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210,610 | Huxley grew up at the family home in Surrey, England, where he showed an early interest in nature, as he was given lessons by his grandfather, Thomas Henry Huxley. When he heard his grandfather talking at dinner about the lack of parental care in fish, Julian piped up with "What about the stickleback, Gran'pater?". His... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=145837 | 210,503 |
258,575 | In medical application, e.g. with complete paraplegia after spinal cord injury, an exoskeleton can be an additional option for the supply of aids if the structural and functional properties of the neuromuscular and skeletal system are too limited to be able to achieve mobilization with an orthosis. In patients with com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30876930 | 258,441 |
96,478 | The AMCA is designed with shoulder mounted diamond shaped trapezoidal wings, a profile with substantial area-ruling to reduce drag at transonic speeds, and a stabilator V-tail with large fuselage mounted Tail-wing. Flight control surfaces include leading and trailing-edge flaps, ailerons, rudders on the canted vertical... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3199026 | 96,437 |
1,616,278 | Following dispersal (via vector-insect, cultural practice, or other translocation means within the soil matrix), the spores will detect an infection site on the host plant (usually root hairs) and germinate in response to the stimuli produced by the root exudates, some of which include sugars, lecithins, and unsaturate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11063377 | 1,615,369 |
1,305,722 | For musculoskeletal rehabilitation, aquatic therapy is typically used to treat acute injuries as well as subjective pain of chronic conditions, such as arthritis. Water immersion has compressive effects and reflexively regulates blood vessel tone. Muscle blood flow increases by about 225% during immersion, as increased... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15048490 | 1,305,006 |
500,797 | May-Britt Moser attended the University of Oslo where she studied psychology, mathematics, and neurobiology. May-Britt chose this school because two of her sisters lived in the Oslo area and provided her with a temporary place to live. She enjoyed the freedom of university, but was not completely sure what she wanted t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23040662 | 500,540 |
664,554 | "Mega Man Battle Network" is set in an ambiguous year in the 21st century ("20XX AD") in an alternate reality to the original "Mega Man" series. Within the world of "Battle Network", the Net has become humanity's primary means of communication, commerce, and even crime. Users are able to "jack in" to the Net and other ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2175391 | 664,207 |
2,112,267 | Jaluria is known for his work on natural convection, or buoyancy-driven flows. He wrote the first book on this topic and was a co-author of a later extensive treatise on the subject. Both of these books were translated into Russian, with extensive circulation in Eastern Europe. He has worked in the areas of computation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49219101 | 2,111,052 |
256,872 | Today anthropometry can be performed with three-dimensional scanners. A global collaborative study to examine the uses of three-dimensional scanners for health care was launched in March 2007. The Body Benchmark Study will investigate the use of three-dimensional scanners to calculate volumes and segmental volumes of a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=330879 | 256,738 |
1,521,444 | "Basidiobolus ranarum" has a worldwide distribution and is capable of living saprotrophically in a broad range of ecological situations, indicating its great ecological and physiological tolerance as well as its ubiquity. "Basidiobolus ranarum" was widely reported from all parts of the world, especially Asia and Africa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7041908 | 1,520,583 |
1,398,800 | Although soundscape ecology has only recently been defined as an independent academic discipline (it was first described in 2011 and formalized at the first meeting of the International Society of Ecoacoustics, held in Paris in 2014), many earlier ecological investigations have incorporated elements of soundscape ecolo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31352483 | 1,398,027 |
2,175,155 | Although understanding non-random insertion of NUMT and carrying out certain function after insertion, helps with revealing the structure and determining the complete function of the genome, especially human genome, NUMTs have been used as experimental tools and have been beneficial in different biological fields even ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8564084 | 2,173,911 |
381,248 | To ensure survivability to and effectiveness against a target, the LRASM is equipped with a BAE Systems-designed seeker and guidance system, integrating jam-resistant GPS/INS, an imaging infrared (IIR infrared homing) seeker with automatic scene/target matching recognition, a data-link, and passive Electronic Support M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29594714 | 381,053 |
1,875,264 | G. Marius Clore MAE, FRSC, FRS is a British-born, Anglo-American molecular biophysicist and structural biologist. He was born in London, U.K. and is a dual US/U.K. Citizen. He is a Member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the Royal Society, a NIH Distinguished Investigator, and the Chief of the Molecular... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45449941 | 1,874,187 |
