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372,380 | Wilson seemed to have won over the middle classes, but had little impact on the largely ethnic working classes and the deeply isolationist farmers. Congress still refused to budge, so Wilson replaced Garrison as Secretary of War with Newton Baker, the Democratic mayor of Cleveland and an outspoken "opponent" of prepare... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25604889 | 372,185 |
1,938,546 | Martin Fisher started KickStart International with Nick Moon in 1991 as a "non-profit organization that develops and markets new technologies for use in Africa". It develops technologies advocating understanding the cultural factors surrounding making money in Africa rather than an approach of giving away technology wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30256549 | 1,937,436 |
2,201,377 | Born into the Boston Brahmin upper class Forbes family, Alexander Forbes's father was William Hathaway Forbes and his mother was Edith Emerson Forbes, the daughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson. From 1889 to 1899 Alexander Forbes attended Milton Academy. There he particularly liked the physics and advanced Greek taught by Jam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71644253 | 2,200,124 |
1,248,656 | The wharf borer’s name is of importance to fisherman, sailors, and quarrymen who work along coastal areas. Damage done to old ships and docks by the wharf borer is a good indication of how old the vessels are as the beetles only attack old timber. The presence of wharf borers and the simultaneous destruction can be acc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14089766 | 1,247,980 |
1,856,687 | Since 2016, Timothy Insoll has run as PI an ERC Advanced Grant funded project, "Becoming Muslim: Conversion to Islam and Islamisation in Eastern Ethiopia" (694254 ERC-2015-AdG). Initial funding for fieldwork in Harar (2014) and Harlaa (2015 and 2016) was provided by the British Academy and the Van Berchem Foundation. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38891541 | 1,855,619 |
2,041,348 | Francis Joseph Crean was born to Catholic parents in Dublin. After serving in the Second Boer War with his well known brother Thomas Joseph Crean, he emigrated to Canada and worked as a timber-cruiser for Bell Brothers Lumber Company. From February 1908, he was working in Ottawa as a clerk with the Department of the In... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65859738 | 2,040,168 |
1,365,771 | Earthquakes manifest itself in movement of earth surface. Remote sensing can also help earthquake studies by two aspects. One is to better understand the local ground condition. For instance some soil type, which is prone to liquefaction (e.g. saturated loose alluvial material), do more damage under vibration and there... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55514078 | 1,365,015 |
1,784,420 | Transcranial magnetic stimulation has been gaining increasing interest as an alternative tool for studying the relationships between specific cortical areas and brain function, particularly because its non-invasive nature is advantageous over CSM. Additionally, because of the increasing body of research focused on inve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31175897 | 1,783,416 |
2,018,416 | Crichton signed a new contract with Fiskars which planned to open a facility in Helsinki. He travelled to England in the autumn of 1853 to purchase the needed machinery, and returned in January 1854 to oversee its installation in Hakaniemi. But global politics interfered with the project. The United Kingdom and France ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48740213 | 2,017,253 |
659,202 | As vice president, Gore promoted the development of what he referred to as the "Information Superhighway". This was discussed in detail a few days after winning the election in November 1992 in "The New York Times" article "Clinton to Promote High Technology, With Gore in Charge." They planned to finance research "that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11714059 | 658,857 |
694,079 | Bioelectricity work began in earnest at the beginning of the 20th century. Since then, several waves of research produced important functional data showing the role that bioelectricity plays in the control of growth and form. In the 1920s and 1930s, E. J. Lund and H. S. Burr were some of the most prolific authors in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55498066 | 693,716 |
1,680,923 | In 2011 at a meeting with funding agencies, Yuste proposed the goal of developing technologies to "record every spike from every neuron" and then co-authored together with George M. Church, Paul Alivisatos, Ralph Greenspan, and Michael Roukes a white paper to elaborate this idea as a large-scale scientific project (the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56451610 | 1,679,980 |
