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1,798,372 | The Rhamphorhynchoidea forms one of the two suborders of pterosaurs and represents an evolutionary grade of primitive members of flying reptiles. This suborder is paraphyletic unlike the Pterodactyloidea, which arose from within the Rhamphorhynchoidea as opposed to a more distant common ancestor. Because it is not a co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7736889 | 1,797,363 |
135,873 | Introduced in 2010, widely available only since April 2013. Fully financed by national health authorities to females aged 11 to 16 years. In June 2013, however, Japan's Vaccine Adverse Reactions Review Committee (VARRC) suspended recommendation of the vaccine due to fears of adverse events. This directive has been crit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3304705 | 135,818 |
874,983 | The controversy over who was primarily responsible for aspirin's development spread through much of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. As of 2016 Bayer still described Hoffman as having "discovered a pain-relieving, fever-lowering and anti-inflammatory substance." Historians and others have also challenge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16283254 | 874,521 |
199,640 | Some view the birth of quantum chemistry as starting with the discovery of the Schrödinger equation and its application to the hydrogen atom in 1926. However, the 1927 article of Walter Heitler (1904–1981) and Fritz London, is often recognized as the first milestone in the history of quantum chemistry. This is the firs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25211 | 199,537 |
1,470,756 | The idea of spreading a gene into a population as a means of population control is actually quite old, and models for the dynamics of introduced compound chromosomes date back to the 1970s. Subsequently, the population genetics theory for homing endonucleases and CRISPR-based gene drives has become much more advanced. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44353 | 1,469,930 |
1,635,845 | For months before it must be said Favre had been growing old. The man of broad shoulders and with head covered with thick hair in which here and there a few silver threads showed themselves, and who was as straight as at the age of twenty years, had begun to stoop, his hair had whitened and his face had assumed an expr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6113724 | 1,634,920 |
1,321,965 | The dispute of the findings, and subsequently the naming of the discovery, started with the publication of Magendie's paper in the "Journal de physiologie expérimentale et de pathologie." The conflict lasted until Bell's death in 1842. Some science historians have better resolved to name it after both physicians, givin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29559877 | 1,321,239 |
804,488 | More recently, an increased focus on the hormonal control of insect metamorphosis has helped resolve some of the evolutionary links between hemi- and holometabolan groups. In particular, the orchestration of the juvenile hormone (JH) and ecdysteroids in molting and metamorphosis processes has received much attention. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1638622 | 804,059 |
1,199,752 | A diagnosis is a statement of the anatomical features of an organism (or group) that collectively distinguish it from all other organisms. Some, but not all, of the features in a diagnosis are also autapomorphies. An autapomorphy is a distinctive anatomical feature that is unique to a given organism or group. According... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1091923 | 1,199,111 |
196,214 | Later, during the events of "Zero Hour", Palmer is rejuvenated to a teenage state and develops the ability to grow in height in addition to his previous abilities, all of which he was capable of controlling innately without using his white dwarf star-based equipment. He becomes field leader of a new group of Teen Titan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4971776 | 196,114 |
841,525 | On analysis, problems of biological life are not at all unlike the problems that define economics – eating (akin to resource acquisition and management), survival (competitive strategy) and reproduction (investment, risk and return). Game theory was originally conceived as a mathematical analysis of economic processes ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=774572 | 841,075 |
1,116,191 | Primary EMZL of the esophagus, also termed MALT lymphoma of the esophagus, is extremely rare with most cases of it being reported from Japan. It presents with symptoms of difficult swallowing and/or sensations of a foreign body in the esophageal area. Endoscopy, endosonography and chest CT scans reveal a solitary esoph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21339698 | 1,115,621 |
