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993,332 | Many structures have been replaced since 1974 as part of MIU's master plan for reconstruction and expansion which includes careful attention to environmental conservation, incorporating renewable energy, state-of-the-art building technologies, natural building materials and Maharishi Sthapatya Veda principles of archit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=271937 | 992,815 |
571,130 | In 1905, he proposed his "New Heat Theorem", later known as the Third law of thermodynamics. He showed that as the temperature approached absolute zero, the entropy approaches zero while the free energy remains above zero. This is the work for which he is best remembered, as it enabled chemists to determine free energi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=75876 | 570,839 |
276,512 | Meitner had a Wilson cloud chamber constructed at the KWI for Chemistry, the first one in Berlin, and with her student Kurt Freitag studied the tracks of alpha particles that did not collide with a nucleus. With her assistant Kurt Philipp she later used it to take the first images of positron traces from gamma radiatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18070 | 276,362 |
142,460 | Hisashi Ouchi, 35, was transported and treated at the University of Tokyo Hospital for 83 days. Ouchi suffered serious radiation burns to most of his body, experienced severe damage to his internal organs, and had a near-zero white blood cell count. Without a functioning immune system, Ouchi was vulnerable to hospital-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12034210 | 142,402 |
949,883 | In a 1947 article, Lewin coined the term "group dynamics". He described this notion as the way that groups and individuals act and react to changing circumstances. This field emerged as a concept dedicated to the advancement of knowledge regarding the nature of groups, their laws, establishment, development, and intera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1976138 | 949,379 |
1,178,925 | The need for instrumentation grew with the rapidly growing central electric power stations after the First World War. Instrumentation was also important for heat treating ovens, chemical plants and refineries. Common instrumentation was for measuring temperature, pressure or flow. Readings were typically recorded on ci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29432015 | 1,178,301 |
1,859,097 | Volcanoes do not only affect the climate, they are affected by the climate. During times of glaciation, volcanic processes slow down. Glacial growth is promoted when summer heat is weak and winter cold is enhanced and when glaciers grow larger, they get heavier. This excess weight causes a reverse effect on the magma c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31670958 | 1,858,029 |
1,220,100 | In the post-war era, Vannevar Bush's differential analyser, John von Neumann's cellular automata, Norbert Wiener's cybernetics, and Claude Shannon's information theory became influential paradigms for modeling and understanding complexity in technical systems. In response, scientists in disciplines such as physics, bio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=984692 | 1,219,446 |
827,541 | Most krill, small shrimp-like crustaceans, form large swarms, sometimes reaching densities of 10,000–60,000 individual animals per cubic metre. Swarming is a defensive mechanism, confusing smaller predators that would like to pick out single individuals. The largest swarms are visible from space and can be tracked by s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=207874 | 827,097 |
1,838,972 | Haplochromines are one of two main groups of cichlid fishes in East Africa; the other group being the tilapiine fishes. Klein and his associates studied both groups and using a variety of molecular markers contributed to the resolution of their phylogenetic relationships. They then focused on the haplochromines of both... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5231068 | 1,837,921 |
117,276 | In 1997, Tyler Volk argued that a Gaian system is almost inevitably produced as a result of an evolution towards far-from-equilibrium homeostatic states that maximise entropy production, and Kleidon (2004) agreed stating: "...homeostatic behavior can emerge from a state of MEP associated with the planetary albedo"; "..... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=248189 | 117,231 |
2,109,824 | In general, the lack of low cost diagnostics for malaria results in late diagnosis of the disease in many low income communities (contributing to high morbidity and mortality from severe forms of malaria), and over-treatment of malaria where syndromic management is used due to lack of point-of-care diagnostics (contrib... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64748079 | 2,108,610 |
