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1,560,102 | Alzheimer's disease(AD) is characterized by significant decline in cognition and memory with evidence showing that physical exercise can slow its progression and even provide return of loss function(s) in some cases. One of the primary modes of AD is the loss or atypical functionality of microglia and astrocytes caused... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42663845 | 1,559,216 |
632,354 | Large scale oligonucleotide synthesizers were often developed by augmenting the capabilities of a preexisting instrument platform. One of the first mid scale synthesizers appeared in the late 1980s, manufactured by the Biosearch company in Novato, CA (The 8800). This platform was originally designed as a peptide synthe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10663351 | 632,016 |
420,994 | The EMA held an ad hoc expert meeting on December 18, 2017, to help inform its further consideration of the issue. Some further longer term data had been published although some trials had yet to complete. On January 12, 2018, PRAC [Pharamocovigilance Risk Assessment Committee] recommended the European Medicine Agency ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10445002 | 420,788 |
40,377 | From 1958 until her retirement in 1986, Johnson worked as an aerospace technologist, moving during her career to the Spacecraft Controls Branch. She calculated the trajectory for the May 5, 1961, space flight of Alan Shepard, the first American in space. She also calculated the launch window for his 1961 Mercury missio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25568315 | 40,362 |
1,608,564 | In 1947 an association for the establishment of a technical museum in Switzerland was launched, and objects were held by the industrial companies of the Winterthur–Zürich–Baden region. On 26 June 1969, a foundation in accordance with Art. 80 ff ZGB was founded under the name "Technorama der Schweiz", purposing "science... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44746528 | 1,607,659 |
280,599 | The index register (IX/IY, often abbreviated XY) instructions can be useful for accessing data organised in fixed heterogenous structures (such as records) or at fixed offsets relative a variable base address (as in recursive stack frames) and can also reduce code size by removing the need for multiple short instructio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34461 | 280,447 |
991,445 | The majority of Earth's arid regions are located in the areas beneath the descending part of the Hadley circulation at around 30 degrees latitude. The width of the Hadley cells is generally believed to be expanding poleward, but the amount of expansion is somewhat in doubt. There is some evidence that the expansion of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6953458 | 990,928 |
234,481 | Around this time, non-visual games were being developed at various research computer laboratories; for example, Christopher Strachey developed a simulation of the game draughts, or checkers, for the Pilot ACE that he unsuccessfully attempted to run for the first time in July 1951 at the British National Physical Labora... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19992532 | 234,362 |
153,406 | In modern times, there is controversy regarding whether the foreskin is a vital or vestigial structure. In 1949, British physician Douglas Gairdner noted that the foreskin plays an important protective role in newborns. He wrote, "It is often stated that the prepuce is a vestigial structure devoid of function ... Howev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12082283 | 153,336 |
1,835,322 | A trabectome is a surgical device that can be used for ab interno trabeculotomy, a minimally invasive glaucoma surgery for the surgical management of adult, juvenile and infantile glaucoma. The Trabecular meshwork is a major site of resistance to aqueous humor outflow. As angle surgeries such as Trabectome follow the p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32637418 | 1,834,273 |
627,474 | Dolphins (and other odontocetes) rely on echolocation to aid in detecting, identifying, localizing, and capturing prey. Dolphin sonar signals are well suited for localizing multiple, small targets in a three-dimensional aquatic environment by utilizing highly directional (3 dB beamwidth of about 10 deg), broadband (3 d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1021754 | 627,140 |
1,928,468 | In the interim, in collaboration with Ronald W. Davis, Mertz discovered that DNA ends generated by cutting with the EcoRI restriction enzyme are "sticky", permitting any two such DNAs to be readily "recombined". Using this discovery, in June 1972 she created the first recombinant DNA that could have been cloned in bact... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47275926 | 1,927,364 |
358,979 | On 29 April 1975, Republic of Vietnam Air Force (RVNAF) Major Buang-Ly (also spelled Buang Lee) loaded his wife and five children into a two-seat Cessna O-1 Bird Dog and took off from Con Son Island. After evading enemy ground fire, Buang headed out to the South China Sea, found "Midway", and began to circle overhead w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=402386 | 358,793 |
690,503 | Brenner made several seminal contributions to the emerging field of molecular biology in the 1960s (see Phage group). The first was to prove that all overlapping genetic coding sequences were impossible. This insight separated the coding function from structural constraints as proposed in a clever code by George Gamow.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=379148 | 690,140 |