596,240 | Matt Horner is the captain of the Raiders' flagship "Hyperion" and Raynor's second-in-command. Described as "young and idealistic" and guided by strong moral principles, Horner is originally a supporter of Mengsk, but becomes disgusted by Mengsk's deliberate attacks on civilian Confederate targets. Having come to admir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12123161 | 595,935 |
258,468 | An increased production is a goal of intensification. Sustainable intensification encompasses specific agriculture methods that increase production and at the same time help improve environmental outcomes. The desired outcomes of the farm are achieved without the need for more land cultivation or destruction of natural... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=216143 | 258,334 |
1,801,094 | The RoboMaster matches focus on the ability to apply and practise comprehensive knowledges in science and engineering disciplines, and require the participating members to fully integrate robotics disciplines such as machine vision, embedded system, mechanical engineering, inertial navigation and human–computer interac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62042120 | 1,800,085 |
162,194 | Economic growth in Britain, though steady through the 1950s, was not nearly as fast as on the continent. The statistics should be interpreted with care: Britain was far ahead of some other European nations in terms of economic development and urbanisation. Countries like Italy, France and Spain, overwhelmingly agrarian... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33643110 | 162,109 |
339,945 | The first recorded use of traction trebuchets was in ancient China. They were probably used by the Mohists as early as 4th century BC; descriptions can be found in the "Mojing" (compiled in the 4th century BC). According to the "Mojing", the traction trebuchet was 17 feet high with four feet buried below ground, the fu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43380 | 339,764 |
2,099,946 | Rees was born in Coventry, UK to an academic family and studied for a degree in Plant Sciences at the University of Leeds from 1971-1974, publishing one paper on the description of a new chrysophyte alga from his undergraduate work. Subsequently he obtained a Ph.D. from the same University, with a thesis entitled "The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65680891 | 2,098,738 |
790,882 | When Margaret Thatcher's government sought to remove many of the statutory protections of academic freedom which Robbins had regarded as so important, she was partly frustrated by a hostile amendment to her bill in the House of Lords. This incorporated into what became the 1988 Education Reform Act, the legal right of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=614484 | 790,457 |
8,542 | The Typhoon Direct Voice Input (DVI) system uses a speech recognition module (SRM), developed by Smiths Aerospace and Computing Devices. It was the first production DVI system used in a military cockpit. DVI provides the pilot with an additional natural mode of command and control over approximately 26 non-critical coc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=167667 | 8,539 |
1,193,268 | An implicit premise in neuropsychopharmacology with regard to the psychological aspects is that all states of mind, including both normal and drug-induced altered states, and diseases involving mental or cognitive dysfunction, have a neurochemical basis at the fundamental level, and certain circuit pathways in the cent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2917198 | 1,192,632 |
1,646,092 | Although there is no evidence of industrial unrest targeted at Churchill's activities until the 1970s, there was concern about the possibility during the inter-war years, and the probability of none occurring at all is unlikely. The Economic League was established as a right-wing organisation, consisting mainly of empl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30046818 | 1,645,163 |
214,999 | Although Katherine Luther from About.com noted Piccolo to be one of the strongest warriors from his planet, she mentioned he has several weaknesses that make him weaker than other characters from the series, with his most notable one being his affection for Gohan. Sam Leach from Anime News Network noted that some fans ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=262049 | 214,891 |
411,657 | In North America, Vygotsky's work was known from the end of the 1920s through a series of publications in English, but it did not have a major effect on research in general; in fact many scholars have stressed the lack of application to contemporary psychological research. In 1962 a translation of his posthumous 1934 b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=95176 | 411,455 |
2,111,652 | ABR is an electrophysiologic measure of the function of cranial nerve eight and the auditory pathway in the brainstem. Three electrodes are placed on the scalp in order to record electrical responses from auditory stimuli. Recordings may be measured when the baby is sleeping, sedated, or in a quiet state. ABR recording... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49432879 | 2,110,437 |