130,860 | Charged particles such as protons and boron, carbon, and neon ions can cause direct damage to cancer cell DNA through high-LET (linear energy transfer) and have an antitumor effect independent of tumor oxygen supply because these particles act mostly via direct energy transfer usually causing double-stranded DNA breaks... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26350 | 130,808 |
850,254 | Before the volva opens, the fruiting body is egg-shaped to roughly spherical, up to in diameter, with a gelatinous interior up to thick. White to grayish in color, it is initially smooth, but develops a network of polygonal marks on the surface prior to opening as the internal structures expand and stretch the peridium... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20995033 | 849,802 |
1,089,000 | Atmospheric N deposition in terrestrial landscapes can be transformed through soil microbial processes to biologically available nitrogen, which can result in surface-water acidification, and loss of biodiversity. NO and NH inputs from terrestrial systems and the atmosphere can acidify freshwater systems when there is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11632817 | 1,088,441 |
474,313 | The applications of media synchronicity theory include negotiations, virtual team collaborations, and communication during disasters. During negotiations, if both communicators are familiar with each other and know about the subprocesses to complete tasks, then the need for synchronicity will be lower. Negotiations can... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2185671 | 474,077 |
1,233,916 | Kanvinde played with space and forms. A famous example is the ISKCON Temple at New Delhi. He gave great importance to natural light. The form of the building is such that the problem of ventilation as well as excessive heat is beautifully solved. He championed the cause of vernacular architecture. He believed that valu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11465619 | 1,233,253 |
2,064,070 | (Michael) Peter Briggs OBE (born 3 December 1944) was Master of the Company of Educators in the City of London in 2011/2012. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2010 New Year Honours, shortly after his retirement from Roehampton University. At Roehampton, he was both Principal of So... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9776778 | 2,062,879 |
1,467,034 | A report commissioned by the Swiss canton of Basel-Stadt, published in 2007, concluded that the previous seismic evaluations undertaken by both EDF and, to a lesser extent, by the "Institut de radioprotection et de sûreté nucléaire" (Radioprotection and Nuclear Safety Institute, IRSN) had underestimated the risks invol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31341190 | 1,466,211 |
2,198,015 | Taylor served in the Army in the Philippines during World War II. While pursuing his doctoral studies in the Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (TAM) Department at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign he was an instructor (1948 to 1951) and assistant professor (1951 to 1952). During this time, he worked on three-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69619552 | 2,196,764 |
1,625,753 | Throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s there were numerous protests, sit-ins, and radical changes in traditions among the students. Author Raymond Starr called this period "...the liveliest, most colorful, and most challenging in State’s history." Students mainly protested racism and the war in Vietnam. In March 197... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20079555 | 1,624,835 |
2,009,908 | "The Wealth of Refugees: How Displaced People Can Build Economies" (Oxford University Press, 2021) explores what sustainable refugee policies look like in an age of displacement characterized by rising numbers and declining political will. It divides into four main sections. 1) Ethics -- what is right? 2) Economics -- ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52790750 | 2,008,756 |
838,211 | In general, behaviour therapy is seen as having three distinct points of origin: South Africa (Wolpe's group), The United States (Skinner), and the United Kingdom (Rachman and Eysenck). Each had its own distinct approach to viewing behaviour problems. Eysenck in particular viewed behaviour problems as an interplay betw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1892408 | 837,762 |
1,289,806 | The original procedure was named for Alfred Blalock, surgeon, Culloden, GA (1899–1964), Helen B. Taussig, cardiologist, Baltimore/Boston (1898–1986) and Vivien Thomas (1910–1985) who was at that time Blalock's laboratory assistant. They all helped to develop the procedure. Taussig, who treated hundreds of infants and c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=981614 | 1,289,097 |
295,160 | Plant viruses can be used to engineer viral vectors, tools commonly used by molecular biologists to deliver genetic material into plant cells; they are also sources of biomaterials and nanotechnology devices. Viral vectors based on TMV include those of the magnICON and TRBO plant expression technologies. Due to its cyl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=164217 | 295,000 |
