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107,873 | France's demographic profile is similar to its European neighbors and to developed countries in general, yet it seems to be staving off the population decline of Western countries. With 62.9 million inhabitants in 2006, it was the second most populous country in the European Union, and it displayed a certain demographi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=231079 | 107,828 |
1,813,933 | Project analyst Matthew Weinberg outlined socioeconomic development cases using the non-profit ISGP - the Institute for Studies for Global Prosperity, "a non-profit organization working in collaboration with the Baha’i International Community", in India, Uganda, and Brazil. In India stakeholders in a project developed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2353883 | 1,812,899 |
178,341 | The university and North Rhine-Westphalia state construction and real estate agency is investing €2 billion in refurbishing existing buildings and new construction. One project currently under construction is the €55 million project constructing a 'Teaching and Research Forum I & II' that is expected to be completed by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=89061 | 178,248 |
1,657,746 | At age 16, he was offered a full scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), but it may have been withdrawn after Alpher had a required meeting with an alumnus in Washington, D.C., with little explanation or clarification. Instead, he earned his bachelor's degree and advanced graduate degrees in phy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1273628 | 1,656,813 |
1,770,012 | Preproduction began around August 1997 and lasted about six months. The six-person team came from Looking Glass's Austin studios. Spector, the team's director and producer, saw their work as improving upon the foundation provided by Origin, Looking Glass, and Valve by doing what those companies did not. The game's work... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43210943 | 1,769,017 |
254,410 | KITECH researched and developed EveR-1, an android interpersonal communications model capable of emulating human emotional expression via facial "musculature" and capable of rudimentary conversation, having a vocabulary of around 400 words. She is tall and weighs , matching the average figure of a Korean woman in her t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=713 | 254,277 |
187,412 | Despite the government signing contracts for the purchase of two "Anzac"s in November 1989, the project continued to be a bone of contention in New Zealand politics, particularly after the Fourth Labour Government lost the 1990 election to the National Party, which formed the Fourth National Government. In 1992, Minist... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=897679 | 187,315 |
141,759 | The game has text-based graphics (using the CP437 character set) and is open-ended with no main objectives. Before playing, the player has to set in motion a process which generates a fantasy world with continents, oceans, and islands, produced via generative geology and hydrogeology, meteorology, and biogeography, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7239234 | 141,701 |
1,830,388 | After his days studying at Cologne, Hartmann went to Rome to continue his studies where he was friends with Andreas Copernicus, brother to Nicholas Copernicus. While in Nuremberg, Hartmann served as vicar of the St. Sebald church from his arrival in 1518 until 1544. He constructed astrolabes, globes, sundials, and quad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7871299 | 1,829,342 |
1,488,813 | Henry Francis Blanford, the founding director of the Indian Meteorological Department, had noticed the pattern that the summer monsoon in India and Burma was correlated with the spring snow cover in the Himalayas and it became a routine to use this to make predictions on the Indian monsoons. By 1892 however, these pred... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1388071 | 1,487,974 |
204,851 | Ioannidis has been one of the strong proponents and earlier advocates of evidence-based medicine. However, he has alerted that, over the years, as evidence-based medicine acquired more prominence and influence, it was hijacked to serve other agendas that are often biased. In an essay written to honor his late mentor Da... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20900378 | 204,745 |
1,663,438 | The fetus was once believed to be a "perfect parasite", immune to harmful environmental toxins passed from the mother via the placenta. Stemming from this belief, pregnant women of the early to mid 20th century freely drank alcohol, ingested medications, smoked cigarettes, and were largely ignorant of any nutritional n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47957160 | 1,662,503 |
1,276,222 | On January 1, 1960, Ovshinsky and Iris Miroy Dibner, whom he married soon after his divorce from Norma Rifkin, founded Energy Conversion Laboratory to develop his inventions in the interest of solving societal problems, especially those they identified in the areas of information and energy (e.g. pollution and wars ove... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2785878 | 1,275,529 |
187,402 | Around the same time, the need to replace the RNZN's "Leander"-class frigate force with new warships was under consideration. The government saw maintaining a blue-water capable force built around three or four frigates as important, but the cost of acquiring and maintaining such a force was prohibitive, once it became... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=897679 | 187,305 |
