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356,000 | This phenomenon was not understood until S.L.A. Marshall (Brigadier General and military historian) undertook interview studies of WWII infantry immediately following combat engagement. Marshall's well-known and controversial book, Men Against Fire, revealed that only 15% of soldiers fired their rifles with the purpose... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=128027 | 355,817 |
141,670 | The cavitation phenomenon can be controlled to enhance the performance of high-speed marine vessels and projectiles, as well as in material processing technologies, in medicine, etc. Controlling the cavitating flows in liquids can be achieved only by advancing the mathematical foundation of the cavitation processes. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7807 | 141,612 |
222,135 | Boyd theorized that large organizations such as corporations, governments, or militaries possessed a hierarchy of OODA loops at tactical, grand-tactical (operational art), and strategic levels. In addition, he stated that most effective organizations have a highly decentralized chain of command that uses objective-driv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=163161 | 222,026 |
799,766 | This is an architecturally outstanding Neolithic chambered tomb on the mainland of Orkney, Scotland—probably dating to the early 3rd millennium BC, and where the setting Sun at midwinter shines down the entrance passage into the central chamber (see Newgrange). In the 1990s further investigations were carried out to di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2864 | 799,340 |
1,410,882 | The McIntyre and McKitrick comment was accepted for publication by "Geophysical Research Letters". (MM05) reported a technical statistical error in the (MBH98) method, which they said would produce hockey stick shapes from random data. This claim was given widespread publicity and political spin. Scientists found that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5354105 | 1,410,090 |
1,280,853 | Fully recuperated and optimistic, he returned home to The Mount, Shrewsbury. He discussed his ideas with his father and asked for advice about Emma. Speaking from experience, Doctor Robert Waring Darwin told his son to conceal religious doubts which could cause "extreme misery... Things went on pretty well until the hu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1632764 | 1,280,158 |
915,410 | Tukey reportedly came up with the idea during a meeting of President Kennedy's Science Advisory Committee discussing ways to detect nuclear-weapon tests in the Soviet Union by employing seismometers located outside the country. These sensors would generate seismological time series. However, analysis of this data would... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=352702 | 914,929 |
402,770 | Lenin understood that economic conditions were dire, so he opened up markets to a greater degree of free trade, hoping to motivate the population to increase production. Under the NEP, not only were "private property, private enterprise, and private profit largely restored in Lenin's Russia," but Lenin's regime turned ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40229586 | 402,570 |
566,152 | Adults of the species "A. zitteli" stood around tall at the shoulders and in length. They were massive, slow-moving animals with forelimbs adapted for pulling strongly backward rather than swinging forward, a feature typical of animals that punt themselves through shallow water or walk on soft, sticky ground. Fossils a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2050678 | 565,862 |
32,990 | The B-17 began operations in World War II with the Royal Air Force (RAF) in 1941, and in the Southwest Pacific with the U.S. Army. The 19th Bombardment Group had deployed to Clark Field in the Philippines a few weeks before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor as the first of a planned heavy bomber buildup in the Pacifi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4997 | 32,978 |
69,505 | In more recent years, small products called programmable logic relays (PLRs) or smart relays, have become more common and accepted. These are similar to PLCs and are used in light industries where only a few points of I/O are needed, and low cost is desired. These small devices are typically made in a common physical s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24992 | 69,478 |
480,834 | The application of Monte Carlo tree search to Go algorithms provided a notable improvement in the late 2000s decade, with programs finally able to achieve a low-dan level: that of an advanced amateur. High-dan amateurs and professionals could still exploit these programs' weaknesses and win consistently, but computer p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=227021 | 480,590 |