607,010 | Herman also studied the crossmodal perceptual ability of dolphins. Dolphins typically perceive their environment through sound waves generated in the melon of their skulls, through a process known as echolocation (similar to that seen in bats, though the mechanism of production is different). The dolphin's eyesight how... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2407884 | 606,700 |
1,555,762 | Aquatic therapy has been shown to improve muscle strength, especially in the core, back, and stifles, and to increase both cardiovascular condition and proprioception in horses. The underwater treadmill is a popular tool for equine rehabilitation, and can offer targeted therapy based on water depth. At lower depths, ho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45517504 | 1,554,879 |
1,131,351 | In a 2018 retrospective of "Ideological Origins", historian Gordon S. Wood argued that the reception of the book should be considered its own historiographical subfield. Wood cited reviews and comments by Robert Parkinson, T. H. Breen, David Waldstreicher, Michael Zuckerman, Daniel K. Richter, and Patrick Griffin that,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19064726 | 1,130,761 |
2,055,601 | Of particular interest is the Gulf Spill Bird Tracker; an interactive sightings map for ten species deemed at risk from the "Deepwater Horizon" oil spill in 2010. Gulf Coast bird watchers were encouraged (at the time when it was live) to submit their sightings of a range of at-danger birds (such as the brown pelican, r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31783151 | 2,054,418 |
89,282 | In popular (non-technical) usage of the term "Coriolis effect", the rotating reference frame implied is almost always the Earth. Because the Earth spins, Earth-bound observers need to account for the Coriolis force to correctly analyze the motion of objects. The Earth completes one rotation for each day/night cycle, so... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7783 | 89,245 |
1,182,396 | In 1996, Icelandic neurologist Kári Stefánsson founded a private company deCODE genetics, to assemble genealogical, genomic and health data from across the population of Iceland – then about 270,000 people. The purpose was to mine this data, under encrypted identifiers generated by the country's Data Protection Authori... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1411876 | 1,181,771 |
1,365,763 | 3-dimensional geomorphological features arising from regional tectonics and formation mechanisms could also be understood from a perspective of small scale images showing a large area acquired in elevation. The topography of an area is often characterized by volcanic activity or orogenesis. These mountain building proc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55514078 | 1,365,007 |
30,881 | The early bipeds eventually evolved into the australopithecines and still later into the genus "Homo". There are several theories of the adaptation value of bipedalism. It is possible that bipedalism was favored because it freed the hands for reaching and carrying food, saved energy during locomotion, enabled long-dist... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10326 | 30,871 |
1,327,796 | Piezoresponse force microscopy is a technique which since its inception and first implementation by Güthner and Dransfeld has steadily attracted more and more interest. This is due in large part to the many benefits and few drawbacks that PFM offers researchers in varying fields from ferroelectrics, semiconductors and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27177206 | 1,327,068 |
1,721,554 | The syndrome can cause infantile seizures refractory to anticonvulsive drugs, developmental delay, acquired microcephaly and neurologic manifestations including spasticity, hypotonia, and ataxia. The frequency, severity, and types of seizures may vary considerably among GLUT1 deficiency patients and do not necessarily ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11394622 | 1,720,584 |
82,062 | The eruption was preceded by a two-month series of earthquakes and steam-venting episodes caused by an injection of magma at shallow depth below the volcano that created a large bulge and a fracture system on the mountain's north slope. An earthquake at 8:32:11 am PDT (UTC−7) on Sunday, May 18, 1980, caused the entire ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=673671 | 82,028 |
27,824 | Two of Ingoli's theological issues with the Copernican theory were "common Catholic beliefs not directly traceable to Scripture: the doctrine that hell is located at the center of Earth and is most distant from heaven; and the explicit assertion that Earth is motionless in a hymn sung on Tuesdays as part of the Liturgy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=323592 | 27,814 |
