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226,363 | Steiner emphasized that the methods he proposed should be tested experimentally. For this purpose, Steiner established a research group, the "Agricultural Experimental Circle of Anthroposophical Farmers and Gardeners of the General Anthroposophical Society". Between 1924 and 1939, this research group attracted about 80... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=445231 | 226,247 |
1,228,524 | The Japanese Nuclear Safety Commission states that it "assumed" melted fuel rods in unit 2 have released radioactive substances into the coolant water, which subsequently leaked out through an unknown route to the unit 2 turbine building basement. To reduce the amount of leaking water, TEPCO reduced the amount of water... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31167895 | 1,227,862 |
454,960 | When creating the look of the Infected, the art team cycled through various iterations. Some early ideas included the Infected looking like aliens or zombies. The final design was chosen when lead character artist Michael Knowland incorporated images of diseases and fungal growth onto a human. He expressed the difficul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45204814 | 454,738 |
471,763 | During the FAA public comment period, EASA inquired about adding a third angle of attack sensor, and Transport Canada inquired whether the stick shaker, a mechanical stall warning device, could be suppressed during false alarm situations to reduce pilot workload. Airline passenger organization FlyersRights remain skept... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63181427 | 471,527 |
1,059,009 | Kunisaki put his mine up for sale, asking $6 million to recoup his expenses. Even though mine profits had been poor over the decades, prices of precious gems were very high at the time due to the worldwide oil crises of the 1970s and early 1980s. Four individuals or groups seriously considered Kunisaki's offer. Relying... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33521256 | 1,058,459 |
676,374 | IL-1α is synthesized as a precursor protein and it is constitutively stored in the cytoplasm of cells of mesenchymal origin and in epithelial cells. In contrast, monocytes and macrophages do not contain preformed IL-1α precursors, but instead rely on de novo synthesis. The IL-1α precursor is processed to its mature 17-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29871617 | 676,021 |
6,897 | In 2007, Boeing stated that a passive Infrared Search and Track (IRST) sensor would be an available future option. The sensor, mounted in a modified centerline fuel tank, detects long wave IR emissions to spot and track targets such as aircraft; combat using the IRST and AIM-9X Sidewinder missiles is immune to radar ja... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=845012 | 6,894 |
2,100,800 | Andreyev was born to a government official, Nikolai Fedorovich and Alexandra Nikitichna Konvisarova. After the death of his parents in a fire, he was brought up by relatives in Moscow. He went to the classical gymnasium and after graduating in 1892, joined the military school where he studied mathematics and European l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65185948 | 2,099,590 |
1,058,297 | In 1935 the Chief General Manager of BHP, Essington Lewis, visited Europe and formed the view that war was probable. On his return to Australia, concerned at the lack of manufacturing capabilities there and at the possibility of aircraft not being available from 'traditional' (i.e. British) sources during wartime, he c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4362082 | 1,057,748 |
1,759,108 | The DOMI Typhoid program was initiated to address the barriers of access to typhoid vaccines in the developing world and to accelerate the introduction of modern typhoid vaccines in countries where they were needed. DOMI Typhoid utilized the Vi-Polysaccharide (Vi-PS) vaccine because it is easily and inexpensively produ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22613352 | 1,758,115 |
1,245,465 | Because this protein is found in multiple organs, it has a different specific role in each organ or organ system. A major function of the protein made by the gene SSTR2 is pancreatic interaction with the alpha and beta cells. In the delta cells of the pancreas, this hormone inhibits the secretion of both glucagon and i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14132937 | 1,244,791 |
2,001,978 | Stoneking came to prominence both in the academic and media circles with his work on mitochondrial DNA variation among different human populations. He started under the supervision of Allan Wilson and following the pioneering work of his senior graduate student, Rebecca Cann. Cann had collected data from different huma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39296989 | 2,000,830 |