986,140 | Insects provide an opportunity to explore this since they exhibit an unparalleled diversity of social forms to permanent colonies containing many individuals working together as a collective organism and have evolved an impressive range of cognitive skills despite their small nervous systems. Social insects are shaped ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2452832 | 985,625 |
543,153 | A study has shown that up to 5% of the world total production of PGEs is lost and emitted as dust entering the global biogeochemical cycle. Nearby towns have shown elevated levels of platinum within the soil, atmosphere and vegetation. Since some of the food production activities are located near these areas, the prima... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3154089 | 542,873 |
1,954,317 | The lack of precedent in using limestone as a host formation for a DGR makes it very difficult to predict potential failures of the DGR that is not constructed in granite formation. OPG’s presentation of assumptions about the DGRs geochemistry is an underestimation of the potential risks of constructing a DGR in limest... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21481170 | 1,953,195 |
2,091,533 | Later in the 1980s and 1990s, Weis and her team observed that adult mummichogs in the polluted estuary were slow to capture prey (grass shrimp) and were easier to catch by a predator (blue crabs). Most of their diet was detritus in the mud, which is not highly nutritious for them. Weis theorized that poor nutrition may... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15754889 | 2,090,328 |
549,491 | Murad competed successfully for a Rector Scholarship at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, a small and excellent liberal arts university on a tuition scholarship. He received his undergraduate degree in chemistry from the pre-med program at DePauw University in 1958. During his senior year of college he began t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=275259 | 549,203 |
176,657 | Enrichment opportunities include internships, hands-on research, study abroad experiences, and 310 clubs and campus organizations. The Lifelong Learning Society operates programs that serve the educational interests of more than 19,000 senior citizens by providing classes focusing on subjects of specific interest, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=880200 | 176,565 |
1,232,473 | During the 1970s the slowdown of the British nuclear energy program resulted in a greatly reduced demand for the kind of work being done by the UKAEA. Pressures on government spending also reduced the funding available. Reluctant to merely disband a quality scientific research organisation, UKAEA was required to divert... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=352456 | 1,231,811 |
1,977,066 | He explained his particular ethos and style of management of CSIRO in this way: Well, I suppose I always wanted to extrapolate from my own experience, small-scale experience, and some personal opinions. I had a strong desire always to see pure and applied research undertaken side by side in the same laboratory... And I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=610478 | 1,975,928 |
674,871 | These methods became especially popular in the mid to late 2000s during the seventh generation of video game consoles that included the IBM PowerPC based PlayStation 3 (PS3) and Xbox 360 consoles. Historically, game consoles often have relatively weak central processing units (CPUs) compared to the top-of-line desktop ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50786173 | 674,518 |
643,978 | After the Second World War, the growing challenge in managing and accessing scientific publications turned into a full-fledged "periodical crisis": existing journals could not keep up with the rapidly increasing scientific output spurred by the big science projects. The issue became politically relevant after the succe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1223245 | 643,638 |
1,085,764 | Standard controls and procedures for the health and safety hazards of nanomaterials are relevant for nanoparticles. Elimination and substitution, the most desirable approaches to hazard control, may be possible through choosing properties of the particle such as size, shape, functionalization, and agglomeration/aggrega... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55174099 | 1,085,206 |
1,798,899 | The oil and gas industry began to be interested in developing MPFMs in the early 1980s, as measurement technology improved, and wellhead separators were costly. Depleting oil reserves, (More water and gas in the produced oil) along with smaller, deeper wells with higher water contents, saw the advent of increasingly fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10216271 | 1,797,890 |
934,666 | Cornelia Fales has explored the ways that expectations of timbre are learned based on past correlations. She has offered three main characteristics of timbre: timbre constitutes a link to the external world, it functions as perceptualization's primary instrument and it is a musical element that we experience without in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=80077 | 934,172 |
110,266 | Helium-3 nuclei have an intrinsic nuclear spin of , and a relatively high magnetogyric ratio. Helium-3 can be hyperpolarized using non-equilibrium means such as spin-exchange optical pumping. During this process, circularly polarized infrared laser light, tuned to the appropriate wavelength, is used to excite electrons... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14380 | 110,221 |
32,168 | "It seems fair to say that if the influence of a scientist is interpreted broadly enough to include impact on fields beyond science proper, then John von Neumann was probably the most influential mathematician who ever lived," wrote Miklós Rédei in "John von Neumann: Selected Letters". James Glimm wrote: "he is regarde... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15942 | 32,156 |