53,696 | The 300 AAC Blackout was designed to achieve energies similar to the 7.62×39mm Soviet in an AR-15 while using standard AR magazines at their full capacity. The 7.62 Soviet's cartridge taper prevented reliable feeding in AR magazines and created wear on the bolt. From the barrel of the M4 carbine, the M855 5.56×45mm rou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28997320 | 53,676 |
1,748,629 | Biotechnology industry is yet to be a major contributor on the national economy, however, according to the experts, the results of some ongoing research shows enough potentials of this sector. BCSIR has undertaken the production of Spirulina and a certain quantity of it is being marketed as tablets by several private m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39882238 | 1,747,643 |
2,158,768 | During this time period, the student publications appeared, such as "The Cardinal" (later replaced by "The Razorback"), as well as the "Arkansas Traveler", the school's newspaper. Hill Hall, later demolished to make way for David W. Mullins Library, was constructed in 1901 as a boys' dormitory. Shortly thereafter, Buch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23302106 | 2,157,536 |
1,610,794 | In 1828 and 1829, Willis presented two papers on the production of vowel sounds to the Cambridge Philosophical Society, which were published in 1830 as "On vowel sounds, and on reed-organ pipes". In 1830 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society, partly on the basis of that work. In his work on vowel sounds, following ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11572848 | 1,609,889 |
305,195 | In the 1912 United States presidential election, Eugene V. Debs received 5.99% of the popular vote (a total of 901,551 votes), while his total of 913,693 votes in the 1920 campaign, although smaller percentage-wise, remains the all-time high for a Socialist Party candidate in the United States. In the United States, th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47246185 | 305,033 |
1,718,037 | In 1992, the 203rd deployed a TECHINT liaison team as part of Operation Restore Hope within United Nations Operation in Somalia II, embedded with US special operations units. On December 16, 1992, the 203rd deployed a detachment in support of II Marine Expeditionary Force, the core headquarters for Joint Task Force (JT... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67447284 | 1,717,067 |
1,717,977 | The UK have been working slowly over the last decade to transition to digital processes. In 2013, the government launched an online claims portal to help keep track of and manage claims efficiently and quickly. Created to deal with claims of up to £25,000, the portal applies to organisations on the receiving end of emp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3445672 | 1,717,007 |
1,653,996 | John Hutchinson was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1939, the eldest child of John W. Hutchinson and Evelyn Eastburn Hutchinson. A month or so after he was born, the family moved to Bridgeton, New Jersey where Hutchinson's father, a newly ordained Presbyterian minister, assumed the pastorship of the First Presbyterian... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4605312 | 1,653,064 |
174,195 | Propelled by press releases from CASP and DeepMind, AlphaFold 2's success received wide media attention. As well as news pieces in the specialist science press, such as "Nature", "Science", "MIT Technology Review", and "New Scientist", the story was widely covered by major national newspapers, as well as general news-s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59766171 | 174,104 |
250,721 | In 1930, RCA recruited Vladimir Zworykin—who had tried, unsuccessfully, to develop his own all-electronic television system at Westinghouse in Pittsburgh since 1923—to lead its television development department. Before leaving his old employer, Zworykin visited Farnsworth's laboratory, and was sufficiently impressed wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42890 | 250,588 |
1,659,076 | The need to power a stamp mill to process ore at the Gold King Mine up in the mountains near Ophir, Colorado drove major stock holder Lucien L. Nunn to seek a less expensive alternative to the wood powered steam mill at the site. Timber fuel was in scarce supply at the mines 12,000 foot height and coal could not be use... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9838639 | 1,658,143 |
1,473,324 | In the ground beneath the kurgan was buried one or (very often) more tombs. The corpse lay either in a wooden chamber or a stone cist. The grave goods found along with them indicate that wooden chambers were reserved for people of higher status. While in burials from the Bronze Age the corpses were usually in a crouchi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14836781 | 1,472,493 |
1,712,188 | More drastic actions aimed at containing the outbreak were taken in China once the severity of the outbreak became apparent, such as quarantining entire cities or imposing strict travel bans. Other countries also adopted a variety of measures aimed at limiting the spread of the virus, including resorting to states of e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65339945 | 1,711,223 |