1,060,048 | In December 1856, Snowden wrote to Missouri Representative John S. Phelps, hoping for progress with the legislation, and stating that he was already "pressed on all hands, and from every quarter, for the new cent—in fact, the public are very anxious for its issue". When the legislation, amended to include the weight an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3342184 | 1,059,497 |
231,130 | Blocking the Mongols' passage south of the Yangtze were the twin fortress cities of Xiangyang and Fancheng. What resulted was one of the longest sieges the world had ever known, lasting from 1268 to 1273. For the first three years the Song defenders had been able to receive supplies and reinforcements by water, but in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1909414 | 231,011 |
1,539,715 | While its toxicity is weaker than "P. terribilis", "P. bicolor" is still a highly toxic animal, one of the few frogs confirmed to have caused human fatalities. In their natural habitat, "P. bicolor" excretes toxins from pores in its skin. The frogs cannot naturally produce the toxin, so they derive the nutrients necess... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5495985 | 1,538,842 |
791,835 | Before 1987, one-dimensional photonic crystals in the form of periodic multi-layer dielectric stacks (such as the Bragg mirror) were studied extensively. Lord Rayleigh started their study in 1887, by showing that such systems have a one-dimensional photonic band-gap, a spectral range of large reflectivity, known as a "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=355377 | 791,410 |
963,885 | In a number of countries, although being today generally considered similar institutions of higher learning across many countries, polytechnics and institutes of technology used to have a quite different statute among each other, its teaching competences and organizational history. In many cases, "polytechnic" were eli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1121030 | 963,376 |
1,170,865 | In 2001 Canadian-based Ivanhoe Mines (now known as Turquoise Hill Resources) discovered the gold-copper ore deposit of what would be developed into the Oyu Tolgoi mine. The deposit is in the Gobi Desert in an area known as "Oyu Tolgoi" (Mongolian for "Turquoise Hill"), where in the time of Genghis Khan outcropping rock... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39369424 | 1,170,246 |
199,975 | A child prodigy, Huygens began his correspondence with Marin Mersenne when he was 17 years old. Huygens became interested in games of chance when he encountered the work of Fermat, Blaise Pascal and Girard Desargues. It was Blaise Pascal who encourages him to write "Van Rekeningh in Spelen van Gluck", which Frans van S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13758 | 199,872 |
1,269,033 | Protease activated receptors are integral membrane proteins that are coupled to G-proteins and are activated by specific cleavage of the amino terminal sequence that exposes a new N-terminal sequence functions as a tethered ligand, which bind a conserved region on extracellular loop 2 (ECL2). Such bound causes the spec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1966295 | 1,268,342 |
15,399 | Autistic people may also experience difficulties with verbal communication. Differences in communication may be present from the first year of life, and may include delayed onset of babbling, unusual gestures, diminished responsiveness, and vocal patterns that are not synchronized with the caregiver. In the second and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29113700 | 15,394 |
167,858 | Santos-Dumont decided not to compete for the prizes with the hybrid, but on 20 July signed up for the tests and over the next three days continued to test the plane tethered to the balloon, to practise steering. Throughout the tests he realised that, although the balloon helped take-off, it made flight difficult as the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=152687 | 167,768 |
697,651 | The Pedersen T1E3 rifle was made in two versions: an infantry rifle with a 24-inch barrel, full-length stock with an M1903-type front band, 44 inches long (twenty made); and a cavalry carbine with a 21-inch barrel and half-stocked like the Krag-Jørgensen cavalry carbine (five made). An unknown but larger number of infa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4845231 | 697,287 |
287,735 | Fischer–Tropsch iron catalysts need alkali promotion to attain high activity and stability (e.g. 0.5 wt% ). Addition of Cu for reduction promotion, addition of , for structural promotion and maybe some manganese can be applied for selectivity control (e.g. high olefinicity). The working catalyst is only obtained when—a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1284762 | 287,579 |
1,412,200 | The word “Vacuum” is originated from the Latin word “vacua”, which is translated to the word “empty”. Physicists use vacuum to describe a partially empty space, where air or some other gases are being removed from one container. The idea of vacuum relating to the empty space has been speculated as early as 5th century ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4205746 | 1,411,405 |
