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998,021 | "Tennessee" saw little activity over the next several days, apart from helping to fend off air strikes by Japanese land-based aircraft. The ship received orders on 29 October to leave the Philippines for a thorough overhaul at the Puget Sound Navy Yard. She departed that day with "West Virginia", "Maryland", and four c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=196975 | 997,503 |
928,709 | The Army delayed the MHS RFP until after January 2015 "to allow for improvements to the RFP as a result of feedback received from Industry;" the second draft solicitation for the XM17 was released on 8 June 2015 following the Defense Department's decision to allow use of special purpose ammunition. Testing of three ver... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29098840 | 928,218 |
962,084 | After obtaining his doctorate he remained at Berkeley as a postdoctoral researcher for two years before joining Bell Labs, where he and his several co-workers carried out his Nobel Prize-winning laser cooling work. He left Bell Labs and became a professor of physics at Stanford University in 1987, serving as the chair ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7963444 | 961,575 |
1,126,230 | Mims' background in the new technology of light-emitting diodes allowed him to sell a feature story to "Popular Electronics" magazine. Their monthly circulation was 400,000 readers compared to "Model Rocketry" circulation of 15,000. The five-page article would give an overview of the device physics and typical applicat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1527744 | 1,125,653 |
1,479,805 | Two important contributors, Carroll and Porter, in their study of cloning the human C4 gene showed that all six of their clones contained the same C4 gene. The C4 protein consists of 3 subunits (α, β, and γ) having molecular weights (MWs) of ~95,000, 78,000, and 31,000, respectively and they are all joined by interchai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9693587 | 1,478,971 |
810,808 | As a boy, Rabi was interested in science. He read science books borrowed from the public library and built his own radio set. His first scientific paper, on the design of a radio condenser, was published in "Modern Electrics" when he was in elementary school. After reading about Copernican heliocentrism, he became an a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=196999 | 810,376 |
91,038 | The HFE had been flown on the aborted Apollo 13 mission, as well as on Apollo 15 and 16, but placed successfully only on Apollo 15, and unexpected results from that device made scientists anxious for a second successful emplacement. It was successfully deployed on Apollo 17. The lunar gravimeter was intended to detect ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1971 | 90,998 |
456,939 | The third generation of the family took over the business in 1927, under Wilhelm Heinrich Heraeus and his cousin Reinhard Heraeus, who remained at the helm of the business for nearly 40 years. During this time, Heraeus tapped into a variety of new material discoveries. For example, they started producing the first dent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2511162 | 456,716 |
1,351,947 | It took a month of hard sailing before "Scotia" reached the islands. After several foiled attempts to locate a suitable anchorage, and with its rudder seriously damaged by ice, the ship finally found a sheltered bay on the southern shore of Laurie Island, the most easterly of the South Orkneys chain. On 25 March the sh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4286037 | 1,351,201 |
1,032,085 | The engine block is cast from an aluminum alloy. Its dimensions are smaller than those of the DFV. While the DFV block could still be drilled from 3.0 to 3.9 liters, the HB has no reserves for an increase. A significant innovation of the HB relates to the narrower cylinder bank angle of 75 degrees compared to the DFV-D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68931039 | 1,031,549 |
828,070 | He then took up an interest in cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB), previously discovered by Arno Allan Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson in 1964. There were, at that time, several open questions about this topic, relating directly to fundamental questions about the structure of the universe. Certain models pre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7267936 | 827,626 |
1,606,518 | In the foreword, the author explains that instead of the “futile and impossible task” of improving on Hecke’s classical treatment of algebraic number theory, he “rather tried to draw the conclusions from the developments of the last thirty years, whereby locally compact groups, measure and integration have been seen to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64463469 | 1,605,614 |
234,485 | Over the next few years, during 1957–61, various computer games continued to be created in the context of academic computer and programming research, particularly as computer technology improved to include smaller, transistor-based computers on which programs could be created and run in real time, rather than operation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19992532 | 234,366 |
361,310 | In November 2021, an alternative proposal that the Anthropocene is a geological event, not an epoch, was published and later expanded in 2022. This challenged the assumption underlying the case for the Anthropocene epoch - the idea that it is possible to accurately assign a precise date of start to highly diachronous p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=374390 | 361,121 |