1,207,856 | The building's renovation was completed Spring 2008 and dedicated under the new name of William E. Macaulay Honors College on April 17, 2008. Inside, the ground floor houses a commons area replete with a stage for student concerts, readings, guest lectures, and other events. The main floor consists of a reading room, t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19455484 | 1,207,210 |
241,132 | In 1991, Joe Mitola independently reinvented the term software radio for a plan to build a GSM base station that would combine Ferdensi's digital receiver with E-Systems Melpar's digitally controlled communications jammers for a true software-based transceiver. E-Systems Melpar sold the software radio idea to the US Ai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=83137 | 241,012 |
538,829 | As a biomedical research enterprise, Upstate focuses on the most prevalent human diseases, including cancer, diabetes, heart disease, nervous system disorders, vision, and infectious diseases. The quest for treatments and cures is built upon expertise in structural, molecular and systems biology. Grants are concentrate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9249400 | 538,550 |
640,202 | The American dog tick is commonly found in highly wooded, shrubby, and long-grass areas. Tick numbers can be reduced by cutting the grass, which creates a low-humidity environment, which is undesirable to ticks. Pesticides can also be used and are most effective when applied to vegetation that has been cut to a short l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4782903 | 639,863 |
1,148,458 | This analysis is controversial. Jacobson arrived at this conclusion of "25 times more carbon emissions than wind, per unit of energy generated" (68–180.1 g/kWh), by specifically expanding on some concepts that are highly contested. These include, though are not limited to, the suggestion that emissions associated with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21130805 | 1,147,851 |
1,956,866 | Scanning electron microscopy is a powerful technique to give full reliable mapping of sample surface topography and material content in very wide range metal, semiconductor even organic samples and always operates in vacuum environment. The main operation idea depends on the production of a primary beam by cathode whic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64346513 | 1,955,742 |
12,974 | During the night of October 8–9, an alarmed Dayan told Meir that "this is the end of the third temple." He was warning of Israel's impending total defeat, but "Temple" was also the code word for Israel's nuclear weapons. Dayan raised the nuclear topic in a cabinet meeting, warning that the country was approaching a poi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34276 | 12,969 |
428,012 | Regoliths vary from a few meters to over thick, depending on the age of the land surface, tectonic activity, climate, climate history and the composition of the bedrock. Although these deeply weathered terrains now occur in a wide variety of climates ranging from warm humid to arid, tropical to temperate, they were for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27057346 | 427,802 |
942,758 | MAV is a 3-meter long, two-stage, solid-fueled rocket that will deliver the collected samples from the surface of Mars to the Earth Return Orbiter. Early in 2022, Lockheed Martin was awarded a contract to partner with NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in developing the MAV. It is planned to be catapulted into the air... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4700242 | 942,256 |
1,016,578 | After receiving the camera, she cleared out a chicken coop and converted it into studio space. Later, in an unfinished autobiographical manuscript titled "Annals of my Glasshouse", Cameron wrote:I turned my coal-house into my dark room, and a glazed fowl house I had given my children became my glass house. The hens wer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=85737 | 1,016,055 |
94,170 | Precise measurements of the CMB are critical to cosmology, since any proposed model of the universe must explain this radiation. The CMB has a thermal black body spectrum at a temperature of . The spectral radiance "dE"/"dν" peaks at 160.23 GHz, in the microwave range of frequencies, corresponding to a photon energy of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7376 | 94,129 |
1,537,670 | A development of a consensus map (also called an essential map, core map, district map, or master map) takes places in Phase 3 of Heidi Hayes Jacobs's Four Phases of Curriculum Mapping. Hale (2008) distinguishes between consensus maps and essential maps, assigning the former to the building level, and the latter to the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5311894 | 1,536,798 |
