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108,115 | In the long term, most economists consider productivity increases as a benefit to the economy overall, and necessary to improve the standard of living for consumers in general. By the time Taylor was doing his work, improvements in agricultural productivity had freed up a large portion of the workforce for the manufact... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=389401 | 108,070 |
728,203 | NTL played a central role in the evolution of experiential learning and the application of behavioral science to improving organizations. Process consultation, team building, conflict management, and workplace group democracy and autonomy have become recurrent themes in the prolific body of literature and practice know... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2819542 | 727,819 |
562,988 | Prevention programs should promote more hygienic food preparation by encouraging safer cooking techniques and more sanitary handling of potentially contaminated seafood. The elimination of the first intermediate host, the snail, is not tenable due to the nature of the organisms habits. A key component to prevention is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2196281 | 562,699 |
2,625 | The loss of staunch F-22 advocates in the upper DoD echelons resulted in the erosion of its political support. In July 2008, General James Cartwright, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, stated to the SASC his reasons for supporting the termination of F-22 production, including shifting resources to the multi-s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66299 | 2,625 |
662,639 | Neurologically, the idea of synaptic plasticity, which is an important neurochemical explanation of memory, can help to understand the Einstellung effect. Specifically, Hebbian theory (which in many regards is the neuroscience equivalent of original associationist theories) is one explanation of synaptic plasticity (He... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14540905 | 662,294 |
1,871,252 | In the wild, "M. campanulae" seal off their cells within the nest with natural resins found in plants and trees. In 2013, however, researchers reported that the bees had used synthetics, including caulk, to seal the cells. Compositional analysis of these materials revealed calcium, titanium, and iron. They resembled po... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42898392 | 1,870,175 |
108,225 | Each of the three services has its own intelligence collection assets. RAN doctrine stresses the importance of collecting a wide range of information, and combining it to inform decisions. It also notes that the "Collins"-class submarines are particularly effective sources of "acoustic, electromagnetic and environmenta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67538 | 108,180 |
250,628 | The first lighter-than-air crossings of the Atlantic were made by airship in July 1919 by His Majesty's Airship R34 and crew when they flew from East Lothian, Scotland to Long Island, New York and then back to Pulham, England. By 1929, airship technology had advanced to the point that the first round-the-world flight w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=177680 | 250,495 |
168,340 | In recent years, evolutionary biologists, geneticists and palaeoanthropologists have been reassessing the issues, many citing genetic and other evidence that early human kinship may have been matrilineal after all. One crucial piece of indirect evidence has been genetic data suggesting that over thousands of years, wom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=84024 | 168,250 |
595,379 | Brown and his team also had been observing the dwarf planet for approximately six months before its announced discovery by José Luis Ortiz Moreno and colleagues from the Sierra Nevada Observatory in Spain. Brown originally indicated his support for Ortiz's team's being given credit for the discovery of Haumea. However,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=528312 | 595,074 |
1,915,884 | Most of the new oil fields are located in deep water and are generally referred to as deepwater systems. Development of these fields sets strict requirements for verification of the various systems’ functions and their compliance with current requirements and specifications. This is because of the high costs and time i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10350431 | 1,914,785 |
1,602,239 | VLDLR is expressed on migrating neurons to help guide them to their proper location in the brain. This process is part of the reelin pathway, which is responsible for the inside-out formation of the six-layered neocortex. Despite the discovery of this pathway, many of the specifics and molecular mechanisms of this proc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5402846 | 1,601,338 |
298,051 | South Korea started considering the F-35 in 2009, among several other competitors, for its F-X Phase III fighter program. South Korean officials had indicated that the F-35 would only be available for delivery after 2018, but Steve O'Bryan, Lockheed's vice president for F-35 business development, said at that time that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28702755 | 297,891 |
730,176 | "N. pilipes" prefers moist habitats with no direct sunlight. It can be found in Japan, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar, Indonesia, Thailand, Laos, Philippines, Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, and Australia. In Australia, most "N. pilipes" are found in rainforest habitats in nor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6242957 | 729,792 |