152,658 | There exists two hypotheses regarding the extinction of the Australalasian megafauna, the first being that they went extinct with the arrival of the Aboriginal Australians on the continent, while he second hypothesis is that the Australian megafauna went extinct due to natural climate change. The main reason this theo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18783051 | 152,590 |
518,251 | Historian and professor of religion Eugene M. Klaaren holds that "a belief in divine creation" was central to an emergence of science in seventeenth-century England. The philosopher Michael Foster has published analytical philosophy connecting Christian doctrines of creation with empiricism. Historian William B. Ashwor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42657576 | 517,982 |
1,642,589 | During the 20th century, there was a vast increase in research regarding botany. This derived from the new technologies acquired as well as the better facilities available and increased number of botanists interested in expanding this scientific field. The increase in research resulted in new discoveries, new concepts ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66293898 | 1,641,662 |
1,655,772 | A general definition for criminology is a scientific approach to the study of criminal behavior. By this definition, one of the first appearances of criminology was the work of Cesare Beccaria in 1764 related to torture and the death penalty. Beccaria's contribution to criminology was foundational, but purely philosoph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15947428 | 1,654,839 |
1,374,283 | Pyocyanin is able to target a wide range of cellular components and pathways. Pathways that are affected by pyocyanin include the electron transport chain, vesicular transport, and cell growth. An enhanced susceptibility to pyocyanin is seen in cells with certain mutant proteins or complexes. Mutations in genes affecti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20117898 | 1,373,524 |
128,395 | An example of the interaction between social metacognition and self-concept can be found in examining implicit theories about the self. Implicit theories can cover a wide range of constructs about how the self operates, but two are especially relevant here; entity theory and incrementalist theory. Entity theory propose... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1480420 | 128,343 |
206,963 | At the onset of World War II in 1939, the bureau was proposed to be abolished. Arguably, Arcot Ramasamy Mudaliar became the most instrumental in the creation of CSIR in India. As a member of Viceroy's executive council, and also of Commerce, he recommended that the Bureau should be terminated, not as a measure of econo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1303719 | 206,856 |
306,348 | Being aware of the changes in pets' needs and abilities allows for gracefully aging assistance from pet owners. Hannah Harper, associate editor of Health Magazine, describes five major points to ease the transition of aging pets. Step one is an increase in vet visits. Director of Behavior Services at MSPCA, Terri Brigh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5843537 | 306,184 |
1,889,575 | A 2009 "New York Times" article reported that college students spend between $700 and $1,000 annually on textbooks. Full-time tuition in the Washington system is approximately $3,000 annually, with textbooks costing approximately $1,000 annually. Community college tuition is lower than at most traditional four-year ins... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42174228 | 1,888,492 |
2,049,963 | Dickson took much interest in matters outside of his immediate professorial duties and scientific pursuits. He was a Conservative in State and Church politics. On various occasions he actively supported candidates for parliamentary representation. A consistent Free Churchman, he remained true to the original position o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26344471 | 2,048,782 |
1,564,940 | Franklin S. Cooper and Katherine Safford Harris, working with Peter MacNeilage, were the first researchers in the U.S. to use electromyographic techniques, pioneered at the University of Tokyo, to study the neuromuscular organization of speech. Leigh Lisker and Arthur Abramson looked for simplification at the level of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6202324 | 1,564,053 |
399,494 | To settle the issue, the U.S. Public Health Service conducted a conference in 1925, and the sales of TEL were voluntarily suspended for one year to conduct a hazard assessment. The conference was initially expected to last for several days, but reportedly the conference decided that evaluating presentations on alternat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=116035 | 399,296 |
1,342,671 | The smallest known genome of a free-living bacterium is 1.3 Mb with ~1100 genes. However, significantly more reduced genomes are commonly observed in naturally occurring symbiotic and parasitic organisms. Genome reduction driven by mutation and genetic drift in small and asexual populations with biases for gene deletio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37388686 | 1,341,936 |
155,671 | , also known as Prototype, is the first Evangelion unit to be made by Nerv. It was not conceived as a machine dedicated to combat, but to the study of feasibility and practical functionality of its basic technology, which is why it lacks equipment characteristic of subsequent units. It is conceived in the headquarters ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=577372 | 155,600 |
1,345,102 | In a 2012 scientific commentary outlining experimental plans for a more limited project, Alivisatos "et al." outlined a variety of specific experimental techniques that might be used to achieve what they termed a "functional connectome", as well as new technologies that will have to be developed in the course of the pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38567205 | 1,344,364 |