1,371,923 | In the United States, almost half of the enlisted force is below 25 for both men and women with the average age being 27. The trend of youth is perpetuated by the fact that most people enter into the service at 18 years of age and leave after only a few years. This creates a situation in which those with college experi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18431120 | 1,371,166 |
378,973 | In May 2017, pembrolizumab received an accelerated approval from the US FDA for use in any unresectable or metastatic solid tumor with DNA mismatch repair deficiencies or a microsatellite instability-high state (or, in the case of colon cancer, tumors that have progressed following chemotherapy). This approval marked t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39210170 | 378,778 |
2,161,991 | The ETSTC era was also a banner period for athletics, as the school joined the Lone Star Conference (LSC) as a founding member in 1931, while during the "Golden Fifties" both the football and men's basketball teams won multiple conference championships, and the basketball team won the NAIA national basketball tournamen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49869717 | 2,160,756 |
657,445 | Bronze was introduced to the Pontic-Caspian steppes during this period. Following the Yamnaya expansion, long-distance trade in metals and other valuables, such as salt in the hinterlands, probably brought prestige and power to Proto-Indo-European societies. However, the native tradition of pottery making was weakly de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=931859 | 657,101 |
706,927 | The Mark 8 Rangekeeper was an electromechanical analog computer whose function was to continuously calculate the gun's bearing and elevation, Line-Of-Fire (LOF), to hit a future position of the target. It did this by automatically receiving information from the director (LOS), the FC Radar (range), the ship's gyrocompa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21169396 | 706,558 |
1,194,549 | <br>To power an HMI bulb, special ballasts act as an ignitor to start the arc, and then regulate it by acting as a choke. Two types of ballasts exist: magnetic and electronic (square-wave or flicker-free). "Magnetic" ballasts are generally much heavier and bulkier than electronic ballasts, as they consist primarily of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1723027 | 1,193,909 |
895,887 | One important aspect of a problem-oriented field is that by identifying problems, solutions arise from the research acquired. The solutions can aid in making society function better as a whole and create a wealth of knowledge about the inner workings of societies. Environmental psychologist Harold Proshansky discusses ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1639997 | 895,416 |
1,741,632 | Early growth response protein 2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the "EGR2" gene. EGR2 (also termed Krox20) is a transcription regulatory factor, containing three zinc finger DNA-binding sites, and is highly expressed in a population of migrating neural crest cells. It is later expressed in the neural crest de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14179010 | 1,740,648 |
2,005,767 | During the First World War, the Galileo Circle conducted anti-war propaganda from 1915, initially in the form of pacifist lectures, and later another hardcore group of the circle (see Revolutionary Socialists) also started illegal activities. From 1916 onwards, anti-war propaganda activities (lectures and the productio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59180536 | 2,004,618 |
452,723 | In 1953, Watson and Crick announced their discovery of the now familiar double helix structure of DNA molecules and set the stage for genetics research that continues to the present day. The development of sequencing techniques in 1977 by Gilbert and Sanger (working separately) enabled researchers to directly read the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=859981 | 452,504 |
63,862 | For space launches from Earth, relatively short acceleration distances (less than a few km) would require very strong acceleration forces, higher than humans can tolerate. Other designs include a longer helical (spiral) track, or a large ring design whereby a space vehicle would circle the ring numerous times, graduall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=218930 | 63,837 |
1,583,318 | Helen S. Mayberg was born in 1956 in California. She is an American neurologist. Mayberg is known in particular for her work delineating abnormal brain function in patients with major depression using functional neuroimaging. This work led to the first pilot study of deep brain stimulation (DBS), a reversible method of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4853550 | 1,582,428 |
1,703,223 | Washburn left the UNM deanship in the fall of 2012, when President Obama appointed him to serve as Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs at the U.S. Department of the Interior. Following a confirmation hearing, he was confirmed unanimously by the United States Senate on September 21, 2012, and was sworn into office by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19068686 | 1,702,267 |