771,148 | Robles hypothesized that the vector of the disease was the day-biting black fly, "Simulium". Scottish physician Donald Blacklock of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine confirmed this mode of transmission in studies in Sierra Leone. Blacklock's experiments included the re-infection of Simulium flies exposed to por... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276846 | 770,734 |
1,474,285 | The program's coaching extended beyond just within the program itself. Bowerman had his athletes mentor the community and continued to be active in the sport after his retirement. He was also a coach for the US Olympic team in 1972 and an assistant coach in 1968 US Olympic Team. Bill Dellinger coached the distance runn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30813159 | 1,473,454 |
460,303 | The USAAC notified Kartveli that the XP-47A and the XP-44 Rocket contracts were canceled, since the P-43/XP-44 airframe was too small to meet the new requirements. (The XP-44 Rocket was based on the P-43 Lancer airframe with an even more powerful radial engine and never made it past the mock-up stage.) Kartveli then to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=442516 | 460,077 |
956,664 | Atomristor is defined as the electrical devices showing memristive behavior in atomically thin nanomaterials or atomic sheets. In 2018, Ge and Wu et al. in the Akinwande group at the University of Texas, first reported a universal memristive effect in single-layer TMD (MX, M = Mo, W; and X = S, Se) atomic sheets based ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14246162 | 956,159 |
1,957,350 | The shipping company assigned Lengyel to the RMS "Carpathia" as ship's doctor for third class passengers. He signed his employment contract on 19 March 1912. His first voyage on board the ship was the Rijeka-New York-Rijeka line. "Carpathia" sailed into New York on 29 March and returned to Rijeka twelve days later with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68596369 | 1,956,226 |
1,478,683 | In July 2010, Sybase became a wholly owned subsidiary of SAP America. On September 13, 2011, Sybase released ASE 15.7 at Techwave. It included support for: New Security features - Application Functionality Configuration Groups, a new threaded kernel, compression for large object (LOB) and regular data, End-to-End CIS K... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=295744 | 1,477,850 |
1,602,029 | From 1998 to 2005 Bauer performed graduate work at RPI under Carothers, focusing solely on reverse computation. He developed the first PDES system solely based on reverse computation, called Rensselaer’s Optimistic Simulation System (ROSS). for combined shared and distributed memory systems. From 2006 to 2009 Bauer wor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22307545 | 1,601,128 |
701,906 | MTR negatively impacts the environment. Practices of explosion and digging release many pollutants to the surrounding environment and community and alternation of the ecosystem. Associated air pollutants such as particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide not only raise health concerns, they also have effects o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1685995 | 701,541 |
608,989 | Reason considers an ideal safety culture "the ‘engine’ that drives the system towards the goal of sustaining the maximum resistance towards its operational hazards" regardless of current commercial concerns or leadership style. This requires a constant high level of respect for anything that might defeat safety systems... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2994173 | 608,678 |
550,697 | The beginnings of the modern era of cancer chemotherapy can be traced directly to the German introduction of chemical warfare during World War I. Among the chemical agents used, mustard gas was particularly devastating. Although banned by the Geneva Protocol in 1925, the advent of World War II caused concerns over the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1914242 | 550,409 |
1,024,758 | Metabolic factors include the formation of Advanced glycation end-products (AGEs), which have a central role in the pathophysiology of many of the complications of diabetes mellitus, including cardiovascular complications. AGEs are chemical groups that form when a reducing sugar (glucose in this case) reacts non-enzyma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1524776 | 1,024,225 |
454,397 | In 1999, NASA's Johnson Space Center published "Medical Aspects of Exploration Missions" as part of the Decadal Survey. On a small mission it might be possible to have one be a medical doctor and another be a paramedic, out of a crew of perhaps 4–6 people, however on a larger mission with 20 people there could also be ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42302371 | 454,175 |
65,719 | The Ames Hydroelectric Generating Plant and the original Niagara Falls Adams Power Plant were among the first hydroelectric alternating current power plants. The first long distance transmission of single-phase electricity was from a hydroelectric generating plant in Oregon at Willamette Falls which in 1890 sent power ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42986 | 65,694 |
