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1,672,668 | Foreman was designated a Naval Aviator in January 1981 and assigned to Patrol Squadron 23 (VP-23) at NAS Brunswick, Maine. He made deployments to Rota, Spain; Lajes, Azores; Bermuda and Panama. Following this tour he attended the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California where he earned a Master of Science... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4936355 | 1,671,726 |
22,814 | Literary interpretation has considered the myth of Icarus as a consequence of excessive ambition. An Icarus-related study of the Daedalus myth was published by the French hellenist . In psychology, there have been synthetic studies of the "Icarus complex" with respect to the alleged relationship between fascination for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=82721 | 22,805 |
1,121,724 | An extractable nuclear antigen panel, or an ENA panel, tests for presence of autoantibodies in the blood that react with proteins in the cell nucleus. It is usually done as a follow up to a positive antinuclear antibody (ANA) test and when one is showing symptoms of an autoimmune disorder. The ANA tests for the presenc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4948393 | 1,121,150 |
1,663,972 | In 2008, Joint Forces Command, then caretaker of U.S. Military Joint Warfighting doctrine, noted the failure of US Army's Theater EBO software development and issued memorandum and a guidance documents from then commander, Marine General James Mattis, on Effects Based Operations. In these documents dated 14 August 2008... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9203715 | 1,663,035 |
1,255,862 | The Modi led BJP Govt had promised to set up a National Maritime Authority (NMA) of India in their 2014 election manifesto to ensure cohesive policy-making and effective coordination on coastal security among the multiple authorities dealing with maritime issues in the country. But the proposal for the same is yet to s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36309503 | 1,255,178 |
1,923,488 | Unlike karyotypes obtained from conventional cytogenetics, virtual karyotypes are reconstructed by computer programs using signals obtained from "disrupted" DNA. In essence, the computer program will correct translocations when it lines up the signals in chromosomal order. Therefore, virtual karyotypes cannot detect ba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21777359 | 1,922,385 |
797,358 | In his 1995 book "Race, Evolution, and Behavior", Rushton alleged an average endocranial volume of 1,364 cm for East Asians, 1,347 for white caucasians and 1,268 for black Africans. Other similar claims were previously made by Ho et al. (1980), who measured 1,261 brains at autopsy, and Beals et al. (1984), who measured... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=923594 | 796,933 |
1,166,185 | This paper is based on the Zimmerman 2008 MS thesis; the full methods are in the MS thesis. A web-based poll performed by Peter Doran and Maggie Kendall Zimmerman of the Earth and Environmental Sciences department, University of Illinois at Chicago. They received replies from 3,146 of the 10,257 polled Earth scientists... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34060450 | 1,165,568 |
1,444,490 | The introduction of the absorption materials reduces the velocity of sound through the line, as discovered by Bailey in his original work. Bradbury published his extensive tests to determine this effect in a paper in the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society (JAES) in 1976 and his results agreed that heavily damped ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7417940 | 1,443,677 |
1,039,261 | The Safe Surgery Saves Lives group held a study across eight hospitals worldwide, comparing their surgical safety measures and complication rates both before and after each local study team introduced the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist. They found that across the 3,733 surgical patients before implementation and 3,955 a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30541130 | 1,038,720 |
1,490,087 | In 1911, landscape architect John Nolen proposed an arboretum for Madison based on Boston's Arnold Arboretum. The UW Arboretum was founded on April 26, 1932, when the University Board of Regents accepted the deeds to 6 parcels, 246 acres of land on the southwestern end of Madison's Lake Wingra, creating the "University... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3641694 | 1,489,248 |
1,359,693 | There are many areas of active research addressing these limitations of utilizing heterologous expression, especially in a commercial setting. One approach is to determine the optimal host system for each specific target protein product, as different, especially non-native proteins often have deviant behavior in other ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29071957 | 1,358,942 |
670,997 | "Szent István" was hit by two torpedoes abreast her boiler rooms. The aft boiler room quickly flooded and gave the ship a 10° list to starboard. Counterflooding of the portside trim cells and magazines reduced the list to 7°, but efforts to use collision mats to plug the holes failed. While this was going on the dreadn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1089216 | 670,645 |
260,876 | The 3.2 L Power Stroke is an inline-five engine that debuted in the U.S.-spec Transit for model year 2015. The engine is a modified version of the Ford Duratorq 3.2 L diesel engine that has been adapted to meet emissions in the United States. To aid in economy, emissions, and reduce NVH, it has a high pressure common r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1008769 | 260,739 |