1,387,780 | In 2010, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reported that over one million pounds of BPA are released into the environment annually. BPA can be released into the environment by both pre-consumer and post-consumer leaching. Common routes of introduction from the pre-consumer perspective into the environment are di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57552333 | 1,387,013 |
1,823,517 | In the decade after this pioneering work, Middle English dialect studies went on generational hiatus. LALME, whose initial stages date to 1952, ushered in the next phase. Motivated by strong arguments for scribal normalization, historical dialectologists were no longer constrained by the unevenness of scribal fidelity.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53064903 | 1,822,479 |
1,470,619 | British paleontologist Peter Galton named "Lesothosaurus diagnosticus" in 1968, with NHMUK PV RU B17 and NHMUK PV RU B23 as the syntypes (the series of fossils that diagnose a species). The generic name "Lesothosaurus" is derived from the Kingdom of Lesotho, where the fossils were discovered, and the Latin root sauros ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=610601 | 1,469,794 |
1,015,879 | The main task of the introduced command economy was to build up the economic and military power of the state at the highest possible rates, accompanied with the near complete elimination of private industry that had allowed under the NEP. At the initial stage, it was reduced to the redistribution of the maximum possibl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11818766 | 1,015,356 |
946,800 | At one time Peter Houghton was the longest surviving recipient of a VAD for permanent use. He received an experimental Jarvik 2000 LVAD in June 2000. Since then, he completed a 91-mile charity walk, published two books, lectured widely, hiked in the Swiss Alps and the American West, flew in an ultra-light aircraft, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3301527 | 946,297 |
747,713 | Cubism was based on the idea of incorporating multiple points of view in a painted image, as if to simulate the visual experience of being physically in the presence of the subject, and seeing it from different angles. The radical experiments of Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Jean Metzinger's "Nu à la cheminée", Albert... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=302794 | 747,317 |
348,869 | As early as 1997, British Army doctors warned the Ministry of Defence that exposure to depleted uranium increased the risk of developing lung, lymph and brain cancer, and recommended a series of safety precautions. According to a report issued summarizing the advice of the doctors, "Inhalation of insoluble uranium diox... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37514 | 348,687 |
670,953 | The budgets providing funding for the "Tegetthoff" class were finally approved after two meetings of the Austrian "Reichsrat" and the Diet of Hungary in October and November 1910, with opposition being rejected as the Italian Navy had laid down another three battleships during the summer. The retroactive passage of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1089216 | 670,601 |
521,630 | In 2009, Zanno and colleagues stated therizinosaurs were the most-widely regarded candidates for herbivory among theropods based on the small, densely packed, coarse serrations; lance-shaped teeth with a relatively low replacement rate; a well-developed keratinous beak; long neck for browsing; relatively small skulls; ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3812410 | 521,358 |
1,611,211 | As a variation of standard web-based assessment methods, the SAPA methodology borrows by analogy a technique used in radio and optical astronomy: Synthetic Aperture Measurement. The resolution of a telescope is limited by its diameter which may be functionally increased a great deal by combining input from multiple, li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32630109 | 1,610,306 |
259,195 | The new design was considerably larger, carrying three times the initial fuel load and designed around larger, more powerful Pratt & Whitney J57 turbojets. The greater dimensions of the J57 engines required modifications to the engine bays, and modification to the intakes to allow a larger amount of airflow to the engi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=222857 | 259,061 |
1,995,884 | Work on Phase III began in January 2014; Lockheed is to develop the flight control software, and Piasecki will build the flight module and systems. The fans are driven via two turboshafts housed in the center section. The constant-speed, variable-pitch fans and movable vanes in the duct exhausts provide control. The AR... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27108158 | 1,994,741 |
2,076,389 | As a reaction to informalist abstraction, the so-called Neofiguration emerged, a movement that recovered figurative art, with a certain expressionist influence and total freedom of composition. Although they were based on figuration does not mean that this was realistic, but could be deformed or schematized to the tast... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72166508 | 2,075,190 |
620,666 | Apart from the aforementioned species, most other owl species that the Ural owl encounters in its range are significantly smaller. Furthermore, the Ural owl tends to dominate these species when encounters occur and so may be avoided. One species that often shares similar habitat and prey preferences with the Ural owl i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=815909 | 620,342 |