206,962 | In the 1930s, the need for establishing research organisations for the development of natural resources and new industries in India began to emerge. Eminent citizens such as C. V. Raman, Lt. Col. Seymour Sewell and J. C. Ghosh had proposed the creation of an advisory board of scientific research. Sir Richard Gregory, t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1303719 | 206,855 |
1,890,102 | The SLC25A5 enzyme is an important constituent in apoptotic signaling and oxidative stress, most notably as part of the mitochondrial death pathway and cardiac myocyte apoptosis signaling. Programmed cell death is a distinct genetic and biochemical pathway essential to metazoans. An intact death pathway is required for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40566060 | 1,889,019 |
2,049,511 | The SLC25A31 enzyme is an important constituent in apoptotic signaling and oxidative stress, most notably as part of the mitochondrial death pathway and cardiac myocyte apoptosis signaling. Programmed cell death is a distinct genetic and biochemical pathway essential to metazoans. An intact death pathway is required fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16858498 | 2,048,330 |
1,399,271 | Terminal ballistics research at BRL studied the underlying effects of weapons upon striking their target. BRL researchers in this field conducted experimental and theoretical work on the impact behavior of projectiles and investigated topics such as the mechanisms of penetration, fragmentation, wound ballistics, detona... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30865936 | 1,398,496 |
590,957 | The nineteenth-century positivists concept of measurable deterministic time became untenable as Henri Bergson exposed his radical idea that the human experience of time was a creative process associated with biological evolution. He rejected the division of space into separate measurable units. Both Bergson and William... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38781217 | 590,655 |
894,142 | The lesions in PTFL consists of infiltrates containing rapidly proliferating centrocytes and centroblasts that lack the t(14:18)(q32:q21.3) translocation but nonetheless often overexpress the "BCL2" gene. These cells may show a loss of heterozygosity at 1p36 (20-50% of cases) that results in decreased expression of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3034995 | 893,672 |
241,875 | After receiving his doctorate in 1951, Salam returned to Lahore at the Government College University as a Professor of Mathematics where he remained till 1954. In 1952, he was appointed professor and Chair of the Department of Mathematics at the neighbouring University of the Punjab. In the latter capacity, Salam sough... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=304427 | 241,749 |
1,222,417 | Nanoengineered porous electrodes have the advantage of short diffusion distances, room for expansion and contraction, and high activity. In 2006 an example of a three dimensional engineered ceramic oxide based on lithium titanate was reported that had dramatic rate enhancement over the non-porous analogue. Later work b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42601555 | 1,221,758 |
1,911,223 | Gangs are a steadily growing problem in metropolitan and suburban areas alike. And as crime increases, government and local law enforcement officials have been struggling to deter and eliminate these criminally active groups. In order to effectively shrink and extinguish gangs, efforts must be focused on deterring yout... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37879363 | 1,910,124 |
1,165,678 | UNO played its first season as an Independent in 1997-98. On October 17, 1997, a sellout crowd at the Civic Auditorium saw the team for the first time in a 3–2 exhibition loss to the University of Manitoba. Despite a midseason ten-game losing streak, the Mavericks finished with an encouraging 12–18–3 record. The Maveri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22283832 | 1,165,061 |
10,035 | The day after he took over the project, Groves took a train to Tennessee with Colonel Marshall to inspect the proposed site there, and Groves was impressed. On 29 September 1942, United States Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson authorized the Corps of Engineers to acquire of land by eminent domain at a cost of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19603 | 10,031 |
1,612,778 | Mathematical modeling can provide useful context for the rational design, validation and prioritization of novel cancer drug targets and their combinations. Network-based modeling and multi-scale modeling have begun to show promise in facilitating the process of effective cancer drug discovery. Using a systems network ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39198919 | 1,611,873 |
1,900,078 | William purchased a building that was standing at the south-west corner of Grove Street and Western Avenue and opened his business. The location was a good one - it was on what was then called the Wabash Road a day's journey from Chicago, which guaranteed the tavern a steady supply of prospective customers for many yea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24940492 | 1,898,992 |