224,780 | Kathleen Lonsdale was a research student of William Henry Bragg, who with his son Lawrence founded the science of X-ray crystallography at the beginning of the 20th century. She is known for both her experimental and theoretical work. Bragg had 11 women research students out of a total of 18. Kathleen joined his crysta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7794 | 224,665 |
684,488 | In 1920, Rawlinson was made Commander-in-Chief, India. Winston Churchill as Secretary of State for War was instrumental in securing his appointment, over-riding a tradition that the post alternated between officers from the British and Indian Armies. He told Lloyd George that the post should go to the best qualified of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=889184 | 684,131 |
1,663,990 | The ideas underlying Bayesian statistics were developed by Rev. Thomas Bayes during the 18th century and later expanded by Pierre-Simon Laplace. As early as 1950, the potential of the Bayesian inference in econometrics was recognized by Jacob Marschak. The Bayesian approach was first applied to econometrics in the earl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20484367 | 1,663,053 |
4,411 | After his service with the Navy, Armstrong returned to Purdue. His previously earned good but not outstanding grades now improved, lifting his final Grade Point Average (GPA) to a respectable but not outstanding 4.8 out of 6.0. He pledged the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, and lived in its fraternity house. He wrote and c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21247 | 4,409 |
905,148 | The Hyper Pak was a parts package made available from 1960 through 1962 at Chrysler Corporation dealer parts counters. The parts were made available to comply with the regulations of sanctioning bodies for racing events in which Valiants had been entered by factory-backed teams: All parts used had to be "stock" parts, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=861486 | 904,672 |
419,364 | With the series at two all, South Africa went out batting, giving it their all, requiring 8.7 runs per over from the start. In the interval, Jacques Kallis had broken the ice in a sombre dressing-room with the words "Come on, guys: it's a 450-wicket. They're 15 short!" Such a chase had never been attempted before – at ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4387778 | 419,159 |
1,255,338 | Utilization of halogen containing materials in processes such as water treatment, bleaching, or even general synthesis to create the final product, generates a number of organic halides. These organic halides are released in wastewater from the oil, chemical, and paper industries, and find their way to the consumer and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51487091 | 1,254,657 |
584,376 | In 1883, Crumpler published "A Book of Medical Discourses" from the notes she kept over the course of her medical career. Dedicated to nurses and mothers, it focused on the medical care of women and children. Her main desire in presenting this book was to emphasize the "possibilities of prevention". Therefore, she reco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1559659 | 584,076 |
330,233 | The RLM was still not interested in the Ju 87 and was not impressed that it relied on a British engine. In late 1935, Junkers suggested fitting a DB 600 inverted V-12 engine, with the final variant to be equipped with the Jumo 210. This was accepted by the RLM as an interim solution. The reworking of the design began o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16590 | 330,058 |
1,565,891 | Also in the late 1920s, Yeshiva left the Lower East Side and moved to its current location in Washington Heights, in upper Manhattan. The area centered on 185th Street and Amsterdam Avenue continues to be Yeshiva's main campus, containing the central administration offices, the main library, the undergraduate schools f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20183971 | 1,565,004 |
1,546,995 | Unlike fixed-recipe, "model chemistries", the FPD approach consists of a flexible sequence of (up to) 13 components that vary with the nature of the chemical system under study and the desired accuracy in the final results. In most instances, the primary component relies on coupled cluster theory, such as CCSD(T), or c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12323349 | 1,546,118 |
472,210 | This change in focus away from the PC platform to console systems has met with criticism, due to the concessions required to adapt games to the altered interfaces and control systems, as well as a perceived need to make games "accessible" to a wider demographic. (A process referred to variously as "dumbing down" or "co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32408640 | 471,974 |
896,546 | Within the paleontological community, Horner is best known for his work on dinosaur growth research. He has published numerous articles in collaboration with Berkeley paleontologist Kevin Padian, and French dinosaur histologist Armand de Ricqlès, on the growth of dinosaurs using growth series. This usually involves leg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=350293 | 896,075 |
