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643,094 | Sullivan graduated from William Howard Taft High School in the Woodland Hills district of Los Angeles, California, in 1969. She took both French and German in high school, and resolved to have a career in the foreign service. She chose to enter the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), on account of its excellen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=498730 | 642,755 |
1,596,644 | Multiple limitations as well as possible sources of error must be taken under consideration, and possible solutions or alternatives put into place. The statistical construction of ancient proteins is unverifiable and will not have identical amino acid sequences to ancestral proteins. Reconstruction can also be affected... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56920215 | 1,595,745 |
1,719,501 | The two-stage missile is equipped with solid propellant booster and sustainer rocket motors. The missile uses an initial burn to carry out a vertical hot launch from the container and a secondary burn to sustain the missile's trajectory towards the target at a speed of Mach 9, or . Thrust vector control is used in the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=198447 | 1,718,531 |
1,801,916 | North American Rockwell Block 1 Apollo Command Module, serial "007", a Block 1 spacecraft, built for training and Earth-orbit missions, delivered to NASA in 1966 (and originally identical to CM "012" in which astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee died in the 1967 launchpad fire), after serving as a ground... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33714574 | 1,800,905 |
2,138,225 | Like other Hydromantes, "S. strinatii" produces a deterring secretion from dorsal skin glands as a form of protection. The bright-colored patterns on their backs can be considered aposematic. This secretion may be protective against different microbial infections. "Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans" and "Batrachochytri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53058340 | 2,136,995 |
895,132 | Originally, the planned timeline called for concept work to start in 2009, preliminary designs to be established between 2011 and 2013, then detailed design work completed in time for construction to start in 2016. This was to ensure that the new class would be in service before the "Collins" class began decommissionin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15174021 | 894,662 |
2,019,810 | In 1992 Ross started her academic career as a staff scientist inn the University of California, Berkeley National Center for Electron Microscopy. She moved to the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in 1997 where she worked as a research staff member. Here she developed various microscopic techniques, including "in situ" ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61804794 | 2,018,647 |
1,292,786 | JTIDS began with an advanced planning study sponsored by the Air Force Electronic Systems Division (ESD) Advanced Plans (XR) at L.G. Hanscom Field. The study was conducted by the MITRE Corporation in 1967 and the principal investigators were Vic Desmarines who later became MITRE President and Gordon Welchman who had be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=106295 | 1,292,075 |
1,491,698 | Fundamental Library Language for Reverse Monte Carlo or fullrmc is a multicore RMC modeling package. fullrmc is a fully object-oriented python interfaced package where every definition can be overloaded allowing easy development, implementation and maintenance of the code. fullrmc's computation blocks and modules are o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7747652 | 1,490,859 |
295,140 | In 1886, Adolf Mayer first described the tobacco mosaic disease that could be transferred between plants, similar to bacterial infections. In 1892, Dmitri Ivanovsky gave the first concrete evidence for the existence of a non-bacterial infectious agent, showing that infected sap remained infectious even after filtering ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=164217 | 294,980 |
1,322,655 | When considering land farming as a waste management option, several items should be considered. These include site topography, site hydrology, neighboring land use, and the physical (texture and bulk density) and chemical composition of the waste and the resulting waste-soil mixture. Wastes that contain large amounts o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5124364 | 1,321,929 |
679,016 | To provide an optimum entry date into service, Lockheed decided to use a beefed-up turbofan derivative of the Pratt & Whitney J58. The J58 had already successfully proven itself as a high-thrust, high-performance jet engine on the top-secret Lockheed A-12 (and subsequently on the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird.) Since it was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=265811 | 678,662 |