1,191,626 | On 27 May, the first fatalities were suffered when a MiG-21 and a MiG-27 jets were lost over Batalik Sector to enemy action and mechanical failure, respectively. The following day, a Mi-17 was lost- with the loss of all four of the crew- when it was hit by three Stingers while on an offensive sortie. These losses force... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9196710 | 1,190,991 |
354,388 | The existence of electron shells was first observed experimentally in Charles Barkla's and Henry Moseley's X-ray absorption studies. Moseley's work did not directly concern the study of electron shells, because he was trying to prove that the periodic table was not arranged by weight, but by the charge of the protons i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19916615 | 354,205 |
1,613,144 | In July 2009, at the Ford Michigan Proving Grounds, Barbara Buatois set two world records in one weekend. Buatois, a 32-year-old French woman, first broke the existing women's record on Friday July 17, covering 82.12 km (51.03 mi). This broke the existing women's mark by 12%, and gave her the title of the 6th fastest h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45517370 | 1,612,239 |
2,218,609 | Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) is a common material for open microfluidic devices that introduces additional advantages and disadvantages. The adsorption of small biological molecules from cell culturing samples as well as the release of oligomers into the culture medium have both been posed as issues of using PDMS for bi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60405154 | 2,217,347 |
397,920 | Resnik married Oldak on July 14, 1970. Her mother attended the wedding; two sets of invitations were sent out, one describing her as her father's daughter, and the other as her mother's. Upon graduation from Carnegie Mellon, Resnik and Oldak moved to Moorestown, New Jersey, where they both worked for RCA. She was a des... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=316815 | 397,724 |
116,090 | Although wholesale module prices remained flat at around $3.50 to $4.00/W in the early 2000s due to high demand in Germany and Spain afforded by generous subsidies and shortage of polysilicon, demand crashed with the abrupt ending of Spanish subsidies after the market crash of 2008, and the price dropped rapidly to $2.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=652531 | 116,045 |
1,478,699 | On 3 March 2016, DARPA awarded Aurora Flight Sciences $89.4 million to build and demonstrate their LightningStrike concept, beating out the other three competitors. The LightningStrike is a tilting-wing design powered by one Rolls-Royce AE1107C turboshaft engine, the same type used on the V-22 Osprey, that generates el... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41433557 | 1,477,866 |
1,410,688 | The possibilities finally narrowed down to intermolecular forces, and the development of electron microscopy in the 1950s, which revealed the micro-structure of the setae on the gecko's foot, provided further proof to support this hypothesis. The problem was finally solved in 2000 by a research team led by biologists K... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2547900 | 1,409,896 |
15,913 | After earning a Doctor of Science degree in astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Aldrin was selected as a member of NASA's Astronaut Group 3, making him the first astronaut with a doctoral degree. His doctoral thesis, "Line-of-Sight Guidance Techniques for Manned Orbital Rendezvous", earned him ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65777 | 15,908 |
1,990,049 | A novel biodegradable, tough elastomer has been developed from poly(glycerol sebacate) (PGS) for use in creation of a nerve guidance conduit. PGS was originally developed for soft tissue engineering purposes to specifically mimic ECM mechanical properties. It is considered an elastomer because it is able to recover fro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11088829 | 1,988,906 |
1,251,153 | As climate change continues to disrupt a host of rangeland functions, the Society for Range Management has declared: "The Society for Range Management is committed to promoting adaptation to and mitigation of climate change through the sponsorship of workshops, symposia, research and educational publications, and appro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50283749 | 1,250,475 |
792,444 | Specific substrates include testosterone, progesterone, androstenedione, epitestosterone, cortisol, aldosterone, and deoxycorticosterone. Outside of dihydrotestosterone, much of the physiological role of 5α-reduced steroids is unknown. Beyond reducing testosterone to dihydrotestosterone, 5alpha-reductase enzyme isoform... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1245377 | 792,019 |