1,978,477 | Additionally, the species "N. borealis" is known from earliest Cretaceous sediments of the Slottsmøya Member of the Agardhfjellet Formation. The Slottsmøya Member consists of a mix of shales and siltstones and was deposited in a shallow water methane seep environment. The seafloor, which was located about below the sur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19043425 | 1,977,339 |
1,286,335 | Conservation policy has historically lagged behind current science all over the world, but at this critical juncture politicians must make the effort to catch up before massive extinctions occur on our planet. For example, the pinnacle of American conservation policy, the Endangered Species Act of 1973, fails to acknow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11409359 | 1,285,634 |
1,908,756 | According to Kent & McGrath (1969) diversity in the laboratory or classroom setting can improve “the quality of a given decision or the creativity of an idea”. Functionally diverse teams prevent excessive homogeneity, which has been found to be directly related to highly cohesive groups where groupthink, a phenomenon w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44480752 | 1,907,659 |
999,030 | None, however, had been verified by direct documentation until 1982 when Ken Simpendorfer, a Special Projects Officer for the Forests Commission Victoria, directed a search of official Victorian archives. It unearthed a forgotten report from more than a century earlier, one that had not been referred to in other accoun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=158181 | 998,512 |
615,124 | Elion was born in New York City on January 23, 1918, to parents Robert Elion, a Lithuanian Jewish immigrant and a dentist, and Bertha Cohen, a Polish Jewish immigrant. Her family lost their wealth after the Wall Street Crash of 1929. Elion was an excellent student who graduated from Walton High School at the age of 15.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=337411 | 614,810 |
1,445,198 | The comprehensive and complex atmospheric measurements carried out during MOSAiC provide a physical basis for understanding local and vertical interactions in the atmosphere and the interactions between the atmosphere, the sea ice and the ocean. The characterisation of processes in clouds, in the atmospheric boundary l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59728348 | 1,444,382 |
1,655,233 | BWS systems can be used prior to the patient gaining adequate motor control or having sufficient strength to fully bear weight. The patient will wear a specialized trunk harness with adjustable straps, which attach to an overhead suspension system. The harness and its attachments support a certain amount of the patient... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10360168 | 1,654,301 |
521,638 | In a 2013 conference abstract, paleontologist Yoshitsugu Kobayashi and colleagues reported an exceptional nesting ground site of theropod dinosaurs at the Javkhlant Formation, which contained at least 17 egg clutches from the same layer within an area of 22 m by 52 m. Each clutch contained spherical eggs which were in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3812410 | 521,366 |
558,569 | Biological particles are known to represent a significant fraction (~20–70%) of the total number of aerosols > 0.2 μm, with large spatial and temporal variations. Among these, microorganisms are of particular interest in fields as diverse as epidemiology, including phytopathology, bioterrorism, forensic science, and pu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1676889 | 558,280 |
832,758 | Locations of the tribes described by Jordanes in Norway, contemporary with, and some possibly ruled by Rodulf. Jordanes was of Gothic descent and ended up as a monk in Italy. In his work "De origine actibusque Getarum" ("The Origin and Deeds of the Getae/Goths"), the Gothic origins and achievements, the author Procopiu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12183701 | 832,309 |
1,801,692 | After the war, Eglin became a pioneer in developing the techniques for missile launching and handling; and the development of drone or pilotless aircraft beginning with the Republic-Ford JB-2 Loon, an American copy of the V-1. The 1st Experimental Guided Missiles Group was activated at Eglin Field, Florida, on 6 Februa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33714574 | 1,800,683 |
2,138,890 | Whilst airport development in the UK is subject to local planning authority processes, the government regards airports as an important part of the national infrastructure and which therefore requires their development to be planned with a strategic approach. To support this, the government began a three-year public con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14120583 | 2,137,660 |
2,116,958 | The impetus for the SAMS course manifested in various forms. Colonel Richard Sennrich, SAMS's second director, pointed to a post-Vietnam War "hole" in U.S. military education between the CGSC focus on tactics and the war colleges' focus on " 'grand strategy' and national security policy". In the period after the Vietna... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33700588 | 2,115,740 |
2,134,433 | The AHAAH is the subject of controversy in regards to its use to assess acoustic hazards. In 2003, a NATO research study on impulse noise found that the AHAAH produced unsatisfactory results for several exposure conditions, and the concluding report contained conflicting opinions from several experts. A 2010 review by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57869905 | 2,133,208 |
463,785 | Around the end of the 19th century, the view was widespread that all forces in nature are of electromagnetic origin (the "electromagnetic worldview"), especially in the works of Joseph Larmor (1897) and Wilhelm Wien (1900). This was apparently confirmed by the experiments of Walter Kaufmann (1901–1903), who measured an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30694430 | 463,555 |