93,906 | On February 24, 2022, in a televised address preceding the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that Russia "is today one of the most powerful nuclear powers in the world... No one should have any doubts that a direct attack on our country will lead to defeat and dir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36880 | 93,865 |
933,403 | In 1959, a gold-leaf mural by Albers, "Two Structural Constellations" was engraved in the lobby of the Corning Glass Building in Manhattan. For the entrance of the Time & Life Building lobby, he created "Two Portals" (1961), a 42-feet by 14-feet mural of alternating glass bands in white and brown that recede into two b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=335390 | 932,911 |
859,125 | The first meeting of Task Group 13 was held during March 2017, aiming at a new standard on light fidelity (LiFi), i.e. mobile communications by using the light. The aim is to address industrial applications, i.e. ultra-reliable, low-latency connectivity with negligible jitter for next-generation IoT. Compared to 802.15... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14735 | 858,667 |
117,793 | The discoverer of the Galápagos Islands, Fray Tomás de Berlanga, Bishop of Panama, wrote in 1535 of "such big tortoises that each could carry a man on top of himself." Naturalist Charles Darwin remarked after his trip three centuries later in 1835, "These animals grow to an immense size ... several so large that it req... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7934681 | 117,748 |
73,065 | Marine organisms are more sensitive to changes in (carbon dioxide) levels than terrestrial organisms for a variety of reasons. is 28 times more soluble in water than is oxygen. Marine animals normally function with lower concentrations of in their bodies than land animals, as the removal of in air-breathing animals is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24749 | 73,038 |
34,005 | The HDD's spindle system relies on air density inside the disk enclosure to support the heads at their proper flying height while the disk rotates. HDDs require a certain range of air densities to operate properly. The connection to the external environment and density occurs through a small hole in the enclosure (abou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13777 | 33,993 |
295,691 | An endotherm is an animal that regulates its own body temperature, typically by keeping it at a constant level. To regulate body temperature, an organism may need to prevent heat gains in arid environments. Evaporation of water, either across respiratory surfaces or across the skin in those animals possessing sweat gla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=378661 | 295,531 |
1,742,051 | In their final regular season game of the 2013 season, the Eagles fell in a closely fought battle with former Big East rival Syracuse. The Eagles took a 7–0 lead in the 1st on a 24-yard touchdown run by Heisman candidate Andre Williams, but let up 21 straight points in the 2nd quarter before answering with a touchdown ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39228283 | 1,741,067 |
438,034 | The main purpose of this mission was to deploy Hubble. It was designed to operate above the Earth's turbulent and obscuring atmosphere to observe celestial objects at ultraviolet, visible and near-infrared wavelengths. The Hubble mission was a joint NASA-ESA (European Space Agency) effort going back to the late 1970s. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=183328 | 437,820 |
1,232,330 | As a therapsid, "Diictodon" shared many features with modern-day mammals. Most noticeably, they made burrows into the earth, but most reached up to in depth, suggesting that they might have been infrequent diggers and occupied abandoned burrows. Still, many scientists believe that "Diictodon" lived like the modern goph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4099930 | 1,231,668 |
85,837 | Stravinsky arrived in New York City on 30 September 1939 and headed for Cambridge, Massachusetts to fulfill his engagements at Harvard. During his first two months in the US, Stravinsky stayed at Gerry's Landing, the home of art historian Edward W. Forbes. Vera arrived in January 1940 and the couple married on 9 March ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38172 | 85,803 |
1,434,665 | "Bacillus licheniformis" strain SB3086 has been identified as a biological control agent of mango anthracnose infection, and also shows some antagonistic effects toward powdery mildew infections when applied in combination with copper oxychloride. One current issue with the use of "B. licheniformis" as a control agent ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11512337 | 1,433,859 |
1,212,345 | Other wartime physics research, particularly in rocketry and radar technology, was less significant in popular culture but much more significant for the outcome of the war. German rocketry was driven by the pursuit of "Wunderwaffen", resulting in the V-2 ballistic missile; the technology as well as the personal experti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4999816 | 1,211,693 |
32,116 | From his work at Los Alamos von Neumann realized that computation was not just a tool to brute force the solution to a problem numerically, but that computation could also provide insight for solving problems analytically too, through heuristic hints, and that there was an enormous variety of scientific and engineering... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15942 | 32,105 |
1,438,801 | The final version of the constitution naturally was different from his original draft in various ways. Preuß' ideas were notably rejected concerning the reorganisation of the individual territories of the Reich—blocked by the new governments of the States. He also was unable to put into practice his idea of a very narr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2534735 | 1,437,991 |