1,891,166 | To shape an overall image for mines in antiquity we have to consider in mind many different factors not only the architectural remains. Social context is one of these factors. The term includes the social status of the miners, their way of life, the relationships with adjoined communities due to archaeological record, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20257647 | 1,890,083 |
1,303,601 | Studies under the discipline are concerned with the ethnoecologies of indigenous populations. Due to various factors associated with globalization, indigenous ethnoecologies are facing increasing challenges such as, "migration, media, and commerce spread people, institutions, information, and technology". "In the face ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1781619 | 1,302,885 |
396,621 | Using animal studies, the pathology of a concussion seems to start with mechanical shearing and stretching forces disrupting the cell membrane of nerve cells through "mechanoporation". This results in potassium outflow from within the cell into the extracellular space with the subsequent release of excitatory neurotran... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=399231 | 396,425 |
33,920 | In November 2007, HP released a BIOS update covering a wide range of laptops with the intent to speed up the computer fan and have it run constantly while the computer was on or off to prevent the overheating of defective Nvidia graphics processing units (GPUs) that had been shipped to many of the original equipment ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21347024 | 33,908 |
334,208 | Given the wide range of bacterial, viral, fungal, protozoal, and helminthic pathogens that cause debilitating and life-threatening illnesses, the ability to quickly identify the cause of infection is important yet often challenging. For example, more than half of cases of encephalitis, a severe illness affecting the br... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37220 | 334,030 |
2,164,008 | Kaushal Kishore, born on the last day of 1942 in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, did his graduate studies in chemistry at Lucknow University and obtained his master's degree from the same institution before enrolling for doctoral studies at Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University where he studied under the guidance... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52349369 | 2,162,772 |
123,185 | Vasovagal (situational) syncope is one of the most common types which may occur in response to any of a variety of triggers, such as scary, embarrassing or uneasy situations, during blood drawing, or moments of sudden unusually high stress. There are many different syncope syndromes which all fall under the umbrella of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20254750 | 123,136 |
1,360,198 | Fourth generation systems (1990s) use more commercial packaging and electronic key distribution. Integrated circuit technology allowed backward compatibility with third generation systems. Security tokens, such as the KSD-64 crypto ignition key (CIK) were introduced. Secret splitting technology allows encryptors and CI... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1042273 | 1,359,446 |
1,701,636 | While functional roles for TP receptor signaling in diverse homeostatic and pathological processes have been demonstrated in animal models, in humans these roles have been demonstrated mainly with respect to platelet function, blood clotting, and hemostasis. TP has also been proposed to be involved in human: blood pres... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6519036 | 1,700,681 |
428,427 | Geological engineers also perform a primary role in all forms of underground infrastructure including tunnelling, mining, hydropower projects, shafts, deep repositories and caverns for power, storage, industrial activities, and recreation. Moreover, geological engineers design monitoring systems, analyze natural and in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67662946 | 428,217 |
918,011 | The built environment can heavily impact the public’s health. Historically, unsanitary conditions and overcrowding within cities and urban environments have led to infectious diseases and other health threats. Dating back to Georges-Eugene Haussmann's comprehensive plans for urban Paris in the 1850s, concern for lack o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=224985 | 917,528 |
1,571,087 | Cott was well aware that he was publishing in wartime. There are, as Julian Huxley remarks in his 'Introduction', references throughout the book to the human analogues of animal camouflage and concealment. For example, in the section on 'Adaptive Silence', the kestrel is said to "practise dive-bombing attacks", or "aft... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37658639 | 1,570,199 |
750,688 | Prior to, and in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, interest has grown in ABMs as possible tools for economic analysis. ABMs do not assume the economy can achieve equilibrium and "representative agents" are replaced by agents with diverse, dynamic, and interdependent behavior including herding. ABMs take a "bottom-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=985619 | 750,290 |
236,287 | Dating a specific sample of fossilized carbonaceous material is more complicated. Such deposits often contain trace amounts of carbon-14. These amounts can vary significantly between samples, ranging up to 1% of the ratio found in living organisms, a concentration comparable to an apparent age of 40,000 years. This may... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=146250 | 236,168 |
