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160,957 | Buildings are another source of mycotoxins and people living or working in areas with mold increase their chances of adverse health effects. Molds growing in buildings can be divided into three groups – primary, secondary, and tertiary colonizers. Each group is categorized by the ability to grow at a certain water acti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=612957 | 160,872 |
950,449 | In a review article by Pierce & Buxbaum (2002), they concluded that the evidence for Hemispheric Activation Approaches, which focuses on moving the limb on the side of the neglect, has conflicting evidence in the literature. The authors note that a possible limitation in this approach is the requirement for the patient... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=963201 | 949,945 |
789,427 | From the 1980s, improvements in technology led to a greatly increased number, variety, and performance of commercially available communication devices, and a reduction in their size and price. Alternative methods of access such eye pointing or scanning became available on communication devices. Speech output possibilit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2106968 | 789,003 |
480,001 | Following the Korean War, South Korea remained one of the poorest countries in the world for over a decade. Marred by poverty, malnutrition, and illiteracy, political chaos, and cultural discourse, South Korea's gross domestic product per capita in 1960 was $79, lower than that of some sub-Saharan African countries. Ov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16234875 | 479,757 |
292,354 | Between 1859 and 1891, Peirce was intermittently employed in various scientific capacities by the United States Coast Survey and its successor, the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, where he enjoyed his highly influential father's protection until the latter's death in 1880. That employment exempted Peirce from ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6117 | 292,196 |
559,139 | While at the MBL, Just learned to handle marine invertebrate eggs and embryos with skill and understanding, and soon his expertise was in great demand by both junior and senior researchers alike. In 1915, Just took a leave of absence from Howard to enroll in an advanced academic program at the University of Chicago. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7575460 | 558,850 |
486,775 | Continuing research with these original participants has examined how preschool delay of gratification ability links to development over the life course and may predict a variety of important outcomes (e.g., SAT scores, social and cognitive competence, educational attainment, and drug use), and can have significant pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4392099 | 486,526 |
644,464 | Pritzker was born to a Jewish family, the Pritzker family, in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Fanny (née Doppelt) and A.N. Pritzker. He has two brothers: Donald Pritzker and Jay Pritzker. Robert Pritzker received a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1946 and an honora... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1318658 | 644,124 |
1,364,366 | An early gravity light concept was developed concurrently by Clay Moulton and also by Ruphan as part of his Ph.D. in applied physics from the University of Alabama in 2017. While Moulton reportedly did not develop a prototype, Wofsey did develop a rudimentary prototype that used a custom-machined rare earth magnet moto... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38002632 | 1,363,610 |
491,906 | From September through May, extratropical cyclones from the Pacific Ocean move inland into the region due to a southward migration of the jet stream during the cold season. This shift in the jet stream brings much of the annual precipitation to the region, and also brings the potential for heavy rain events. The West C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8720827 | 491,652 |
631,876 | Stanley Schmidt was an assistant professor of physics when he became editor of "Analog", and his scientific background was well-suited to the magazine's readership. He avoided making drastic changes, and continued the long-standing tradition of writing provocative editorials, though he rarely discussed science fiction.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18932608 | 631,538 |
1,287,781 | Much of past debate have focused on two particular types of mechanisms. One of these assumes energy or resource transport across the "external" surface area of three-dimensional organisms is the key factor driving the relationship between metabolic rate and body size. The surface area in question may be skin, lungs, in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=662349 | 1,287,080 |