737,697 | Many other elements and molecules have been detected in ice cores. In 1969, it was discovered that lead levels in Greenland ice had increased by a factor of over 200 since pre-industrial times, and increases in other elements produced by industrial processes, such as copper, cadmium, and zinc, have also been recorded. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=426456 | 737,307 |
631,153 | The 50 kilotons of pure water is continually reprocessed at rate about 30 tons/hour in a closed system since early 2002. Now, raw mine water is recycled through the first step (particle filters and RO) for some time before other processes, which involve expensive expendables, are imposed. Initially, water from the Supe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28464 | 630,815 |
2,062,679 | Bruce was born in New York City in February 1777 and graduated from Columbia College in 1795 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. His father, William Bruce, head of the medical department of the British army at New York, on being ordered to the West Indies, specially directed that his son should not be brought up to the med... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55031906 | 2,061,489 |
291,382 | Virtual reality headsets have been linked to rising cases of rashes, swelling, burning, itching, hives, and bumps. On 27 July 2021, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and Health Canada have coordinated a recall of Facebook's Oculus Quest 2 after 5,716 reports of facial skin irritation were reported with 4... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49608407 | 291,224 |
1,779,613 | Although there are many and varied spatial interactions evident in the early neural networks of the human visual system, only a few are of great importance in high fidelity information sensing. The rest are predominantly associated with processes such as local adaptation. It has therefore been found that the most impor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31923406 | 1,778,610 |
178,208 | Many institutions began to research the algae, including the Carnegie Institution, the Rockefeller Foundation, the NIH, UC Berkeley, the Atomic Energy Commission, and Stanford University. Following World War II, many Europeans were starving, and many Malthusians attributed this not only to the war, but also to the inab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=628811 | 178,115 |
1,939,502 | The track's "of continuously welded, heavy-duty crane-rails aligned to within plus or minus one-tenth inch tolerance [was] the longest" in the US (cf. the shorter 1954 Holloman Rocket Sled). Coleman Engineering Company was contracted for $2 million in June 1954 and constructed the Supersonic Military Air Research Track... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43278552 | 1,938,392 |
916,216 | One common area of study within sport psychology is the relationship between personality and performance. This research focuses on specific personality characteristics and how they are related to performance or other psychological variables. There are various personality characteristics that have been found to be consi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25688228 | 915,734 |
1,228,305 | The ideology of Japan's colonial empire, as it expanded dramatically during the war, contained two contradictory impulses. On the one hand, it preached the unity of the Co-Prosperity Sphere, a coalition of Asian races, directed by Japan, against Western imperialism. This approach celebrated the spiritual values of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54108025 | 1,227,643 |
936,679 | The second data release (DR2), which occurred on 25 April 2018, is based on 22 months of observations made between 25 July 2014 and 23 May 2016. It includes positions, parallaxes and proper motions for about 1.3 billion stars and positions of an additional 300 million stars in the magnitude range g = 3–20, red and blue... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=801330 | 936,183 |
545,046 | Although widely employed, the scientific community is still unsure of the physical phenomena underpinning biofilter operation, and information about the microorganisms involved continues to be developed. A biofilter/bio-oxidation system is a fairly simple device to construct and operate and offers a cost-effective solu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1156603 | 544,762 |
97,912 | Even more productive was the Early Cretaceous Chinese Jehol Biota of Liaoning that since the 1990s has brought forth hundreds of exquisitely preserved two-dimensional fossils, often showing soft tissue remains. Chinese researchers such as Lü Junchang have again named many new taxa. As discoveries also increased in othe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24824 | 97,871 |
1,946,070 | TRAAK channels play a critical role in the maintenance of the resting membrane potential in excitable cell types. More recently, TRAAK channels have been identified as an integral component of the nervous system, contributing to a variety of important biological functions such as: neurite migration, neurotransmission, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14874824 | 1,944,958 |