327,841 | Thelonious Sphere Monk was born two years after his sister Marion on October 10, 1917, in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, and was the son of Thelonious and Barbara Monk. His poorly written birth certificate misspelled his first name as "Thelious" or "Thelius". It also did not list his middle name, taken from his maternal ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=84250 | 327,667 |
426,801 | After Wilson took office, one of the first acts of the incoming Secretary of State for Defence, Denis Healey, was to ask the Navy for the case for building five Polaris boats. This was furnished by the First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir David Luce, on 19 October 1964. The government was under considerable pressure to reduce a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35942972 | 426,592 |
636,223 | There are a number of electron microscopes that have been specifically designed for use in Auger spectroscopy; these are termed scanning Auger microscopes (SAMs) and can produce high resolution, spatially resolved chemical images. SAM images are obtained by stepping a focused electron beam across a sample surface and m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36835 | 635,884 |
1,516,806 | Francisco De Venanzi (Caracas, March 12, 1917 – Caracas, September 12, 1987) was a Venezuelan doctor, scientist and academic descendant of Italian immigrants. Graduated at the Central University of Venezuela in 1942, completed a master's degree in biochemistry at Yale University in 1945. He became a professor in the Fa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29302481 | 1,515,954 |
1,603,635 | In order to salvage some functionality from the US$73 million spacecraft, operations were redirected after the failure of the cryogenic system to an alternate science mission using the undamaged onboard star tracker for long-term monitoring of bright stars in support of an asteroseismology program. This redirection of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3913039 | 1,602,734 |
1,552,389 | Before the first successful synthesis of hassium in 1981 by the GSI team, the synthesis of bohrium was first attempted in 1976 by scientists at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research at Dubna using this cold fusion reaction. They detected two spontaneous fission activities, one with a half-life of 1–2 ms and one with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2527235 | 1,551,508 |
1,007,172 | In early 1941, Air Defense recognized the need for radar on their night-fighter aircraft. The requirements were given to Runge at Telefunken, and by the summer a prototype system was tested. Code-named "Lichtenstein", this was originally a low-UHF band, (485-MHz), 1.5-kW system in its earliest "B/C" model, generally ba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27693223 | 1,006,653 |
310,742 | Artificial gravity has been suggested as a solution to various health risks associated with spaceflight. In 1964, the Soviet space program believed that a human could not survive more than 14 days in space for fear that the heart and blood vessels would be unable to adapt to the weightless conditions. This fear was eve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1137568 | 310,574 |
4,936 | While the Tomcat was being used by Iran in combat against Iraq in its intended air superiority mission in the early 1980s, the U.S. Navy found itself flying regular daily combat missions over Lebanon to photograph activity in the Bekaa Valley. At the time, the Tomcat had been thought too large and vulnerable to be used... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11719 | 4,934 |
1,673,559 | There have been no controlled studies to define the optimal treatment for BPDCN. Studies on small numbers of individuals with the disease have found that the standard chemotherapy regimens used for the initial induction treatments of AML, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, and high-grade lymphoma give complete remission rat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21292793 | 1,672,617 |
417,327 | Plants or animals that undergo reintroduction may exhibit reduced fitness if they are not sufficiently adapted to local environmental conditions. Therefore, researchers should consider ecological and environmental similarity of source and recipient sites when selecting populations for reintroduction. Environmental fact... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=477117 | 417,124 |
139,773 | Following the end of World War II, a nuclear arms race evolved between the US and the Soviet Union (USSR). Since the USSR did not have bases in the western hemisphere from which to deploy bomber planes, Joseph Stalin decided to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles, which drove a missile race. The rocket technolo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19812 | 139,716 |
348,353 | During the 18th century, the university was at the centre of the Scottish Enlightenment. The ideas of the Age of Enlightenment fell on especially fertile ground in Edinburgh because of the university's democratic and secular origin; its organization as a single entity instead of loosely connected colleges, which encour... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23592200 | 348,171 |
57,911 | Circuit board manufacturing involves multiple steps which include imaging, drilling, plating, soldermask coating, nomenclature printing and surface finishes. These steps include many chemicals such as harsh solvents and acids. 3D printing circuit boards remove the need for many of these steps while still producing comp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1305947 | 57,886 |