860,760 | The delay of 46 seconds caused the spacecraft to land from the intended landing zone, in the inhospitable forests of Upper Kama Upland, somewhere west of Solikamsk. Although flight controllers had no idea where the spacecraft had landed or whether Leonov and Belyayev had survived, the cosmonauts' families were told tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=195223 | 860,301 |
9,216 | By the late 2000s, the 777 was facing increased potential competition from Airbus' planned A350 XWB and internally from proposed 787 variants, both airliners that offer fuel efficiency improvements. As a consequence, the 777-300ER received an engine and aerodynamics improvement package for reduced drag and weight. In 2... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=89260 | 9,212 |
1,474,822 | Perturbative predictions by quantum field theory about quantum scattering of elementary particles, implied by a corresponding Lagrangian density, are computed using the Feynman rules, a regularization method to circumvent ultraviolet divergences so as to obtain finite results for Feynman diagrams containing loops, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2009062 | 1,473,990 |
1,822,786 | The University of Pittsburgh acquired the former Masonic Temple on December 23, 1993, for $8.5 million ($ in dollars). A two-year, $16 million ($ in dollars) renovation of the structure and its adaptation for use by the University departments began in November 1998 and was completed in February 2000. During the initial... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11630838 | 1,821,748 |
361,343 | An October 2020 study coordinated by University of Colorado at Boulder found that distinct physical, chemical and biological changes to Earth's rock layers began around the year 1950. The research revealed that since about 1950, humans have doubled the amount of fixed nitrogen on the planet through industrial productio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=374390 | 361,153 |
1,534,969 | Interest in elastic properties made its entrance with 17th century philosophers, but the real theory of elasticity, indicating that the elastic constants of a material could be obtained by measuring sound velocities in that material, was summarized only two hundred of years later. In 1964, D. B. Frasier and R. C. LeCra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42510037 | 1,534,101 |
2,047,711 | The following year, the barber's office under the name "Societas chirurgica" received its first royal regulations with the obligation to train "feldshers" to the needs of the country. During Charles XII's wars, however, it proved impossible for the surgical society to provide the army with the required number of "felds... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68905089 | 2,046,530 |
385,930 | Conflict between Rhesus Macaques and humans is at all time high, with areas once forested habitat being converted to industrial agriculture. Specifically looking at Nepal, this process has increased urban infrastructure such as housing and roads that increasingly fragment forest ecosystems. The expansion of monoculture... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=423943 | 385,735 |
2,037,250 | "Unable to forget his dream" of a gigantic domed conservatory, Phillips revisited the idea in the 1830s. Launching his scheme under a slightly different name, the Anthaeum (meaning flower-house), he secured land and finance from Sir Isaac Goldsmid, 1st Baronet and engaged Amon Henry Wilds as architect. The site provide... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36818458 | 2,036,075 |
1,113,831 | There are records from the 18th century of local people along some coasts of England digging out and harvesting the emerging shoots as a vegetable from naturally occurring root crowns in the early springtime. This custom was first reported by Phillip Miller in his 1731 "Gardener's Dictionary" as practised among the ind... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=460137 | 1,113,265 |
807,979 | The Tornado Intercept Vehicle 1 (TIV 1) is a heavily modified 1997 Ford F-Super Duty cab & chassis truck used as a storm chasing platform and built by Sean Casey. This heavily armored vehicle can drive into a weak to relatively strong tornado (EF0 to EF3) to film it and take measurements. Work began on the TIV in 2002 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9566962 | 807,549 |
909,287 | Critics have disputed Ehrlich's main thesis about overpopulation and its effects on the environment and human society, and his solutions, as well as some of his specific predictions made since the late 1960s. One criticism concerns Ehrlich's allegedly alarmist and sensational statements and inaccurate "predictions". Ro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=359542 | 908,808 |
1,342,452 | UDP-glucose pyrophosphorylase ("UGP2") was recently found to be implicated in novel neurodevelopmental disorder in humans, known as also referred to as Barakat-Perenthaler syndrome. This disorder was first described in 22 individuals from 15 families, presenting with a severe epileptic encephalopathy, neurodevelopmenta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10527390 | 1,341,718 |