861,410 | Since fuel used by industry and transportation account for the majority of world demand, by investing in conservation and efficiency (using less fuel), pollution and greenhouse gases from these two sectors can be reduced around the globe. Advanced energy efficient electric motor (and electric generator) technology that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1443002 | 860,951 |
1,681,594 | There are some machine translation evaluation survey works, where people introduced more details about what kinds of human evaluation methods they used and how they work, such as the intelligibility, fidelity, fluency, adequacy, comprehension, and informativeness, etc. For automatic evaluations, they also did some clea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11336666 | 1,680,651 |
1,530,237 | In 1962, R. Gordon Wasson and Albert Hofmann went to Mexico to visit her. They also brought a bottle of psilocybin pills. Sandoz was marketing them under the brand name Indocybin—"indo" for both Indian and indole (the nucleus of their chemical structures) and "cybin" for the main molecular constituent, psilocybin. Hofm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68146713 | 1,529,372 |
1,982,119 | Stephen P. Hubbell (born 17 February 1942) is an American ecologist on the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles. He is author of the unified neutral theory of biodiversity and biogeography (UNTB), which seeks to explain the diversity and relative abundance of species in ecological communities not by nic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4186736 | 1,980,980 |
764,443 | In 2007 the "New England Journal of Medicine" published the results of a trial called COURAGE. The study compared stenting as used in PCI to medical therapy alone in symptomatic stable coronary artery disease (CAD). This showed there was no mortality advantage to stenting in stable CAD, though there was earlier relief ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3727453 | 764,033 |
801,533 | "Apis cerana" encompass a wide range of climatic zones including moist tropical rainforests, wet-dry tropical savannas, mid-latitude steppes, dry mid-latitude grasslands, moist continental deciduous forests, and taigas. The natural range of "Apis cerana" extends from Primorsky Krai in Russia in the north, to eastern In... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24718621 | 801,105 |
1,447,210 | Certain questions about Rosen's mathematical arguments were raised in a paper authored by Christopher Landauer and Kirstie L. Bellman which claimed that some of the mathematical formulations used by Rosen are problematic from a logical viewpoint. It is perhaps worth noting, however, that such issues were also raised lo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=275026 | 1,446,394 |
766,431 | Traditional methods for multiple comparisons adjustments focus on correcting for modest numbers of comparisons, often in an analysis of variance. A different set of techniques have been developed for "large-scale multiple testing", in which thousands or even greater numbers of tests are performed. For example, in genom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9444220 | 766,021 |
1,435,775 | Kadanoff's early research focused upon superconductivity. In the late 1960s, he studied the organization of matter in phase transitions. Kadanoff demonstrated that sudden changes in material properties (such as the magnetization of a magnet or the boiling of a fluid) could be understood in terms of scaling and universa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1569663 | 1,434,968 |
192,373 | Air Marshal Valston Hancock, Chief of the Air Staff, stated in April 1960 that Australia needed a replacement for the Canberra. Although in mid-1962 the Menzies government again decided to not replace the Canberra, Indonesia's increasingly aggressive statements regarding Malaysia soon caused Australia to reevaluate the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25595226 | 192,274 |
1,880,067 | In 1917, within the College of Fine Arts, the School of Applied Design was started with a series of focuses including commercial illustration, costume design, textile design, interior decoration, stage design, and printing—all within the Painting, Decorating and Sculpture departments. In 1928, a letter was written to P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6112088 | 1,878,986 |
58,619 | As a consequence of strong demand for the -600 series, ATR decided to invest in the establishment of a second, more modern final assembly line and acquisition of more hangar space at its Toulouse site, along with a new large completion and delivery area; overall, the manufacturing operation expanded to four times the f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=285018 | 58,594 |