123,148 | The idea of hysteresis is used extensively in the area of labor economics, specifically with reference to the unemployment rate. According to theories based on hysteresis, severe economic downturns (recession) and/or persistent stagnation (slow demand growth, usually after a recession) cause unemployed individuals to l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=147003 | 123,099 |
23,282 | At the same time Rubin and Ford were exploring optical rotation curves, radio astronomers were making use of new radio telescopes to map the 21 cm line of atomic hydrogen in nearby galaxies. The radial distribution of interstellar atomic hydrogen (H-I) often extends to much larger galactic radii than those accessible b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8651 | 23,273 |
1,051,256 | Unlike the true teeth of Mesozoic birds like "Archaeopteryx" or "Aberratiodontus", the pseudoteeth of the Pelagornithidae do not seem to have had serrated or otherwise specialized cutting edges, and were useful to hold prey for swallowing whole rather than to tear bits off it. Since the teeth were hollow or at best ful... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9205088 | 1,050,710 |
1,700,339 | Other disruptive effects will come from the use of automated vehicles to carry goods. Self-driving vans have the potential to make home deliveries significantly cheaper, transforming retail commerce and possibly making hypermarkets and supermarkets redundant. the US Department of Transportation defines automation into ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69239975 | 1,699,385 |
321,105 | A further advancement which "overcomes the limitations of sensitivity and scenario analyses by examining the effects of all possible combinations of variables and their realizations" is to construct stochastic or probabilistic financial models – as opposed to the traditional static and deterministic models as above. Fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34742901 | 320,933 |
994,898 | Vector-based GIS is typically related to operations such as map overlay (combining two or more maps or map layers according to predefined rules), simple buffering (identifying regions of a map within a specified distance of one or more features, such as towns, roads or rivers) and similar basic operations. This reflect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3190431 | 994,381 |
2,013,896 | To begin a session on MetPA users must first have a list of significant compounds derived from a metabolomic tests or compounds and concentration data with information about the phenotype of the organisms under study. The list of compounds can include common names, HMDB IDs or KEGG IDs with one compound per row. Compou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42439027 | 2,012,737 |
90,514 | Three histories of Wesleyan have been published, "Wesleyan's First Century" (1932) by Carl F. Price; "Wesleyan University, 1831–1910: Collegiate Enterprise in New England" (1999); and "Wesleyan University, 1910-1970, Academic Ambition and Middle-Class America" (2015), both of the latter written by David B. Potts. Befor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=241865 | 90,474 |
1,559,781 | In 1966 the state designated Pitt as a state-related university, which allows it to receive public funds (currently more than $160 million per year). This allows the university to offer reduced tuition to Pennsylvania residents, but it remains under independent control. Pitt is typically listed as a public university. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13999007 | 1,558,895 |
1,363,322 | Specifically, what works in California's Central Valley, such as cool roofs, does not necessarily provide the same benefits to other regions of the country, like Florida. Assessing consequences that extend beyond near surface temperatures, such as rainfall and energy demand, reveals important trade-offs that are often ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3178571 | 1,362,569 |
982,927 | In 1968, Robert Wexler of Abbott Laboratories developed the Analgizer, a disposable inhaler that allowed the self-administration of methoxyflurane vapor in air for analgesia. The Analgizer consisted of a polyethylene cylinder 5 inches long and 1 inch in diameter with a 1 inch long mouthpiece. The device contained a rol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5365919 | 982,414 |
278,871 | In 1983, Young flew as the commander of STS-9 aboard . His pilot was Brewster H. Shaw, his two mission specialists were Owen K.Garriott and Robert A. Parker, and his two payload specialists were Byron K. Lichtenberg and West German astronaut Ulf Merbold. The mission was initially scheduled to launch on October 29, but ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=303563 | 278,721 |