1,587,796 | By September 15, 2005, the inundation of the city had been reduced from 80% to 40%, although flooded areas were not expected to be habitable for a long while. In Orleans Parish, most of the Ninth Ward of New Orleans and the southern part of Orleans Parish were dry enough for normal recovery operations to begin. Water r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2670675 | 1,586,902 |
1,137,056 | The concept of nearly free valence electrons in metallic alloys explained the special stability of the Hume-Rothery phases if the Fermi sphere of the "sp" Valence electron, treated as free, would be scattered by the Brillouin zone boundaries of the atomic structure. The description of the impurities in metals by the Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=396697 | 1,136,463 |
2,162,080 | Like Binnion before him, Whitley subscribed to a conception of "normalism" that was similar to Mayo's, which helped ease the presidential transition. Under Whitley, the college's student population increased, eclipsing 1,000 in 1925 before reaching 1,953 during the 1932–33 school year. State funds failed to keep up wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49869717 | 2,160,845 |
467,451 | Many authors note the most obvious difference between the curricula of DO and MD schools is osteopathic manipulative medicine (OMM), a form of hands-on care used to diagnose, treat and prevent illness or injury and is taught only at DO schools. As of 2006, the average osteopathic medical student spent almost eight week... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12101775 | 467,216 |
599,952 | In the 1980s, studies by the Central Marine Research and Design Institute (CNIIMF) and the Central Design Bureau "Iceberg" resulted in "icebreaker type size series" ranging from 7-megawatt auxiliary icebreakers (LK-7) to a 110-megawatt nuclear-powered "icebreaker-leaders" (LK-110Ya). One of the proposed new icebreaker ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47268788 | 599,646 |
535,187 | Yet with the Phuoc Tuy province coming progressively under control throughout 1967, the Australians increasingly spent a significant period of time conducting operations further afield. 1 ATF was subsequently deployed astride infiltration routes leading to Saigon to interdict communist movement against the capital as p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1323516 | 534,908 |
57,672 | The first publications of Schrödinger about atomic theory and the theory of spectra began to emerge only from the beginning of the 1920s, after his personal acquaintance with Sommerfeld and Wolfgang Pauli and his move to Germany. In January 1921, Schrödinger finished his first article on this subject, about the framewo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9942 | 57,648 |
512,278 | Falloppio grew up in Modena. His father died early but thanks to the support of affluent relatives he enjoyed are thorough humanist education in Modena, learning Latin and Greek and moving in the local circle of humanist scholars. He was for some years in the service of the Church, among others as a kind of warden at M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=233592 | 512,012 |
51,638 | Both BAE Systems and its predecessor (BAe) have long been the subject of allegations of bribery in relation to its business in Saudi Arabia. The UK National Audit Office (NAO) investigated the Al Yamamah contracts and has so far not published its conclusions, the only NAO report ever to be withheld. The MoD has stated ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=200128 | 51,618 |
1,779,299 | Efforts countries in the region to import technology and strategy from the west have produced limited outcomes. The present understanding in many strategic discourses is that UDA is an extension of MDA, more focused on security requirements given the volatile regional dynamics. However, the sub-optimal performance of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60878831 | 1,778,297 |
199,092 | Parsons' situation at Harvard University changed significantly in early 1944, when he received a good offer from Northwestern University. Harvard reacted to the offer by appointing Parsons as the chairman of the department, promoting him to the rank of full professor and accepting the process of reorganization, which l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54041 | 198,989 |
1,803,209 | At the time of Bruce's service in Malta, British soldiers suffered an outbreak of what was called the Malta fever. The disease caused undulant fever in man and of abortion in goats. It is transmitted by goat milk. In 1886, Bruce led the Malta Fever Commission that investigated the epidemic. Between 1886 and 1887, he st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2257142 | 1,802,196 |
926,536 | In March 1961, President John F. Kennedy announced the cancellation of the aircraft nuclear propulsion project just as NASA's Plum Brook reactor was nearing completion, and for a time it seemed that NERVA would soon follow. NASA estimated that NERVA would ultimately cost $800 million (although AEC reckoned that it woul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=712716 | 926,050 |