1,280,729 | Though the Society of Women Engineers did not become a formal organization until 1950, its origins date to the late 1940s, when shortages of men due to World War II provided new opportunities for women to pursue employment in engineering. Female student groups at Drexel Institute of Technology in Philadelphia and at Co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2377830 | 1,280,034 |
1,722,339 | While strains of "C. pseudotuberculosis" are consistent in their morphology and growth on media, they show greater variation in biochemical properties such as fermenting ability. While they are unable to produce gas, all strains can use glucose, fructose, maltose, mannose, and sucrose to produce acid. Additional bioche... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65001349 | 1,721,369 |
360,204 | On June 22, 1996, the release of "Quake" marked the third milestone in id Software history. "Quake" combined a cutting edge fully 3D engine, the "Quake" engine, with a distinctive art style to create critically acclaimed graphics for its time. Audio was not neglected either, having recruited Nine Inch Nails frontman Tr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15526 | 360,017 |
1,264,960 | Recent supporting evidence includes the discovery that upon the infection of a bacterial cell, the giant bacteriophage "201 Φ2-1" (of the genus "Phikzvirus") assembles a nucleus-like structure around the region of genome replication and uncouples transcription and translation, and synthesized mRNA is then transported i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4009213 | 1,264,272 |
1,754,478 | Perhaps Zallinger's most well-known piece of art, The Age of Reptiles is a 110 feet (33.5 meters) wide by 16 feet (4.9 meters) tall mural, occupying the full length of the east wall of the Yale Peabody Museum’s Great Hall. It was painted from 1943 to 1947, with the help of a 6-month crash course in animal and plant lif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8990816 | 1,753,488 |
388,126 | Mallow offers the Commdor tools for heavy industry, believing that will allow him to visit a factory, where the advanced technology would be found if Korell has it. He sees no sign of it, but catches a glimpse of the ruler's guards' weapons - atomic handguns bearing the markings of the Galactic Empire. Mallow's discove... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=309409 | 387,931 |
1,004,776 | On January 5, 2012, General Motors announced that it would offer a customer satisfaction program to provide modifications to the Chevrolet Volt to reduce the chance that the battery pack could catch fire days or weeks after a severe accident. General Motors explained the modifications will enhance the vehicle structure... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38267353 | 1,004,258 |
934,576 | Researchers are optimistic that increased diversity within the field of ethnomusicology will help alleviate some ethical concerns. With more fieldwork of Western music and societies being conducted by researchers from underrepresented cultures — a reversal from the norm — some believe the field will reach a happy equil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=80077 | 934,084 |
301,354 | The biconic is a sphere-cone with an additional frustum attached. The biconic offers a significantly improved L/D ratio. A biconic designed for Mars aerocapture typically has an L/D of approximately 1.0 compared to an L/D of 0.368 for the Apollo-CM. The higher L/D makes a biconic shape better suited for transporting pe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45294 | 301,193 |
2,175,133 | Pre-insertion preparation: After reaching the nucleus, mtDNA has to enter the nuclear genome. The rate of mtDNA incorporation into the nuclear genome can be expected to depend on the DSB number in nDNA, the activity of DSB repair systems, and the rate of mtDNA escape from organelles. MtDNA insertion comprises three mai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8564084 | 2,173,890 |
977,411 | Many animals readily classify objects by perceived differences in form or color. For example, bees or pigeons quickly learn to choose any red object and reject any green object if red leads to reward and green does not. Seemingly much more difficult is an animal's ability to categorize natural objects that vary a great... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=425938 | 976,900 |
353,704 | Kharagpur Automobile Racing Team, better known as "Team KART" is a group of students who like to explore the practical side of automotive engineering. The team designs and builds formula student prototype race-cars and represents IIT Kharagpur at Formula Student UK & Formula Bharat. It was founded in 2008 and has made ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=294901 | 353,521 |
1,291,500 | "Emiliania huxleyi" was named after Thomas Huxley and Cesare Emiliani, who were the first to examine sea-bottom sediment and discover the coccoliths within it. It is believed to have evolved approximately 270,000 years ago from the older genus "Gephyrocapsa" Kampter and became dominant in planktonic assemblages, and th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1528261 | 1,290,790 |