452,008 | Given that museums are historically linked to colonialism, imperialism, and European missionary work, they have a morally and politically problematic past. While some of the objects museums hold were purchased – though not always fairly and often to the exclusive benefit of the collector – a large proportion of museum ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=844809 | 451,789 |
54,380 | Kelsey then proposed a speed dash to Wright Field on 11 February 1939 to relocate the aircraft for further testing. General Henry "Hap" Arnold, commander of the USAAC, approved of the record attempt and recommended a cross-country flight to New York. The flight set a speed record by flying from California to New York i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25041 | 54,360 |
147,099 | New microRNAs are created in multiple ways. Novel microRNAs can originate from the random formation of hairpins in "non-coding" sections of DNA (i.e. introns or intergene regions), but also by the duplication and modification of existing microRNAs. microRNAs can also form from inverted duplications of protein-coding se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=156964 | 147,041 |
2,133,075 | CIDRZ is an active partner of, and aims to be a permanent resource to, the Government of the Republic of Zambia and collaborates with the Ministry of Health and many other line ministries. The bulk of CIDRZ's work is funded by competitive grants awarded by the U.S. government through the U.S. President's Emergency Plan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13825310 | 2,131,850 |
1,144,064 | Theodore Taylor's career shifted again after project Orion. He developed an even greater fear of the potential ramifications of his entire life's work, and began taking precautionary measures to mitigate those concerns. In 1964 he served as the deputy director of the Defense Atomic Support Agency (a branch within the D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72573 | 1,143,464 |
1,463,468 | Both preadolescence and adolescence are developmental periods associated with increased vulnerability to nicotine addiction, and exposure to nicotine during these periods may lead to long-lasting changes in behavioral and neuronal plasticity. Nicotine has more significant and durable damaging effects on adolescent brai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61711836 | 1,462,645 |
1,328,877 | Designers already knew that as an aircraft approaches the speed of sound (Mach 1), in the transonic region, shock waves begin forming, causing a large increase in drag. Wings, already thin, had to become thinner and finer. Fineness is a measure of how thin the wing is compared to its front-to-back chord. A small, highl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42008609 | 1,328,149 |
1,065,956 | The choice of free energy function, formula_13, can have a significant effect on the physical behaviour of the interface, and should be selected with care. The double-well function represents an approximation of the Van der Waals equation of state near the critical point, and has historically been used for its simplici... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16706608 | 1,065,402 |
1,660,612 | The Early Anthropocene Hypothesis (sometimes referred to as 'Early Anthropogenic' or 'Ruddiman Hypothesis') is a stance concerning the beginning of the Anthropocene first proposed by William Ruddiman in 2003. It posits that the Anthropocene, a proposed geological epoch coinciding with the most recent period in Earth's ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9167123 | 1,659,678 |
1,939,441 | Wood was born in Orlando, Florida. She was inspired to work in the space sector by the shuttle launches that she watched as a child, including the launch of the first woman space commander Eileen Collins. She was a high school intern at the Kennedy Space Center, where she worked with the logistics branch of the Interna... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60572478 | 1,938,331 |
1,099,086 | In 1973, the government launched Project Tiger, a conservation program aimed at protecting the national animal, the tiger. Its population reached as low as 2000 in 1970. Human population growth, cultivation of forest land and mainly hunting were the key factors for this decline. Aided by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15988807 | 1,098,526 |
1,799,188 | The basic premise is that as individual organisms (especially bacteria and fungi) die, phospholipids are rapidly degraded and the remaining phospholipid content of the sample is assumed to be from living organisms. As the phospholipids of different groups of bacteria and fungi contain a variety of somewhat unusual fatt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19338927 | 1,798,179 |
1,822,948 | Bui has curated over 50 monographic and group shows since 2000, including the first anniversary commemoration in 2013 of Hurricane Sandy: "Come Together: Surviving Sandy, Year 1," "a sprawling, encompassing, inspiring exhibition of works by some 300 artists," according to Roberta Smith of the "New York Times." The show... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7873945 | 1,821,910 |