1,368,409 | Military interest in photophones continued after Bell's time. For example in 1935, the German Army developed a photophone where a tungsten filament lamp with an IR transmitting filter was used as a light source. Also, American and German military laboratories continued the development of high-pressure arc lamps for opt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42670800 | 1,367,653 |
728,385 | Throughout both the United States and Europe, the rational planning movement declined in the latter half of the 20th century. The reason for the movement's decline was also its strength. By focusing so much on a design by technical elites, rational planning lost touch with the public it hoped to serve. Key events in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45346 | 728,001 |
1,383,837 | Doob was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, February 27, 1910, the son of a Jewish couple, Leo Doob and Mollie Doerfler Doob. The family moved to New York City before he was three years old. The parents felt that he was underachieving in grade school and placed him in the Ethical Culture School, from which he graduated in 1926.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1547599 | 1,383,070 |
876,888 | Chemistry tests include lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) levels, uric acid levels, erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), kidney and liver function, total protein levels, and an albumin-to-globulin ratio. The ESR and uric acid level may be elevated. Creatinine is occasionally elevated and electrolytes are occasionally abnorm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2898867 | 876,426 |
2,014,461 | Walker's natural history lectures spanned the academic year and were divided into two sections. The first half of the year he gave his 'Hippocratean' lectures, that is, meteorology, hydrology and geology. The second half of the year was devoted to the three kingdoms of nature: minerals, plants, and animals. During the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=635652 | 2,013,302 |
1,573,119 | Initially the need for direct contact between the pipette and the cell membrane limited patch clamp's use to cultured cell preparations. Brain slice preparations have debris, blood and lymph vessels or off target cells which may block the pipette from its target. In time it was found that application of enzymatic solut... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66692692 | 1,572,230 |
188,504 | nisms, and wire spool winding and reeling mechanisms. India later excepted the French offer to produce SS-11B anti-tank guided missiles in 1970s. In another phase initiated in 1970s, Project Devil to reverse engineer Soviet SA-2 Guideline and Project Valiant to develop an Inter-continental ballistic missile too ended u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35786896 | 188,407 |
1,568,141 | The calls to transport troops had come at short notice, and feeding the soldiers had put a significant dent in "Westralia"s supplies, with the sailors spending most of December on short rations. After sailing to Cairns for replenishment (most of the commissaries in Darwin had been drained to supply Australian and Dutch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3763791 | 1,567,254 |
719,319 | Following the completion of these ground tests, the aircraft was fitted with a flightworthy engine rated for 10 hours use, and then partially dismantled and transported to RAF Cranwell, near Sleaford in Lincolnshire which had a long runway and no high ground in the vicinity. On 15 May 1941, Gerry Sayer flew the aircraf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=364147 | 718,939 |
712,547 | Since the close of the Vietnam War, the changing world situation and increased operational tasking have prompted the expansion of EOD units in number, size and capabilities. Their record in recent history includes the Gulf War where EOD Technicians cleared in excess of 500 naval mines. EOD was the critical element in e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2533387 | 712,175 |
407,415 | Five astronauts, including Rick Husband, the final commander of Space Shuttle "Columbia" and recipient of the Congressional Space Medal of Honor, graduated from the university. U.S. Marine Corps Major and Medal of Honor recipient George H. O'Brien Jr. is a distinguished alumnus. Richard E. Cavazos is a two-time Disting... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=272980 | 407,214 |
934,281 | In 1926 Takeshita invited Ueshiba to visit Tokyo again. Ueshiba relented and returned to the capital, but while residing there was stricken with a serious illness. Deguchi visited his ailing student and, concerned for his health, commanded Ueshiba to return to Ayabe. The appeal of returning increased after Ueshiba was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20069 | 933,789 |
241,331 | Because ultrasound imaging techniques do not employ ionizing radiation to generate images (unlike radiography, and CT scans), they are generally considered safer and are therefore more common in obstetrical imaging. The progression of pregnancies can be thoroughly evaluated with less concern about damage from the techn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=152623 | 241,211 |
2,150,534 | Here he remained for twenty-four years, developing in public work and as a pulpit orator. He reconciled a division in his congregation, founded a charity school (1788), and published a hymn-book. His colleagues after Simpson's retirement were (1778) Nathaniel Philipps (died 20 October 1842), the last dissenting ministe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25746123 | 2,149,303 |
1,497,984 | Darwin's book "The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs" on his theory of atoll formation was published in May after more than three years of work, with "Part 4: Fish" of "Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle" also going to print. Illness was a continuing problem, and he and Emma left London on 18 May, visiting ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1588456 | 1,497,141 |