4,476 | In July 2019, after observations of the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing, "The New York Times" reported on details of a medical malpractice suit Armstrong's family had filed against Mercy Health–Fairfield Hospital, where he died. When Armstrong appeared to be recovering from his bypass surgery, nurses removed the w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21247 | 4,474 |
1,402,006 | His academic research focuses on the evolution of gene regulation. Despite this focus, Eisen's work has historically spanned very diverse disciplines. For example, his 5 most cited papers cover a broad range of topics including methods for hierarchical clustering, applications to human breast cancers (with David Botste... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3095306 | 1,401,219 |
1,878,934 | Curiosity landed at the foot of Mt. Sharp – Gale Crater's central mound – near the end of an ancient alluvial fan that formed by sediments transported by streams from the crater rim. In the first year of its mission, Curiosity discovered fine-grained sedimentary rocks of basaltic composition that represent an ancient l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26158825 | 1,877,854 |
166,507 | People in Norwich began to talk about the possibility of setting up a university in the nineteenth century, and attempts to establish one in Norwich were made in 1919 and 1947. But due to a lack of government funding on both occasions the plans had to be postponed. The University of East Anglia was eventually given the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=197027 | 166,421 |
329,997 | Air travel exposes people on aircraft to increased radiation from space as compared to sea level, including cosmic rays and from solar flare events. Software programs such as Epcard, CARI, SIEVERT, PCAIRE are attempts to simulate exposure by aircrews and passengers. An example of a measured dose (not simulated dose) is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=202522 | 329,822 |
565,351 | Usually, a set of individually designed oligonucleotides is made on automated solid-phase synthesizers, purified and then connected by specific annealing and standard ligation or polymerase reactions. To improve specificity of oligonucleotide annealing, the synthesis step relies on a set of thermostable DNA ligase and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11913227 | 565,061 |
645,660 | "As We May Think" predicted (to some extent) many kinds of technology invented after its publication, including hypertext, personal computers, the Internet, the World Wide Web, speech recognition, and online encyclopedias such as Wikipedia: "Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready-made with a mesh of assoc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18915928 | 645,320 |
939,837 | Geological evidence supports the final closure of the isthmus of Panama approximately 2.7 to 3.5 mya, with some evidence suggesting an earlier transient bridge existing between 13 and 15 mya. Recent evidence increasingly points towards an older and more complex emergence of the Isthmus, with fossil and extant species d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=334986 | 939,336 |
34,560 | On May 16, 1960, Theodore H. Maiman operated the first functioning laser at Hughes Research Laboratories, Malibu, California, ahead of several research teams, including those of Townes, at Columbia University, Arthur Schawlow, at Bell Labs, and Gould, at the TRG (Technical Research Group) company. Maiman's functional l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17556 | 34,548 |
578,725 | Elevated response in the sgACC is a consistent finding in neuroimaging studies using a number of paradigms including reward related tasks. Treatment is also associated with attenuated activity in the sgACC, and inhibition of neurons in the rodent homologue of the sgACC, the infralimbic cortex (IL), produces an antidepr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19477293 | 578,429 |
2,150,619 | On the contrary, less effort has been made to study the stretchability of porous carbons. Gao, "et al". synthesized a long-range lamellar scaffold composed of chitosan and graphene oxide via bidirectional freezing, freeze drying, and annealing. The result is a material with density of 11 mg cm and porosity of about 99.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70717277 | 2,149,388 |
1,982,900 | A review in "The Spinoff" by Clarrie Macklin, himself a glaciologist who had dealt with the harsh realities of climate change daily and the challenges of working with glaciers, said that Lowe's book was beginning to "thaw out the emotional stress..."[and took him back]"...to a time before flash computers and health and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65653530 | 1,981,761 |