1,466,241 | The object was finished in 1924, but due to high construction expenses, SRA failed to move into its new building; instead of that, the entire object was rented. Believing that the design of the SRA building was supposed to transfer the advanced ideas, architects Stevanović and Đorđević created the design which did not ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4705234 | 1,465,418 |
1,158,453 | Sputnik Planitia , originally Sputnik Planum,<ref name = "DPS/EPSC update"></ref> is a high-albedo ice-covered basin on Pluto, about in size, named after Earth's first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1. It constitutes the western lobe of the heart-shaped Tombaugh Regio. Sputnik Planitia lies mostly in the northern hemisp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47272726 | 1,157,839 |
1,220,104 | Independent from developments in computational models of social systems, social network analysis emerged in the 1970s and 1980s from advances in graph theory, statistics, and studies of social structure as a distinct analytical method and was articulated and employed by sociologists like James S. Coleman, Harrison Whit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=984692 | 1,219,450 |
1,749,639 | Lindley was the first post-Linnaean English systematist, publishing his work in 1830, and following the reasoning of Jussieu he used the term tribe to describe the Liliaceae as a division of the hexapetaloid monocots, characterised by a superior ovary, highly developed perianth, inward turning anthers, a trilocular pol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42056883 | 1,748,653 |
1,520,634 | Some locals would like to see the area turned into a geo-park, along similar lines to other diatomite sites in Norway, Germany, and China. Former Prime Minister Helen Clark suggested that the site could be protected as a scientific reserve under the Reserves Act 1977, saying "It just doesn't stack up. It's a question o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60729340 | 1,519,773 |
917,606 | The first remains of "Oviraptor" were discovered on reddish sandstones of the Late Cretaceous Djadokhta Formation of Mongolia, at the Bayn Dzak locality (also known as Flaming Cliffs), during a paleontological expedition in 1923. This expedition was led by the North American naturalist Roy Chapman Andrews and ended in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=581471 | 917,123 |
489,163 | The Fokker-Leimberger used a rotary split-breech design known as the "nutcracker". In this design a temporary chamber is formed by joining the two cavities of touching, counter-rotating sprockets. The simplicity of the design was appealing, particularly because it contained no major parts using a reciprocating motion, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28692226 | 488,910 |
2,139,957 | To perform a selective separation, the distribution ratio of the solute to be extracted must be greater than one, whereas that belonging to the solutes which remain in the aqueous feed must be lower than one. This always yields a separation factor SF > 1. Generally, the effects of acidity and temperature on distributio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64345861 | 2,138,727 |
1,336 | Microsoft's main U.S. campus received a silver certification from the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program in 2008, and it installed over 2,000 solar panels on top of its buildings at its Silicon Valley campus, generating approximately 15 percent of the total energy needed by the facilities in A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19001 | 1,336 |
2,048,130 | Medical training in 18th-century England, and especially outside London, usually involved an apprenticeship to unlicensed apothecaries. Study materials were few and learning was "ad hoc", based on the cases being treated. As the century came to a close, there were attempts to introduce public lectures by members of wha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40106516 | 2,046,949 |
1,741,128 | Neuronavigation is recognized as the next evolutionary step of stereotactic surgery, a set of techniques that dates back to the early 1900s and that gained popularity during the 1940s, particularly in Germany, France and the U.S., with the development of surgery for the treatment of movement disorders such as Parkinson... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11458794 | 1,740,146 |
1,958,639 | Modally and compositionally layered gabbroic rock is often found (or abundant) in the lower crustal sections of ophiolite. The layered lower crust is thus one of the key features of all models of fast-spreading lower crust. Nevertheless, distinct modal layering as observed in major ophiolites has rarely been observed o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56039253 | 1,957,512 |
384,708 | In 1987, Lovaas published the study, "Behavioral treatment and normal educational and intellectual functioning in young autistic children". The experimental group in this study received an average of 40 hours per week in a 1:1 teaching setting at a table using errorless discrete trial training (DTT). The treatment is d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1781075 | 384,513 |
912,409 | Policies in the United States have included a decrease in the subsidies provided by the federal and state governments to the oil industry which have usually included $2.84 billion. This is more than what is actually set aside for the biofuel industry. The measure was discussed at the G20 in Pittsburgh where leaders agr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14205946 | 911,930 |