1,562,223 | He was engaged in various parts of India, in the Raniganj coalfield, in Bombay, and in the coalfield near Talcher, where boulders considered to have been ice-borne were found in the Talcher strata (Talchir tillite)—a remarkable discovery confirmed by subsequent observations of other geologists in equivalent strata (Per... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=879241 | 1,561,336 |
1,675,378 | Recently, the United Nations (UN) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a report that says “urgent and unprecedented changes are needed to reach the target” of keeping the global temperature at moderate levels. They state that countries must follow the Paris Agreement pledge to keep temperatures bet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31745558 | 1,674,436 |
1,979,854 | Bradley Lether Pentelute (born December 5, 1977) is currently a professor of chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His research program lies at the intersection of chemistry and biology and develops bioconjugation strategies, cytosolic delivery platforms, and rapid flow synthesis technologies to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59104462 | 1,978,716 |
1,996,547 | In 1961, NASA's Space Nuclear Propulsion Office's project NERVA, in conjunction with the Atomic Energy Commission, jointly awarded Aerojet General Corporation the prime contract for its Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application NERVA Program, with a significant subcontract to WANL for development of the reactor its... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2936679 | 1,995,404 |
2,138,989 | In 1961, NASA's Space Nuclear Propulsion Office's project NERVA, in conjunction with the Atomic Energy Commission, jointly awarded Aerojet General Corporation the prime contract for its Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application NERVA Program, with a significant subcontract to WANL for development of the reactor its... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11907968 | 2,137,759 |
956,224 | Three factors make engaging targets in space very difficult. First, the vast distances mean that an error of even a fraction of a degree in the firing solution can mean a miss by thousands of kilometers. Second, spaceflight involves tremendous speeds by terrestrial standards—a geostationary satellite moves at 3.07 km/s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=956982 | 955,719 |
76,382 | Structural material stability is a critical issue. Materials that can survive the high temperatures and neutron bombardment experienced in a fusion reactor are considered key to success. The principal issues are the conditions generated by the plasma, neutron degradation of wall surfaces, and the related issue of plasm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55017 | 76,353 |
730,916 | Sometime after 1938, a forger placed four Byzantine-style religious images in the manuscript in an effort to increase its sales value. It appeared that these had rendered the underlying text forever illegible. However, in May 2005, highly focused X-rays produced at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in Menlo Park, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=167417 | 730,531 |
35,782 | Despite much opposition, the view of continental drift gained support and a lively debate started between "drifters" or "mobilists" (proponents of the theory) and "fixists" (opponents). During the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, the former reached important milestones proposing that convection currents might have driven the pl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24944 | 35,770 |
1,940,017 | Priya Rajasethupathy grew up in Brockport, New York. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in biology with a pre-medicine concentration from Cornell University in 2004. For her undergraduate thesis, she identified Aptamers that provided structural and functional insight into therapeutic compounds for epilepsy. Follo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59507257 | 1,938,907 |
1,622,829 | Campaign strategies relating to computational politics have been met with criticism. Some researchers raise concerns about voter privacy that come with new methods of targeting individual voters, as there is a lack of regulation surrounding protection of consumer data in the United States. They highlight the informatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61580753 | 1,621,913 |
774,002 | The first human case of melioidosis in South Asia was reported in Sri Lanka in 1927. In 1932, Thomas and Fletcher collected 83 cases of melioidosis from literature. In this case series, there were only two survivals. Since then, more case series of melioidosis were reported. Thomas and Fletcher also pioneered the use o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=471444 | 773,586 |
1,193,286 | Research in the field of neuropsychopharmacology encompasses a wide range of objectives. These might include the study of a new chemical compound for potentially beneficial cognitive or behavioral effects, or the study of an old chemical compound in order to better understand its mechanism of action at the cell and neu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2917198 | 1,192,649 |
855,014 | Robert was awarded a salary of £1,500 plus £200 expenses per annum, and he and Fanny moved from Newcastle to London, first briefly to St John's Wood and then to a house on Haverstock Hill. Robert drew up plans and made detailed work estimates, dividing the line into 30 contracts, most of which were placed by October 18... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=252957 | 854,559 |