138,213 | Korolev was sent to prison, where he wrote many appeals to the authorities, including Stalin himself. Following the fall of NKVD head Nikolai Yezhov, the new chief Lavrenti Beria chose to retry Korolev on reduced charges in 1939; but by that time Korolev was on his way from prison to a Gulag forced labour camp in Kolym... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=86655 | 138,157 |
1,365,782 | Image processing is crucial to convert raw data into useful information. For imaging remote sensing, where spectral data are collected and recorded in pixels of an image, a two dimensional representation. After removal of noise and calibration, images are then geo-referenced to relate pixel to real-life geography. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55514078 | 1,365,026 |
719,982 | A complete fistula treatment center includes investigative services like laboratory work, radiology, and a blood bank, to ensure that the medical history of patients is clearly understood before treatment options are evaluated. The surgical services would include operating theaters, postoperative wards, and anesthetic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=231286 | 719,602 |
1,402,742 | Engineered nanomaterials are key building blocks of the current generation solar cells. Today's best solar cells have layers of several different semiconductors stacked together to absorb light at different energies but still only manage to use approximately 40% of the Sun's energy. Commercially available solar cells h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10209776 | 1,401,955 |
2,056,028 | Another significant feature of Figure 2 is the distinct colour change between surface sediments and those deeper. This gradient of colour change, though continuous, is known as the apparent redox potential discontinuity depth (ARPD) when reduced to an average transition point. When properly considered in conjunction wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14917968 | 2,054,845 |
1,069,850 | The human counterpart of the role of the amygdala was then observed in the 20th century at the height of psychosurgery. Professor Hirotaro Narabayashi and his colleagues were the first researchers to carry out stereotactic amygdalotomy for the treatment of abnormal aggression and hyperexcitability in a series of 60 pat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60613001 | 1,069,296 |
1,193,266 | Drugs such as opium, alcohol, and certain plants have been used for millennia by humans to ease suffering or change awareness, but until the modern scientific era knowledge of how the substances actually "worked" was quite limited, most pharmacological knowledge being more a series of observation than a coherent model.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2917198 | 1,192,630 |
965,228 | Indeed, when John Napier discovered logarithms for computational purposes in the early 17th century, there followed a period of considerable progress by inventors and scientists in making calculating tools. The apex of this early era of formal computing can be seen in the difference engine and its successor the analyti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=386519 | 964,719 |
1,152,252 | Active research into microplasma sputtering for conductive interconnect thin film deposition poses a potential additive manufacturing alternative to costly semiconductor industry production standards. Novel microputterers, operating with a continuously fed cathodic wire, employ print head reactors consisting of the wir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18446530 | 1,151,643 |
2,154,859 | In the first three building phases belonging to the Wietenberg Culture small houses of about 20-25 square meters were documented. They were constructed of wooden posts and wattle covered by daub, some daub walls were ornamented with spirals. The flours were of pisé. Such constructions leave few traces and are archaeolo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41546643 | 2,153,628 |
1,056,541 | To conclude this section on treating brain tumors with BNCT using reactor neutron sources, a clinical trial that was carried out by Stenstam, Sköld, Capala and their co-workers in Studsvik, Sweden, using an epithermal neutron beam produced by the Studsvik nuclear reactor, which had greater tissue penetration properties... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32637211 | 1,055,993 |
429,495 | To Münsterberg the most pressing question was the "selection of those personalities which by their mental qualities are especially fit for a particular kind of economic work." Basically fitting the person with the correct skill set with the correct position to maximize their productivity, and to select those that have ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=917279 | 429,285 |
49,635 | The association of elevated intraocular pressure (IOP) and glaucoma was first described by Englishman Richard Banister in 1622: "...that the Eye be grown more solid and hard, then naturally it should be...". Angle-closure glaucoma was treated with cataract extraction by John Collins Warren in Boston as early as 1806. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=74748 | 49,615 |