1,033,159 | In 2016, it was proposed that vanishing stars are a plausible technosignature. A pilot project searching for vanishing stars was carried out, finding one candidate object. In 2019, the Vanishing & Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations (VASCO) project began more general searches for vanishing and appearing ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39919360 | 1,032,623 |
1,616,472 | Combining multi-dimensional algebraic notation with the relational data model was the obvious answer. Compiler writing techniques were by now widespread, and languages like GAMS could be implemented relatively quickly. However, translating this rigorous mathematical representation into the algorithm-specific format req... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1438314 | 1,615,561 |
645,692 | Woodturning has always had a strong hobbyist presence. In the 1970s, an explosion of interest in hobby woodturning in the English-speaking world sparked a revival in the craft. Dr. Dale Nish travelled to England to recruit teachers, tools, and techniques from the last of the apprentice-trained woodturners. A few years ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1076403 | 645,352 |
1,797,319 | It is impossible to keep track of all information generated by various processes occurring in reality. As organisms strive to fulfill two biological laws, proper selection of signals becomes a central problem. According to Kępiński, a hierarchy of value is necessary in order to integrate information. In humans, that hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=523325 | 1,796,310 |
1,226,984 | Robust, collaborating public health systems that have the capacity for active surveillance for early detection of cases and to mobilize their health care coordination capacity may be required to be able stop contagion promptly. After an outbreak there is a certain window of time during which a pandemic can still be sto... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63478457 | 1,226,323 |
722,196 | Darwin's theory of evolution and Ernst Haeckel's recapitulation theory were large influences on Hall's career. These ideas prompted Hall to examine aspects of childhood development in order to learn about the inheritance of behavior. The subjective character of these studies made their validation impossible. He believe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=912656 | 721,816 |
281,456 | With his medical education completed, Sharpey advised Lister to spend a month at the medical practice of his lifelong friend James Syme in Edinburgh and then visit medical schools in Europe for a longer period for training. Sharpey himself had been taught first in Edinburgh and later Paris. Sharpey had met Syme, a teac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16535 | 281,303 |
1,446,161 | In 2014, Martill suggested that the odontoid at the tip of the lower jaw of "Istiodactylus" served to fill the space where no tooth was present. This completed an arc-like bite that would have been necessary to sever morsels that would otherwise remain attached by a thread. Martill stated that few other animals are kno... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8560288 | 1,445,345 |
620,431 | Higher resolution surface textures are available for most solar system bodies, including Virtual Textures with coverage up to 32768 pixels wide (1.25 km/pixel at the Earth's equator), with selected coverage at higher resolutions. This allows closer views of well-mapped objects that have high-resolution VTs available fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=399773 | 620,116 |
1,542,034 | Molecular astrophysics, developed into a rigorous field of investigation by theoretical astrochemist Alexander Dalgarno beginning in 1967, concerns the study of emission from molecules in space. There are 110 currently known interstellar molecules. These molecules have large numbers of observable transitions. Lines may... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5926889 | 1,541,161 |
2,090,668 | To extend its goal of research and education to the geology of the Desert, CDRI installed a geological exhibit on the highest point of the Institute’s site, named Clayton's Overlook. The exhibit allows for the disassembly of the 360° panorama presented by its mountain top location into eight individual views and provid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19437782 | 2,089,465 |
1,821,133 | The silencing of genes created by abnormal DNA methylation is a major contributor to the formation of cancerous tumors. Variations in DNA methylation of normal cells compared to malignant cells shows a prominent mechanism in how cancerous cells proliferate. Those variations are particularly prevalent in cell cycle regu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16818152 | 1,820,095 |