1,227,012 | Studies have shown that the risk of disease outbreaks can increase substantially after forests are cleared. The likelihood of human-nonhuman primates contact events is increased jointly by forest landscape fragmentation and certain smallholders' behaviors in forest patches. Loss of biodiversity may remove natural regul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63478457 | 1,226,351 |
1,529,319 | The institute has state-of the art laboratories; remote sensing and mapping facilities; internationally recognised herbarium; animal house facility; pilot plants in nutraceuticals, essential oil and herbals; farms and polyhouses. The young and dynamic team of scientists propel the research and work dedicatedly to disco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43544874 | 1,528,455 |
199,096 | Parsons' fight against communism was a natural extension of his fight against fascism in the 1930s and the 1940s. For Parsons, communism and fascism were two aspects of the same problem; his article "A Tentative Outline of American Values", published posthumously in 1989, called both collectivistic types "empirical fin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54041 | 198,993 |
1,205,303 | Bell created the V-247 to meet emerging U.S. military needs for a runway-independent Group 4 or 5 UAV to provide persistent support to ground forces while requiring less space to store and transport; Group 4 UAVs weigh more than and fly below , while Group 5 UAVs weigh the same but fly above 18,000 ft, such as the MQ-9... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51742817 | 1,204,658 |
604,269 | Although it considered creation of a separate aviation department to act as the centralized authority for decision-making, both the War and the Navy Departments opposed it, and on October 1, 1917, Congress instead legalized the existence of the APB and changed its name to the "Aircraft Board", transferring its function... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=662917 | 603,959 |
827,347 | In 2011, Prasad and colleagues published a research letter in the "Archives of Internal Medicine." Charles Bankhead, a senior editor at "MedPageToday," covered the topic, outlining the paper's primary point, which was the high prevalence of research articles demonstrating findings that deviated from the accepted standa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57878700 | 826,903 |
248,477 | Ricardo was a man of many trades, economically and financially speaking. Ricardo was able to recognize and identify the problem presented through banking within regulations and debauched standards of approval at certain times. Ricardo knew that banks in rural areas as well as the Bank of England had increased note lend... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8470 | 248,349 |
1,159,198 | The first mathematical formulation of quasispecies was deterministic; it assumed steady state mutant distributions in genetic equilibrium without perturbations derived from modifications of the environment or population size. These conditions are common in initial theoretical formulations of complex phenomena because t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6962692 | 1,158,584 |
1,468,468 | Polymath geniuses—that is, people knowledgeable across an encyclopaedic range of topics—such as Shen Kuo (1031–1095) and Su Song (1020–1101) embodied the spirit of early empirical science and technology in the Song era. Shen is famous for discovering the concept of true north and magnetic declination towards the North ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10444102 | 1,467,644 |
448,960 | Exopolysaccharides can facilitate the attachment of nitrogen-fixing bacteria to plant roots and soil particles, which mediates a symbiotic relationship. This is important for colonization of roots and the rhizosphere, which is a key component of soil food webs and nutrient cycling in ecosystems. It also allows for succ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13575891 | 448,742 |
745,090 | These collectors could be used to produce approximately 50% and more of the hot water needed for residential and commercial use in the United States. In the United States, a typical system costs $4000–$6000 retail ($1400 to $2200 wholesale for the materials) and 30% of the system qualifies for a federal tax credit + ad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=413092 | 744,696 |
1,786,725 | Ajayan is a pioneer in the field of nanotechnology. His PhD work (1989) involved the characterisation of gold nanoparticles on oxide substrates and their phase instabilities. He was involved in the early development of carbon nanotubes. From 1991 onwards, at the NEC Fundamental Research Laboratory in Tsukuba, Japan, he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1111018 | 1,785,720 |
742,545 | The fission-survived isotope Fl, long expected to be doubly magic, is predicted to have alpha decay half-life ~17 days. Making Fl directly by a fusion–evaporation pathway is currently impossible: no known combination of target and stable projectile can give 184 neutrons for the compound nucleus, and radioactive project... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=77473 | 742,152 |
976,791 | The policy adopted by the Royal Navy during the 1950s of acquiring separate types of frigates designed for specialised roles (i.e. anti-submarine, anti-aircraft and aircraft direction) had proved unsatisfactory. Although the designs themselves had proved successful, the lack of standardisation between the different cla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=545031 | 976,280 |
249,690 | From the description: "We all have the sense that the American economy―and its government―tilts toward big business, but as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains in his new book, People, Power, and Profits, the situation is dire. A few corporations have come to dominate entire sectors of the economy, contributing to skyrocketing... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63092 | 249,558 |