850,211 | Validation is a particular issue with political-military simulations, since much of the data produced is subjective. One controversial doctrine that arose from early post-WWII simulations was that of "signalling"—the idea that by making certain moves, it is possible to send a message to your opponent about your intenti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10280894 | 849,759 |
149,366 | Toxicity issues associated with the lead content in perovskite solar cells strains the public perception and acceptance of the technology. The health and environmental impact of toxic heavy metals has been much debated in the case of CdTe solar cells, whose efficiency became industrially relevant in the 1990s. Although... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43845714 | 149,305 |
82,656 | During the late 1990s, the U.S. Navy realized its Cold War-era cruisers and destroyers had been designed for open-ocean warfare and would be vulnerable in shallow coastal waters, where they would face dangers from high-speed boats, missile-firing fast-attack craft, small submarines, sea mines, and land and air-launched... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=460005 | 82,622 |
2,612 | In 1981, the U.S. Air Force identified a requirement for an Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF) to replace the F-15 Eagle and F-16 Fighting Falcon. Code-named ""Senior Sky"", this air-superiority fighter program was influenced by emerging worldwide threats, including new developments in Soviet air defense systems and the p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66299 | 2,612 |
1,894,676 | Beard and his family moved back to England in 1884 and took a postdoctoral opportunity at Owens College. Due to his previous history at the school, he ultimately earned a (BSc) from the institution. Beard's initial research interests involved the "evolutionary development of sensory organs in fish". Finishing his postd... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43789744 | 1,893,592 |
1,842,337 | The CNMS is housed in a new 80,000-square foot building on Chestnut Ridge adjacent to the Spallation Neutron Source. Construction of the facility began in August 2003 and was completed in April 2005, with the research program beginning operation in October 2005. The four-level main building comprises wet and dry labora... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=707340 | 1,841,285 |
1,278,741 | After working in the industry, Flory left to work at Cornell University for a lectureship. The lectureship was with the George Fisher Baker Non-Residents. During the lectureship, Flory was able to study and understand a way to treat the effect of the excluded volume. According the nobelprize.org polymers, “would be non... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1178722 | 1,278,048 |
1,685,129 | When Humboldt first began his studies of organisms and the environment he claimed that he wanted to "reorganize the general connections that link organic beings and to study the great harmonies of Nature". He is often considered one of the world's first genuine ecologists. Humboldt succeeded in developing a comprehensi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8243937 | 1,684,184 |
2,156,328 | The center's Industrial Associates program provides access to center information, expertise, training and other benefits for a yearly subscription fee. The program was started in 1983 with the creation of the Institute for Chemical and Biological Process Analysis. CBE's Standardized Biofilm Methods research group (SBM)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45523355 | 2,155,097 |
2,020,029 | The Council, a raucous bunch with feisty opinions, met at the spacious home of science fiction author Larry Niven. The men mostly talked hard-edge tech, the women policy. Pournelle stirred the pot and turned up the heat. Amid the buffet meals, saunas and hot tubs, well-stocked open bar, and myriad word processors, fanc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18979417 | 2,018,866 |
1,997,999 | The combinatorial power of carbon is manifested in the composition of the molecular populations detected in circum- and interstellar media (see the Astrochemistry.net web site). The number and the complexity of carbon-containing molecules are significantly higher than those of inorganic compounds, presumably all over t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54292633 | 1,996,856 |
1,411,486 | As to contamination of confined aquifer, which is a source of technical and household water supply for Pripyat city (the largest city in Chernobyl area), it also does not pose immediate health threat due to permanent monitoring of water delivery system. In case any indexes of radioactive content exceed the norm, withdr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59803219 | 1,410,693 |
