1994 and two partial failures later, PSLV had a streak of more than 50 successful flights. PSLV enabled India to launch all of its low Earth orbit satellites, small payloads to GTO and hundreds of f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1019722 | 32,282 |
1,639,580 | In 2009, a British production company approached her about coming to Ireland on short notice to help dissect a 19.8 m (65 ft) fin whale that had washed up on the south coast. She conducted the dissection, and the company was so happy with her performance that they asked her to become a regular contributor to "Inside Na... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37105167 | 1,638,654 |
281,252 | The first IR devices were experimented with before World War II. During the war, German engineers were working on heat seeking missiles and proximity fuses but did not have time to complete development before the war ended. Truly practical designs did not become possible until the introduction of conical scanning and m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1396771 | 281,099 |
213,185 | SpaceX's CEO, Elon Musk, named the spacecraft after the 1963 song "Puff, the Magic Dragon" by Peter, Paul and Mary, reportedly as a response to critics who considered his spaceflight projects impossible. Early on, it had actually been named Magic Dragon, and t-shirts had been printed with this name. As late as Septembe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4303909 | 213,077 |
1,540,447 | As our college is part of the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Institute of Technology campus which offers degree courses in about eight different disciplines, we are uniquely poised to present a special multi-disciplinary exposure to our students. Architecture and Interior Design has always been a creative, open-minded profes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4068918 | 1,539,574 |
801,534 | As a type of honey bee, "Apis cerana" must collect and store around a third of its nectar in a concentrated form in order to ensure an adequate supply for consumption during the harsh winter. The nest is multi-combed and somewhat insulated, allowing the species to achieve optimal nest temperatures and thereby optimize ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24718621 | 801,106 |
604,317 | While this debate focused largely on the controversial Mitchell, its early star was Foulois. Both returned from France with combat leadership experience in aviation, expecting to become the peacetime leaders of the Air Service. Instead, the War Department appointed Maj. Gen. Charles Menoher, who had commanded the Rainb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=662917 | 604,007 |
1,942,327 | The technical lead of the WHO's COVID-19 response Maria Van Kerkhove told the Washington Post in October 2021 that the new SAGO group, which includes scientists from the United States and China, is "a real opportunity right now to get rid of all the noise, all the politics surrounding this and focus on what we know". H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68257987 | 1,941,216 |
525,818 | However, the growth of the hiring by businesses of in-house counsel and their increasing sophistication, together with the development of email, has led to clients placing increasing cost and time pressure on their lawyers. In addition, there are increasing incentives for lawyers to become technologically competent, wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46550108 | 525,545 |
919,464 | Opioid receptors are a type of G protein–coupled receptor (GPCR). These receptors are distributed throughout the central nervous system and within the peripheral tissue of neural and non-neural origin. They are also located in high concentrations in the Periaqueductal gray, Locus coeruleus, and the Rostral ventromedial... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=736407 | 918,979 |
1,303,858 | In the mid-1990s, Hayflick was recruited by Geron founder Michael D. West to join the company's Scientific Advisory Board. In 1997, Hayflick was elected Academician and Foreign Member of the Ukrainian Academy of Medical Sciences. In 1998 he was elected corresponding member of the Société de Biologie of France. In 1999,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=482990 | 1,303,142 |
173,019 | Translesion synthesis (TLS) is a DNA damage tolerance process that allows the DNA replication machinery to replicate past DNA lesions such as thymine dimers or AP sites. It involves switching out regular DNA polymerases for specialized translesion polymerases (i.e. DNA polymerase IV or V, from the Y Polymerase family),... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=854294 | 172,928 |
1,453,543 | Some of the psychogenic models proposed by these early researchers, such as the "schizophrenogenic mother", came under sustained criticism, from feminists who saw them as 'mother-blaming' and from a psychiatric profession that increasingly moved towards biological determinism. From the 1960s pharmacological treatments ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4873216 | 1,452,726 |
691,106 | In the late 1970s, biotechnology offered another possible solution to a societal crisis. The escalation in the price of oil in 1974 increased the cost of the Western world's energy tenfold. In response, the U.S. government promoted the production of gasohol, gasoline with 10 percent alcohol added, as an answer to the e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6012335 | 690,743 |