96,932 | In the 1990s, Andranik Tangian developed a model of artificial perception that implemented a principle of correlativity, which operationalized the Gestalt psychology laws in their interaction. The model finds structures in data without knowing the structures, similarly to segregating elements in abstract painting—like ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70402 | 96,891 |
9,558 | Microsoft Excel has the basic features of all spreadsheets, using a grid of "cells" arranged in numbered "rows" and letter-named "columns" to organize data manipulations like arithmetic operations. It has a battery of supplied functions to answer statistical, engineering, and financial needs. In addition, it can displa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20268 | 9,554 |
212,540 | The numerical solution of this model to calculate the real-time reproduction number formula_78 of COVID-19 can be practiced based on information from the different populations in a community. Numerical solution is a commonly used method to analyze complicated kinetic networks when the analytical solution is difficult t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=958031 | 212,432 |
1,801,810 | Unreported at the time, the military planned a live nuclear test in the Gulf of Mexico in mid-1958 involving Nike Hercules and Genie missiles. "The Pentagon scheduled a Nike-Hercules operational exercise and a second full-fledged Genie test to take place over the Gulf of Mexico in 1958. However, President Eisenhower ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33714574 | 1,800,801 |
1,049,301 | The amber is apparently referred to in ancient Chinese sources as originating from Yunnan Province as early as the first century AD according to the "Book of the Later Han" and trade with China had been ongoing for centuries. This has been confirmed by Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) analysis of amber ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48679019 | 1,048,755 |
2,052,328 | At the nanoscale, size effects and different dimensional constraints, like grain boundaries, dislocations, and distribution of voids, can tremendously change the properties of a material. Nanolattices possess unparalleled mechanical properties. Nanolattices are the strongest existing cellular materials despite being ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62013142 | 2,051,147 |
1,268,221 | The full ATLAS concept consists of eight 50-centimeter diameter f/2 Wright-Schmidt telescopes, spread over the globe for full-night-sky and 24h/24h coverage, and each fitted with a 110 Megapixel CCD array camera. The current system consists of four such telescopes, two operating 160 km apart on Haleakala and Mauna Loa ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38623877 | 1,267,531 |
496,664 | In the early 19th century, the mining industry and Industrial Revolution stimulated the rapid development of the stratigraphic column – "the sequence of rock formations arranged according to their order of formation in time." In England, the mining surveyor William Smith, starting in the 1790s, found empirically that f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8245348 | 496,408 |
2,068,373 | He then consulted with a distillation expert, James A. Moffett, who was operating the Camden branch of the Standard Oil Company of Parkersburg, Moffett was convinced that dye manufacturing could be profitable and invested money in Bloede & Rathbone. Dye manufacturing was organized as a separate entity named the America... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14490922 | 2,067,182 |
489,407 | Edward Hutchinson Synge is given credit for conceiving and developing the idea for an imaging instrument that would image by exciting and collecting diffraction in the near field. His original idea, proposed in 1928, was based upon the usage of intense nearly planar light from an arc under pressure behind a thin, opaqu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4216002 | 489,154 |
1,740,889 | Chambers 1983 survey included children's images in French and English Canada, Australia and the United States along with a single set of drawings from the People's Republic of China. Schibeci and Sorensen (1983) used the DAST for a study of elementary children in Australia, reporting that the media, primarily televisio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32483221 | 1,739,908 |
1,572,711 | In 2002, the RAPid Telescopes for Optical Response (RAPTOR) project was the first fully autonomous closed–loop robotic telescope. RAPTOR was designed in 2000 and began full deployment in 2002. The project was headed by Tom Vestrand and his team: James Wren, Robert White, P. Wozniak, and Heath Davis. Its first light on ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=970131 | 1,571,823 |
57,931 | Larry Summers wrote about the "devastating consequences" of 3D printing and other technologies (robots, artificial intelligence, etc.) for those who perform routine tasks. In his view, "already there are more American men on disability insurance than doing production work in manufacturing. And the trends are all in the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1305947 | 57,906 |
635,797 | Technological competition with the Soviet Union (as represented by the launch of Sputnik 1), and continued strong support from the Air Force allowed the program to continue, despite divided leadership between the DOD and the AEC. Numerous test facilities were funded and constructed through the 1950s and 1960–61 in orde... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3459152 | 635,458 |