2,023,990 | N fixation is performed by diazotrophs (N fixing bacteria and archaea), which convert N gas into ammonia (NH). The amount of N fixation and the distribution of diazotrophs in the ocean is determined by the availability of oxygen (O), light, phosphorus (P), iron (Fe), and organic matter, as well as habitat temperature. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58708458 | 2,022,826 |
1,952,589 | Studies of BLOC-1 in the nervous system have begun to link numerous molecular and cellular mechanisms to its proposed contribution to schizophrenia. Knock-down studies of the dysbindin gene DTNBP1 via siRNA demonstrated that the dysbindin subunit is integral for the signaling and recycling of the D2 receptor (DRD2) but... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14498136 | 1,951,468 |
100,249 | The fabrication of lead-free piezoceramics pose multiple challenges, from an environmental standpoint and their ability to replicate the properties of their lead-based counterparts. By removing the lead component of the piezoceramic, the risk of toxicity to humans decreases, but the mining and extraction of the materia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24975 | 100,204 |
709,032 | A few hours after docking while the crew were performing leak checks in preparation for hatch opening, "Nauka"'s onboard computers experienced a software glitch, due to which an erroneous direct command fired onboard thrusters, causing the ISS to rotate out of orientation unexpectedly. NASA and Roscosmos ground control... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=977414 | 708,663 |
1,363,182 | The Model D was a biplane fitted with a wheeled tricycle undercarriage. The construction was primarily of spruce, with ash used in parts of the engine bearers and undercarriage beams, with doped linen stretched over it. The outrigger beams were made of bamboo. Prevented by patents from using the Wright Brothers' wing w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2127899 | 1,362,429 |
1,901,702 | Immediately following his doctoral studies, Shepherd took a research position with the Central Electricity Generating Board to study atmospheric physics and air pollution. In 1974, he moved to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) to undertake research into the marine disposal of radioactive waste. In ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40452477 | 1,900,613 |
1,035,140 | Alguersuari, who qualified eleventh, was the fastest driver not advancing to the final session. His best time of 1:47.666 was 1.8 seconds slower than Vettel's pace in the second session. Alguersuari's time was followed by Hülkenberg, who was backed up by Sutil on his first run in the second session, and described his c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24511010 | 1,034,600 |
471,849 | Space motion sickness can lead to degraded astronaut performance. SMS threatens operational requirements, reduces situational awareness, and threatens the safety of those exposed to micro-g environments. Lost muscle mass leads to difficulty with movement, especially when astronauts return to earth. This can pose a safe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=559869 | 471,613 |
43,211 | It became clear in the aftermath that leaders of these fringe groups had used fears of apocalyptic outcomes to manipulate followers into dramatic scenes of mass repentance or renewed commitment to their groups, additional giving of funds and more overt commitment to their respective organizations or churches. The "Balt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25739013 | 43,195 |
428,612 | The first proximal cause of the accident was maintenance work in the adjacent high-voltage yard by the Swedish grid operator Svenska Kraftnät. An incorrect interlock procedure caused a disconnector to open which sustained an arc that caused a two-phase short circuit in equipment directly adjacent to the plant. This sho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2887370 | 428,402 |
928,069 | Dr. Doshi's city garden methods are revolutionary for being appropriate to apply in reduced spaces as terraces and balconies, even on civil construction walls, and for not requiring big investments in capital or long hours of work. His farming practice is purely organic and is mainly directed to domestic consumption. H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=450257 | 927,581 |
15,312 | In October 2008, Brazil selected three finalists for its F-X2 fighter programme: the Dassault Rafale B/C, the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, and the Gripen NG. The Brazilian Air Force initially planned to procure at least 36 and possibly up to 120 later, to replace its Northrop F‐5EM and Dassault Mirage 2000C aircraft.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=87577 | 15,307 |