602,272 | In addition to this variety of data types and growing data volume, incoming data can also evolve with respect to velocity, that is, more data being generated at a faster or a variable pace. Business rules define the business process and include objectives constraints, preferences, policies, best practices, and boundari... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35757264 | 601,963 |
728,229 | Another issue, more widely debated, is scale—how to address broad-based systems of power and issues of complexity, especially those of another development on a global scale. How can PAR develop a macro-orientation to democratic dialogue and meet challenges of the 21st Century, by joining movements to support justice an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2819542 | 727,845 |
410,369 | The team kept the project deliberately simple and comparatively modest in scope. The platforming design drew extensively from "Prince of Persia", with the Doppelgänger enemy during the Atlantis section being an homage to the Shadow Prince from that game. The high number of animal enemies was meant to ground players in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3926606 | 410,167 |
34,290 | In 1963, Benoit Mandelbrot found recurring patterns at every scale in data on cotton prices. Beforehand he had studied information theory and concluded noise was patterned like a Cantor set: on any scale the proportion of noise-containing periods to error-free periods was a constant – thus errors were inevitable and mu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6295 | 34,278 |
237,053 | Spectrophotometry can be used for a number of techniques such as determining optimal wavelength absorbance of samples, determining optimal pH for absorbance of samples, determining concentrations of unknown samples, and determining the pKa of various samples. Spectrophotometry is also a helpful process for protein puri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=480465 | 236,934 |
1,785,514 | A direct method of accessing and destroying tumour cells can be accomplished by photothermal cancer therapy or photodynamic therapy (PDT). This procedure is known to treat small tumours that are difficult to access and avoids the drawbacks (adverse effects) of conventional methods, including the unnecessary destruction... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46188763 | 1,784,510 |
27,154 | The basis for modern genetics began with the work of Gregor Mendel, who presented his paper, ""Versuche über Pflanzenhybriden"" ("Experiments on Plant Hybridization"), in 1865, which outlined the principles of biological inheritance, serving as the basis for modern genetics. However, the significance of his work was no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9127632 | 27,144 |
504,120 | The initial discovery of three distinct eukaryotic DNA-dependent RNA polymerases was made using "S. purpuratus" as a model organism. While embryonic development is still a major part of the utilization of the sea urchin, studies on urchin's position as an evolutionary marvel have become increasingly frequent. Orthologs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11250054 | 503,861 |
896,826 | In medieval Europe, local laws on weights and measures were set by trade guilds on a city-by-city basis. For example, the "ell" or "elle" was a unit of length commonly used in Europe, but its length varied from 40.2 centimetres in one part of Germany to 70 centimetres in The Netherlands and 94.5 centimetres in Edinburg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20353 | 896,355 |
1,420,561 | Rodbell was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Shirley (née Abrams) and Milton Rodbell, a grocer. His family was Jewish. After graduating from the Baltimore City College high school, he entered Johns Hopkins University in 1943, with interests in biology and French existential literature. In 1944, his studies were ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1127279 | 1,419,761 |
990,235 | The experimental findings of the Avery–MacLeod–McCarty experiment were quickly confirmed, and extended to other hereditary characteristics besides polysaccharide capsules. However, there was considerable reluctance to accept the conclusion that DNA was the genetic material. According to Phoebus Levene's influential "te... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19517416 | 989,718 |
2,051,104 | NASA's first cost assessment in 1987 revealed the "Dual Keel" Station would cost $14.5 billion. This caused a political uproar in Congress, and NASA and Reagan Administration officials reached a compromise in March 1987 which allowed the agency to proceed with a cheaper $12.2-billion Phase One Station that could be com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41550290 | 2,049,923 |
54,325 | By mid-1943, the Jumo 004A engine had passed several 100-hour tests, with a time between overhauls of 50 hours being achieved. However, the Jumo 004A engine proved unsuitable for full-scale production because of its considerable weight and its high utilization of strategic material (Ni, Co, Mo), which were in short sup... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20488 | 54,305 |
1,519,493 | Antonio Giordano (Napoli, 11 Ottobre 1962) is an oncologist, pathologist, geneticist, researcher, university professor and writer. As an Italian naturalized American, he is the Director of the Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine in Philadelphia and a professor of Anatomy and Pathological Histolo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44199904 | 1,518,635 |