819,885 | In 1892, Paul Blocq and Gheorghe Marinescu first described the presence of plaques in grey matter. They referred to the plaques as 'nodules of neuroglial sclerosis'. In 1898, Emil Redlich reported plaques in three patients, two of whom had clinically verified dementia. Redlich used the term 'miliary sclerosis' to descr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2218004 | 819,444 |
1,871,235 | In the 21st century, Canada's government has shown renewed interest in the acquisition of military technology, especially with its commitment to the war in Afghanistan. Equipment has been improved, including the CF-18 fighter with addition of laser-guided bombs and there are plans to update the Aurora patrol aircraft. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29991137 | 1,870,158 |
1,370,831 | Leta started her professional career, as a teacher at two high schools in Nebraska. The first of these was in DeWitt, Nebraska, Harry Hollingworth's hometown. She was the assistant principal of the high school for one year. Her second teaching position was in the town of McCook. This position lasted for two years. She ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14276414 | 1,370,075 |
977,230 | In 2011, the university's executive MBA program for students from China came under scrutiny after an article in the Springfield News-Leader questioned the financial relationship between Missouri State and its Hong Kong-based agent, alleging that students were paying double the amount that MSU was receiving. The executi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=187859 | 976,719 |
1,417,128 | The roots of evidence-based design could go back to 1860 when Florence Nightingale identified fresh air as "the very first canon of nursing," and emphasized the importance of quiet, proper lighting, warmth and clean water. Nightingale applied statistics to nursing, notably with "Diagram of the causes of mortality in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1935842 | 1,416,330 |
1,169,791 | After the Reformation, Scotland's universities underwent a series of reforms associated with Andrew Melville, who returned from Geneva to become principal of the University of Glasgow in 1574. A distinguished linguist, philosopher and poet, he had trained in Paris and studied law at Poitiers, before moving to Geneva an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18943753 | 1,169,172 |
1,371,054 | To make an organoid, an embryoid (tissue that has some embryonic features) grown from natural stem cells is used. Embryos have three layers: endoderm, mesoderm and ectoderm. Each turns into various body parts. The nervous system grows from the ectoderm (which also contributes dental enamel and the epidermis). Ectoderma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40466325 | 1,370,297 |
1,101,518 | Early in August, Horner's associate Bob Makela discovered the Dino Ridge Quarry, containing extensive ceratopid remains, on the land of farmer Ricky Reagan. Continual rainfall hampered operations that year. On 20 June 1986, a crew of sixteen returned to reopen the quarry. A large and dense concentration of bones, a bon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1792393 | 1,100,957 |
730,353 | In 1938, Price, with a group of Adventists in Los Angeles, founded what became the "Deluge Geology Society" (DGS), with membership restricted to those believing that the creation week comprised "six literal days, and that the Deluge should be studied as the cause of the major geological changes since creation". Not all... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=543667 | 729,968 |
1,206,052 | The discovery of the photoacoustic effect dates back to 1880, when Alexander Graham Bell was experimenting with long-distance sound transmission. Through his invention, called "photophone", he transmitted vocal signals by reflecting sun-light from a moving mirror to a selenium solar cell receiver. As a byproduct of thi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35891052 | 1,205,407 |
758,645 | Public schools across the country were badly hurt by the Great Depression, as tax revenues fell in local and state governments shifted funding to relief projects. Budgets were slashed, and teachers went unpaid. During the New Deal, 1933–39, President Franklin Roosevelt and his advisers were hostile to the elitism shown... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9083795 | 758,239 |
1,902,886 | In the early years of the twentieth century the school's isolated and underdeveloped mountainous location precluded its growth. Even when Lumpkin County did receive its first railroad in the 1910s there was still no direct rail to Dahlonega. Price's death in 1911 added to the school's struggle, as he was by far its mos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38647111 | 1,901,795 |
2,146,747 | In 1990 the Karelian Branch of the USSR AS was transformed into the Karelian Research Centre of the USSR AS, and in 1991 it was renamed as the Karelian Research Centre RAS. A. F. Titov became the new president (1991 onwards). In 1991 the Northern Water Problems Institute was established through transformation from the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13185497 | 2,145,516 |