1,927,317 | In 2005, the sequence of the 1918 Spanish influenza was completed. Accompanied with phylogenetic analysis, it was possible to supply a detailed account of the virus' evolution and behavior, in particular its adaptation to humans. Following the sequencing of the Spanish influenza, the pathogen was also reconstructed. Wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21787394 | 1,926,213 |
1,430,995 | He used mathematics in the subject. The development of the mathematical description of the behaviour of optical systems was at the centre of his life's work in physics – the application of which produced so many world-famous inventions. He chose to remain at Reading in the post of Professor of Applied Physical Optics u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18770211 | 1,430,191 |
1,509,846 | One of the earliest thinkers of the modern age to postulate the potentials of artificial life, separate from artificial intelligence, was math and computer prodigy John von Neumann. At the Hixon Symposium, hosted by Linus Pauling in Pasadena, California in the late 1940s, von Neumann delivered a lecture titled "The Gen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7754370 | 1,508,996 |
717,708 | One of the most effective types of RAM comprises arrays of pyramid shaped pieces, each of which is constructed from a suitably lossy material. To work effectively, all internal surfaces of the anechoic chamber must be entirely covered with RAM. Sections of RAM may be temporarily removed to install equipment but they mu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4148025 | 717,331 |
57,642 | The steady competition between the MCP35 and the SA-35 to make the original Hi-Power relevant in the current market stirred up a great interest among both Hi-Power fans and new shooters. On 18 January 2022, after a four year hiatus, FN announced they would resume production of the Browning Hi-Power, albeit with a numbe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=95218 | 57,618 |
2,162,350 | The Australian Catholic University Strathfield Campus is of state aesthetic significance for the high quality architectural design of its key elements and for its landscaping and vistas including the avenue of Canary Island Date Palm trees. The Mount Royal element of the Edmund Rice building is a fine example of the "V... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62880865 | 2,161,115 |
1,221,305 | His book "Rockets – the Future of Travel Beyond the Stratosphere" (1944) describes the early rockets at VfR and more futuristic projects to reach the moon using a 3-stage rocket "as high as 1/3 of the Empire State Building" – a very good estimate of the height of the Saturn V rocket designed 20 years later. His works f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=421035 | 1,220,647 |
134,152 | One view of Biosphere 2 was that it was "the most exciting scientific project to be undertaken in the United States since President John F. Kennedy launched us toward the moon". Others called it "New Age drivel masquerading as science". John Allen and Roy Walford did have mainstream credentials. John Allen held a degre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=216362 | 134,097 |
1,641,506 | Prior to training with the HEG device, patients are given a standardized pre test, most often the Test of Variables of Attention (TOVA), to assess baseline cognitive functioning. Patient progress will be tracked using the same measure at the beginning and end of every neurotherapy session. Single photon emission comput... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1806538 | 1,640,579 |
779,242 | Some controversy was raised by physicist Gerald Holton (1978) who pointed out that Millikan recorded more measurements in his journal than he included in his final results. Holton suggested these data points were omitted from the large set of oil drops measured in his experiments without apparent reason. This claim was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=187344 | 778,825 |
1,911,936 | "P. vortex" is a social microorganism: when grown on under growth conditions that mimic natural environments such as hard surfaces it forms colonies of 109-1012 cells with remarkably complex and dynamic architectures (Figure 1). Being part of a large cooperative, the bacteria can better compete for food resources and b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30427075 | 1,910,837 |
370,516 | The name "operations demo" (demonstration of operations), which appeared after the completion of the technology demonstration stage ("technology demo"), was a bureaucratic compromise that allowed to justify the funding of "Ingenuity's" "extra" flights after the previous stage was completed. Operations here refers to th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56300556 | 370,322 |
1,564,410 | Authors supportive of psychoanalysis have criticized "The Foundations of Psychoanalysis". The psychologist Margaret Chernack Beaudoin, the philosopher Gregory A. Trotter, and the scholar of rhetoric Alan G. Gross, have criticized its treatment of Ricœur. Beaudoin maintained that Grünbaum was mistaken to attribute to Ri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34449875 | 1,563,523 |