241,891 | The DTD was set up to co-ordinate the work of the various specialised groups of scientists and engineers working on different aspects of the atomic bomb. The word "bomb" was never used in this meeting, but the participants fully understood what was being discussed. In March 1974, Salam and Khan also established the Wah... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=304427 | 241,765 |
517,308 | In his own time, de Vries was best known for his mutation theory. In 1886, he had discovered new forms among a group of "Oenothera lamarckiana", a species of evening primrose, growing wild in an abandoned potato field near Hilversum, having escaped a nearby garden. Taking seeds from these, he found that they produced m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=665725 | 517,039 |
1,311,878 | They indeed found the long carbon chains they were looking for, but also found an unexpected product that had 60 carbon atoms. Over the course of 11 days, the team studied and determined its structure and named it buckminsterfullerene after noting its similarity to the geodesic domes for which the architect Buckminster... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25815 | 1,311,159 |
241,872 | Salam very early established a reputation throughout Punjab and later at the University of Cambridge for outstanding brilliance and academic achievement. At age 14, Salam scored the highest marks ever recorded for the matriculation (entrance) examination at the Punjab University. He won a full scholarship to the Govern... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=304427 | 241,746 |
386,793 | In addition to the problems presented by aluminum construction, the Sheridan had a defect that no other common armored vehicle possessed: it fired caseless 152 mm main gun rounds. These rounds were "fixed", meaning that, unlike the artillery, the warhead was factory attached to the propellant, and if the warhead separa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38094 | 386,598 |
303,815 | The opening shots of Operation Desert Storm were fired on January 17 in pursuit of defense-suppression: at 2:20AM local time Task Force Normandy, a group of twelve American helicopters, infiltrated into Iraq with the goal of destroying two early-warning radar sites. Three MH-53J Pave Lows guided nine AH-64 Apaches to t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=573491 | 303,653 |
1,598,764 | Meredith was born in Lynchburg, Virginia as a daughter of Samuel Peter Meredith and Emma Pink Kenney. She had three siblings, two sisters and a brother. Meredith maintained a lifelong good relationship with her older sister Maude. Samuel, Amaza's father, was a carpenter, and Emma, her mother, was a seamstress. her fath... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48314474 | 1,597,864 |
2,042,210 | Professor Prescott was born on December 12, 1832 in Hasting, New York. He was the youngest of four children in Benjamin Prescott and Experience Huntley Prescott’s household. His ancestor John Prescott migrated from England to Boston in 1640. William Hickling Prescott, the prominent historian, and Colonel William Presco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5148188 | 2,041,030 |
15,413 | , understanding of genetic risk factors had shifted from a focus on a few alleles to an understanding that genetic involvement in ASD is probably diffuse, depending on a large number of variants, some of which are common and have a small effect, and some of which are rare and have a large effect. The most common gene d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29113700 | 15,408 |
55,791 | Warren M. Bodie, journalist, historian, and Skunk Works engineer from 1977 to 1984, wrote that engineering independence, elitism and secrecy of the Skunk Works variety were demonstrated earlier when Lockheed was asked by Lieutenant Benjamin S. Kelsey (later air force brigadier general) to build for the United States Ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55249 | 55,767 |
1,147,698 | Following a spell of bad weather, the airship was walked out on 23 August and, in the early morning, took off for its fourth flight, which had an intended destination of RNAS Pulham in Norfolk, where it could be moored to a mast (a facility unavailable at Howden). The mooring, however, proved impossible because of low ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=588348 | 1,147,093 |
360,844 | WW1 had been a war in which air warfare blossomed, but had not matured to the point of being a real threat to naval forces. The prevailing assumption was that a few relatively small caliber naval guns could manage to keep enemy aircraft beyond a range where harm might be expected. In 1939 radio controlled drones became... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=146640 | 360,656 |
276,091 | Before BrainRush, Bushnell's most recent company was uWink, a company that evolved out of an early project called In10City (pronounced 'Intensity') which was a concept of an entertainment complex and dining experience. uWink was started by Bushnell and his business adviser Loni Reeder, who also designed the original lo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=77245 | 275,941 |
911,449 | The THeMIS (Tracked Hybrid Modular Infantry System), unmanned ground vehicle (UGV), is a ground-based armed drone vehicle designed largely for military applications, and is built by Milrem Robotics in Estonia. The vehicle is intended to provide support for dismounted troops by serving as a transport platform, remote we... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2253116 | 910,970 |
95,513 | In the Oligocene, from twenty-five to thirty-two million years ago, there was another significant restructuring of the global carbon cycle as grasses evolved a new mechanism of photosynthesis, C photosynthesis, and expanded their ranges. This new pathway evolved in response to the drop in atmospheric CO concentrations ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9630 | 95,472 |