1,544,280 | Department of the Navy, Naval Ship Systems Engineering Station, 1983–1987. Transferred to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in 1987. Worked in the Verification Office, Electromechanical Branch, Robotics Branch, Guidance and Controls Branch, all within the Engineering Directorate. Senior EVA Tool Development Engin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=656291 | 1,543,407 |
660,245 | Mann then attended Yale University, intending to obtain a PhD in physics, and received both an MS and an MPhil in physics in 1991. His interest was in theoretical condensed matter physics but he found himself being pushed towards detailed semiconductor work. He looked at course options with a wider topic area and was e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=345811 | 659,900 |
19,675 | American banker and amateur ethnomycologist R. Gordon Wasson and his wife Valentina P. Wasson, a physician, studied the ritual use of psychoactive mushrooms by the native population in the Mazatec village Huautla de Jiménez, Mexico. In 1957, Wasson described the psychedelic visions that he experienced during these ritu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38468 | 19,667 |
206,888 | Mumtaz died in Burhanpur on 17 June 1631, after complications with the birth of their fourteenth child, a daughter named Gauhara Begum. She had been accompanying her husband whilst he was fighting a campaign in the Deccan Plateau. Her body was temporarily buried in a garden called Zainabad on the banks of the Tapti Riv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13325558 | 206,781 |
83,371 | At the end of World War II, the United States Army Air Forces began to consider new directions for future military aircraft guns. The higher speeds of jet-powered fighter aircraft meant that achieving an effective number of hits would be extremely difficult without a much higher volume of fire. While captured German de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44071 | 83,337 |
732,721 | While the exact function of the coccosphere is unclear, many potential functions have been proposed. Most obviously coccoliths may protect the phytoplankton from predators. It also appears that it helps them to create a more stable pH. During photosynthesis carbon dioxide is removed from the water, making it more basic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47520 | 732,334 |
1,017,826 | The initial models included the Executive and the Altera (previously, the SE), both available with a choice of either engine and four-speed automatic or five-speed manual transmissions. From October 1996, fully equipped Advance and Altera LS models (the latter, the equivalent of the previous Elite model) were added. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=903910 | 1,017,302 |
640,273 | In 2016, two studies further pinpointed the responsible region to chromosome 11 and a 4.5-Mb covering chromosomal rearrangement. The scientists were able to show that the first genetic change happened 3.8 million years ago on the resident chromosome, when a part of it broke off and was reintroduced in the wrong directi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=350073 | 639,934 |
650,634 | In 2014, a research team led by Eric Quandt in the lab of Jeffrey Barrick at the University of Texas at Austin described the application of a new technique called Recursive Genomewide Recombination and Sequencing (REGRES) to identify potentiating mutations among the 70 present in the Ara-3 lineage that evolved Cit. Thi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17998857 | 650,293 |
1,522,346 | A one-year archaeological survey was performed at the school in 2003. The survey found evidence of human activity in the campus' wooded property dating at least 3,600 years, with elements dating from around 1700 BCE and up until the mid-20th century. The survey was a requirement of New York's State Historic Preservatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52318792 | 1,521,485 |
658,306 | An ambitious construction programme of five twin reactor stations, Dungeness B, Hinkley Point B, Hunterston B, Hartlepool and Heysham was quickly rolled out, and export orders were eagerly anticipated. For political reasons the CEGB was instructed to spread the 'first generation' orders between three different 'design ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=143352 | 657,961 |
320,343 | Since his arrival in America, Priestley had continued to defend his Christian Unitarian beliefs; now, falling increasingly under the influence of Thomas Cooper and Elizabeth Ryland-Priestley, he was unable to avoid becoming embroiled in political controversy. In 1798, when, in response to the Pinckney affair, a bellige... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40176 | 320,171 |
864,521 | As a forerunner in Europe, Spain adopted the metre as geodetic standard. In 1866 Spain joined the geodetic association and was represented by Carlos Ibáñez e Ibáñez de Ibero. He had devised a geodetic standard calibrated against the metre which had been compared to the Toise of Borda (a copy of the Toise of Peru constr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28200487 | 864,061 |