1,472,892 | The term "functional" in functional hypothalamic amenorrhea implies that the ovulatory ovarian dysfunction is reversible with correction of the underlying cause. Therefore, it is said that FHA can be reversed by removal of the stressor. Weight restoration is the best predictor of functional recovery of the HPO axis and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15738568 | 1,472,061 |
707,882 | Although units described as "legiones" existed as late as the 5th century in both the border and field armies, the legionary system was very different from that of the principate and early empire. Since the term legion continued to be used, it is unclear exactly when the structure and role of the legions changed. In th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7948631 | 707,513 |
1,313,735 | While he was chair of economics at Chicago he led research into why post-World War II Germany and Japan recovered, at almost miraculous speeds, from the widespread devastation. Contrast this with the United Kingdom which was still rationing food long after the war. His conclusion was that the speed of recovery was due ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1331926 | 1,313,015 |
1,095,957 | The development of nanotechnology and molecular biology has provided the improvement of nanomaterials with specific properties which are now able to overcome the weaknesses of traditional disease diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. In recent years, more attention has been devoted to designing and the development of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42482555 | 1,095,397 |
1,885,884 | The existing specimens of "Orthosuchus" were found in the Lower Jurassic Red Bed Formation in South Africa in 1963. It was hypothesized that "Orthosuchus" lived mainly on terrestrial land, but some key factors contribute to the fact that it spent time mostly in water. The first notable evidence is on the palate, which ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5749495 | 1,884,802 |
745,818 | In the 5th century BCE, Hippocrates described a disease like TSE in cattle and sheep, which he believed also occurred in man. Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus records cases of a disease with similar characteristics in the 4th and 5th centuries AD. In 1755, an outbreak of scrapie was discussed in the British House of Co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=235248 | 745,424 |
1,889,579 | On the other hand, in January 2014 "The Chronicle of Higher Education" reported that the effort to make free or low cost materials available in 42 courses was making little progress. Based on a survey of community-college stores, with responses from 25 campuses, only nine said that any materials had been used in 17 of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42174228 | 1,888,496 |
681,333 | With over 20,000 extant pieces, Attic black-figure vases comprise the largest and at the same time most significant vase collection, second only to Attic red-figure vases. Attic potters benefitted from the excellent, iron-rich clay found in Attica. High quality Attic black-figure vases have a uniform, glossy, pitch-bla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1076046 | 680,978 |
1,234,295 | She then returned to full-time practice and acquired her first Macintosh computer. She would later take the Grand Prize in "MacWorld"'s First Macintosh Masters in Art Competition. April also contributed to the design of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, by creating a memorable poster of running legs silhouetted against a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4550992 | 1,233,632 |
257,700 | In early 1923, and in poor health, Baird moved to 21 Linton Crescent, Hastings, on the south coast of England. He later rented a workshop in the Queen's Arcade in the town. Baird built what was to become the world's first working television set using items that included an old hatbox and a pair of scissors, some darnin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39570 | 257,566 |
556,473 | On 23 March 1944, flight trials restarted. U.S. Army Air Forces pilots finally got to fly the aircraft on 11 May 1944, and judged the cockpit layout fair and ground handling satisfactory, but deemed the aircraft underpowered due to its poor initial rate of climb, slow acceleration, and long takeoff roll, particularly w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2186955 | 556,184 |
1,746,685 | Born in San Rafael, California to John Franklin Boyd (part-owner of the Bodie, California gold mine) and Louise Cook Arner, Louise grew up in Marin County and the hills of Oakland playing and competing with her two older brothers, Seth and John. The Boyds were leading citizens of the era and their children's early year... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3405983 | 1,745,699 |
1,202,498 | X-rays carry no charge, but at the energies involved, Auger decay of ionized species in a specimen is more probable than radiative decay. High-energy radiation exceeding the ionization potential also generates free electrons which are negligible compared to those produced by electron beams which are charged. Charging o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26418605 | 1,201,855 |
1,633,001 | The first medical schools were established in Lower Canada in the 1820s. These included the Montreal Medical Institution, which is the faculty of medicine at McGill University today; in the mid-1870s, Sir William Osler changed the face of medical school instruction throughout the West with the introduction of the hands... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10620033 | 1,632,079 |