1,044,366 | This exclusively myopathic form is the most prevalent and least severe phenotypic presentation of this disorder. Characteristic signs and symptoms include rhabdomyolysis (breakdown of muscle fibers and subsequent release of myoglobin), myoglobinuria, recurrent muscle pain, and weakness. The myoglobin release causes the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2525632 | 1,043,822 |
1,707,825 | During the late 1990s, Square launched an initiative to foster talent within the company; small teams of younger developers would work with a smaller budget to create experimental titles for the PlayStation; one of these titles was "Another Mind". Keizo Kokubo was the games director, having previously been the main pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6288128 | 1,706,867 |
1,875,982 | After completing tenth grade, Jackson joined Morehouse College as an early entrance student. He was awarded a full scholarship. At first Jackson considered majoring in mathematics, but decided to study chemistry after meeting Henry Cecil McBay. He graduated in 1956 and applied to several graduate schools, including Nor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61702490 | 1,874,905 |
799,700 | In the 1960s the work of the engineer Alexander Thom and that of the astronomer Gerald Hawkins, who proposed that Stonehenge was a Neolithic computer, inspired new interest in the astronomical features of ancient sites. The claims of Hawkins were largely dismissed, but this was not the case for Alexander Thom's work, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2864 | 799,274 |
1,396,188 | At the same time that Walter was developing submarine engines, he was also applying his ideas to rocketry. The high-pressure gas mixture created by the rapid decomposition of hydrogen peroxide could not only be used in a turbine, but if simply directed out of a nozzle, created considerable thrust. Wernher von Braun's r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=364438 | 1,395,417 |
1,101,381 | Lacking a technological base at first, the Germans imported their engineering and hardware from Britain, but quickly learned the skills needed to operate and expand the railways. For example, in 1837-39Thomas Clarke Worsdell (1788–1862), chief coachbuilder of the Liverpool and Manchester Company, came to help engineer ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1676365 | 1,100,820 |
754,577 | In echoes of Smith's "system of natural liberty", Hayek argued that the market is a "spontaneous order" and actively disparaged the concept of "social justice". Ludwig von Mises's outspoken criticisms of socialism had a large influence on the economic thinking of Austrian School economist Friedrich Hayek (1899–1992), w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7881361 | 754,174 |
1,178,154 | Franklin received numerous awards and honours during her long career. In 1984, she became the first woman at the University of Toronto to be named "University Professor", a special title which is the highest honour given by the university. She was named Officer of the Order of Canada in 1981 and a Companion of the Orde... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1094203 | 1,177,530 |
1,832,270 | Cardioprotection includes all mechanisms and means that contribute to the preservation of the heart by reducing or even preventing myocardial damage. Cardioprotection encompasses several regimens that have shown to preserve function and viability of cardiac muscle cell tissue subjected to ischemic insult or reoxygenati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48999900 | 1,831,223 |
567,782 | The Aviation Research Centre (ARC) is India's imagery intelligence organisation, a part of the Directorate General of Security, run by the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW). It started functioning in November 1962, in the wake of the Sino-Indian War, as an extension of the Intelligence Bureau, but placed under the Mini... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7105620 | 567,492 |
368,748 | Pen computing was highly hyped by the media during the early 1990s. Microsoft, the dominant PC software vendor, released Windows for Pen Computing in 1992 to compete against PenPoint OS. The company launched the WinPad project, working together with OEMs such as Compaq, to create a small device with a Windows-like oper... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4182449 | 368,555 |
1,994,146 | Midline diastema (spacing in upper teeth) is a common occurrence in the population. An arbitrary number for the spacing between the teeth to consider as midline diastema is a width of 0.5 from a proximal surface of a teeth to the proximal surface of adjacent teeth. Midline diastema usually occur in the upper teeth comp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62923253 | 1,993,003 |
347,667 | Some University of Georgia alumni that have served in the scientific and medical fields include Alfred Blalock, an award-winning chief of surgery, professor, and director of the department of surgery of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, who ushered in the modern era of cardiac surgery, Cornelia Bargmann, an award-winni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=378232 | 347,486 |