1,625,765 | Yet again in Spring 1992, the CSU and UC systems were facing another round of severe budget cuts and dramatic student fee increases by the state government. Still a second time, SDSU President Thomas Day took the same deep and narrow approach for budget cuts for SDSU, but this time proposed elimination of not only full... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20079555 | 1,624,847 |
768,907 | A regular visitor to the Salpêtrière from 1842 till his death more than thirty years later was Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne de Boulogne (1806–1875). From humble provincial origins, a long line of seafarers from Boulogne, Duchenne became one of the outstanding medical scientists of the nineteenth century. Though he never... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1035358 | 768,495 |
696,621 | Another U.S. example is the State of Maryland's promotion of a program called "GreenPrint." GreenPrint Maryland is the first web-enabled map in the nation that shows the relative ecological importance of every parcel of land in the state. Combining color-coded maps, information layers, and aerial photography with publi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10040229 | 696,257 |
1,410,886 | The North Report went through a rigorous review process, and was published on 22 June 2006. It concluded "with a high level of confidence that global mean surface temperature was higher during the last few decades of the 20th century than during any comparable period during the preceding four centuries", justified by c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5354105 | 1,410,094 |
1,202,791 | There are few examples of documented populations of free-living "Symbiodinium". Given that most host larvae must initially acquire their symbionts from the environment, viable "Symbiodinium" cells occur outside the host. The motile phase is probably important in the external environment and facilitates the rapid infect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11375187 | 1,202,148 |
1,986,124 | The Plate Boundary Observatory PBO consists of a series of geodetic instruments, Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers and borehole strainmeters, that have been installed to help understand the boundary between the North American Plate and Pacific Plate. The PBO network includes several major observatory components... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3463982 | 1,984,983 |
1,994,325 | The RMS facilities on the NRL campus had been considerably expanded in the years immediately preceding the war; by early 1941, the entering class had increased to 135 men. After the start of the war and the initiation of the ETP, a new class began every two months. In August 1942, Wallace Miller was increased in rank t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36494078 | 1,993,182 |
593,774 | To demonstrate the Society's commitment to sustainability, ASHRAE renovated its previous headquarters building in Atlanta, Ga. After the renovation and occupancy in June 2008, the building received many awards, including an Energy Star rating with a score of 95, a Platinum Certification from USGBC's LEED program, and f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42883317 | 593,470 |
2,052,211 | No Precambrian fossils are known from Rhode Island, which was located in the polar latitudes of the southern hemisphere at that time. The fossil record of the state's early Paleozoic history does not add much information about the state's ancient wildlife either. Nevertheless, evidence indicates that the state was at l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37799027 | 2,051,030 |
198,906 | The curve of binding energy is a graph that plots the binding energy per nucleon against atomic mass. This curve has its main peak at iron and nickel and then slowly decreases again, and also a narrow isolated peak at helium, which is more stable than other low-mass nuclides. The heaviest nuclei in more than trace quan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3043836 | 198,804 |
1,680,192 | 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=69445009 | 1,679,249 |
302,601 | As the German army received new tanks with more powerful guns, as well as more powerful anti-tank guns and ammunition, the Matilda proved less and less effective. Firing tests conducted by the "Afrika korps" showed that the Matilda had become vulnerable to a number of German weapons at ordinary combat ranges. Due to th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=206191 | 302,440 |
1,699,691 | The distinctive, and unusual, feature of the engine was its use of wet liners to form the cylinders. Rather than the cylinders being bored into the cast-iron block, separate thin-walled steel tubes were inserted into a hollow block. The space between liner and block formed a large uninterrupted water jacket, which impr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26829899 | 1,698,737 |