1,593,119 | Before the microneurography technique was developed in the late 1960s, impulses in peripheral nerves had been recorded in animal experiments alone using a technique that involved dissection and splitting the nerve. This approach is not tolerable for general use in humans although it has been pursued in one single study... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7360700 | 1,592,222 |
1,694,837 | By keeping much of their air forces in reserve, the Allies conceded air superiority to the "Luftwaffe" but operations on 10 May cost 347 aircraft and by the end of the month the "Luftwaffe" had lost 30 percent of its aircraft, with another 13 percent badly damaged. Intensive and costly air operations were made in suppo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51751618 | 1,693,886 |
843,558 | Conway has been a critic of the Blanchard, Bailey, and Lawrence theory of male-to-female transsexualism that all trans women are motivated either by feminine homosexuality or autogynephilia. She was also a key person in the campaign against J. Michael Bailey's book about the theory, "The Man Who Would Be Queen." Americ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=747715 | 843,108 |
1,123,693 | Paul Preuss was born in the mountain town of Altaussee, Austria on 19 August 1886. His father, Eduard, a Hungarian of Jewish descent, taught music; his mother, Caroline Lauchheim, an Alsatian, had been a private tutor for a baron. They met when Eduard was engaged to give Caroline's wards music lessons. Based in Vienna,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5889884 | 1,123,119 |
1,533,401 | Interim regulations implementing the Commercial Space Launch Act were issued within a year of the Act's passage and final regulations were issued a year later. The licensing framework created at that time was modular and designed to handle any type of space vehicle or spacecraft. At the time it was designed based on th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1800820 | 1,532,533 |
147,265 | In 1872, George Brayton applied for a patent for his "Ready Motor", a reciprocating heat engine operating on a gas power cycle. The engine was a two-stroke and produced power on every revolution. Brayton engines used a separate piston compressor and piston expander, with compressed air heated by internal fire as it ent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=411441 | 147,207 |
460,725 | In 2015, the FDA approved a new Veterinary Feed Directive (VFD), an updated guideline giving instructions to pharmaceutical companies, veterinarians and producers about how to administer necessary drugs through the animal's feed and water. Around the same time, the FDA published a report of antibiotics sold or distribu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40364158 | 460,499 |
1,520,734 | Like the mixed relay, USA was able to assemble a new team of four fresh athletes. Phyllis Francis led off taking an early lead, making up the 3-turn stagger distance and passing both teams, Canada and Ukraine to her outside early into the final turn. Poland's lone fresh athlete Iga Baumgart-Witan and Jamaica's Anastasi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61921788 | 1,519,873 |
1,057,956 | The Pleistocene glaciations scoured the landscape clean and covered much of it in deep quaternary sediments. Therefore, no undisputed Early or Middle Palaeolithic sites or finds are known from Sweden. As far as it is currently known, the country's prehistory begins in the Allerød interstadial c. 12,000 BC with Late Pal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13840112 | 1,057,407 |
458,066 | The density of light paths from WDM was the key to the massive expansion of fiber optic capacity that enabled the growth of the Internet in the 1990s. Since the 1990s, the channel count and capacity of dense WDM systems has increased substantially, with commercial systems able to transmit close to 1 Tbit/s of traffic a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3843580 | 457,843 |
785,529 | The high-water mark of polygenic theories was Josiah Nott and Gliddon's voluminous eight-hundred page tome titled "Types of Mankind", published in 1854. Reproducing the work of Louis Agassiz and Samuel Morton, the authors spread the virulent and explicitly racist views to a wider, more popular audience. The first print... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1676362 | 785,108 |
2,062,129 | Because most oceanographic activity in Canada is federally funded, the cutbacks of 1985 affected scientific research in this field. For example, the Pacific Ocean research facilities of the Defence Research Board were closed. However, in spite of this, the Bedford Institute of Oceanography has maintained its status as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18401364 | 2,060,939 |
1,515,289 | Non-Gaussian statistics arise due to the nonlinear mapping of random initial conditions into output states. For example, modulation instability amplifies input noise, which ultimately leads to soliton formation. Also, in systems displaying heavy-tailed statistical properties, random input conditions often enter through... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42450197 | 1,514,438 |