2,018,530 | On May 12, 1915 it was finally announced that, for $3,750, the Rensselaer Society of Engineers had purchased a one-acre lot in the Troy Parkway Villa Site from the firm of Gilbert Geer, Jr. & Co. Following the purchase, the society's building fund was left with $14,900. The lot was situated on the corner of Sage Avenue... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8379666 | 2,017,367 |
336,265 | The precise location of their landing on the Florida coast has been disputed for many years. Some historians believe it occurred at or near St. Augustine, but others prefer a more southerly landing at a small harbor now called Ponce de León Inlet. Some believe that Ponce came ashore even farther south near the present ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=143363 | 336,087 |
513,459 | The obstetrical dilemma hypothesis has also been challenged conceptually based on new studies. The authors argue that the obstetrical dilemma hypothesis assumes that human, and therefore hominid, childbirth has been a painful and dangerous experience through the species' evolution. This assumption may be fundamentally ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2368360 | 513,193 |
922,031 | On June 20, 2018, UMass System Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Katherine Newman was appointed as the university's interim chancellor by the UMass System Board of Trustees effective July 1, 2018. In September 2018, "U.S. News & World Report" ranked UMass Boston within the first tier of national universities o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=99867 | 921,545 |
370,870 | In May 2020, a scientific study was conducted in China that investigated the occurrence and distribution of traditional and novel classes of contaminants, including chlorinated, brominated, and mixed halogenated dibenzo-p-dioxins/dibenzofurans (PCDD/Fs, PBDD/Fs, PXDD/Fs), polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), polychl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3887690 | 370,676 |
194,039 | The Free Church of Scotland founded Christ's College in Aberdeen in 1843 for the training of ministers. An extravagant Gothic building, with a commanding oriel window and tower, was erected for the college at the western end of Union Street in 1850. Linked to the college was a museum and library (containing 17,000 volu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=213135 | 193,939 |
403,705 | Internal teams, assembled to give Gearbox's projects a critical review, started cautioning the team that at this stage, as they felt "Borderlands" was beginning to look much closer to the then-recent "Fallout 3" or "Rage" games. The realistic look, which gave much of the visuals a brown, muted color palette, clashed wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12785426 | 403,505 |
1,176,149 | When the charge balance between DNA phosphates and PAMAM surface amines is slightly positive, the maximum transfection efficiency is obtained; this finding supports the idea that the complex binds to the cell surface via charge interactions. A striking observation is that "activation" of PAMAM by partial degradation vi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41237117 | 1,175,527 |
1,381,574 | Guinea pigs were the first germ-free animal model described in 1896 by George Nuttall and Hans Thierfelder, establishing techniques still used today in gnotobiology. Early methods for maintaining sterile environments involved sterile glass jars and gloveboxes, which developed into a conversation surrounding uniformity ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2458018 | 1,380,811 |
1,895,721 | Using a negative selectable marker is crucial for greatly reducing the incidence of false-positives. Self-activating prey, where the randomized region facilitate reporter expression in the absence of TF binding, are removed by transforming the reporter vector library into bacteria in the absence of bait and assaying fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21673918 | 1,894,637 |
1,102,798 | The first birth control pill, Enovid was released in 1960. Enovid changed the perspective of women in the workforce. Thanks to the contraceptive pill, women now had more control over family planning, which in turn led to more control and flexibility in terms of choosing occupational and career paths/goals. There is als... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2594158 | 1,102,237 |
1,718,301 | Forty-five thousand spectators came to see the Piccards off on October 23, 1934, at 6:51 am, about two hours behind schedule. Jeannette piloted the reconditioned "Century of Progress", and the couple took along their pet turtle, Fleur de Lys. After a brief pre-launch ceremony, during which the Piccards received a bouqu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9102249 | 1,717,331 |
1,729,301 | Spoilage by "Z. bailii" often occurs in acidic shelf-stable foods, which rely upon the combined effects of acidity (e.g. vinegar), salt and sugar to suppress microbial growth. The spoiled foods usually display sensorial changes that can be easily recognized by consumers, thus resulting in significant economic losses du... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4374802 | 1,728,327 |
1,386,817 | A “system", therefore, has implicit as well as explicit definition of boundaries to which the systematic process of hazard identification, hazard analysis and control is applied. The system can range in complexity from a crewed spacecraft to an autonomous machine tool. The system safety concept helps the system designe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10708254 | 1,386,050 |