1,559,162 | The very high precision of (strange) particle spectra and large transverse momentum coverage reported by the ALICE Collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) allows in-depth exploration of lingering challenges, which always accompany new physics, and here in particular the questions surrounding strangeness signat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23984205 | 1,558,276 |
231,366 | South Asia has the highest percentage and number of underweight children under five in the world, at approximately 78 million children. Patterns of stunting and wasting are similar, where 44% have not reached optimal height and 15% are wasted, rates much higher than any other regions. This region of the world has extre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=93827 | 231,247 |
1,055,360 | with the maximum taken over all formula_24 whose product is formula_25. If formula_2 and formula_27, measuring the same content in different context, are always identically distributed, the system is called "consistently connected" (satisfying "no-disturbance" or "no-signaling" principle). Except for certain logical is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38407148 | 1,054,812 |
1,062,678 | In October 2022, Eileen Crist, William J. Ripple, Paul R. Ehrlich, William E. Rees, and Christopher Wolf all contributed to the "Scientists' warning on population", published by "Science of the Total Environment" as "part of the ongoing series of scientists' warning publications," to address the negative impacts of pop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2016744 | 1,062,124 |
779,398 | The most spectacular accretion disks found in nature are those of active galactic nuclei and of quasars, which are thought to be massive black holes at the center of galaxies. As matter enters the accretion disc, it follows a trajectory called a tendex line, which describes an inward spiral. This is because particles r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48400112 | 778,981 |
411,066 | Classical density functional theory is a classical statistical method to investigate the properties of many-body systems consisting of interacting molecules, macromolecules, nanoparticles or microparticles. The classical non-relativistic method is correct for classical fluids with particle velocities less than the spee... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209874 | 410,864 |
1,924,166 | Melanoma differentiation associated gene-7 ("mda-7"), and also known as IL-24, was discovered in the mid-1900s using subtraction hybridization. "mda-7" is classified in the interleukin IL-10 family because of similar structure and amino acid sequence to other interleukins in that class, the chromosomal location (human ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34556489 | 1,923,063 |
2,001,611 | Sacral nerve stimulation was originally used in urinary incontinence. It was first used to treat FI in 1995. The procedure involves implantation of an electrical device (an implanted pulse generator, IPG) which applies a low amplitude electric current to a sacral nerve (usually S3). This appears to modulate the nerves ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38075591 | 2,000,464 |
1,075,885 | In 1960, Hess made his single most important contribution, which is regarded as part of the major advance in geologic science of the 20th century. In a widely circulated report to the Office of Naval Research, he advanced the theory, now generally accepted, that the Earth's crust moved laterally away from long, volcani... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=481077 | 1,075,330 |
870,492 | Somewhat distinct from general graphics enhancements, various products were also introduced to support the broadcasting industry and other professional imaging applications. In late 1990, Millipede Electronic Graphics announced an imaging product called APEX (Archimedes P3 Expansion) featuring "four P3 (pixel pipeline ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63145 | 870,032 |
255,191 | The mortality of the disease in 1909, as recorded in the British Army and Navy stationed in Malta, was 2%. The most frequent cause of death was endocarditis. Recent advances in antibiotics and surgery have been successful in preventing death due to endocarditis. Prevention of human brucellosis can be achieved by eradic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=425881 | 255,057 |
1,875,984 | In 1974 one of Jackson's colleagues, a Professor of Chemistry at Howard University, died suddenly. Jackson agreed to teach his course for the rest of the term and was subsequently appointed to a joint position in chemistry and physics. Here he began working on laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) to study the rovibronic co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61702490 | 1,874,907 |
1,423,653 | One of the first technical records concerning carbon nanofibers is probably a patent dated 1889 on synthesis of filamentous carbon by Hughes and Chambers. They utilized a methane/hydrogen gaseous mixture and grew carbon filaments through gas pyrolysis and subsequent carbon deposition and filament growth. The true appre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3313763 | 1,422,852 |
254,121 | On August 23, 1938, Bush was appointed to the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), the predecessor of NASA. Its chairman Joseph Sweetman Ames became ill, and Bush, as vice chairman, soon had to act in his place. In December 1938, NACA asked for $11 million to establish a new aeronautical research laborat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32767 | 253,988 |
1,782,474 | The tradition of higher education in Košice goes back to the year 1657, when the bishop Benedict Kishdy founded an Academy by the Memorandum of “Studium Universale” and presented it with 40 000 tallers (by way of a dot). The Academy or the University started up managed by the Jesus’ Community Jesuits. The University of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5290832 | 1,781,470 |