2,059,029 | Huang grew up in Arlington, Texas. She was interested in science as a child, and eventually studied physics at Carleton College. She was not sure whether she would major in anthropology or physics. She spent a summer teaching science in a summer camp at Johns Hopkins University, and decided that she wanted to be involv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61591952 | 2,057,844 |
1,871,321 | A 2010 study demonstrated a moderate amount of protein misfolding cyclic amplification (PMCA) coupled to a novel SOFIA detection scheme, can be used to detect PrP in protease-untreated plasma from preclinical and clinical scrapie sheep, and white-tailed deer with chronic wasting disease, following natural and experimen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32823089 | 1,870,244 |
178,083 | Significant periods of expansion of the university, since the 1972 merger, occurred in the mid-1980s, as well as in 1998, when Joan B. Kroc, philanthropist and wife of McDonald's financier Ray Kroc, endowed USD with a gift of $25 million for the construction of the Institute for Peace & Justice. Other significant donat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=574666 | 177,990 |
750,701 | In 1924, Australian anatomist Professor Raymond Dart, since 1923 working in South-Africa, was informed by one of his students, Josephine Salmons, that monkey fossils (of "Papio izodi") had been discovered by shotfirer M.G. de Bruyn in a limestone quarry in Taung, South Africa, operated by the Northern Lime Company. Kno... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1627000 | 750,303 |
1,020,926 | Several novel therapy regimens for DDL and the more aggressive or otherwise problematic cases of ALT/WDL are currently undergoing clinical trials. A phase II clinical study investigating abemaciclib is underway in patients with pretreated or untreated DDL. Preliminary analysis showed that this inhibitor of the "CDK4" a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1386912 | 1,020,397 |
1,093,161 | Fusion One Corporation was a US organization founded by Dr. Paul Sieck (former Lead Physicist of EMC2), Dr. Scott Cornish of the University of Sydney, and Randall Volberg. It ran from 2015 to 2017. They developed a magneto-electrostatic reactor named "F1" that was based in-part on the polywell. It introduced a system o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8151109 | 1,092,601 |
1,020,956 | Initially, this large distribution was thought to be due to vicariance, or the result of the breakup of Pangaea. This hypothesis was supported by morphological data that dated amphisbaenian diversification to over 200 million years ago (Mya), while Pangaea was still intact. However, a recent study using a combination o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=308680 | 1,020,427 |
347,668 | UGA alumni have made significant contributions to the field of journalism and media. They include Henry W. Grady, a journalist and orator from the late 19th-century after whom the College of Journalism was named, and Clark Howell, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who became the namesake of one of the buildings at his ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=378232 | 347,487 |
1,366,780 | In 2016, John Zhang and a mixed team of scientists from Mexico and New York used the spindle transfer technique to help a Jordanian woman to give birth to a baby boy. The mother had Leigh disease and already had four miscarriages and two children who had died of the disease. Valery Zukin, director of the Nadiya clinic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25416659 | 1,366,024 |
905,855 | The inspiration for the burgeoning business process now known as PLM came from American Motors Corporation (AMC). The automaker was looking for a way to speed up its product development process to compete better against its larger competitors in 1985, according to François Castaing, Vice President for Product Engineeri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=597229 | 905,379 |
354,147 | The third battle began 15 March. After a bombardment of 750 tons of 1,000-pound bombs with delayed action fuses, starting at 08:30 and lasting three and a half hours, the New Zealanders advanced behind a creeping artillery barrage from 746 artillery pieces. Success depended on taking advantage of the paralysing effect ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33088 | 353,964 |
1,749,208 | Before the discovery of an infectious cause, the symptoms of cholera were thought to be caused by an excess of bile in the patient; the disease cholera gets its name from the Greek word "choler" meaning bile. This theory was consistent with humorism, and led to such medical practices as bloodletting. The bacterium was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12999450 | 1,748,222 |