714,860 | The production aircraft were further modified with new TF33-P-11A engines that delivered even greater thrust than those of the prototypes. Foil systems developed in 1962 for the WC-130B to collect particulate debris from nuclear tests were installed in the bomb bay and the fuselage beside the cockpit. The wings had fou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33576652 | 714,487 |
1,950,883 | The report was put before a Citizens Jury, which ultimately voted not to proceed with investigating the prospect of importing spent nuclear fuel for storage and disposal in South Australia. In December 2016, a group of prominent citizens signed an open letter expressing an opposing view. It stated:"We, the undersigned,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50441727 | 1,949,762 |
1,006,196 | Originally, data was simply passed one-way from a central processing unit (CPU) to a graphics processing unit (GPU), then to a display device. As time progressed, however, it became valuable for GPUs to store at first simple, then complex structures of data to be passed back to the CPU that analyzed an image, or a set ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1268939 | 1,005,677 |
758,637 | The social elite in many cities in the 1890s led the reform movement. Their goal was to permanently end political party control of the local schools for the benefit of patronage jobs and construction contracts, which had arisen out of ward politics that absorbed and taught the millions of new immigrants. New York City ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9083795 | 758,231 |
1,670,069 | It was designed by Edmund Schneider with the assistance of Wolf Hirth and Hugo Kromer as a smaller version of Schneider's ESG 31 of the previous year, incorporating an elliptical wing design based on work done by Akaflieg Darmstadt. It was named after Grunau, the town where Schneider's factory was located, now Jeżów Su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16092460 | 1,669,129 |
1,822,123 | In 2000, Jadad moved to Toronto as the Inaugural Rose Family Chair in Supportive Care (a post he held until 2010), which enabled work on the reconceptualization of terms such as 'health' or a 'good death', as a means to guide the design, development, implementation and evaluation of innovations aimed at allowing people... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57363779 | 1,821,085 |
1,324,301 | Chiao and Barry then unfolded a cable tray diagonally across the forward portion of the cargo bay housing simulated electrical and fluid lines similar to those which would later connect modules and nodes of the Space Station. The rigid umbilical, as it is known, was tested for its ease of handling and the ability of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=526878 | 1,323,575 |
985,528 | The second and third generation superalloys introduced about 3 and 6 weight per cent Rhenium, for increased temperature capability. Re is a slow diffuser and typically partitions to the γ matrix, decreasing the rate of diffusion (and thereby high temperature creep) and improving high temperature performance and increas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2025632 | 985,014 |
295,698 | As in other mammals, thermoregulation is an important aspect of human homeostasis. Most body heat is generated in the deep organs, especially the liver, brain, and heart, and in contraction of skeletal muscles. Humans have been able to adapt to a great diversity of climates, including hot humid and hot arid. High tempe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=378661 | 295,538 |
549,662 | "Thrinaxodon" was initially believed to be isolated to that region. Other fossils in South Africa were recovered from the Normandien and Katberg Formations. It had not been until 1977 that additional fossils of "Thrinaxodon" had been discovered in the Fremouw Formation of Antarctica. Upon its discovery there, numerous ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2969781 | 549,374 |
1,912,532 | In 2006, the European Commission tabled a proposal to the European Parliament to establish a framework for soil protection within the union. Soil is recognised as a non-renewable resource because of its slow formation process. However—unlike other non-renewable resources, such as coal, that have explicit policies gover... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34080286 | 1,911,433 |
1,825,750 | Multiple loci VNTR analysis (MLVA) is a method employed for the genetic analysis of particular microorganisms, such as pathogenic bacteria, that takes advantage of the polymorphism of tandemly repeated DNA sequences. A "VNTR" is a "variable-number tandem repeat". This method is well known in forensic science since it i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34662505 | 1,824,712 |
2,117,905 | The 1983–84 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team represented the University of Michigan in intercollegiate college basketball during the 1983–84 season. The team played its home games in the Crisler Arena in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and was a member of the Big Ten Conference. Under the direction of head coach Bill Fri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26730857 | 2,116,687 |
1,377,328 | Nina Tandon attended college at Cooper Union, graduating with a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering in 2001. While completing her undergraduate education, she built an electronic musical instrument which is played through human bodies' electromagnetic waves. From 2003 to 2004, Tandon attended University of Rome Tor Verg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50649537 | 1,376,566 |