6,394 | "In situ" investigations have been performed on Mars by the "Viking" landers, "Spirit" and "Opportunity" rovers, "Phoenix" lander, and "Curiosity" rover. Evidence suggests that the planet was once significantly more habitable than it is today, but whether living organisms ever existed there remains unknown. The "Viking... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14640471 | 6,391 |
334,261 | During the 1960s, the campus was the location of significant political protest. Prior to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, protests about local racial segregation which began quietly in Franklin Street restaurants led to mass demonstrations and disturbance. The climate of civil unrest prompted the 1963 Speak... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=89510 | 334,083 |
1,605,129 | In the 1630s, with the involvement of foreign engineers, the construction of arms metallurgical factories began in the central part of Russia. Despite the construction of more than 20 state and private factories in the central region in the 17th century, the country experienced a shortage of metal and continued to buy ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66141214 | 1,604,227 |
1,724,072 | Transylvania prospered during Bethlen's reign. He did not restrict the liberties of the Three Nations, but exercised royal prerogatives to limit their influence on state administration. From 1615 at least two-thirds of those who attended the Diet were delegates appointed by him. He introduced a mercantilist economic po... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4745801 | 1,723,102 |
565,840 | In April 2020, a small group of children with evidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection or exposure to COVID-19 were found to display clinical features corresponding to the diagnostic criteria of Kawasaki disease, sometimes accompanied by shock. Kawasaki disease is a rare syndrome which mainly affects young children (adult onse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63895130 | 565,550 |
316,374 | The role of the tank in World War I strategy is often poorly understood. Its supporters saw it as the weapon of victory, and many observers since have accused the high commands (especially the British) of shortsightedness in this matter, particularly in view of what tanks have achieved since. Nevertheless, the World Wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=91515 | 316,205 |
430,087 | MUOS WCDMA radios can transmit simultaneous voice, video and mission data on an Internet Protocol-based system connected to military networks. MUOS radios operate from anywhere around the world at speeds comparable to 3G smartphones. MUOS radios can also work under dense cover, such as jungle canopies and urban setting... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2088185 | 429,875 |
627,955 | For IBU competitions, the total weight of the unloaded rifle has to be between . The current weight limit was established around the 1986 season after Glen Eberle had showed the world a new and lighter stock design. At that time olympic biathlon rifles usually weighed well over 5 kg, and it was a common belief that a r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56656728 | 627,620 |
1,184,618 | Atlas of the journey included 19 maps, 13 different types of islands, 2 ice islands, and 30 different drawings. In 1949, the original sketching album of Pavel Mikhailov was discovered in the collection of the State Historical Museum. It consisted of 47 pages, where the author depicted types of islands, landscapes, port... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40880361 | 1,183,990 |
591,550 | By February 2019, Ariane Group and the French government space agency CNES began work on a new "acceleration platform" called ArianeWorks to develop new launchers, including reusable ones, which included teams from both companies working "under one roof." The joint operation was to have a more flexible working environm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46963268 | 591,248 |
11,756 | In 2006, the media-services provider Netflix held the first "Netflix Prize" competition to find a program to better predict user preferences and improve the accuracy of its existing Cinematch movie recommendation algorithm by at least 10%. A joint team made up of researchers from AT&T Labs-Research in collaboration wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=233488 | 11,751 |
1,216,267 | Originally invented by Kevin D. Fraser of San Francisco. The prototype utilized existing ultrasonic intrusion alarm technology coupled to conventional industrial timers, with basic switching elements. First prototype was crafted on a plywood base; the first model required a separate transmitter and receiver processing ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7583854 | 1,215,615 |