1,370,697 | From 1918, Burnet attended the University of Melbourne, where he lived in Ormond College on a residential scholarship. There, he read more of Darwin's work and was influenced by the ideas of science and society in the writings of H. G. Wells. He enjoyed his time at university and spent much of his free time reading bio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=417493 | 1,369,941 |
836,392 | Nanoelectronics and brain science. The development of nanoelectronics-enabled cellular tools underpins Lieber's views on transforming electrical recording and modulation of neuronal activity in brain science. Examples of this work include the integration of arrays of nanowire transistors with neurons at the scale that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5890897 | 835,943 |
216,331 | In the years following the creation of the general theory, a large number of physicists and mathematicians enthusiastically participated in the attempt to unify the then-known fundamental interactions. In view of later developments in this domain, of particular interest are the theories of Hermann Weyl of 1919, who int... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=776713 | 216,223 |
1,479,508 | "Pioneer 4" was a cone-shaped probe 51 cm high and 23 cm in diameter at its base. The cone was composed of a thin fiberglass shell coated with a gold wash to make it electrically conducting and painted with white stripes to maintain the temperature between 10 and 50 °C. At the tip of the cone was a small probe which co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=82010 | 1,478,675 |
66,405 | The first use of small-molecule drugs to treat cancer was in the early 20th century, although the specific chemicals first used were not originally intended for that purpose. Mustard gas was used as a chemical warfare agent during World War I and was discovered to be a potent suppressor of hematopoiesis (blood producti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7172 | 66,380 |
648,070 | Entamoebida lack mitochondria and possess mitosomes. "Entamoeba histolytica" is a pathogenic parasite known to cause amoebiasis, which is the third leading cause of parasitic deaths. It is diagnosed by the assessment of stool samples. Amoebiasis is caused by the ingestion of food or water contaminated with feces or oth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17495039 | 647,730 |
78,677 | On 15 February 2012, Lockheed Martin unveiled a new version of their F-16 at the 2012 Singapore Airshow. The F-16V will feature enhancements including an AN/APG-83 active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar, an upgraded mission computer and architecture, and improvements to the cockpit – all capabilities identifi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18895385 | 78,644 |
954,156 | Cells are often used in bioreceptors because they are sensitive to surrounding environment and they can respond to all kinds of stimulants. Cells tend to attach to the surface so they can be easily immobilized. Compared to organelles they remain active for longer period and the reproducibility makes them reusable. They... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=480700 | 953,651 |
183,968 | Giant planet core formation is thought to proceed roughly along the lines of the terrestrial planet formation. It starts with planetesimals that undergo runaway growth, followed by the slower oligarchic stage. Hypotheses do not predict a merger stage, due to the low probability of collisions between planetary embryos i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=212374 | 183,871 |
618,629 | Special Mission 16 was moved up two days from 11 August because of adverse weather forecasts. Weather also dictated a change in rendezvous to Yakushima, much closer to the target, and an initial cruise altitude of instead of , both of which considerably increased fuel consumption. Pre-flight inspection discovered an in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4567536 | 618,315 |
620,641 | The Ural owl is a rather large species. Full-grown specimens range in total length from , which may render them as roughly the eight longest owl species in the world (though many owls are heavier on average). Wingspan can vary in the species from . Like most birds of prey, the Ural owl displays reverse sexual dimorphis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=815909 | 620,326 |
736,423 | The transportation of humans to Europa would be one of the primary challenges to colonization. Since Jupiter is on average 630.4 million kilometers away from Earth at a given time, it would take at least 3 years just to get into Europa's orbit plus additional time to land. In an effort to develop transportation methods... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4356870 | 736,035 |
2,121,686 | Stokols' research has addressed a number of topics spanning the fields of environmental and health psychology, urban planning, public health, and the science of transdisciplinary team science. His studies of behavioral and health responses to urban stressors have focused on the impacts of airport noise on children atte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3924108 | 2,120,467 |
1,801,782 | On 7 May 1956, the Air Proving Ground Command hosted a two-hour firepower demonstration at Range 52 before some 5,000 guests representing governments and military units from Latin America, Canada, Cuba, and air attaches of 52 countries, as well as 70 members of the Joint Civilian Orientation Conference. Maj. Gen. Rober... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33714574 | 1,800,773 |