1,445,457 | Cryoconservation of livestock genetic resources is primarily done in order to preserve the genetics of populations of interest, such as indigenous breeds, also known as local or minor breeds. Material may be stored because individuals shared specific genes and phenotypes that may be of value or have potential value for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50642488 | 1,444,641 |
341,863 | Endosymbiosis with micro-organisms is common in insects, with more than 10% of insect species relying on intracellular bacteria for their development and survival. Aphids harbour a vertically transmitted (from parent to its offspring) obligate symbiosis with "Buchnera aphidicola", the primary symbiont, inside specializ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=162296 | 341,682 |
1,832,525 | Terahertz light can be used as non-contact technique for analysis in material integrity studies. It has proved to be effective in nondestructive inspection of layers in paints and coatings, detecting structural defects in ceramic and composite materials and imaging the physical structure of paintings and manuscripts. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38505581 | 1,831,477 |
1,431,907 | The measure of exposure is dependent on the question and study design. It can be objectively or subjectively measured on individuals or populations in the past or present. In nutritional epidemiological studies this refers to factors such as food including nutrients and non-nutrients and the social environment. The eff... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29718054 | 1,431,103 |
1,348,990 | Since no coprolites are known from "Paramylodon" in contrast to "Mylodon", the food remains cannot be determined directly. In addition, due to the lack of enamel, detailed isotopic examinations are rarely possible. Therefore, performing such methods requires excellent fossil preservation; in the case of "Paramylodon," ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16886646 | 1,348,244 |
534,310 | Chiropractic education consists of college- or university-based training and education in the field of chiropractic as well as various certificates, certifications, licenses and diplomas. Regardless of the model of education utilized, prospective chiropractors without prior health care education or experience must spen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7544201 | 534,031 |
715,571 | Bornite (CuFeS) is a sulfide mineral named after an Austrian mineralogist, though it is much more common than the aforementioned cuprokalininite. This metal ore was found to demonstrate an improved thermoelectric performance after undering cation exchange with iron. Cation exchange is the process of surrounding a paren... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=476993 | 715,197 |
2,195,553 | During the nine plague outbreaks in Kurdistan and Azerbaijan between 1946 and 1965, many infected people survived from the disease by the efforts of the dispatched teams of Pasteur Institute of Iran; however, 156 died. In 1952, the first plague laboratory was founded in Akanlu village, near the epicenter of plague in K... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49433785 | 2,194,303 |
2,122,411 | After attending secondary school in Cobourg, Ontario, Banning completed his BA at University of Toronto from 1974 to 1978, and obtained an MA and PhD in Near Eastern Studies at the same institution in 1979 and 1985. While a graduate student, he was magnetometrist and architect for the Wadi Tumilat Project excavations a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67767991 | 2,121,191 |
1,092,912 | There are actually several physical mechanisms that produce the elastic forces within the network chains as a rubber sample is stretched. Two of these arise from entropy changes and one is associated with the distortion of the molecular bond angles along the chain backbone. These three mechanisms are immediately appare... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7623862 | 1,092,352 |
92,276 | While the architecture and specifications of the MCS-4 came from the interaction of Hoff with Stanley Mazor, a software engineer reporting to him, and with Busicom engineer Masatoshi Shima, during 1969, Mazor and Hoff moved on to other projects. In April 1970, Intel hired Italian engineer Federico Faggin as project lea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19553 | 92,235 |
1,371,286 | Wing Commander Gordon Steege succeeded Cresswell on 16 August 1951, by which time No. 77 Squadron's Meteors had conducted offensive sweeps up the Yalu River with USAF Sabres, and escorted Boeing B-29 Superfortresses on bombing missions. MiG-15s had appeared on several occasions without engaging the Meteors; it was spec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3573298 | 1,370,529 |