209,648 | Because human remains (encompassing males, females, and children), tools, and evidence of fire were found in so many layers, it has often been assumed Peking Man lived in the cave for hundreds of thousands of years. In 1929, French archaeologist Henri Breuil suggested the overabundance of skulls compared to body remain... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=253340 | 209,541 |
139,801 | Prior to Project Mercury, there was no protocol for selecting astronauts, so NASA would set a far-reaching precedent with both their selection process and initial choices for astronauts. At the end of 1958, various ideas for the selection pool were discussed privately within the national government and the civilian spa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19812 | 139,744 |
1,708,185 | Hyperbilirubinemia is a clinical condition describing an elevation of blood bilirubin level due to the inability to properly metabolise or excrete bilirubin, a product of erythrocytes breakdown. In severe cases, it is manifested as jaundice, the yellowing of tissues like skin and the sclera when excess bilirubin deposi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70420570 | 1,707,227 |
1,982,412 | The first contracts undertaken by CHAM were conducted by members of the academic staff of the Heat Transfer Section of the Mechanical Engineering Department of Imperial College, London. The contracts resulted in the development for industrial organisations of particular versions of certain computer programs, general ve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20165219 | 1,981,273 |
1,741,571 | As f decreases progressively during condensation, the remaining vapor becomes more and more depleted of the heavy isotopes, and the magnitude of depletion becomes larger as f approaches zero. The Rayleigh distillation process can explain some first-order spatial patterns observed in the isotopic composition of precipit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50525886 | 1,740,589 |
566,933 | Mac Quayle contributed to the game's combat music. He was hired on the project in early 2018; the developers were familiar with his previous work on the television series "Mr. Robot". Largely unfamiliar with gaming, Quayle immediately bought a PlayStation 4 and a copy of "The Last of Us" to familiarise himself with the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64504979 | 566,643 |
941,734 | Phase-change cooling is an extremely effective way to cool the processor. A vapor compression phase-change cooler is a unit that usually sits underneath the PC, with a tube leading to the processor. Inside the unit is a compressor of the same type as in an air conditioner. The compressor compresses a gas (or mixture of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=798370 | 941,232 |
702,171 | In 1987, "" by Atlus for the Nintendo Famicom abandoned the common medieval fantasy setting and sword and sorcery theme in favour of a modern science-fiction setting and horror theme. It also introduced the monster-catching mechanic with its demon-summoning system, which allowed the player to recruit enemies into their... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32408675 | 701,806 |
505,849 | There are two major trends in the theoretical and methodological study of attitudes in the social sciences - mentalist and behaviorist. The mentalist trend treats attitude as a mediating concept while the behaviorist trend operationally defines it as a probability concept, though in research practice both derive their ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=320063 | 505,586 |
1,554,213 | In a 1934 experiment, Strumia gave neutropenic patients intramuscular injections of neutrophils, but this proved ineffective in improving their neutrophil function. In 1953, Brecher et al. demonstrated the principle behind granulocyte transfusion by infusing neutrophils into dogs and showing that they travelled to site... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64093350 | 1,553,332 |
1,072,989 | While he was waiting for his paper to be published, O'Neill organized a small two-day conference in May 1974 at Princeton to discuss the possibility of colonizing outer space. The conference, titled "First Conference on Space Colonization", was funded by Stewart Brand's Point Foundation and Princeton University. Among ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=758947 | 1,072,435 |
559,725 | However, science took an ever greater step towards popular culture before Voltaire’s introduction and Châtelet’s translation. The publication of Bernard de Fontenelle's "Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds" (1686) marked the first significant work that expressed scientific theory and knowledge expressly for the la... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17912788 | 559,436 |
1,464,663 | Blood-based biomarkers those are obtained from plasma or serum samples. Since the prevalence of metabolic syndromes is increased in schizophrenia patients, makers of those syndromes have been common targets of research. Differences between patients and controls have been found in insulin levels, insulin resistance, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30487688 | 1,463,840 |