2,020,227 | When her husband relocated to Boston, she followed him there and worked at Mount Holyoke College for three years. In 1963, after the birth of her first son, she returned to Cornell to work on her doctorate. Twin sons were born to the couple in 1964. She was awarded a PhD in 1965; her doctorate thesis was on co-simple i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31132826 | 2,019,064 |
1,047,615 | Automation of medical diagnosis labor (for example, quantifying red blood cells) has some historical precedent. The deep learning revolution of the 2010s has already produced AIs that are more accurate in many areas of visual diagnosis than radiologists and dermatologists, and this gap is expected to grow. Some experts... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9034035 | 1,047,070 |
924,994 | In 1859, citizens of Valparaiso were so supportive of the placement of the college that they raised $11,000 to encourage the Methodist Church to locate there. The school opened on September 21, 1859, to 75 students, and was one of the first coeducational colleges in the nation. Students paid tuition expenses of $8 per ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1001108 | 924,508 |
246,708 | Enoch Albert Bryan, appointed July 22, 1893, and serving for 22 years, was the first influential president of WSU and considered by many as the true founder of the university. Bryan previously served as the president of Vincennes University in Indiana and was an alumnus of Indiana University and held a graduate degree ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=228600 | 246,580 |
752,825 | Weinberg is frequently listed among the top scientists with the highest research effect indices, such as the h-index and the creativity index. The theoretical physicist Peter Woit called Weinberg "arguably the dominant figure in theoretical particle physics during its period of great success from the late sixties to th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=205859 | 752,423 |
2,058,050 | In 1962, scientists at the National Institutes of Health discovered that certain serotypes of human adenoviruses can induce tumors in newborn hamsters. This finding was not only of scientific interest, but it also raised concerns because the military was using live adenoviruses as vaccines against adenovirus-induced ac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47229060 | 2,056,865 |
1,971,254 | In order to support deep space missions around the clock it was necessary to establish a network of three stations separated by approximately 120 degrees of longitude so that as the Earth turned a spacecraft was always above the horizon of at least one station. To this end two overseas facilities with 26m antennas were... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33260265 | 1,970,120 |
2,034,236 | "Deinococcus" species such as these are well known for being some of the most resilient bacteria discovered on Earth. "Deinococcus frigens" is in many ways similar to other microbes of the genus "Deinococcus", but with several adaptations that allow it to live in the extreme environment of the Antarctic- an area charac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42802153 | 2,033,063 |
608,055 | The economic malaise affecting the Comecon countries – low growth rates and diminishing returns on investment – led many domestic and Western economists to advocate market-based solutions and a sequenced programme of economic reform. It was recognized that micro-economic reform and macro-economic stabilization had to b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1489819 | 607,744 |
1,048,954 | The molecules of some crystals and ceramics are permanently polarised: some parts of the molecule are positively charged, while other parts are negatively charged. These materials produce an electric charge when the material changes dimension as a result of an imposed external force. The charge produced is referred to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50365786 | 1,048,409 |
1,665,329 | Electro-acoustic devices such as loudspeakers and microphones present special problems for analysis, as they must receive or transmit signals through air. In these cases, the DUT in the model shown above must be replaced with the complete electro-mechanical system, e.g., a power amplifier to drive a loudspeaker, a loud... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32570884 | 1,664,392 |
857,922 | There is also a developing profile of urban and other domestic blastomycosis cases, beginning with an outbreak tentatively attributed to construction dust in Westmont, Illinois. The city of Rockford, Illinois, was also documented as a hyperendemic area based on incidence rates as high as 6.67 per 100,000 population for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=883645 | 857,467 |
55,105 | One very important subset of synapses are capable of forming memory traces by means of long-lasting activity-dependent changes in synaptic strength. The best-known form of neural memory is a process called long-term potentiation (abbreviated LTP), which operates at synapses that use the neurotransmitter glutamate actin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21944 | 55,082 |
802,375 | Several issues must be addressed before personalized medicine can be implemented. Very little of the human genome has been analyzed, and even if healthcare providers had access to a patient's full genetic information, very little of it could be effectively leveraged into treatment. Challenges also arise when processing... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2652481 | 801,946 |