349,375 | Many of the notable modern buildings in the postwar years were produced by two architectural mega-agencies, which brought together large teams of designers for very complex projects. The firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill was founded in Chicago in 1936 by Louis Skidmore and Nathaniel Owings, and joined in 1939 by engin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=315927 | 349,192 |
311,324 | A 2010 study published in "Geophysical Research Letters" raised concerns that the growing commercial spaceflight industry could accelerate global warming. The study, funded by NASA and The Aerospace Corporation, simulated the impact of 1,000 suborbital launches of hybrid rockets from a single location, calculating that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67896 | 311,156 |
1,292,491 | Spetzler played a dominant role in the use of the standstill operation in treating large or dangerous cerebral aneurysms. One notable application of this method occurred in 1991 when Spetzler successfully removed a large aneurysm in a 35-year-old American woman named Pam Reynolds. Prior to the operation proceeding, Rey... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26143120 | 1,291,780 |
1,013,858 | The I-200 prototypes were used to evaluate a number of proposals. For example, the second prototype was fitted with a prototype of the AM-37 engine and first flew with that engine on 6 January 1941. It experienced severe vibration problems and, despite efforts to cure the problems, failed during a flight on 7 May, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=534690 | 1,013,337 |
1,176,150 | In the context of existing approaches to gene transfer, PAMAM dendrimers hold a strong position relative to major classical technologies such as electroporation, microinjection, and viral methods. Electroporation, which involves pulsing electricity through cells to create holes in the membrane through which DNA can ent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41237117 | 1,175,528 |
2,065,540 | He worked with the World Health Organization in a number of countries. In the 1980s he was responsible for leading WHO's international collaborative study on breast feeding and the impact of breast-milk substitutes on infant and maternal health; he then organised the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Subst... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15841942 | 2,064,349 |
1,055,303 | Case 2. This case illustrates autonomic status epilepticus with behavioral disturbances that would be difficult to attribute to seizure activity before the motor focal ictal events. A 6-year-old typically-developing boy had a seizure at 4 years of age while traveling on a train with his parents who vividly described th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19032885 | 1,054,755 |
1,995,301 | Recently, by the virtue of the saturable absorption properties in single wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) in the near-infrared region with ultrafast saturation recovery times of ~1 picosecond, researchers have successfully produced a new type of effective saturable absorber quite different from SESAMs in structure and fa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21474889 | 1,994,158 |
1,146,009 | Midland-era standard designs were continued or lightly updated and constructed for use across the new LMS network. Many of these types proved ill-suited or inadequate for routes and operating practices away from ex-Midland territory - while ex-Midland locomotives were imposed on the new LMS, the operational practices t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=564296 | 1,145,407 |
1,279,309 | The atomic-scale complexity presents additional challenges to computational modelling of high-entropy alloys. Thermodynamic modeling using the CALPHAD method requires extrapolating from binary and ternary systems. Most commercial thermodynamic databases are designed for, and may only be valid for, alloys consisting pri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44979247 | 1,278,615 |
546,283 | Not until 17 January 1940 did Richard Casey obtain Cabinet's approval to spend £400,000 to construct a plant to manufacture 25 pounder field guns and 2 pounder anti-tank guns. Until the 25 pounder could become available in quantity, units in Australia and the Far East were equipped with the old 18 pounder. Some units i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22738876 | 545,997 |
64,762 | Biodiversity provides critical support for drug discovery and the availability of medicinal resources. A significant proportion of drugs are derived, directly or indirectly, from biological sources: at least 50% of the pharmaceutical compounds on the US market are derived from plants, animals and microorganisms, while ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45086 | 64,737 |
702,172 | "The Magic of Scheherazade", released in 1987, was notable for several innovations, including a unique setting based on the "Arabian Nights", time travel between five different time periods, a unique combat system featuring both real-time solo action and turn-based team battles, and the introduction of team attacks whe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32408675 | 701,807 |