1,912,687 | In the tournament quarterfinals at Madison Square Garden, Georgetown faced New York University, which had defeated the Hoyas 16 times in their last 21 meetings dating back to the 1921–1922 season and was the 2-to-1 favorite of New York City sportswriters, but Georgetown won in an upset, 55-36, with Mahnken scoring 18 p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41560752 | 1,911,588 |
729,667 | Also in 1994, DARPA started the Smart Modules Program to develop a modular, "humionic" approach to wearable and carryable computers, with the goal of producing a variety of products including computers, radios, navigation systems and human-computer interfaces that have both military and commercial use. In July 1996, DA... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33109 | 729,283 |
382,541 | These and other articles describe new challenges and solutions to use BCI technology to help persons with DOC. One major challenge is that these patients cannot use BCIs based on vision. Hence, new tools rely on auditory and/or vibrotactile stimuli. Patients may wear headphones and/or vibrotactile stimulators placed on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=623686 | 382,346 |
222,907 | Common among all of the different specifications and types are the following steps: Prior to passivation, the object must be cleaned of any contaminants and generally must undergo a validating test to prove that the surface is 'clean.' The object is then placed in an acidic passivating bath that meets the temperature a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=175622 | 222,798 |
25,333 | Reports say that Russian forces are having to repair damaged Ukrainian tanks; the Russian Defence Ministry says these tanks are for pro-Russian forces. The Ukrainian Defence Ministry's Chief Directorate of Intelligence claims that Russia has stopped making new tanks. Due to the fighting in Ukraine the Russian Victory D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1094752 | 25,324 |
185,850 | Since the discovery of antibiotics, research and development (R&D) efforts have provided new drugs in time to treat bacteria that became resistant to older antibiotics, but in the 2000s there has been concern that development has slowed enough that seriously ill people may run out of treatment options. Another concern ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1914 | 185,753 |
836,104 | Mining of uranium ore can disrupt the environment around the mine. However with modern in-situ leaching technology this impact can be reduced compared to "classical" underground- or open-pit mining. Disposal of spent nuclear fuel is controversial, with many proposed long-term storage schemes under intense review and cr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14163295 | 835,655 |
383,971 | It was later shown by Howard Percy Robertson (1949) and others (see Robertson–Mansouri–Sexl test theory), that it is possible to derive the Lorentz transformation entirely from the combination of three experiments. First, the Michelson–Morley experiment showed that the speed of light is independent of the "orientation"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=91100 | 383,776 |
1,698,730 | The "noblemen and gentlemen" may have had the final word in cricket's governance during the 18th century but the professionals certainly had a voice, as illustrated by two famous incidents. In September 1771, when Chertsey played Hambledon at Laleham Burway, Chertsey's Thomas White introduced a bat that was fully as wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30187735 | 1,697,776 |
728,230 | The role of science and scholarship in PAR is another source of difference. In the Lewinian tradition, "there is nothing so practical as a good theory". Accordingly, the scientific logic of developing theory, forming and testing hypotheses, gathering measurable data and interpreting the results plays a central role. Wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2819542 | 727,846 |
548,088 | "Aviation Week" describes Blackstar as a two-stage-to-orbit system, the first stage of which is a delta-winged supersonic jet (which "Aviation Week" referred to as the SR-3). Its description of SR-3 is similar to the North American B-70 Valkyrie Mach 3 strategic bomber, and to patents filed in the 1980s by Boeing. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4296767 | 547,801 |
94,605 | Before the modern medical era, the main means for studying the internal structures of the body were dissection of the dead and inspection, palpation and auscultation of the living. It was the advent of microscopy that opened up an understanding of the building blocks that constituted living tissues. Technical advances ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=674 | 94,564 |
1,275,582 | On the other hand, Thompson built one of the most successful LNER designs, the class B1 4-6-0, which was a simple two-cylinder design mixed traffic engine. The B1 was based loosely on Gresley's class B17. The prototype for the B1 was a B17/1 modified with a higher pressure boiler and with its centre cylinder removed. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2965683 | 1,274,890 |