1,344,379 | The proposal which later came to be known as SLIM existed as early as back in 2005, as the . On 27 December 2013, ISAS called for proposals for its next "Competitively-Chosen Medium-Sized Focused Mission", and SLIM was among the seven proposals submitted. In June 2014, SLIM passed the semi-final selection along with th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50932640 | 1,343,641 |
1,801,711 | The Main Base public address system, known as the "giant voice", first conceived in 1946 and installed by the communications maintenance division of the Mobile, Alabama Air Material Area, went into operation in February 1950 with preliminary testing completed by 15 February. "The new PA system, situated in the Johnson ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33714574 | 1,800,702 |
217,810 | Unlike atomic absorption spectroscopy, which can only measure a single element at a time, ICP-MS has the capability to scan for all elements simultaneously. This allows rapid sample processing. A simultaneous ICP-MS that can record the entire analytical spectrum from lithium to uranium in every analysis won the Silver ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49503 | 217,702 |
1,459,000 | Michael F. Whiting, director of Brigham Young University's DNA Sequencing Center and an associate professor in BYU's Department of Integrative Biology, concluded in his article "DNA and the Book of Mormon: A Phylogenetic Perspective" that Book of Mormon critics attempting to use DNA "have not given us anything that wou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4874267 | 1,458,179 |
2,053,831 | Quadrature-based moment methods (QBMM) are a class of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methods for solving Kinetic theory and is optimal for simulating phases such as rarefied gases or dispersed phases of a multiphase flow. The smallest "particle" entities which are tracked may be molecules of a single phase or granu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44436862 | 2,052,648 |
1,977,900 | The main advantage of the DASS engine over conventional rocket engines for high-speed flight is the use of atmospheric oxygen in its air-breathing mode. The specific impulse ("I") of air-breathing engines are superior to rockets over a wide range of Mach numbers. These gains have the potential to realize a larger paylo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43208165 | 1,976,762 |
1,417,061 | Goldberger experimented on 11 healthy volunteers from the Rankin State Prison Farm for this 9-month study. The subjects were put on a strict and heavily monitored corn-based diet lacking meat, milk, and vegetables. Goldberger observed that the subjects became weaker and weaker as the days went on. After six months, fiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2638351 | 1,416,263 |
138,205 | Korolev grew up in Nezhin, under the care of his maternal grandparents Nikolay Yakovlevich Moskalenko who was a trader of the Second Guild and Maria Matveevna Moskalenko (née Fursa), a daughter of a local cossack. Korolev's mother also had a sister Anna and two brothers Yuri and Vasily. Maria Koroleva was frequently aw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=86655 | 138,149 |
576,838 | In the 21st century the original concept of radiosurgery expanded to include treatments comprising up to five fractions, and stereotactic radiosurgery has been redefined as a distinct neurosurgical discipline that utilizes externally generated ionizing radiation to inactivate or eradicate defined targets, typically in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1172094 | 576,542 |
2,129,559 | In 1980, Paul joined the GE Research Center in Schenectady NY. Together with William A. Edelstein and others, this group formed the nucleus of GE's early MRI development program. They ordered the biggest magnet available – a 1.5 Tesla system – and built the first high-field whole-body MRI/MRS scanner, overcoming proble... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35837096 | 2,128,335 |
1,184,689 | The concept of a "space ship" (or "rocket ship") was further developed in twentieth century science fiction such as "Flash Gordon", as a self-contained, presumably rocket-powered, unitized vehicle capable of reaching an extraterrestrial destination keeping its structure intact, and requiring only refueling, like an air... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=677899 | 1,184,061 |
1,501,137 | In 1984, a group of researchers at the Delft University of Technology designed a braille reading tablet, in which a reading head with photosensitive cells was moved along set of rulers to capture braille text line-by-line. In 1988, a group of French researchers at the Lille University of Science and Technology develope... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40031725 | 1,500,291 |
2,099,926 | The only known specimen was recovered at the mafic pyroclastic and epiclastic deposits of the Djupadal Formation, dated Pliensbachian-Toarcian(?), that are present near Korsaröd Lake, at the north of Höör, central Skåne, southern Sweden. The location was studied first by Gustav Andersson, a local farmer, who was a pass... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66861619 | 2,098,718 |
167,663 | In 2004, Ferrari and Schumacher returned to almost total dominance of the championships, winning both with easein the first thirteen races of the season, Schumacher managed to win twelve. A new race in Bahrain made its debut in April and another new race in China debuted in September. It was initially thought that in i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=640098 | 167,576 |
1,016,257 | In 1965, William T. Pecora, the then director of the United States Geological Survey, proposed the idea of a remote sensing satellite program to gather facts about the natural resources of our planet. Pecora stated that the program was “conceived in 1966 largely as a direct result of the demonstrated utility of the Mer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=387175 | 1,015,734 |