195,680 | In major military conflicts, logistics matters are often crucial in deciding the overall outcome of wars. For instance, tonnage war—the bulk sinking of cargo ships—was a crucial factor in World War II. The successful Allied anti-submarine campaign and the failure of the German Navy to sink enough cargo in the Battle of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2726726 | 195,580 |
837,927 | The precooler adds mass and complexity to the system and is the most aggressive and difficult part of the design, but the mass of this heat exchanger is an order of magnitude lower than has been achieved previously. The experimental device achieved heat exchange of almost 1 GW/m. The losses from carrying the added weig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=638353 | 837,478 |
315,186 | When longtime chancellor Martin Massengale was appointed president of the university system in 1991, the Board of Regents named Oregon State University provost Graham Spanier as his successor. Spanier quickly resolved Nebraska's six-million dollar budget shortfall while raising admission standards. Upon the retirement ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=323058 | 315,017 |
778,441 | BSA has numerous biochemical applications including ELISAs (Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay), immunoblots, and immunohistochemistry. Because BSA is a small, stable, moderately non-reactive protein, it is often used as a blocker in immunohistochemistry. During immunohistochemistry, which is the process that uses antib... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3787064 | 778,024 |
2,205,561 | Newman returned to Queensland in 1908 to become a consultant to Mount Morgan Gold Mining Co. Ltd, subsequently joining the engineering staff until he returned to consultancy in 1912, after which he worked in Papua and Malaya. He served with the Malay States Guides in World War I and then formed Alluvial Tin (Malaya) Lt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33721305 | 2,204,304 |
170,453 | One of the main strategies for avoiding problems (1) and (2) has been to use small molecules that can mimic the effects of transcription factors. These compounds can compensate for a reprogramming factor that does not effectively target the genome or fails at reprogramming for another reason; thus they raise reprogramm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12223532 | 170,363 |
1,758,161 | With last year's champion Marc Scott having graduated, the University of Alabama's Vincent Kiprop, a Kenyan transfer from the NCAA Division II school Missouri Southern State University, was considered the favorite. He was helped in the final by fellow Kenyans and Alabama transfers Gilbert Kigen and Alfred Chelanga, who... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57596294 | 1,757,168 |
1,352,401 | First, the need for sustainable development measures in developing countries is considered. Most scholars have reached a consensus on the concept of the 'double burden' placed on developing countries as a result of the interactions between development and the environment. Developing countries are uniquely vulnerable to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59362417 | 1,351,655 |
426,783 | With the cancellation of Blue Streak in the air, the British Nuclear Deterrent Study Group (BNDSG) produced a study on 23 December 1959 that argued that Polaris was expensive and unproven, and given the time it would take to build the boats, could not be deployed before the early 1970s. The Chiefs of Staff Committee th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35942972 | 426,574 |
714,256 | In 2011, Seneff began publishing articles on topics related to biology and medicine in low-impact, open access journals, such as "Interdisciplinary Toxicology" and eight papers in the MDPI journal "Entropy" between 2011 and 2015. According to food columnist Ari LeVaux, Seneff's work in this area has made her "a controv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46453136 | 713,884 |
1,093,517 | Mycotoxins are synthesized by different types of moulds and are built by a wide group of toxins. Mycotoxins have a low molecular weight compound that is usually less than 1000 grams per mol. There are roughly 400 toxic mycotoxins that are constructed by 100 different fungi species that have been researched. Mycotoxins ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21107825 | 1,092,957 |
18,125 | During the late 1960s, the U.S. was eager to get information on Chinese nuclear capabilities. After the failure of the Black Cat Squadron to plant operating sensor pods near the Lop Nur Nuclear Weapons Test Base using a U-2, the CIA developed a plan, named "Heavy Tea", to deploy two battery-powered sensor pallets near ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7697 | 18,119 |
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