92,268 | In 1990, American engineer Gilbert Hyatt was awarded U.S. Patent No. 4,942,516, which was based on a 16-bit serial computer he built at his Northridge, California home in 1969 from boards of bipolar chips after quitting his job at Teledyne in 1968; though the patent had been submitted in December 1970 and prior to Texa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19553 | 92,227 |
1,454,294 | In the 1960s, surgeons at Jacobi performed the world's first successful clinical coronary artery bypass surgery; on May 2, 1960, Robert H. Goetz performed a right internal thoracic artery-to-right coronary artery anastomosis using a tantalum ring in a 38-year-old man. Cardiac catheterization on postoperative day 14 sho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4654529 | 1,453,474 |
263,303 | For more general applications, it is preferred to have a lower DBTT to ensure the material has a wider ductility range. This ensures that sudden cracks are inhibited so that failures in the metal body are prevented. It has been determined that the more slip systems a material has, the wider the range of temperatures du... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=87019 | 263,164 |
730,350 | Ellen G. White's visions prompted several books by one of her followers, George McCready Price, leading to the 20th-century revival of flood geology. After years selling White's books door-to-door, Price took a one-year teacher-training course and taught in several schools. When shown books on evolution and the fossil ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=543667 | 729,965 |
744,055 | In 1873, Stanford approached Muybridge to photograph his favorite trotter Occident in action. Initially, Muybridge believed it was impossible to get a good picture of a horse at full speed. He knew of only a few examples of instantaneous photography made in London and Paris, that depicted street scenes. These were made... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26044155 | 743,661 |
1,769,563 | Vitali Vitaliev of The Institution of Engineering and Technology calls the book "a magnificent monograph that stands out among the multiple books on Chernobyl simply because it tells us the truth – the whole unadulterated truth – about one of the worst disasters in history." and comments on the effort to downplay the e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40786659 | 1,768,568 |
17,090 | John Grier Hibben became president in 1912 and would remain in the post for two decades. On October 2, 1913, the Princeton University Graduate College was dedicated. When the United States entered World War I in 1917, Hibben allocated all available University resources to the government. As a result, military training ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23922 | 17,085 |
156,324 | The practice of wearing academic regalia in the United States dates to the Colonial Colleges period, and was heavily influenced by European practices and styles. Students of most colonial colleges were required to wear the "college habit" at most times – a practice that lasted until the eve of the American Civil War in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=337921 | 156,252 |
1,015,998 | No specimens approaching these extreme sizes have been reported since the middle of the 20th century. This lack of giant individuals is corroborated by commercial octopus fishers; none of those interviewed by Cosgrove & McDaniel (2009) had caught a single animal weighing more than in the previous 20 years, among many t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8375147 | 1,015,475 |
247,903 | Despite the strong promotion of management rationalization measures, the company's business performance never recovered. The reason is, on October 25, 1949, GHQ issued a "Memorandum on the total removal of restrictions on the production and sale of automobiles". As a result, the production and sale of automobiles becam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4670679 | 247,775 |
405,888 | De Marignac was the first to prepare the metal in 1864, when he reduced niobium chloride by heating it in an atmosphere of hydrogen. Although de Marignac was able to produce tantalum-free niobium on a larger scale by 1866, it was not until the early 20th century that niobium was used in incandescent lamp filaments, the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21275 | 405,688 |
2,249,054 | After defending his thesis, Weiss stayed for two years in Cambridge, including the 1937/38 academic year, when he taught a course in quantum electrodynamics. Then there were two semesters spent in the Queen's University Belfast, where he lectured on mathematical mechanics. During this time, he wrote a long article givi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50626122 | 2,247,782 |
2,162,257 | With his blunt, direct, and at times profane style, Gee was no stranger to creating enemies and sparking controversies. One of the great controversies of his tenure as president was his feud with Sam Rayburn, the congressman representing Hunt County and an alumnus of the college; the feud apparently began with the cons... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49869717 | 2,161,022 |