288,777 | Plasma displays are bright (1,000 lux or higher for the display module), have a wide color gamut, and can be produced in fairly large sizes—up to diagonally. They had a very low luminance "dark-room" black level compared with the lighter grey of the unilluminated parts of an LCD screen. (As plasma panels are locally li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=175859 | 288,620 |
1,231,937 | The southward expansion of the Han dynasty led to new trade routes and diplomatic contact with foreign kingdoms. In 111 BCE, Emperor Wu conquered the Kingdom of Nanyue in what is now modern northern Vietnam and Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan; thereafter he opened up maritime trade to both Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21620577 | 1,231,275 |
866,540 | These materials are similar to those used in direct fillings and are tooth-colored. Their strength and durability is not as high as porcelain or metal restorations and they are more prone to wear and discolouration. As with other composite materials, a dental composite typically consists of a resin-based matrix, which ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1078092 | 866,080 |
1,516,466 | "Iron Duke" recommissioned two months later and was assigned as the guardship at Hull. During the First Reserve Squadron's summer cruise on 1 September, she was en route with three other ironclads between Dublin and Queenstown (now Cobh). In a thick fog, the ship accidentally rammed her sister, "Vanguard", off Kish Ban... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1227883 | 1,515,614 |
1,571,351 | Both the community of insects and the viruses were a good start to the history of model organisms, but there are yet still more players involved. At the turn of the century much biomedical research was being done using animals and especially mammalian bodies to further biologists’ understanding of life processes. It wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8238114 | 1,570,463 |
1,874,156 | Gerhart and Kirschner give the example of the evolution of a bird or bat wing from a tetrapod forelimb. They explain how, if bones undergo regulatory change in length and thickness as a result of genetic mutation, the muscles, nerves and vasculature will accommodate to those changes without themselves requiring indepen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2998760 | 1,873,079 |
1,678,558 | Next, the TPC is located inside several layers of active and passive shielding to reduce rates of external gamma rays and neutrons. The TPC is housed in an inner cryostat, which maintains the temperatures needed to keep the xenon in the liquid phase (approximately 178K). This inner cryostat is nested in a larger, outer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45414564 | 1,677,615 |
1,339,141 | He continued to maintain and transplant the tumor in different individuals. In 1911, he made a seminal observation that cell-free filtrate (using Berkefeld filter that separate bacteria and large microbes) of chicken sarcoma could produce a malignant tumor when transferred to other chickens, describing:A transmissible ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4980244 | 1,338,408 |
620,654 | The Ural owl is a highly territorial and residential species that, as a rule, tends to stay on the same home range throughout the year. While most boreal owls, such as great grey owl and boreal owl, are generally given to nomadism and irruptive movements, with nearly the entire population following the population cycle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=815909 | 620,338 |
395,801 | Gore's use of long ice core records of CO and temperature (from oxygen isotope measurements) in Antarctic ice cores to illustrate the correlation between the two drew some scrutiny; Schmidt, Steig and Michael E. Mann back up Gore's data. "Gore stated that the greenhouse gas levels and temperature changes over ice age s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4097799 | 395,606 |
401,618 | Other notable alumni include 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics winner Ivar Giaever (Ph.D. 1964); the first African-American woman to become a thoracic surgeon, Rosalyn Scott (B.S. 1970); director of Linux International Jon Hall (M.S. 1977); NCAA president Myles Brand (B.S. 1964); Lois Graham (B.S.ME 1946), who was the first ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=194026 | 401,419 |
1,411,476 | Subsurface water was especially affected by radioactivity in the 30-km zone of evacuation (so called “exclusion zone”), surrounding the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, or CNPP (Kovar&Herbert, 1998. The major and most hazardous contaminant from the perspective of hydrological spread was Strontium-90. This nuclide showed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59803219 | 1,410,683 |
209,651 | Instead, in regard to the ancestry of Far Eastern peoples, racial anthropologists had long placed the origin of Chinese civilisation in the Near East, namely Babylon as suggested by French archaeologist Terrien de Lacouperie in 1894, whereby the Chinese peoples regressed compared to the superior races of Europe (degene... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=253340 | 209,544 |
851,293 | During the recruiting drives, especially in Punjab, which was the main recruiting area and provided one third of the strength of the Army, people were cajoled and even threatened to join the Army. Sir Michael O'Dwyer, the Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab during the World War I had toured from district to district exho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2681616 | 850,840 |