2,111,770 | Pure-tone audiometry screening, in which there is typically no attempt to find threshold, has been found to accurately assess hearing status in children six years and older, when trained health workers in the community of rural Bangladeshi village used a simple condition play response procedure (Berg et al., 2006). Rec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49432879 | 2,110,555 |
1,921,263 | The figure to the right shows 15-second samples of the raw counts (per 20.48ms) observed in a 1973 sounding-rocket-borne exposure to three of the X-ray brightest binary sources in our galaxy: Her X-1 (1.7 days), Cyg X-3 (0.2 day), and Cyg X-1 (5.6 days). The 1.24 second pulsar period associated with Her X-1 is immediat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25119101 | 1,920,160 |
401,570 | One of the most recent of Rensselaer's research centers is the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies, a 218,000 square-foot research facility and a national pacesetter for fundamental and applied research in biotechnology. The primary target of the research center is biologics, a research priority base... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=194026 | 401,371 |
1,790,120 | Early work with biofuel cells, which began in the early 20th century, was purely of the microbial variety. Research on using enzymes directly for oxidation in biofuel cells began in the early 1960s, with the first enzymatic biofuel cell being produced in 1964. This research began as a product of NASA's interest in find... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16138478 | 1,789,114 |
1,051,259 | There is no obvious single reason for the pseudotooth birds' extinction. A scenario of general ecological change – exacerbated by the beginning ice age and changes in ocean currents due to plate tectonic shifts (e.g. the emergence of the Antarctic circumpolar current or the closing of the Isthmus of Panama) – is more l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9205088 | 1,050,713 |
1,911,709 | Badè had a long-standing interest in archaeology. He traveled in the Middle East in 1909 and had planned to start fieldwork in Syria in 1914, but World War I and his appointment as Muir's executor intervened. He continued to study archaeology, including the methods employed in desert areas of the American Southwest. In... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38524295 | 1,910,610 |
1,712,055 | FitzRoy's instructions set detailed requirements for geological survey of a circular coral atoll to investigate how coral reefs formed, particularly if they rose from the bottom of the sea or from the summits of extinct volcanoes, and to assess the effects of tides by measurement with specially constructed gauges. Fitz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21185695 | 1,711,090 |
2,247,125 | Thwaites' greatest achievement was in the design and supervision of the construction of Melbourne's underground sewerage scheme, which was at the time the largest civil engineering project in the history of Victoria. He initially gave evidence to the Royal Commission into the Sanitary Conditions of Melbourne in 1889 at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38987490 | 2,245,853 |
338,341 | The method was developed in the late 1940s at the University of Chicago by Willard Libby. It is based on the fact that radiocarbon () is constantly being created in the Earth's atmosphere by the interaction of cosmic rays with atmospheric nitrogen. The resulting combines with atmospheric oxygen to form radioactive carb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26197 | 338,161 |
793,066 | 20-Hydroxyecdysone and other ecdysteroids are marketed as ingredients in nutritional supplements for various sports, particularly bodybuilding. A comprehensive study, designed to find any strength or athletic improvement from 20-hydroxyecdysone, was published in 2006. The study looked for improvement in actual exercise... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1092225 | 792,641 |
1,777,838 | In 1958, Philip LeCompte reexamined acute onset disease and short duration by studying 4 related insulitis cases. LeCompte theorised that insulitis was a rare, but significant lesion that may have been under-diagnosed, and the cellular infiltrate could be caused by an infection agent, a functional strain of the islets,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16821436 | 1,776,836 |
211,156 | Limits of the method are related to the parameter sets used, and to the underlying molecular mechanics force fields. One run of an MD simulation optimizes the potential energy, rather than the free energy of the protein , meaning that all entropic contributions to thermodynamic stability of protein structure are neglec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=198608 | 211,049 |