1,311,161 | The idea of using tears in the fabric of space-time was influenced by a similar story decision in "BioShock". With Rapture set in the 1960, the Irrational team had looked to the scientific progress of James D. Watson and Francis Crick towards understanding DNA in 1953, and built the idea of ADAM and gene modification. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38977195 | 1,310,443 |
1,377,907 | McMullen started the process of wanting to sell the team in 1990, expressing a desire to do in part due to age and the rising value of the team. On July 24, 1992, it was announced that McMullen had come to an agreement with Drayton McLane to sell the team, which also included the lease on the Astrodome for a total of $... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6891489 | 1,377,145 |
1,481,565 | There have been few cases of this disease documented in detail and actually diagnosed with Babinski–Nageotte syndrome since its discovery in 1902. In one case this syndrome occurred in a woman that was 10 days into her postpartum period and had delivered her baby via Cesarean section. She had complaints of dysarthria, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29836700 | 1,480,731 |
833,131 | In 1872, the U.S Ambassador to China Frederick Low said: "That you may the better understand my reasons for this opinion, some facts in regard to the present organization of Chinese military forces may be useful. With the exception of troops immediately in and about Peking (Beijing), the military forces of the empire a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=407942 | 832,682 |
56,864 | Kurtzman revealed in October 2020 that Paramount+ was constructing a video wall to allow for virtual production on the season as well as the series "", utilizing technology similar to the StageCraft system that was developed for the Disney+ series "The Mandalorian". The new virtual set was built in Toronto by visual ef... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63388083 | 56,840 |
1,565,824 | Determination then requires comparisons of certain characteristics and then assigning a particular specimen to a known taxonomic group, hopefully ultimately arriving at a species or infraspecific name. The characteristics used are usually morphological, such as colours, numbers, shapes and sizes of particular organs. W... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28340094 | 1,564,937 |
1,146,655 | The Sol Plaatje University, which had provisionally been referred to as the University of the Northern Cape, opened in Kimberley, South Africa, in 2014, accommodating a modest initial intake of 135 students. The student complement is expected to increase gradually towards a target of 7 500 students by 2024. Launched in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39485998 | 1,146,051 |
1,506,485 | A new chapter was opened when Max Lewandowsky in 1899 in Berlin observed that adrenal extracts acted on the smooth muscle of the eye and orbit of cats – such as the iris dilator muscle and nictitating membrane – in the same way as sympathetic nerve stimulation. The correspondence was extended by John Newport Langley an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38791208 | 1,505,639 |
980,777 | When France had just fallen to the Nazis and Britain had no money to develop the magnetron on a massive scale, Churchill agreed that Sir Henry Tizard should offer the magnetron to the Americans in exchange for their financial and industrial help (the Tizard Mission). An early 6 kW version, built in England by the Gener... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1280053 | 980,265 |
1,194,788 | out a basic understanding of the nervous system and how nerves communicate between one another. Before this discovery, there were drugs that had been found that demonstrated some type of influence on the nervous system. In the 1930s, French scientists began working with a compound called phenothiazine in the hope of sy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1685778 | 1,194,148 |
31,806 | Electrolytic capacitors use an aluminum or tantalum plate with an oxide dielectric layer. The second electrode is a liquid electrolyte, connected to the circuit by another foil plate. Electrolytic capacitors offer very high capacitance but suffer from poor tolerances, high instability, gradual loss of capacitance espec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4932111 | 31,795 |
450,976 | Having entered Cambridge in 1935, Huxley graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1938. In 1939, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin returned from the US to take up a fellowship at Trinity College, and Huxley became one of his postgraduate students. Hodgkin was interested in the transmission of electrical signals along nerve fibres. Begin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=145842 | 450,757 |
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