1,524,493 | OSSM is located on thirty-two acres at the northwest corner of 10th Avenue and Lincoln Boulevard near downtown Oklahoma City, near the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. Its main academic building, Lincoln School, was built in 1903, and used as an elementary school, then torn down and rebuilt in 1948 Oklaho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1527576 | 1,523,632 |
609,578 | Starting in 1972, Deligne worked with Grothendieck at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHÉS) near Paris, initially on the generalization within scheme theory of Zariski's main theorem. In 1968, he also worked with Jean-Pierre Serre; their work led to important results on the l-adic representations attached... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=394544 | 609,267 |
2,618 | The USAF originally envisioned ordering 750 ATFs at a total program cost of $44.3 billion and procurement cost of $26.2 billion in FY 1985 dollars, with production beginning in 1994 and service entry in the late 1990s. The 1990 Major Aircraft Review led by Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney reduced this to 648 aircraft b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66299 | 2,618 |
2,130,203 | substance, et al. Unification of the titles, the concept, the classification and the codes are the basic precondition for information interchange. But the most difficulty is that the standards are not unified. For example, the titles and codes of the case reports, drugs, personnel, equipment, inspection and examination... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20049505 | 2,128,979 |
1,729,848 | After achieving her PhD, Isler went on to conduct her research through a number of postdoctoral research appointments. From 2013 to 2015, she held a two-year Chancellor's Faculty Fellowship at Syracuse University. In 2014, Isler was awarded the Future Faculty Leaders Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for Astrophysi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51843595 | 1,728,873 |
1,018,131 | The main crew accommodation of the He 277 consisted of a heavily glazed and "greenhouse"-framed clear view "stepless" cockpit, a common feature of many late-war German bomber airframes and new designs. Immediately aft of the heavily glazed nose, the cockpit glazing over the crew seating and pilot accommodation-enclosin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=455378 | 1,017,606 |
147,489 | The final year of medical school in Colombia is referred to as the internship year ("internado"). The internship year is usually divided into two semesters. The first semester is made up of obligatory rotations that every student does though in different orders, and the medical intern serves in 5-7 different specialtie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=465584 | 147,431 |
977,940 | H.L. Mencken considered Halsted the greatest physician of the whole Johns Hopkins group, and Mencken's praise of his achievements when he reviewed Dr. MacCallum's 1930 biography is a memorable tribute. "His contributions to surgery were numerous and various. He introduced the use of local anesthetics, he was the first ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2394191 | 977,429 |
2,100,342 | For a period in the 2010s, Rees was a member of the Global Team of the Catalogue of Life, taking part in discussions regarding that projects's ongoing functionality and evolution. He is currently (2021) a member of the Catalogue of Life Taxonomy Group. He was also a member of the international teams responsible for des... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65680891 | 2,099,132 |
1,767,314 | In computational physics and more specifically in quantum mechanics, the ground state energies of quantum systems is associated with the top of the spectrum of Schrödinger's operators. The Schrödinger equation is the quantum mechanics version of the Newton's second law of motion of classical mechanics (the mass times t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43677277 | 1,766,320 |
1,838,203 | The school received accreditation for the first time from the Puerto Rico Higher Education Commission () in 1926. It was at "La Inmaculada's" auditorium in 1942, where parents of students at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez gathered to send a telegram to then-dean Joseph Axtamayer, requesting his resignation. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33006446 | 1,837,154 |
1,739,229 | According to research published by the US National Institutes of Health, the triple reassortant H2N3 virus isolated from diseased pigs in the United States in 2006 is pathogenic for certain mammals without prior adaptation and transmits among swine and ferrets. Adaptation, in the H2 hemagglutinin derived from an avian ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19784270 | 1,738,252 |
1,768,496 | Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Barbados, Belgium, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burma, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Cambodia, Central African Republic, Ceylon (current Sri Lanka), Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Congo (Brazzaville), Congo (Kinshasa), Costa Rica, Cuba, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46216367 | 1,767,502 |
714,869 | The newer information is supported by the fate of 63-13287. On 14 December 1965, operating TDY from Incirlik Air Base in Turkey as "Big Rib 06", it disappeared during a mission over the Black Sea whose route passed through telemetry range for Soviet ICBMs. What actually happened is still uncertain. There was speculatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33576652 | 714,496 |