514,642 | Brusatte was born in Ottawa, Illinois to Jim and Roxanne Brusatte. He was educated at the Ottawa Township High School. From 2002, he attended the University of Chicago from where he earned his BS in geophysical sciences in 2006. He studied under Paul Sereno. He was elected a Student Marshal, the highest academic honor ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7124671 | 514,376 |
763,184 | Ancient writers like Zosimus in the 5th century AD condemned the "reserve" policy as a major weakening of the military force. Other modern scholars (Ferrill et al.) also see the pullback as a strategic mistake, arguing that it left lower quality "second string" limitanei forces to stop an enemy until the distant mobile... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30855309 | 762,775 |
1,207,980 | George Robert Carruthers (October 1, 1939 – December 26, 2020) was an African American inventor, physicist, engineer and space scientist. Carruthers perfected a compact and very powerful ultraviolet camera/spectrograph for NASA to use when it launched Apollo 16 in 1972. He designed it so astronauts could use it on the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2385684 | 1,207,334 |
1,771,866 | The great law-giver, Solon, having served as Archon of Athens for 22 years, retired from public life and saw the city, almost immediately, fall under the dictatorship of Peisistratus. Though a dictator, Peisistratus understood Solon's wisdom, carried on his policies and after his death, his son Hippias continued this t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21792815 | 1,770,869 |
821,670 | The official figures are too low to account for the acute health effects reported by some local residents and documented in two books; such health effects require exposure to at least 100,000 millirems (100 rems) to the whole body - 1000 times more than the official estimates. The reported health effects are consistent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23167546 | 821,229 |
566,913 | The game's themes of revenge and retribution were inspired by Druckmann's own experiences growing up in the West Bank, where violence was a frequent topic. He specifically recalled watching footage of the 2000 Ramallah lynching and how, after hearing the cheering crowds, his mind immediately turned to violent thoughts ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64504979 | 566,623 |
779,487 | After Mao died on September 9, 1976, his rival, Deng Xiaoping, denounced during the Cultural Revolution as reactionary and therefore forced to retire from all his offices, slowly re-emerged as China's new leader in 1978. At first, the new development was slowed. Then, several key projects deemed unnecessary were simply... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=343674 | 779,070 |
1,758,479 | He was active in Irish politics in the 1990s and led the Christian Solidarity Party between 1993 and 1999. He now holds libertarian and what he terms (philosophically) anarchistic views. His philosophical interests include political philosophy, philosophy of law and philosophy of religion. He has appeared from time to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4215185 | 1,757,486 |
2,162,754 | In 1983 Bryan founded Pan Australian Mining Ltd (now the $740 million Pan Australian Resources) and, as managing director, oversaw the development of a major gold mine at Mount Leyshon, near Charters Towers in Queensland. He was also chairman of Highlands Pacific, a mineral explorer in Papua New Guinea. Bryan became th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56835246 | 2,161,519 |
1,409,045 | A 1987 study at Indiana University Bloomington used 14 "Mechanical Universe" episodes as part of an introductory course on Newtonian mechanics, with generally positive results:[T]hese tapes were particularly effective in placing Newtonian mechanics in a historical perspective; dramatizing the historical overthrow of Ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4840666 | 1,408,253 |
313,153 | However, on 11 December 1974 a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Federal Republic of Germany and the US about the common future production of a main battle tank; this made any application of Chobham armour dependent on the eventual choice for a tank type. Earlier in 1974 the Americans had asked the Ger... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=200127 | 312,985 |
536,254 | In the 15th century, Ghiyath al-Kashi computed the value of π to the 16th decimal place. Kashi also had an algorithm for calculating "n"th roots. In 1533, Regiomontanus's table of sines and cosines were published. Scipione del Ferro and Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia discovered solutions for cubic equations. Gerolamo Cardan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6134187 | 535,975 |
25,967 | Soviet overflights resumed in June 1957 from Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska to the Russian Far East, which had less effective radar systems. Others originated from Lahore, Pakistan. A Lahore flight on 5 August provided the first photographs of the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam: the CIA had been unaware of its exi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32310 | 25,958 |