2,048,630 | The Cumberland snubnose darter is found in flowing, rocky pools and adjacent riffles of small creeks with good water clarity and gravel bottoms or bottoms of bedrock strewn with rubble, and in small to medium rivers where confined to shallow gravel-bedded portions of riffles. This type of bottom is of utmost importance... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32562345 | 2,047,449 |
352,243 | Other ichthyosaur remains had been discovered in years past at Lyme and elsewhere, but the specimen found by the Annings was the first to come to the attention of scientific circles in London. It was purchased by the lord of a local manor, who passed it to William Bullock for public display in London where it created a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38334 | 352,060 |
2,091,394 | The department states that it intends to be strongly focused on the international profile with a friendly multi-cultural atmosphere. From the very beginning the international atmosphere existed at IPT in the form of teachers, researchers and students from various countries. IPT has been actively cooperating with countr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11848344 | 2,090,190 |
363,793 | The Flyer series of aircraft were the first to achieve controlled heavier-than-air flight, but some of the mechanical techniques the Wrights used to accomplish this were not influential for the development of aviation as a whole, although their theoretical achievements were. The "Flyer" design depended on wing-warping ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1045608 | 363,603 |
547,130 | Singularity theorems which are premised on and formulated within the setting of Riemannian geometry (e.g. Penrose–Hawking singularity theorems) need not hold in Riemann–Cartan geometry. Consequently, Einstein–Cartan theory is able to avoid the general-relativistic problem of the singularity at the Big Bang. The minimal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=606874 | 546,844 |
1,367,932 | When discussing medication options for antenatal depression, it is important to ask the prescribing healthcare provider to share more details about all the risks and benefits of the available medications. During pregnancy, there are two main kinds of antidepressants used during pregnancy; tricyclic antidepressants (TCA... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39218436 | 1,367,176 |
983,083 | In 2013, professor Nick Bloom of Stanford University stated there had recently been a major change of heart concerning technological unemployment among his fellow economists. In 2014 the "Financial Times" reported that the impact of innovation on jobs has been a dominant theme in recent economic discussion. According t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32040137 | 982,570 |
242,798 | "Hand/mouth goal-directed action representations" is another way of saying "gestural communication", "gestural language", or "communication through body language". The recent finding that Broca's area is active when people are observing others engaged in meaningful action is evidence in support of this idea. It was hyp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40166 | 242,671 |
1,551,061 | Varki went to the Bishop Cotton Boys' School, Bangalore, India during which time he was also strongly influenced by his maternal grandfather Pothan Joseph, a famous journalist and founding editor of many Indian newspapers, including Deccan Herald. He went on to receive basic training in physiology, medicine, biology, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17898834 | 1,550,180 |
663,965 | Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar was awarded a scholarship by the Dayal Singh College Trust to study abroad, and he left for America via England. However, he could not find open berths on English ships, as they were all reserved for American troops, who were then being demobilised due to the First World War. The Trustee permit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3945409 | 663,619 |
1,766,472 | Blaser is the author of a book for general audiences, "Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues", about the degradation of internal microbial ecosystems of humans as a result of modern medical practices. Professional science writer Sandra Blakeslee helped write "Missing Microbes"",... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3453393 | 1,765,478 |
1,358,037 | After her graduation from Hunter, Zimmer went to work as a research assistant to Alexander Hollaender at the Carnegie Institution of Washington (later Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), where she continued to work with "N. crassa" and published her first work in genetics. In 1944 she won a fellowship to Stanford Universit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8215305 | 1,357,287 |
1,687,989 | Stephen Satchell of "InfoWorld" rated the original Model 30 as "just fine as a basic corporate computer, network terminal, or for other straightforward uses", calling it "an attractive, low-profile system box that won't take up too much room on your desk." Satchell emphasized its compactness, writing that the system wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70578771 | 1,687,043 |
1,137,102 | "Cladosporium sphaerospermum" is considered a saprotroph and is a secondary invader of dead or dying plant tissue. Energy is provided through the conversion of starch, cellulose, and sucrose to alcohol and carbon dioxide. However, it has been shown in a laboratory environment that these fungi are able to successfully g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54898326 | 1,136,509 |