730,192 | In 1822, the word "paleontology" was used by the editor of a French scientific journal to refer to the study of ancient living organisms through fossils, and the first half of the 19th century saw geological and paleontological activity become increasingly well organized with the growth of geologic societies and museum... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7991116 | 729,808 |
164,366 | In 2003 after receiving a discrimination complaint from a county employee, the County of Los Angeles in California asked that manufacturers, suppliers and contractors stop using "master" and "slave" terminology on products. Following complaints, the County of Los Angeles issued a statement saying that the decision was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=379287 | 164,281 |
172,303 | HCC remains associated with a high mortality rate, in part because initial diagnosis commonly occurs at an advanced stage of disease. As with other cancers, outcomes are significantly improved if treatment is initiated earlier in the disease process. Since the vast majority of HCC cases occur in people with certain chr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=237585 | 172,212 |
808,742 | A wide variety of cryptographic protocols go beyond the traditional goals of data confidentiality, integrity, and authentication to also secure a variety of other desired characteristics of computer-mediated collaboration. Blind signatures can be used for digital cash and digital credentials to prove that a person hold... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=591994 | 808,312 |
1,626,509 | The 1985 Mexico City earthquake of September 19, 1985 is a good example of earthquake damage to a modern city built on soft sediment. Though the earthquake epicenter was located around 350 km from the city, the sites with soft clay deposits exhibited a huge amplification of ground motion resulting in severe damage. Mex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17501906 | 1,625,591 |
243,530 | As a result of the recession sparked by the public debt crisis, poverty has increased. The rate of people at risk of poverty or social exclusion reached a high of 36% in 2014, before subsiding over the following years to 28.9% in 2020. Those living in extreme poverty rose to 15% in 2015, up from 8.9% in 2011, and a hug... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12113 | 243,403 |
1,981,071 | Cyanobionts are cyanobacteria that live in symbiosis with a wide range of organisms such as terrestrial or aquatic plants; as well as, algal and fungal species. They can reside within extracellular or intracellular structures of the host. In order for a cyanobacterium to successfully form a symbiotic relationship, it m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19806269 | 1,979,933 |
922,646 | While these ancient societies had developed techniques that were way ahead of their time, they still lacked a mechanistic understanding of how the body was reacting to these procedures. This mechanistic approach came along in tandem with the development of the empirical method of science pioneered by René Descartes. Si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=307065 | 922,160 |
730,371 | As a tactic to gain the same scientific status as evolution, flood geology proponents had effectively relabeled the Bible-based flood geology of George McCready Price as "creation science" or "scientific creationism" by the mid 1970s. At the CRS board meeting in the Spring of 1972, members were told to start using "sci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=543667 | 729,986 |
414,887 | "Eryops" is currently thought to contain only one species, "E. megacephalus", which means "large-headed "Eryops"". "E. megacephalus" fossils have been found only in rocks dated to the early Permian period (Sakmarian age, about 295 million years ago) in the southwestern United States, primarily in the Admiral Formation ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=453303 | 414,684 |
1,224,980 | There are a number of psychosocial and psychiatric issues that may affect crew members during an expeditionary mission to Mars. In terms of selection, only a subset of all astronaut candidates will be willing to be away from family and friends for the two- to three-year mission, so the pool of possible crew members wil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40399131 | 1,224,320 |
283,895 | A problem arose historically which held up progress for twenty years: although we start with the assumption of three basic "simple" actions, the rules of the game say that if we want to calculate the probability amplitude for an electron to get from "A" to "B", we must take into account "all" the possible ways: all pos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25268 | 283,742 |
1,706,244 | The programmers claimed that F-16 Combat Pilot's cockpit views were based on the latest version of the F-16 at that time. The game manual states; "Following the trend in all modern aircraft towards the "glass cockpit", the instrument panel has been modified and updated many times since its first design. You are now loo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24126230 | 1,705,286 |
410,219 | Doi & Barendregt working in collaboration with Khan, Thalib and Williams (from the University of Queensland, University of Southern Queensland and Kuwait University), have created an inverse variance quasi likelihood based alternative (IVhet) to the random effects (RE) model for which details are available online. This... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62329 | 410,017 |
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