551,175 | Bragg's interest in physics developed, particularly in the field of electromagnetism. In 1895, he was visited by Ernest Rutherford, en route from New Zealand to Cambridge; this was the commencement of a lifelong friendship. Bragg had a keen interest in the new discovery of X-rays by Wilhelm Röntgen. On 29 May 1896 at A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=396459 | 550,887 |
149,038 | Their primitive synapsid and therapsid ancestors were very large (between ) but cynodonts gradually decreased in size (to ) even before the Permian-Triassic extinction event, probably due to competition with other therapsids. After the extinction event, the probainognathian cynodont group rapidly decreased in size (to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10727548 | 148,977 |
325,077 | Piaget attributed different types of psychosocial processes to different forms of social relationships, introducing a fundamental distinction between different types of said relationships. Where there is constraint because one participant holds more power than the other the relationship is asymmetrical, and, importantl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=95274 | 324,904 |
2,012,666 | For best isolation results, it is imperative that fecal samples be collected, refrigerated and sent to the diagnostic laboratory as soon as possible to maintain sample integrity. For rectal swabs, Amies or Cary-Blair transport mediums are recommended in order to protect the sample from toxic effects of oxygen on "Campy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13719794 | 2,011,513 |
1,098,983 | However, the Chase hypothesis has been criticized by Tonio Andrade. According to Andrade, the Chinese themselves considered guns to be highly valuable against nomads. During the Ming-Mongol wars of the 1300s and early 1400s, guns were utilized. In October 1428, the Xuande Emperor led an imperial border unit of 3,000 ag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56557517 | 1,098,423 |
48,895 | Ground-launched cruise missiles (GLCM) and their truck-like launch vehicles were employed at bases in Europe; they were withdrawn from service to comply with the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. Many of the anti-ship versions were converted into TLAMs at the end of the Cold War. The Block III TLAMs that e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31238 | 48,875 |
1,110,507 | In 1917 the Foreign Data Section of the Army Signal Corps’ Airplane Engineering Department was established at McCook Field, and a NASIC predecessor operated the Army Aeronautical Museum of the Material Division, August 22, 1935. The Office of the Chief of Air Corps's Information Division had become the OCAC Intelligenc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38616763 | 1,109,942 |
2,200,823 | Coherent microwave scattering is a diagnostic technique used in the characterization of classical microplasmas. In this technique, the plasma to be studied is irradiated with a long-wavelength microwave field relative to the characteristic spatial dimensions of the plasma. For plasmas with sufficiently low skin-depths,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71498717 | 2,199,571 |
743,153 | Additional preclinical and clinical data, suggest that Substance P [SP] and IL-6 may act in concert to promote major depression. SP, a hybrid neurotransmitter-cytokine, is co-transmitted with BDNF through paleo-spinothalamic circuitry from the periphery with collaterals into key areas of the limbic system. However, bot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1613644 | 742,759 |
915,261 | At the beginning of World War II, Utah State was one of six colleges selected by the United States Navy to give a Primary School in the highly unusual Electronics Training Program (ETP). Starting March 23, 1942, and each month thereafter, a new group of 100 Navy students arrived for three months of 14-hour days in conc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=267513 | 914,780 |
492,035 | "Ulysses" was launched October 6, 1990, and reached Jupiter for its "gravitational slingshot" in February 1992. It passed the south solar pole in June 1994 and crossed the ecliptic equator in February 1995. The solar X-ray and cosmic gamma-ray burst experiment (GRB) had 3 main objectives: study and monitor solar flares... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44062 | 491,781 |
89,432 | On July 14, 2011, "The Jerusalem Post" reported that the IDF had begun developing a successor for the Merkava series of tanks. The development was begun in part by the arrival of the Trophy active protection system. With the system's ability to intercept threats at a stand-off distance, there was a review of the need f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=166378 | 89,395 |
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