782,283 | Dialyzer technology initially outpaced the ability of clinicians to apply it to patients. In the 1920s, the first dialysis catheter was created using thin fragile glass tubes. Early methods required surgical incision to reach large vessels, which carried a large risk of major bleeding. The first somewhat permanent, rel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=457620 | 781,864 |
2,175,158 | These difficulties to detect the presence of NUMT can be problematic. Translocated mitochondrial sequences in the nuclear genome have the potential to get amplified in addition to, or even instead of, the authentic target mtDNA sequence which can seriously confound population genetic and phylogenetic analyses since mtD... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8564084 | 2,173,914 |
1,588,382 | White will be forever remembered in Manchester as the founder of the hospital and a formidable surgeon, and often acclaimed as the "father of conservative surgery". Nonetheless it is as a man midwife that he like Dr William Hunter in London really made his mark. In this field, however White was unique. During much of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21438344 | 1,587,488 |
1,145,582 | Writing in 1972, Lewis Thomas both explained and praised the nature of the MBL as a scientific institution. He wrote about it in his recurring "New England Journal of Medicine" column called "Notes of a Biology-Watcher", in an installment called "The MBL"; the essay was later collected into the volume titled "". He sai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=391313 | 1,144,981 |
312,472 | Positive assortative mating raises the chances of a given trait being passed on to the couple's offspring, strengthens the bond between the parents, and increases genetic similarity between family members, whereupon in-group altruism and inclusive fitness are enhanced. That the two partners are culturally compatible re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41162624 | 312,304 |
1,736,294 | Jeremiah, a three-time letterman for the Indians, got his career started with a bang, producing an 18–4 mark in his first year, breaking the team record for wins and post the second-best winning percentage. The team would continue to play well under their new coach, earning winning records each year until they dominate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26673818 | 1,735,317 |
525,736 | As of 2013, with the majority of English-speaking ICEB member-countries having officially adopted UEB, there remain barriers to implementation and deployment. Besides ICEB member-nations, there are also many other countries with blind citizens that teach and use English: India, Hong Kong/China, Pakistan, the Philippine... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1845709 | 525,463 |
1,104,376 | The introduction of the absorption materials reduces the velocity of sound through the line, as discovered by Bailey in his original work. Bradbury published his extensive tests to determine this effect in an AES journal article in 1976 and his results agreed that heavily damped lines could reduce the velocity of sound... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44224558 | 1,103,813 |
1,079,585 | Abbe was born 23 January 1840 in Eisenach, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, to Georg Adam Abbe and Elisabeth Christina Barchfeldt. He came from a humble home – his father was a foreman in a spinnery. Supported by his father's employer, Abbe was able to attend secondary school and to obtain the general qualification for university... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=524981 | 1,079,030 |
1,856,682 | From 1992 to 1993 Insoll completed his PhD on trans-Saharan trade and Islamisation in the city of Gao and its surrounding region in eastern Mali, research that was continued in 1996 as part of a post-doctoral fellowship. This was instrumental in providing archaeological confirmation for the pre-Islamic occupation of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38891541 | 1,855,614 |
1,516,818 | Mayly Sánchez (born in Caracas, 1972) Venezuelan-born particle physicist who researches at Iowa State University. In 2011, she was awarded the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor given by the United States to beginning scientists, who are in the early stages of thei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29302481 | 1,515,966 |
1,270,608 | While at Cambridge University, Hua worked on applying the Hardy–Littlewood circle method towards problems in number theory. He produced seminal work on Waring's problem, which would establish his reputation within the international math community. In 1938, after the full outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War, Hua ch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2337582 | 1,269,917 |