1,772,598 | "Vogelgesang" completed overhaul and sea trials on 22 March 1966 and resumed normal duty with the U.S. Atlantic Fleet. That assignment lasted until 1 June at which time she and the other ships of Destroyer Squadron (DesRon) 32 steamed out of Norfolk for a deployment to the western Pacific with Commander Destroyer Divis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=545459 | 1,771,601 |
1,060,418 | At the presentation, alongside former NASA astronauts Dr. Tom Jones and Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders, Foundation head Ed Lu explained that the frequency of dangerous asteroid impacts hitting Earth was from three to ten times greater than previously believed a dozen or so years ago (earlier estimates had pegged the od... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=333633 | 1,059,867 |
2,137,988 | Network Centric Product Support (NCPS) is an early application of an Internet of Things (IoT) computer architecture developed to leverage new information technologies and global networks to assist in managing maintenance, support and supply chain of complex products made up of one or more complex systems, such as in a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16620919 | 2,136,758 |
1,437,805 | Disciplines, courses at the university are taught in accordance with the working curricula of the disciplines. The content of work programs meets the requirements of educational and professional programs and standard training programs approved by the Central Methodological Commission for Higher Medical Education of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28179573 | 1,436,996 |
1,871,340 | Fuller advocated the design science revolution as an alternative to politics, seeking to optimize planetary resources for the benefit of 100% of humanity. He coined the term "synergetics" to explain how design science could create rich returns, such as how "energy income" could be harvested from the environment. His ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1182244 | 1,870,263 |
1,501,019 | In 1999, NASA was selected to head a new Interagency Digital Earth Working Group (IDEW), due to its reputation for technology innovations and its focus on the study of planetary change. The new initiative was located in the NASA's Office of Earth Sciences. This titular focus was considered necessary to help align over ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7297180 | 1,500,173 |
2,139,936 | Two potential process options for the partitioning of spent nuclear fuel are being developed: hydrometallurgical and pyrometallurgical processes. The hydrometallurgical partitioning, also known as solvent extraction process, was born and developed in Europe thereby becoming the reference technology for future SNF repro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64345861 | 2,138,706 |
884,130 | Oxidation of the sample is complete after injection into the furnace, turning oxidizable material in the sample into gaseous form. A carbon-free carrier gas transports the CO, through a moisture trap and halide scrubbers to remove water vapor and halides from the gas stream before it reaches the detector. These substan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1940140 | 883,666 |
1,637,955 | Colón-Ramos was born and raised in Puerto Rico, growing up between the towns of Africa. He studied elementary school in Colegio Mater Salvatoris and high school in Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University in 1998. During his undergraduate career, he pursued research... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59477648 | 1,637,030 |
1,391,490 | The school changed fundamentally during the next decades. The new medical campus finally brought together the School of Medicine, its hospital, the outpatient clinics, laboratory space, and medical library into one location. The move also put the school adjacent to the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, which had... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13893187 | 1,390,719 |
469,406 | "Biosynthesis" i.e. the conversion of organic materials into fine chemicals by microorganisms, is used for the production of both small molecules (using enzymes in whole cell systems) and less complex, non-glycosylated big molecules, including peptides and simpler proteins. The technology has been used for 10,000 years... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3694845 | 469,170 |
1,525,405 | The Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness was commissioned in 1985 as the Australian Animal Health Laboratory, includes a number of laboratories and animal house facilities capable of operating at three steps of negative pressure below the lowest pressure within any part of the extramural wind-zone of the building... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9163506 | 1,524,544 |
542,485 | Hypothetical early and late effects on the central nervous system are of great concern to NASA and an area of active current research interest. It is postulated short- and long-term effects of CNS exposure to galactic cosmic radiation are likely to pose significant neurological health risks to human long-term space tra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14415787 | 542,205 |
490,395 | Despite the limited clinical experience in these decades, that era is remarkable for the demonstration of the role technology has in neuromodulation, and there are some case reports of deep brain stimulation for a variety of problems; real or perceived. Delgado hinted at the power of neuromodulation with his implants i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40651435 | 490,141 |