1,050,842 | Broadly, aptamers are small molecules composed of either single-stranded DNA or RNA and are typically 20-100 nucleotides in length, or ~3-60 kDa. Because of their single-stranded nature, aptamers are capable of forming many secondary structures, including pseudoknots, stem loops, and bulges, through intra-strand base p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65187964 | 1,050,296 |
1,505 | When Turing was 39 years old in 1951, he turned to mathematical biology, finally publishing his masterpiece "The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis" in January 1952. He was interested in morphogenesis, the development of patterns and shapes in biological organisms. He suggested that a system of chemicals reacting with eac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1208 | 1,505 |
643,051 | In the twentieth century an alternative method, lexicostatistics, was developed, which is mainly associated with Morris Swadesh but is based on earlier work. This uses a short word list of basic vocabulary in the various languages for comparisons. Swadesh used 100 (earlier 200) items that are assumed to be cognate (on ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=931814 | 642,712 |
2,083,000 | Li was born in Shaoyang, Hunan, Republic of China, on May 29, 1943. His father, Li Binqing (), was an educator who served as president of Shaodong County No.2 High School after the establishment of the Communist State. After high school in 1960, he was accepted to Hunan Agricultural Mechanization College. Because the s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62953589 | 2,081,800 |
256,853 | Foraging, flying, or crawling insects such as flies are attracted to a cavity formed by the cupped leaf, often by visual lures such as anthocyanin pigments, and nectar. The rim of the pitcher (peristome) is slippery when moistened by condensation or nectar, causing insects to fall into the trap. The walls of the pitfal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=113673 | 256,719 |
1,685,113 | Humboldt was born in Berlin in 1769 and worked as a Prussian mining official in the 1790s until 1797 when he quit and began collecting scientific knowledge and equipment. His extensive wealth aided his infatuation with the spirit of Romanticism; he amassed an extensive collection of scientific instruments and tools as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8243937 | 1,684,168 |
117,145 | In the 1920s, new university chancellor John Gabbert Bowman declared that he had a vision for a centerpiece "tall building" for the university. The Frick Acres property in Oakland was soon purchased and plans for the campus shifted focus from the hillside to a neo-Gothic Revival plan that today comprises the Cathedral ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=239870 | 117,100 |
1,754,089 | Unit 2 was operating at the time of the earthquake and experienced the same controlled initial shutdown as the other units. As with unit 1, the reactor scrammed following the earthquake. The two diesel generators came online and initially all cooling systems were available. Initially the high pressure coolant injection... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37832404 | 1,753,099 |
1,393,469 | DfAM is not always separate from broader DFM, as the making of many objects can involve both additive and subtractive steps. Nonetheless, the name "DfAM" has value because it focuses attention on the way that commercializing AM in production roles is not just a matter of figuring out how to switch existing parts from s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51500017 | 1,392,698 |
834,168 | Sir Thomson believed, as did many adherents of the then-recent theory of evolution, that the deep sea would be home to "living fossils" long extinct in shallower waters, examples of "missing links". They believed that the conditions of constant cold temperature, darkness, and lack of currents, waves, or seismic events ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=88284 | 833,719 |
1,244,960 | As mentioned above, traditional telephone companies are taking different measures to expand businesses in the convergent market. On the aspect of infrastructure, companies like AT&T started upgrading from traditional copper wires to fiber to enhance the quality and speed in voice and data transmission. With a relativel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31591629 | 1,244,287 |
621,859 | Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide), or pNIPAM, is a commonly used thermo-responsive material. A hydrogel of pNIPAM becomes hydrophilic and swollen in an aqueous solution of 32 °C, its low critical solution temperature. Temperatures above that start to dehydrate the hydrogel and cause it shrink, thus achieving shape transforma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52904006 | 621,527 |
1,358,763 | In case of stereoselectivity in action only one of the components in the racemic mixture is truly active (eutomer). The other isomer, the distomer, should be regarded as impurity or isomeric ballast not contributing to the effects aimed at. It is well documented that the pharmacologically inactive isomer (distomer) may... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67685890 | 1,358,013 |
1,123,216 | Palaeontologists David W. E. Hone, Naish, and Innes C. Cuthill reiterated Martill and Naish's growth hypothesis in 2012; since pterosaurs were probably precocial and able to fly shortly after hatching, the role of the crest was relevant only after maturity (when the structure was fully grown). They deemed the thermoreg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5382243 | 1,122,642 |