638,326 | 1992 – Duisburg, Germany – (29 June – 13 July) – The venue, a large sports complex, was playing host to over 500 competitors engaged in 10 World Junior Championships. There were initially some problems with overcrowding, but these were quickly sorted out by the organisers. There was a commentary room where those who ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=295488 | 637,987 |
269,844 | This standard method is recognized by EPA, which is labeled Method 5210B in the "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater." In order to obtain BOD, dissolved oxygen (DO) concentrations in a sample must be measured before and after the incubation period, and appropriately adjusted by the sample corre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=420598 | 269,697 |
838,415 | However, convergence has a downside. Particularly in initial forms, converged devices are frequently less functional and reliable than their component parts (e.g., a mobile phone's web browser may not render some web pages correctly, due to not supporting certain rendering methods, such as the iPhone browser not suppor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=206586 | 837,966 |
54,436 | As the P-38H, 600 of these stop-gap Lightnings with an improved 20 mm cannon and a bomb capacity of were produced on one line beginning in May 1943 while the near-definitive P-38J began production on the second line in August 1943. The Eighth Air Force was experiencing high-altitude and cold-weather issues which, while... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25041 | 54,413 |
224,558 | The use of images had greatly increased during this period, and had generated a growing opposition among many in the church, although the progress and extent of these views is now unclear. Images in the form of mosaics and paintings were widely used in churches, homes and other places such as over city gates, and had s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9790552 | 224,444 |
954,962 | Within a decade most scientists had started espousing evolution, but from the outset some expressed opposition to the concept of natural selection and searched for a more purposeful mechanism. In 1860 Richard Owen attacked Darwin's "Origin of Species" in an anonymous review while praising "Professor Owen" for "the esta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=328815 | 954,457 |
813,766 | Regulation on industry funded biomedical research has seen great changes since Samuel Hopkins Adams declaration. In 1906 congress passed the Pure Food and Drugs Act of 1906. In 1912 Congress passed the Shirley Amendment to prohibit the wide dissemination of false information on pharmaceuticals. The Food and Drug Admini... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2245783 | 813,333 |
910,385 | Voyager's world flight takeoff took place on the longest runway at Edwards AFB at 8:01 am local time on December 14, 1986, with 3,500 of the world's press in attendance. As the plane accelerated, the tips of the wings, which were heavily loaded with fuel, were damaged as they unexpectedly flew down and scraped against ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=294064 | 909,906 |
305,119 | In response to the inequalities in the industrializing economy of late 18th century Britain pamphleteers and agitators such as Thomas Spence and Thomas Paine began to advocate for social reform. As early as the 1770s Spence called for the common ownership of land, democratically run decentralized government, and welfar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47246185 | 304,957 |
1,071,395 | The sacoglossans can use the chloroplasts of the algae on which they feed, which they keep alive for hours to months after their ingestion. They maintain the cells and metabolise the photosynthetic products; this process is termed kleptoplasty, and the sacoglossans are the only animals to employ it; some ciliates and f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=764446 | 1,070,841 |
1,256,755 | Giordano Bruno and Johannes Kepler suggested the idea that the sun rotated on its axis. Sunspots were first observed telescopically on 18 December 1610 (Gregorian calendar, not yet adopted in England) by English astronomer Thomas Harriot, as recorded in his notebooks. On 9 March 1611 (Gregorian calendar, also not yet a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47390194 | 1,256,071 |
582,862 | In 2022, Rostami et al advanced their theory. By means of a new multi-layer pseudo-spectral moist-convective Thermal Rotating Shallow Water (mcTRSW) model in a full sphere, they presented a possible equatorial adjustment beyond Gill's mechanism for the genesis and dynamics of the MJO. According to this theory, an eastw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1666522 | 582,563 |
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