2,175,439 | The Virtual Soldier Research program (VSR) is a research group within the University of Iowa Center for Computer-Aided Design (CCAD). VSR was founded by Professor Karim Abdel-Malek in 2003 through external funding from the US Army Tank Automotive Command (TACOM) to put the Warfighter at the center of US Army product de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50798140 | 2,174,195 |
690,781 | Historically, medicine became interested in the problem of crime, producing studies of physiognomy (see Johann Kaspar Lavater and Franz Joseph Gall) and the science of phrenology which linked attributes of the mind to the shape of the brain as revealed through the skull. These theories were popular because they absolve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3965084 | 690,418 |
2,134,225 | The main objective of CREDO is the detection and analysis of extended cosmic ray phenomena, so-called super-preshowers (SPS), using existing as well as new infrastructure (cosmic-ray observatories, educational detectors, single detectors etc.). The search for ensembles of cosmic ray events initiated by SPS is yet an un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56857842 | 2,133,000 |
1,359,692 | Several limitations prevent heterologous expression to generate products at an economically feasible level that have been observed in bacteria, yeast, and plants. First, these methods are still extremely expensive compared to natural production, often take a longer time to generate, and require special conditions for h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29071957 | 1,358,941 |
644,950 | The sector is being transformed by commercialization at the small, medium and large-scale enterprise levels. On the other hand, the Nigerian Agricultural sector has encountered several challenges, ranging from an obsolete land tenure system that limits access to land (1.8 ha/farming household), a very low level of irri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5215046 | 644,610 |
2,198,803 | MES, a type of BES, can employ electricity for driving the synthesis of fuels and high value chemicals by employing microbes as cathodic catalysts which also results in the treatment of waste streams (Fig. 3). The dual benefits associated with this system are carbon sequestration and value added chemicals production. A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71759039 | 2,197,551 |
1,410,618 | Elliott Carter wrote that, in a conversation with Ives, he "asked why the notation of the "Concord Sonata" was so vague, why every time he played it, he did something different, sometimes changing the harmonies, the dynamic scheme, the degree of dissonance, the pace... He said that he intended to give only a general in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=627313 | 1,409,826 |
1,357,154 | Smushkevich was born on to a Lithuanian Jewish family in Rokiškis, then part of the Russia Empire. He completed only three grades of primary school before the Emperor of Russia ordered the deportation and exile of all Jews in frontline areas of the First World War, resulting in he and the rest of his family being exile... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23349928 | 1,356,404 |
337,733 | Work on the foundations was complete by 30 June and the erection of the iron work was started. Although no more than 250 men were employed on the site, a prodigious amount of exacting preparatory work was entailed: the drawing office produced 1,700 general drawings and 3,629 detail drawings of the 18,038 different part... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12232 | 337,554 |
555,060 | Empty clathrate hydrates are thermodynamically unstable (guest molecules are of paramount importance to stabilize these structures) with respect to ice, and as such their study using experimental techniques is greatly limited to very specific formation conditions; however, their mechanical stability renders theoretical... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54140 | 554,771 |
1,399,269 | Interior ballistics research at BRL focused primarily on improving the propulsion of munitions and increasing the speed of Army missiles. In working toward this goal, BRL developed new propellants that provided more power and energy while maintaining stability and control. Such work entailed analyzing the chemistry of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30865936 | 1,398,494 |
2,041,777 | Lastly, biological processes regulated by microbes are important drivers of global biogeochemical cycles. In the open ocean, it is estimated that symbioses with the cyanobacterium UCYN-A contribute about 20% to total N fixation. In benthic systems, sponges and corals may support entire ecosystems via their involvement ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68504105 | 2,040,597 |
1,024,640 | Diplomacy before 1700 was not well developed, and chances to avoid wars were too often squandered. In England, for example, King Charles II paid little attention to diplomacy, which proved disastrous. During the Dutch war of 1665-67, England had no diplomats stationed in Denmark or Sweden. When King Charles realized he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=118582 | 1,024,107 |
190,520 | On 1 June 1935, "Kongō"s second reconstruction began. Japan's withdrawal from the London Naval Treaty led to reconstruction of her forward tower to fit the pagoda mast style of design, improvements to the boilers and turbines, and reconfiguration of the aircraft catapults aft of Turret 3. Her new top speed of qualified... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3636947 | 190,423 |
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