1,266,505 | A solution to the succession of problems that had snowballed for decades was threefold: "contraction of agricultural space, demographic revival and vertical integration of food producers". Russian farmland was of great value to the country, but on the other hand it was excessively burdensome. Only a small percentage of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34407497 | 1,265,817 |
785,547 | In contrast to Europe, Indian anthropologists paid more importance to the collection of data from the field rather than on building theories. In this context the seminal contributions of S.R.K. Chopra(1931-1984) of Panjab University deserve mention. Professor Chopra discovered pre-hominid fossils from the Siwalik hills... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1676362 | 785,125 |
109,711 | The M110 Semi-Automatic Sniper System is intended to replace the M24 Sniper Weapon System used by snipers, spotters, designated marksmen, or squad advanced marksmen in the United States Army. However, the U.S. Army still acquired M24s from Remington until February 2010. After witnessing the effects of USSOCOM snipers a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3119489 | 109,666 |
230,856 | Following the sudden death of her only sister Emilia from typhoid, Spielrein's mental health started to deteriorate, and at the age of 18 she suffered a breakdown with severe hysteria including tics, grimaces, and uncontrollable laughing and crying. After an unsuccessful stay in a Swiss sanatorium, where she developed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2425513 | 230,738 |
466,768 | Zinc oxide eugenol (ZOE) is a material created by the combination of zinc oxide and eugenol contained in oil of cloves. An acid-base reaction takes place with the formation of zinc eugenolate chelate. The reaction is catalysed by water and is accelerated by the presence of metal salts. ZOE can be used as a dental filli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=986033 | 466,535 |
214,414 | In 2013, Sanofi announced the launch of a production facility in Garessio, Italy, to manufacture the antiplasmodial drug on a large scale. The partnership to create a new pharmaceutical manufacturing process was led by PATH's Drug Development program (through an affiliation with OneWorld Health), with funding from the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=727067 | 214,306 |
360,755 | , polygraph testimony was admitted by stipulation in 19 states, and was subject to the discretion of the trial judge in federal court. The use of polygraph in court testimony remains controversial, although it is used extensively in post-conviction supervision, particularly of sex offenders. In "Daubert v. Merrell Dow ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71734 | 360,567 |
1,188,531 | The earliest "direct" evidence of life on Earth may be fossils of microorganisms permineralized in 3.465-billion-year-old Australian Apex chert rocks. However, the evidence for the biogenicity of these microstructures has been thoroughly debated. Originally, 11 taxa were described from a deposit thought to be located a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6166906 | 1,187,899 |
1,472,303 | The Morris water navigation task was conceived by Richard G. Morris (then at the University of St Andrews) in 1981 as an alternative to the radial maze. The test was developed to study spatial learning and how it differed from other forms of associative learning. Originally rats, now more commonly mice, were placed in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=859022 | 1,471,474 |
1,927,056 | Fritz Huber was born on 8 March 1881 in Wasserburg am Inn. He came from an old family of engineers. In Munich, he first attended the industrial school, then he began studying at the local technical college. He successfully completed his studies in 1903 and went on to work in France and Switzerland. After his return to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57000996 | 1,925,952 |
175,867 | In 1949 Szilard wrote a short story titled "My Trial as a War Criminal" in which he imagined himself on trial for crimes against humanity after the United States lost a war with the Soviet Union. He publicly sounded the alarm against the possible development of salted thermonuclear bombs, explaining in a University of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56359 | 175,775 |
1,545,107 | Group pilots flew Spitfires from Gibraltar to Algeria during Operation Torch, the invasion of North Africa on 8 November 1942. The remainder of the group arrived by ship after the campaign in Algeria and Morocco had ended. The group then operated as part of Twelfth Air Force through April 1944, thereafter becoming a pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23168422 | 1,544,233 |
98,683 | The U.S. government's attitude began to change again in 1983, when William Ruckelshaus replaced Anne M. Burford as Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Under Ruckelshaus and his successor, Lee Thomas, the EPA pushed for an international approach to halocarbon regulations. In 1985 twenty n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44183 | 98,641 |
1,667,175 | In 1991, Tingle was commissioned as a Naval Officer, and reported to NAS Pensacola, Florida for flight training. He was designated a Naval Aviator in 1993, and, after a period of instruction in the F/A-18, was subsequently assigned to VFA-146, based out of NAS Lemoore, California. With VFA-146, he deployed with Carrier... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23437158 | 1,666,236 |
1,220,738 | After the war, she excavated in Southwark, at The Wrekin, Shropshire and elsewhere in Britain, as well as at Sabratha, a Roman city in Libya. As a member of the Council of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem (BSAJ), Kenyon was involved in the efforts to reopen the School after the hiatus of the Second World ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16820 | 1,220,082 |