8,843 | The Yale Report of 1828 was a dogmatic defense of the Latin and Greek curriculum against critics who wanted more courses in modern languages, mathematics, and science. Unlike higher education in Europe, there was no national curriculum for colleges and universities in the United States. In the competition for students ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34273 | 8,839 |
149,422 | In the continuity, using a p-i-n perovskite top cell, Sahli "et al". demonstrated in June 2018 a fully textured monolithic tandem cell with 25.2% efficiency, independently certified by Fraunhofer ISE CalLab. This improved efficiency can largely be attributed to the massively reduced reflection losses (below 2% in the r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43845714 | 149,361 |
1,730,579 | Franklin and Gosling's 'Photo 51' provided one of several important clues to Watson and Crick -but Astbury's response to Beighton's very similar X-ray images of DNA could not have been more different. He never published them in a journal or presented them at a scientific meeting. Given that Astbury was such a renowned ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2890145 | 1,729,604 |
1,088,386 | EZH2 is an attractive target for anti-cancer therapy because it helps cancerous cells divide and proliferate. It is found in larger amounts than in healthy cells in a wide range of cancers including breast, prostate, bladder, uterine, and renal cancers, as well as melanoma and lymphoma. EZH2 is a gene suppressor, so wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14134041 | 1,087,827 |
155,546 | Most athletic and recreational facilities are located on the eastern half of campus. The Student Recreation Center is a facility that includes two swimming pools, four weight rooms, a cardio room, an elevated running track, an Activity Center for aerobics and a large sports center which accommodates basketball, tennis,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=275181 | 155,476 |
337,717 | Following the completion of the project on schedule Eiffel was appointed as the principal engineer of the Compagnie Belge. His work had also gained the attention of several people who were later to give him work, including Stanislas de la Roche Toulay, who had prepared the design for the metalwork of the Bordeaux bridg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12232 | 337,538 |
45,645 | The formal study of language began in India with Pāṇini, the 6th century BC grammarian who formulated 3,959 rules of Sanskrit morphology. Pāṇini's systematic classification of the sounds of Sanskrit into consonants and vowels, and word classes, such as nouns and verbs, was the first known instance of its kind. In the M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22760983 | 45,627 |
1,157,315 | Born in Lebanon, Oregon in 1942, Merzenich grew up fascinated by science. He attended the University of Portland in Portland, Oregon earning his Bachelor of Science in 1964. Here, he was valedictorian, receiving only one non-A, a C in a philosophy course in which he argued with the instructor. In 1968 he earned his PhD... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7504518 | 1,156,702 |
1,533,649 | To combat some of these risks, farmers typically turn to syncretic mixes of traditional and modern practices. For mitigating effects of frosts, farmers utilize Incan-designed terraces which break up the cold air coming down from the mountains. The stones of the terraces also absorb heat during the day, retaining it at ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56727217 | 1,532,781 |
1,774,664 | Henry Ridley was the second son and third child born to Louisa Pole Stuart and Oliver Matthew Ridley in West Harling in Norfolk, where his father was the Rector. At the age of three his mother died and his father moved to Cobham in Kent. He studied at Tonbridge School and then went to Haileybury where his brother Stuar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=890380 | 1,773,667 |
716,267 | The use of a nuclear engine in the airframe promised to give the missile staggering and unprecedented low-altitude range, estimated to be roughly (over 4.5 times the equatorial circumference of the Earth). Despite misinformed public opinion, the idea that the engine could act as a secondary weapon for the missile is no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=746248 | 715,891 |
653,819 | The primary sequences of thousands of olfactory receptors are known from the genomes of more than a dozen organisms: they are seven-helix transmembrane proteins, but there are very few solved structures. Their sequences exhibit typical class A GPCR motifs, useful for building their structures with molecular modeling. G... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=665470 | 653,475 |
2,082,225 | Arnold's research has focused on label-free detection of bio-nanoparticles from the perturbation of the resonant frequency of a microcavity, after estimating the extreme sensitivity of such an approach for DNA sensing in a 2001 American Scientist article. In 2003, he and his co-workers identified the mechanism for the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37402587 | 2,081,025 |
1,881,686 | The Center for BrainHealth is located in a building designed by Kyley Harvey of HKS, Inc., on a site near the UT Dallas' Callier Center for Communication Disorders and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in the city of Dallas. In 2004, UT Dallas purchased a building with a $5 million donation from Diann... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28096176 | 1,880,605 |