1,217,707 | A process for inducing regeneration in skin was invented by Dr. Ioannis V. Yannas (then an assistant professor in the Fibers and Polymers Division, Department of Mechanical Engineering, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Dr. John F. Burke (then chief of staff at Shriners Burns Institute in Boston, Massachuse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20987851 | 1,217,054 |
702,175 | 1989 also saw the release of "Dungeon Explorer", developed by Atlus for the TurboGrafx-16, which is considered a pioneer title in the action RPG genre with its multiplayer cooperative gameplay, allowing up to five players to play simultaneously. That year also saw the release of "Super Hydlide", the Mega Drive port of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32408675 | 701,810 |
270,964 | Whereas the Würzburgers debated with Wundt mainly on matters of method, another German movement, centered in Berlin, took issue with the widespread assumption that the aim of psychology should be to break consciousness down into putative basic elements. Instead, they argued that the psychological "whole" has priority a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1573230 | 270,816 |
1,561,322 | In the early 1980s, a minimal hardware BOS setup might have comprised: North Star Horizon Z80 cpu 48Kbyte ram & 2x 5.25" SA-400 single-density double-sided minifloppy drive (each side used 35/40 tracks to give 176 Kb formatted, ie. BOS used the North Star NSDOS file system), Lynx 24x80 green vdu, DEC LA120 lineprinter/... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=238394 | 1,560,436 |
1,531,525 | Drs. Carlton, Johannigman, and Farmer traveled to AMC at Scott AFB and presented their concept of operations. They also presented the concept to the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). Ultimately, JSOC established a Unit Type Code (UTC) for CCATT, and the first deployment followed thereafter. Joined by then Lt. Co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8563218 | 1,530,659 |
324,316 | At the turn of the 20th century, Marconi began investigating a means to signal across the Atlantic to compete with the transatlantic telegraph cables. Marconi established a wireless transmitting station at Marconi House, Rosslare Strand, County Wexford, in 1901 to act as a link between Poldhu in Cornwall, England, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12104 | 324,144 |
2,072,328 | In the history of applied mathematics, McMahon's most significant contribution came late in life and was published posthumously. In 1902, McMahon had delivered an address to the Section on Mathematics and Astronomy, American Association for the Advancement of Science, then assembled at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, entitle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28079663 | 2,071,137 |
1,227,614 | SEDs are very closely related to the field emission display (FED), differing only in the details of the emitter. FEDs use small spots containing hundreds of carbon nanotubes whose sharp tips give off electrons when placed in a strong electrical field. FEDs suffer from erosion of the emitters and require an extremely hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1530649 | 1,226,953 |
167,843 | After winning the Deutsch Prize, Santos-Dumont received letters from several countries, congratulating him; magazines published lavish, richly illustrated editions to reproduce his image and perpetuate the achievement; an Alexander Graham Bell interview in the "New York Herald" explored the reasons for Santos-Dumont's ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=152687 | 167,753 |
78,108 | Taleb said:I don't particularly care about the usual. If you want to get an idea of a friend's temperament, ethics, and personal elegance, you need to look at him under the tests of severe circumstances, not under the regular rosy glow of daily life. Can you assess the danger a criminal poses by examining only what he ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7361848 | 78,079 |
337,515 | Biofilms may be highly heterogeneous and structurally complex and may attach to solid surfaces, or exist at liquid-air interfaces, or potentially even liquid-liquid interfaces. Bacterial biofilms are often made up of microcolonies (approximately dome-shaped masses of bacteria and matrix) separated by "voids" through wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19172225 | 337,336 |
1,431,001 | There are, however, physical limits to the image quality of a fibroscope. In modern terminology, a bundle of say 50,000 fibres gives effectively only a 50,000 pixel image – in addition to which, the continued flexing in use, breaks fibres and so progressively loses pixels. Eventually so many are lost that the whole bun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18770211 | 1,430,197 |
1,399,688 | The general approach to how space travel is engineered is highly accurate; in particular, the design of the ships was based on actual engineering considerations rather than attempts to look aesthetically "futuristic". Many other science-fiction films give spacecraft an aerodynamic shape, which is superfluous in outer s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37415478 | 1,398,913 |