1,474,244 | Optical proximity correction (OPC) is a photolithography enhancement technique commonly used to compensate for image errors due to diffraction or process effects. The need for OPC is seen mainly in the making of semiconductor devices and is due to the limitations of light to maintain the edge placement integrity of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3263872 | 1,473,413 |
1,213,501 | In late 2005, the New York City Police Department investigated Michael Mastromarino and his company BTS for allegedly selling stolen human body parts. The probe was first reported by the "New York Daily News" in October 2005, and led to a number of exhumations, including one of a Queens, New York, woman who had had man... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19390210 | 1,212,849 |
289,738 | Bostrom points to the lack of agreement among most philosophers that A.I. will be human-friendly, and says that the common assumption is that high intelligence would have a "nerdy" unaggressive personality. However, he notes that both John von Neumann and Bertrand Russell advocated a nuclear strike, or the threat of on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=408292 | 289,581 |
1,073,603 | Indent depths during nanoindentation can vary from a few nm up to around a micron. Over this range, there are strong “size effects” – ie inferred mechanical properties exhibit a dependence on depth. Several reviews cover these effects. They usually take the form of the material apparently becoming harder for shallower ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4023692 | 1,073,049 |
12,930 | Around midnight, Hofi, at Safed, began to understand the magnitude of the Syrian breakthrough. He warned chief-of-staff Elazar that the entire Golan might be lost. Overhearing this message, an alarmed Dayan decided to personally visit the Northern Command headquarters. In the late night, Hofi informed Dayan that an est... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34276 | 12,925 |
631,423 | HVAR was an effective weapon in the hands of skilled, experienced pilots. It was less effective in the hands of average or inexperienced pilots who were accustomed to taking less careful aim and then "walking in" their gunfire to finally engage a target. HVARs could be fired in pairs or a single rapid-fire salvo but re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21730656 | 631,085 |
973,718 | Some of the laminin isoforms have been implicated in cancer pathophysiology. The majority of transcripts that harbor an internal ribosome entry site (IRES) are involved in cancer development via corresponding proteins. A crucial event in tumor progression referred to as epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) allows... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2226150 | 973,208 |
423,024 | Each CM-1 microprocessor has its own 4 kilobits of random-access memory (RAM), and the hypercube-based array of them was designed to perform the same operation on multiple data points simultaneously, i.e., to execute tasks in single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) fashion. The CM-1, depending on the configuration, ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68760 | 422,818 |
1,365,497 | The earliest evidence for tonotopic organization in auditory cortex was indicated by Vladimir E. Larionov in an 1899 paper entitled "On the musical centers of the brain", which suggested that lesions in an S-shaped trajectory resulted in failure to respond to tones of different frequencies. By the 1920s, cochlear anato... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1222458 | 1,364,741 |
1,365,754 | The visible and near infrared (VNIR) and thermal infrared (TIR) are sensitive to intra-atomic electronic transitions and inter-atomic bond strength respectively can help mineral and rock identifications. The instrument in use is called spectroradiometer in lab and imaging spectrometer or multi-/ hyper-spectral scanner ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55514078 | 1,364,998 |
1,393,480 | Additively manufactured metallic structures with the same (macroscopic) shape and size but fabricated by different process parameters have strikingly different microstructures and hence mechanical properties. The abundant and highly flexible AM process parameters substantially influence the AM microstructures. Therefor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51500017 | 1,392,709 |
1,184,182 | The first CT system that could make images of any part of the body and did not require the "water tank" was the ACTA (Automatic Computerized Transverse Axial) scanner designed by Robert S. Ledley, DDS, at Georgetown University. This machine had 30 photomultiplier tubes as detectors and completed a scan in only nine tra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55999605 | 1,183,555 |
190,519 | "Kongō" was laid down 17 January 1911 at Barrow-in-Furness, England, launched 18 May 1912, and commissioned 16 August 1913. She arrived in Yokosuka via Singapore in November 1913 to undergo armaments sighting checks in Kure Naval Arsenal, being placed in reserve upon her arrival. On 23 August 1914, Japan formally decla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3636947 | 190,422 |
576,854 | A linear accelerator (linac) produces x-rays from the impact of accelerated electrons striking a high "z" target, usually tungsten. The process is also referred to as "x-ray therapy" or "photon therapy." The emission head, or "gantry", is mechanically rotated around the patient in a full or partial circle. The table wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1172094 | 576,558 |
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