1,087,542 | After Huang-Lao thought became eclipsed by other ideologies explaining the cosmos during the 2nd century BCE, the sage philosopher Laozi replaced the Yellow Emperor as the ancestor and originator of the teachings of Daoism. As written by Wang Chong in the 1st century CE, Daoists were chiefly concerned with obtaining im... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21786810 | 1,086,983 |
1,733,093 | Located directly east of the Agriculture Engineering Sciences Building and directly south of the ACES library, Art East Annex Studio 1 houses the work studios for all second year and some third year students in the school of architecture. Previously the space was used for painting and sculpting students in Art+Design, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5839371 | 1,732,117 |
405,854 | In 1980, an article in the August issue of "Psychology Today" (with commentary by Philip Zimbardo) used the term "hacker" in its title: "The Hacker Papers." It was an excerpt from a Stanford Bulletin Board discussion on the addictive nature of computer use. In the 1982 film "Tron", Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) describes ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2471540 | 405,654 |
332,656 | The fossil record seems to indicate that "Australopithecus" is ancestral to "Homo" and modern humans. It was once assumed that large brain size had been a precursor to bipedalism, but the discovery of "Australopithecus" with a small brain but developed bipedality upset this theory. Nonetheless, it remains a matter of c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61534 | 332,479 |
1,129,544 | At the start of 2012 he entered two high-profile cross country races, winning the Lotto Cross Cup de Hannut and placing second at the Cross de San Sebastián. He moved up to the 3000 m distance in the steeplechase and placed second at the Kawasaki Super Meet in Japan before running 8:08.92 minutes for fifth in his IAAF ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39478298 | 1,128,966 |
238,943 | Roselli et al. discovered an ovine SDN (oSDN) in the preoptic hypothalamus that is smaller in male-oriented rams than in female-oriented rams, but similar in size to the oSDN of females. Neurons of the oSDN show aromatase expression which is also smaller in male-oriented rams versus female-oriented rams, suggesting tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51614 | 238,823 |
306,601 | During the Falklands War/Guerra de Malvinas in 1982, five SA 330 Pumas of the Argentine Army and one of the Argentine Coast Guard were deployed to the theatre; these could either operate from the decks of Navy vessels as well as performing missions across the breadth of the islands; all were lost in the ensuing conflic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=493615 | 306,437 |
451,318 | One of the most significant R&D thrust areas of CSIR-NEERI is environmental monitoring. The Institute is operating a nation-wide air quality monitoring network since 1978. The programme sponsored by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) since 1990 has generated a time series data on air quality for ten major Indi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16085921 | 451,099 |
1,074,014 | A typical study might involve how two proteins interact with each other, possibly with a view to developing small molecules that can be used to probe the normal biology of the interaction ("chemical biology") or to provide possible leads for pharmaceutical use (drug development). Frequently, the interacting pair of pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3654507 | 1,073,460 |
800,160 | Shortly after release, "Cosmos" became the best-selling science book ever published in the English language, and was the first science book to sell more than half a million copies. Though spurred in part by the popularity of the television series, "Cosmos" became a best-seller by its own regard, reaching hundreds of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3789887 | 799,734 |
544,291 | The introduction of multispectral multibeam echosounders continues the trajectory of technological innovations providing the hydrographic surveying community with better tools for more rapidly acquiring better data for multiple uses. A multispectral multibeam echosounder is the culmination of many progressive advances ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=167741 | 544,009 |
340,464 | The study of bones in ancient Greece started under Ptolemaic kings due to their link to Egypt. Herophilos, through his work by studying dissected human corpses in Alexandria, is credited to be the pioneer of the field. His works are lost but are often cited by notable persons in the field such as Galen and Rufus of Eph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=168848 | 340,283 |
2,089,484 | The EPOC effect can be observed in a wide range of catalytic reactions with several kinds of metal or metal oxide catalysts mostly coupled with solid electrolytes. Versatile catalytic reactions including hydrogenations, dehydrogenations, oxidations, reductions, isomerizations, and chemical decompositions have been know... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54063628 | 2,088,281 |