144,043 | The acquisition of digital literacy is also important when it comes to starting and growing new ventures. The emergence of World Wide Web and digital platforms has led to a plethora of new digital products or services that can be bought and sold. Entrepreneurs are at the forefront of this development, using digital too... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5169750 | 143,985 |
1,516,764 | Arnoldo Gabaldón (Trujillo, March 1, 1909 – Caracas, September 1, 1990) was a physician, researcher and politician. Graduated in 1928 earned a doctorate in medical sciences at the Universidad Central de Venezuela. In (Germany) completed a specialty at the Institute for Maritime and Tropical Diseases of Hamburg. Later t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29302481 | 1,515,912 |
975,933 | In 1991, the species was provided legislated protection from bait fishing in South Carolina by calling on the management and regulation of the horseshoe crab fisheries, allowing only hand-collecting for biomedical applications and marine biological research. Without the need for LAL in biomedical use, the legal protect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=372920 | 975,422 |
2,170,315 | In 1990, Taylor's lab group published protocols for fungal PCR that were developed in Berkeley by a team including sabbatical visitor, Dr. Thomas J. White (who had directed the development of PCR - polymerase chain reaction - at CETUS corporation), postdoc Thomas D. Bruns and student Steven B. Lee. Their approach has b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59876831 | 2,169,077 |
2,139,010 | The first proof of concept test of an assembled Westinghouse-Aerojet rocket engine (NRX-A2) was conducted at Jackass Flats, Nevada on September 24, 1964, that provided six minutes of continuous operation. By April 23, 1965, the NRX-A3 provided sixteen minutes of operation and a three-minute restart and incorporated pul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11907968 | 2,137,780 |
1,996,549 | The first proof of concept test of an assembled Westinghouse-Aerojet rocket engine (NRX-A2) was conducted at Jackass Flats, Nevada on September 24, 1964 that provided six minutes of continuous operation. By April 23, 1965 the NRX-A3 provided sixteen minutes of operation and a three-minute restart and incorporated pulse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2936679 | 1,995,406 |
162,200 | The UK's share of global manufacturing output had risen from 9.5% in 1830, to 22.9% in the 1870s. It fell to 13.6% by 1913, 10.7% by 1938, and 4.9% by 1973. Overseas competition, trade unionism, the welfare state, loss of the British Empire, and lack of innovation have all been put forward as explanations for the indus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33643110 | 162,115 |
459,213 | Economic theory is at present characterized by strong disagreements on which is the correct theory of value, distribution and growth. This also influences the attempts to find evolutionary explanations for modern tastes and preferences. For example an acceptance of the neoclassical theory of value and distribution lies... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=162791 | 458,988 |
45,904 | As of 2019, research continued in many fields. President Jenkins described his hope that Notre Dame would become "one of the pre-eminent research institutions in the world" in his inaugural address. The university has many multi-disciplinary research institutes, including the Medieval Institute, the Kellogg Institute f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=146269 | 45,886 |
162,134 | To a great extent, Britain's economic difficulties were symptomatic of structural weaknesses that were beginning to manifest themselves by the 1870s. Economists have explained the relative slowdown in growth during the latter 19th century in terms of the Neoclassical growth model, in which the momentum from decades of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33643110 | 162,049 |
1,038,688 | In January 1959, an informal meeting was held involving individuals from both the Electronic Systems Laboratory and the Mechanical Engineering Department's Design Division. Formal meetings followed in April and May, which resulted in the "Computer-Aided Design Project". In December 1959, the Air Force issued a one-year... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39469106 | 1,038,147 |
712,752 | In studying humans, life history theory is used in many ways, including in biology, psychology, economics, anthropology, and other fields. For humans, life history strategies include all the usual factors—trade-offs, constraints, reproductive effort, etc.—but also includes a culture factor that allows them to solve pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3880495 | 712,380 |
1,646,942 | Miller was born in [Van Wert, Ohio], into a family of artists. He spent most of his childhood sketching and painting to develop his artistic talent. At age 16 with the aid of a translator, he first visited the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota and began interviewing the remaining survivors of the Battle of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39118726 | 1,646,011 |