1,742,831 | Tuning of the output wavelength is achieved by smoothly varying the helical pitch: as the winding changes, so does the length scale of the crystal. This in turn shifts the band edge and changes the optical path length in the lasing cavity. Applying a static electric field perpendicular to the dipole moment of the local... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31580571 | 1,741,847 |
53,855 | In 2021 many patients were found to be afraid to visit hospitals so purchasing pain relief to treat themselves outside the NHS, such was the level of ignorance among staff. They were often waiting a long time for pain relief, and sometimes suspected of “drugs-seeking” behaviour. Delays to treatment, failure to inform t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21010263 | 53,835 |
748,223 | The use of TTM in travel behaviour interventions is rather novel. A number of cross-sectional studies investigated the individual constructs of TTM, e.g. stage of change, decisional balance and self-efficacy, with regards to transport mode choice. The cross-sectional studies identified both motivators and barriers at t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1906107 | 747,825 |
1,159,202 | Mutant spectrum dynamics has been depicted in different ways, and we have chosen one that encompasses frequent events in natural populations and research designs, such as virus isolation from an infected host, adaptation to cell culture for studies on experimental evolution, or adaptation to alternative hosts in vivo. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6962692 | 1,158,587 |
1,176,724 | For extraordinary heroism as Medical Officer assigned to a Joint Operational Unit conducting combat operations against Al Qaida and Taliban enemy forces in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM, in October 2003. Lieutenant Donald was part of a multi-vehicle mounted patrol ambushed by extremely heavy fire from rocket-pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48294844 | 1,176,101 |
309,654 | The United States made its Olympic debut in 1896 in Athens, the very first edition of the modern games. The nation performed inconsistently in the pre-World War-I period, primarily due to fielding considerably fewer athletes than host countries, with the exception being the 1904 Olympics in St. Louis, Missouri, where t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2112059 | 309,489 |
20,231 | From the start of the Korean War, the Mustang once again proved useful. A "substantial number" of stored or in-service F-51Ds were shipped, via aircraft carriers, to the combat zone, and were used by the USAF, the South African Air Force, and the Republic of Korea Air Force (ROKAF). The F-51 was used for ground attack,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24710 | 20,222 |
403,356 | As a continental power intent on offensive operations, Germany could not ignore the need for aerial support of ground operations. Though the "Luftwaffe", like its counterparts, tended to focus on strategic bombing, it was unique in its willingness to commit forces to CAS. Unlike the Allies, the Germans were not able to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=600792 | 403,156 |
1,382,955 | Regulus II had been cancelled as the limitations of using cruise missiles became more apparent. The US Navy had therefore elected to alter the thinking behind the deployment of submarine-based nuclear weapons to ballistic missiles. The Navy's ballistic missile program had begun in 1955 when it was instructed to develop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59895854 | 1,382,189 |
1,291 | On January 13, 2000, Bill Gates handed over the CEO position to Steve Ballmer, an old college friend of Gates and employee of the company since 1980, while creating a new position for himself as Chief Software Architect. Various companies including Microsoft formed the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance in October 199... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19001 | 1,291 |
1,279,923 | In the 17th century, the enthusiasts of the new sciences, the investigators of nature by means of observation and experiment, banded themselves into academies or societies for mutual support and discourse. The first founded of surviving European academies, the Academia Naturae Curiosorum (1651) especially confined itse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=250535 | 1,279,228 |
1,375,099 | The Commonwealth and the states agreed in December 2007, at a Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting, to work together from 2008, to combine the Commonwealth scheme with the disparate state schemes, into a single national scheme. The initial report on progress and an implementation plan was considered at a Ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9495873 | 1,374,340 |
803,930 | It is well established that highly practiced, over-learned skills are performed automatically; they are controlled in real time, supported by procedural memory, require little attention, and operate largely outside of working memory. However, sometimes even experienced and highly skilled performers falter under conditi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21312313 | 803,501 |
1,633,258 | The economy also has a noticeable effect on retention rates. In general, tuition has been steadily climbing at universities since the mid-1980s. The cost of public and private institutions in the 1999–2000 school year, which includes tuition and on campus housing, averaged $7,302 and $20,277, respectively. After adjust... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13636411 | 1,632,336 |
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