400,728 | Construction of "Belfast", the first ship in the Royal Navy to be named after the capital city of Northern Ireland and one of ten Town-class cruisers, began in December 1936. She was launched on St Patrick's Day 1938. Commissioned in early August 1939 shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War, "Belfast" was i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209815 | 400,529 |
1,190,213 | Cellular models are instrumental in dissecting a complex pathological process into simpler molecular events. Parkinson's disease (PD) is multifactorial and clinically heterogeneous; the aetiology of the sporadic (and most common) form is still unclear and only a few molecular mechanisms have been clarified so far in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1872854 | 1,189,579 |
433,755 | The test above does not distinguish between more complex distributions, such as quantum and classical, or between fermionic and bosonic statistics. A physically motivated scenario to be addressed is the unwanted introduction of distinguishability between photons, which destroys quantum interference (this regime is read... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49287688 | 433,541 |
1,992,723 | Pillai, a former president of the Society of Biotechnologists, India (SBC), is known to have worked on human papillomavirus as well as cervical cancer and is the coordinator of two programs of the Department of Biotechnology, namely "National Cervical Cancer Control Program" and "Papillomavirus Vaccine Development Prog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55973815 | 1,991,580 |
1,569,019 | In 2005, Dr. Dante G. Guevarra became the University President. His administration lasted 6 years, from 2005–2011. Highlights of his administration include: the construction and inauguration of the executive offices and conference rooms (Mateo, Olonan, and Carague) on the 2nd floor of the South Wing of the main buildin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37876206 | 1,568,132 |
964,177 | Since the 1950s, encouraged by progress in informatics, researchers began to create digital models of the processes by which sensory input is selected by the brain, stored in the memory, connected to existing knowledge and used for elaboration. These traditional computationalists views of cognition that were typical in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33034640 | 963,668 |
1,621,104 | In 1850, Chicago was only a 17-year-old city of 28,000 inhabitants that was increasingly becoming the center of trade for both steamships and railroads. The political and cultural environment of the mid-nineteenth century resulted in individual states granting charters to hundreds of small colleges rather than a few ce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10414221 | 1,620,189 |
745,229 | The group of lobe-finned fishes that were the ancestors of the tetrapod are grouped together as the Rhipidistia, and the first tetrapods evolved from these fish over the relatively short timespan 385–360 Ma. The early tetrapod groups themselves are grouped as Labyrinthodontia. They retained aquatic, fry-like tadpoles, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37824359 | 744,835 |
18,753 | In 1999, SOCOM requested Black Hills Ammunition to develop ammunition for the Mk 12 SPR that SOCOM was designing. For the rifle to be accurate out to 700 yards, Black Hills "militarized" a cartridge that used the Sierra 77 grain OTM (Open Tip Match) projectile; it switched from a .223 Remington to 5.56 mm case, increas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35022 | 18,745 |
1,891,434 | Another primary contribution was her 1993 complete revision and update of Brigitte Jordan's famous ': A Cultural Investigation of Childbirth in Yucatan, Holland, Sweden, and the United States' (Fourth Edition)--the book that generated the fields of the anthropologies of midwifery and childbirth. The book was first publ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52996023 | 1,890,351 |
1,345,065 | The effects of irradiation on the SVZ provided for a recognition of the amount or dose of radiation that can be given is determined mostly by the tolerance of the normal cells near the tumor. As described, the increasing dose of radiation and age led to decrease in three cell types of the SVZ, yet repair capacity of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6852419 | 1,344,327 |
366,190 | Paracelsus extended his interest in chemistry and biology to what is now considered toxicology. He clearly expounded the concept of dose response in his "Third Defence", where he stated that "Solely the dose determines that a thing is not a poison." ("Sola dosis facit venenum" "Only the dose makes the poison") This was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=152487 | 365,998 |
601,854 | Navy officials expressed concern that the original requirements of the UCLASS program had been degraded, as the original concept called for a stealthy, carrier-based, long-range unmanned combat aerial system (UCAS) with a large payload that could be refueled in-flight, but the altered version called for a UCAS that was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39092723 | 601,545 |
1,876,553 | The pattern was repeated in the summer of 1984-85 with the largest single aerial firefighting operation in Australia up to that time. Lightning strikes started fires in north eastern Victoria which were in remote, inaccessible mountain country where firefighting was difficult, hazardous and slow. One hundred and eleven... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57882206 | 1,875,475 |
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