1,712,190 | In August 2020, a working paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) questioned major effects of many mitigation and suppression measures. The authors compared the development of casualties connected to SARS-CoV-2 until July 2020, in 25 US states and 23 countries that had counted more than 1.000 overall d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65339945 | 1,711,225 |
1,706,368 | In actuality, the term (in the present sense of a "larger view" of a subject than can be obtained by any single conventional action) pre-dates its use in Odum's work, being found for example in a book by Philip Bagby entitled "Culture and History: Prolegomena to the Comparative Study of Civilizations" published in 1959... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64208794 | 1,705,410 |
2,099,305 | Christopher Jones is an American vintage race car driver, innovator and venture investor with a strong interest and PhD in health economics, particularly as it applies to improving outcomes and reducing healthcare costs. In the early 2000s, he presented a report, first to then-British Chancellor Gordon Brown and then i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18987437 | 2,098,097 |
69,949 | When the L85A1 and L86A1 were first sent into major combat during the Gulf War, individual performance was appalling. The L85A1 proved unreliable in semi-automatic mode, and slightly better in fully automatic mode, while the opposite was true of the L86A1. Specific complaints included: the poor quality plastic furnitur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=84350 | 69,922 |
1,213,038 | Building science includes the analysis of HVAC systems for both physical impacts (heat distribution, air velocities, relative humidities, etc.) and for effect on the comfort of the building's occupants. Because occupants' perceived comfort is dependent on factors such as current weather and the type of climate the buil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3482223 | 1,212,386 |
574,085 | From a very early age, Woodward was attracted to and engaged in private study of chemistry while he attended a public primary school, and then Quincy High School, in Quincy, Massachusetts. By the time he entered high school, he had already managed to perform most of the experiments in Ludwig Gattermann's then widely us... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=261625 | 573,791 |
710,616 | Clinical studies of very high dosages of MGA for breast cancer conducted in the 1980s observed markedly increased appetite and weight gain in treated patients despite them having advanced cancer. This led to potential interest in MGA as an appetite stimulant, and in 1986, a paper was published proposing the study and p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6657950 | 710,245 |
1,792,941 | A 2010 study of the various American states' rural health offices found that telepharmacy in rural medical facilities varied in prevalence across the United States but was still not widespread, and that many states had not yet clearly defined regulations for telepharmacy in hospitals. Adoption and implementation of tel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40076768 | 1,791,932 |
2,613 | Dem/Val was focused on system engineering, technology development plans, and risk reduction over point aircraft designs; in fact, after the down-select, the Lockheed team completely changed the airframe configuration in the summer of 1987 due to weight analysis during detailed design, with notable changes including the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66299 | 2,613 |
1,909,761 | Electrical engineer F. Paul Carlson was hired by OGC as the vice-president for development in 1977 in the midst of a financial crisis, and became acting president in 1979. OGC purchased 100 acres of land adjacent to its 77-acre campus in 1980, and Carlson was elected president of the center. The additional land became ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48411848 | 1,908,663 |
636,403 | Subsequently led to the birth of the local institutions. Sdasysnkya of this institution in 1920 where it was only 138 thousand in 1926 exceeded there. The organization launched a quarterly magazine to remove 1921 and in June 1923, a quarterly bulletin (Vivrnptrika) was put out with him. Membership in this organization,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=717742 | 636,064 |
787,220 | Applications in brain-computer interfacing (BCI) have also been proposed. The P300 has a number of desirable qualities that aid in implementation of such systems. First, the waveform is consistently detectable and is elicited in response to precise stimuli. The P300 waveform can also be evoked in nearly all subjects wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3522879 | 786,797 |
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