1,618,861 | There are several options to address biogenic sulfide corrosion problems: impairing HS formation, venting out the HS or using materials resistant to biogenic corrosion. For example, sewage flows more rapidly through steeper gradient sewers reducing time available for hydrogen sulfide generation. Likewise, removing slud... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8778829 | 1,617,946 |
728,380 | The City Beautiful movement was inspired by 19th century European capital cities such as Georges-Eugène Haussmann's Paris or the Vienna Ring Road. An influential figure was Daniel Burnham (1846-1912), who was the chief of construction of the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. Urban problems such as the 1886 Haymarke... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45346 | 727,996 |
1,515,281 | Optical rogue waves were initially reported in 2007 based on experiments investigating the stochastic properties of supercontinuum generation from a train of nearly-identical picosecond input pulses. In the experiments, radiation from a mode-locked laser (megahertz pulse train) was injected into a nonlinear optical fib... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42450197 | 1,514,430 |
868,346 | In these conditions, Shackleton decided to try to reach help, using one of the boats. The nearest port was Stanley in the Falkland Islands, away, but made unreachable by the prevailing westerly winds. A better option was to head for Deception Island, away at the western end of the South Shetland chain. Although it was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1048994 | 867,886 |
1,665,918 | IRAK4 is involved in signal transduction pathways stimulated by the cellular receptors belonging to the Toll/Interleukin-1 receptor superfamily. The Toll-Like Receptors (TLRs) are stimulated by recognition of pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPS), whereas members of the IL-1R family are stimulated by cytokines... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4602068 | 1,664,980 |
386,036 | The Argus retinal prosthesis became the first approved treatment for the disease in February 2011, and is currently available in Germany, France, Italy, and the UK. Interim results on 30 patients long term trials were published in 2012. The Argus II retinal implant has also received market approval in the US. The devic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=350926 | 385,841 |
568,562 | The gun was used at the High Power Laboratory until November 1943. In early 1945, it was moved to a CAA research & development location in Indianapolis, called the Indianapolis Experimental Station, where it was used to test components for various commercial aircraft manufacturers, before being retired at some point in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2434620 | 568,272 |
82,613 | In 1900, while studying black-body radiation, the German physicist Max Planck suggested in his "On the Law of Distribution of Energy in the Normal Spectrum" paper that the energy carried by electromagnetic waves could only be released in "packets" of energy. In 1905, Albert Einstein published a paper advancing the hypo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23579 | 82,579 |
1,953,485 | The X-ray spectrometer aboard ISEE-3 was designed to study both solar flares and cosmic gamma-ray bursts over the energy range 5-228 keV. The detector provided full-time coverage, 3π FOV for E > 130 keV, time resolution of 0.25 ms, and absolute timing to within 1 ms. It was intended to be a part of a long-baseline inte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25101083 | 1,952,364 |
1,126,430 | On April 28, 2020, the DOE announced that a team led by SODI had been selected to receive $4,956,589 in cost-shared funding for a project titled "Generic Design Support Activities for Advanced Reactors." Per the DOE announcement, the team is to "initiate characterization, permitting, and decontamination and decommissio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12653614 | 1,125,853 |
475,508 | The artery microenvironment is characterized by surrounding temperature, transmural pressure, and luminal & abluminal drug concentrations. The multiple inputs from a microenvironment cause a wide range of mechanical or chemical stimuli on the smooth muscle cells (SMCs) and endothelial cells (ECs) that line the vessel's... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33980770 | 475,271 |
1,785,799 | For the first time in eleven years, the Capitals had a new coach in Paul Goriss. Without Lauren Jackson and sufficient crowds to fill the AIS Arena after the dismal 2014/15 Season in which the Capitals won only two games out of 24 and finished ninth, the Capitals retreated back to their old home base, the tin shed with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4121869 | 1,784,795 |
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