1,123,273 | Goff wrote that he had been obsessed with the problem of consciousness for as long as he could remember. He declined to be confirmed Catholic at the age of 14 and came to negatively associate philosophical dualism with his religious upbringing. As a philosophy undergraduate at Leeds, he felt he had to choose between du... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68474429 | 1,122,699 |
1,439,480 | The conclusion of the Human Genome Project was followed with hope for a new paradigm in treating disease. Many fatal and intractable diseases were able to be mapped to specific genes, providing a starting point to better understand the roles of their protein products in illness. Drug discovery has made use of animal kn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48999251 | 1,438,670 |
1,986,443 | Stilwell arrived at Sydney University in 1970, to an Economics department that was deeply divided on the teaching of the qualitative and quantitative methods in economics. The roots of the dispute were framed by the rise of the new social movements of the late 1960s and the early 1970s, especially: the anti-conscriptio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32100260 | 1,985,301 |
714,237 | Patch cords were expensive, could be damaged by use (creating hard-to-find intermittent faults), and made complex patches difficult and time-consuming to recreate. Thus, later analog synthesizers used the same building blocks, but integrated them into single units, eliminating patch cords in favour of integrated signal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=156466 | 713,865 |
1,906,062 | At some stage he became secretary to the politician, Adam Ronikier, an interlocutor with the German high command in occupied Warsaw. Presumably he remained in that position for the 63-day duration of the Warsaw Uprising that erupted on 1 August 1944. After the collapse of the Warsaw Uprising and conclusion of hostiliti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28810330 | 1,904,966 |
1,705,188 | White House advisor Scott Atlas opposed closure of schools and businesses, saying the best approach was to promote "population immunity" by letting younger people get the virus while protecting the most vulnerable. He doubts the effectiveness of face masks to combat spread of the virus. He claimed that children have a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65365100 | 1,704,232 |
1,578,331 | The list of plant genomes sequenced in the project was not random; instead plants that produce valuable chemicals or other products (secondary metabolites in many cases) were focused on in the hopes that characterizing the involved genes will allow the underlying biosynthetic processes to be used or modified. For examp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26412304 | 1,577,441 |
305,235 | Deng launched the "Beijing Spring", allowing open criticism of the excesses and suffering that had occurred during the Cultural Revolution period. He also eliminated the class-background system, under which the communist regime had limited employment opportunities available to people deemed associated with the pre-revo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47246185 | 305,072 |
1,140,766 | Stephen R. Addison from the University of Central Arkansas commented that while the first edition of "Classical Mechanics" was essentially a treatise with exercises, the third has become less scholarly and more of a textbook. This book is most useful for students who are interested in learning the necessary material in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16795124 | 1,140,172 |
1,239,652 | The elemental stoichiometry of marine phytoplankton plays a critical role in global biogeochemical cycles through its impact on nutrient cycling, secondary production, and carbon export. Although extensive laboratory experiments have been carried out over the years to assess the influence of different environmental dri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61256010 | 1,238,984 |
1,637,412 | The idea for this "headwaters to the sea" strategy was first proposed in 1892. Due to the success of hatcheries on American rivers, the idea did not gain any momentum at the time. The idea was revived in the early 1990s when conservationists realized the shortcomings and lack of coordination between efforts by federal,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21938366 | 1,636,487 |
808,472 | In 1783, at the conclusion of the Revolutionary War, a Congressional committee under Alexander Hamilton sought opinions on a permanent armed force. Washington submitted his "Sentiments on a Peace Establishment," which called for only a small force of only 2,631 men regiment to guard the western frontier and the borders... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21001269 | 808,042 |
86,531 | Mill's empiricism thus held that knowledge of any kind is not from direct experience but an inductive inference from direct experience. The problems other philosophers have had with Mill's position center around the following issues: Firstly, Mill's formulation encounters difficulty when it describes what direct experi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10174 | 86,497 |
1,336,295 | Lasting success was achieved by Joan Procter's design for the Reptile House (built 1926–1927). It was the first purpose-built building of its type in the world and is still in use. She designed rock-work and pools for the reptile enclosures and a theatrical scenic artist, John Bull, was employed to execute her designs ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37270909 | 1,335,565 |
18,724 | For general issue, the U.S. Army adopted the M855A1 round in 2010 to replace the M855. The primary reason was pressure to use non-lead bullets. The lead slug is replaced by a copper alloy slug in a reverse-drawn jacket, with a hardened steel penetrator extending beyond the jacket, reducing lead contamination to the env... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35022 | 18,718 |