1,530,866 | The most advanced large-scale addition to the FPL in over 70 years is the new Centennial Research Facility (CRF), a multi-use laboratory. This facility was built to meet qualifications for Silver certification by the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system developed by the U.S. Green Building... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3294778 | 1,530,000 |
1,160,821 | "Overwatch" features squad-based combat with two opposing teams of six players each, while "Overwatch 2" uses five-on-five teams. Players choose one of thirty-two hero characters, each with their own unique abilities and role classes. The three character roles include: damage characters that have powerful attacks to le... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57502096 | 1,160,205 |
246,705 | In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act of 1862 into law, allowing for the creation of land-grant colleges “to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts ...in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes." The Hatch Act of 188... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=228600 | 246,577 |
732,943 | On 24 November 2015, the Marines selected the SAIC Terrex, along with the BAE Systems/Iveco SuperAV, to move on to the engineering and manufacturing development phase of the ACV 1.1 program. SAIC was awarded a $121.5 million contract to build 16 vehicles by late 2016 for testing. The Terrex submitted for the ACV progra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1015723 | 732,556 |
1,962,124 | A therapeutic interfering particle is an antiviral preparation that reduces the replication rate and pathogenesis of a particular viral infectious disease. A therapeutic interfering particle is typically a biological agent (i.e., nucleic acid) engineered from portions of the viral genome being targeted. Similar to Defe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69607361 | 1,960,996 |
2,054,852 | Following his fellowship, Yodh joined the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania as an assistant professor of physics with a plan to use lasers to study molecules on surfaces. During his early time at UPenn, Yodh focused his research interests on aspects of chemical, condensed-matter, and optical physics. He also re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69273403 | 2,053,669 |
1,516,834 | Amon joined the Carnegie Mellon University in 1988 and later become director of the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems in 1999. She became the Raymond J. Lane Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering in 2001. Amon's research pioneered the development of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) for formulating ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29302481 | 1,515,982 |
2,112,780 | The final was a microcosm of these championships. East vs West. The American Mary Decker vs a strong Soviet squad. Decker was so dominant in domestic competition, her races were won from the gun, so she was not well practiced in running elbow to elbow as the Soviets and other Europeans were highly skilled in the art. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24077372 | 2,111,565 |
202,007 | In 1884, Hermann Emil Fischer proposed the structure of purine, a key structure in many biomolecules, which he later synthesized in 1898. He also began work on the chemistry of glucose and related sugars. In 1885, Eugen Goldstein named the cathode ray, later discovered to be composed of electrons, and the canal ray, la... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1416046 | 201,904 |
461,918 | The first quinolone was discovered in 1962 by George Lesher and his co-workers at Sterling Drug (now owned by Sanofi) as an impurity collected while manufacturing chloroquine, an antimalarial drug. This impurity was used to develop nalidixic acid, which was made clinically available in 1964. Along with its novel struct... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6688255 | 461,689 |
1,215,464 | As early as 1923, Rodchenko and others published a report in LEF which foretold of Vkhutemas's closure. It was in response to students' failure to gain a foothold in industry and was entitled, "The Breakdown of VKhUTEMAS: Report on the Condition of the Higher Artistic and Technical Workshops", which stated that the sch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3014315 | 1,214,812 |
97,383 | Moscovium is predicted to be the third member of the 7p series of chemical elements and the heaviest member of group 15 in the periodic table, below bismuth. Unlike the two previous 7p elements, moscovium is expected to be a good homologue of its lighter congener, in this case bismuth. In this group, each member is kno... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67514 | 97,342 |
802,359 | highly heterogeneous and require an early diagnosis. However, initial symptoms are nonspecific, and the clinical diagnosis is made late frequently. Over the last few years, personalized medicine has emerged as a medical care approach that uses novel technology aiming to personalize treatments according to the particula... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2652481 | 801,930 |
479,999 | Japan emerged from World War II as a ruined and demoralized country battered into economic submission by the victorious Allies. Foreign occupation by the United States prompted the island nation to make its second opening to the world, adopting Westernization in all aspects by jump-starting a new economy by beginning t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16234875 | 479,755 |
405,839 | The team first approached the cable television industry, and the prototype attracted the attention of TelePrompTer Corporation, who had seen it during a visit. After a few months of talks, cash-flow problems forced TelePrompter to back out in April 1968. The same economic downturn that caused TelePrompter's problems ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=77262 | 405,639 |