282,697 | Ohio Bobcats football began in 1894 with an 8-0 loss to Marietta College. Since then, the Bobcats have posted a 584–580–65 (.502) record and a 252-248-12 record in the Mid-American Conference. The current coach is Tim Albin. Peden Stadium, built in 1929, is the oldest football venue in the MAC and among the oldest in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=483329 | 282,544 |
1,665,840 | The first deployment was in Eldoret, Kenya in February 2006 followed by the PIH-supported hospital in Rwinkwavu, Rwanda in August 2006 and Richmond Hospital in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa later that year. As of March 2010, OpenMRS is in use in at least 23 developing countries (mostly in Africa) and it ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10889095 | 1,664,903 |
1,531,455 | In December 1948 the updated plan for the G-1 rocket was reviewed, which the German team had improved the range and accuracy. However major work on the G-1 was terminated by senior Soviet management. A number of other studies were carried out by the German specialist between 1948 and 1950, including the G-1M, G-2, G-3,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71216091 | 1,530,589 |
1,370,634 | In December 1948 the updated plan for the G-1 rocket was reviewed, which the German team had improved by range and accuracy. However major work on the G-1 was terminated by senior Soviet management. A number of other studies were carried out by the German specialist between 1948 and 1950, including the G-1M, G-2, G-3, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49664317 | 1,369,878 |
2,025,734 | McLachlan is a world leader in the field of geometric integration, a technique for the reliable simulation of large-scale complex systems, and in particular the use of symplectic techniques in the numerical analysis of differential equations. This field, which McLachlan helped found in the 1990s, builds into its approa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63659166 | 2,024,568 |
1,598,897 | It is important, and challenging, to distinguish polaritonic lasing from conventional (photonic) lasing, owing to the similar emission characteristics. A crucial element of the success by both teams lies in the hybrid nature of polaritons whose matter component (excitons) exhibits a sensitive response to an external ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31986119 | 1,597,997 |
681,251 | With the successful completion of the proving test flights, the Argentine Air Force requested a pre-production order of 12 IAe 33 aircraft. In 1951, the air force established a team of service pilots to test fly the new aircraft in a series of acceptance flights. The first flight by Commander Soto on 31 May 1951 reveal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2616710 | 680,896 |
1,077,437 | First, they criticised Plantinga's use of a Bayesian framework in which he arbitrarily assigned initial probabilities without empirical evidence, predetermining the outcome in favor of traditional theism, and described this as a recipe for replacing any non-deterministic theory in the natural sciences, so that for exam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7322651 | 1,076,882 |
941,581 | Therefore, encircled Germany faced the possibility of war on both Eastern and Western fronts. To meet this threat, Chief of Staff Alfred von Schlieffen and his successor, Helmuth von Moltke the Younger, drew up and continually refined the Schlieffen Plan to meet this eventuality. The Plan committed Germany to an early ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=438600 | 941,079 |
343,318 | Niépce died suddenly in 1833, leaving his notes to Daguerre. More interested in silver-based processes than Niépce had been, Daguerre experimented with photographing camera images directly onto a mirror-like silver-surfaced plate that had been fumed with iodine vapor, which reacted with the silver to form a coating of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2435889 | 343,137 |
355,584 | Following the Second World War, there was again concern that Britain was falling behind in science – this time to the United States. The Percy Report of 1945 and Barlow Committee in 1946 called for a "British MIT"-equivalent, backed by influential scientists as politicians of the time, including Lord Cherwell, Sir Lawr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61116 | 355,401 |
1,127,739 | After Air Marshal Miller resigned, Hellyer appointed General Jean Victor Allard as Chief of the Defence Staff, who supported unification as a way of promoting the "French fact" in the military. General Allard, who had served with the Royal 22 Régiment in Italy in World War II and in Korea, had a distinguished combat re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3110164 | 1,127,161 |
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