117,504 | Residential Life at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is one of the largest on-campus housing systems in the United States. Over 14,000 students live in 52 residence halls, while families, staff, and graduate students live in 345 units in two apartment complexes (North Village and Lincoln). The fifty-two residenc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=248437 | 117,459 |
494,053 | Ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) is an analytical technique used to separate and identify ionized molecules in the gas phase based on their mobility in a carrier buffer gas. Though heavily employed for military or security purposes, such as detecting drugs and explosives, the technique also has many laboratory analytica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2916856 | 493,798 |
2,076,344 | The next of the new styles was dadaism, a movement of reaction to the disasters of World War I, which involved a radical approach to the concept of art, which loses any component based on logic and reason, and claims the doubt, chance, the absurdity of existence. This translated into a subversive language, where both t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72166508 | 2,075,145 |
1,720,820 | Under the leadership of Dr. Lattie F. Coor, from 1990 to 2002, ASU grew to serve the Valley of the Sun through multiple campuses and extended education sites. He established the ASU East campus (now known as the Polytechnic campus) at the former Williams Air Force Base, and he founded the ASU Downtown Center as the hos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15831397 | 1,719,850 |
1,022,595 | Inadequate levels of folate (vitamin B) and vitamin B during pregnancy have been found to lead to increased risk of NTDs. Although both are part of the same biopathway, folate deficiency is much more common and therefore more of a concern. Folate is required for the production and maintenance of new cells, for DNA synt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3202774 | 1,022,066 |
1,971,314 | The founding department of the Station, Analytical Chemistry began its work in 1875 testing fertilizer and later seeds, animal feed, human foods, drugs, and pesticides. This work continues today, and is organized into two categories: food safety and environmental monitoring. The department works with State and Federal ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13561040 | 1,970,180 |
1,514,236 | Takahashi graduated from Richard Montgomery High School in Rockville, Maryland in 1970. Takahashi attended Swarthmore College and graduated with a degree in biology in 1974. He worked with Patricia DeCoursey at the University of South Carolina for a year after graduation and then applied to work with Michael Menaker at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22604261 | 1,513,385 |
1,359,050 | NETL provides technical, administrative, and project management services to customers within DOE and other federal agencies. NETL primarily manages research, development, demonstration, and deployment activities for the DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) and the DOE Office of Electricity Delive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1711574 | 1,358,299 |
1,583,523 | Magnetic liquid rotary seals operate with no maintenance and extremely low leakage in a very wide range of applications. Ferrofluid-based seals used in industrial and scientific applications are most often packaged in mechanical seal assemblies called rotary feedthroughs, which also contain a central shaft, ball bearin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8573560 | 1,582,633 |
1,595,045 | Rose mallee has been listed as "vulnerable" under the Australian Government "Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999" and a recovery plan has been prepared. The Western Australian Government lists the species as "Threatened" under the "Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016", meaning that it is in dan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39156584 | 1,594,147 |
705,377 | The shift of focus and multiplicity of subjects in the visual arts is also a hallmark of American modernist art. Thus, for example, the group The Eight brought the focus on the modern city, and placed emphasis on the diversity of different classes of citizens. Two of the most significant representatives of The Eight, R... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3662104 | 705,008 |
426,811 | On 16 October 1964, in the midst of the election campaign that brought the Wilson government to office, China conducted its first nuclear test. This led to fears that India might follow suit. Consideration was therefore given to the possibility of basing Polaris boats in the Far East. A planning paper was drawn up in J... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35942972 | 426,602 |
32,087 | While not as prolific in physics as he was in mathematics, he nevertheless made several other notable contributions to it. His pioneering papers with Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar on the statistics of a fluctuating gravitational field generated by randomly distributed stars were considered a "tour de force". In this paper... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15942 | 32,076 |
610,735 | Desflurane is a greenhouse gas. The twenty-year global-warming potential, GWP(20), for desflurane is 3714, meaning that one tonne of desflurane emitted is equivalent to 3714 tonnes of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, much higher than sevoflurane or isoflurane. In addition to global warming potentials, drug potency and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=668634 | 610,424 |
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