527,173 | In the early 1980s, it was discovered that a single mutation in the fruit fly genome could specifically activate all copies of a retrovirus-like element called "Gypsy" in the female germline. The site of the mutations that made these Gypsies "dance" was thus called the "flamenco locus". In 2001, Aravin "et al." propose... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8643335 | 526,900 |
1,124,390 | Pesticide use and manufacturing have been one of the most prevalently studied contributions to population decline of "M. grisescens". One such study focused on gray bat populations of the Tennessee River area of northern Alabama where scientists and conservators noted a higher than normal gray bat mortality. In this ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=827802 | 1,123,816 |
618,487 | As the number of activities and workers were increasing, Ahmedabad Education Society decided to provide land for a separate building. Ahmedabad Education Society and Karmakshetra Educational Foundation contributed money for the cost of the building. Nobel laureate Prof. C. V. Raman placed the foundation stone of the bu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3569670 | 618,173 |
786,102 | The first important result from the Kepler Mission about TrES-2b is an extremely low geometric albedo measured in 2011, making it the darkest known exoplanet. If the entire day–night contrast were due to geometric albedo, it would be 2.53%, but modeling suggests that much of this is dayside emission and the true albedo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6898815 | 785,679 |
414,469 | GE unveiled a full-scale model of the engine at the Farnborough Air Show in September, promising a 30-percent reduction in fuel consumption compared to current airliner engines without decreasing the cruise speed. A dozen airlines "invited themselves" to see GE's UDF test facilities near Cincinnati, Ohio, claimed the e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2699629 | 414,266 |
210,640 | Although Huxley believed that on a broad view evolution led to advances in organisation, he rejected classical Aristotelian teleology: "The ordinary man, or at least the ordinary poet, philosopher and theologian, always was anxious to find purpose in the evolutionary process. I believe this reasoning to be totally fals... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=145837 | 210,533 |
1,182,203 | Arriving at the University of Cambridge in January 1828, Darwin found this elite theological training institution governed by complex rules much more congenial than his experiences at Edinburgh. No rooms were available at Christ's College, so he took lodgings above a tobacconists in Sidney Street, across the road. In A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2087722 | 1,181,578 |
1,173,170 | Schultz completed his undergraduate degree at Caltech in 1979 and continued there for his doctoral degree (in 1984) with Peter Dervan. His thesis work focused on the generation and characterization of 1,1-diazenes and the generation of sequence-selective polypyrrole DNA binding/cleaving molecules. He then spent a year ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1007342 | 1,172,551 |
1,472,885 | Females who have menstrual cycles lasting longer than 45 days and/or amenorrhea for three or more months should be evaluated for FHA. Differentiating FHA from the irregular menstrual patterns seen in adolescents during the initial years after menarche due to immaturity of the HPO axis can be challenging. However, studi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15738568 | 1,472,054 |
2,150,243 | Collaboratively, the First International Statistical Congress took into account the nature of industries throughout European nations, including agriculture, mining, manufacturing, and commercial enterprises which consisted of import and export statistics. For agriculture specifically, censuses were designed to measure ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63314949 | 2,149,012 |
1,930,591 | The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) in cooperation with the American Association of Engineering Societies (AAES), issued its first edition of its Engineering Competency Model (ECM) in 2015. These reports were five or more years after the Second Edition or (CEBOK2). The Engineering Competency Model outlined "...engineeri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19038577 | 1,929,484 |
770,335 | Glycosylation is the process by which a carbohydrate is covalently attached to a target macromolecule, typically proteins and lipids. This modification serves various functions. For instance, some proteins do not fold correctly unless they are glycosylated. In other cases, proteins are not stable unless they contain ol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=474363 | 769,921 |
335,556 | The s.S. ball projectile with a long 6° 25′ 51″ boat tail was designed for long range use and offered the best aerodynamic efficiency and external ballistic performance of any standard rifle bullet used during World War II, with a G1 ballistic coefficient between 0.593 and 0.557 (ballistic coefficients are somewhat deb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2935674 | 335,378 |
876,445 | The dual process has impact on social psychology in such domains as stereotyping, categorization, and judgment. Especially, the study of automaticity and of implicit in dual process theories has the most influence on a person's perception. People usually perceive other people's information and categorize them by age, g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6240358 | 875,983 |
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