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131,943 | The book does not limit itself to tedious records of battle because Al-Biruni found the social culture to be more important. The work includes research on a vast array of topics of Indian culture, including descriptions of their traditions and customs. Although he tried to stay away from political and military history,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=271975 | 131,891 |
1,666,341 | An initial comprehensive study of 24 known cases was conducted by multiple doctors from various disciplines at the Mayo Clinic. They identified the cause of this neurological disease to be occupational exposure to aerosolized pig neural tissue. Investigators from the Minnesota Department of Health simultaneously determ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15588705 | 1,665,402 |
436,203 | Senior House is an L-shaped building, designed by William Welles Bosworth. The Doric portico over the entrance was added in the 1990s. It was used from its construction as a dormitory for undergraduates, until conversion to graduate housing in fall 2017. From the 1960s to 2017, the dorm had a counterculture that includ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8071866 | 435,989 |
76,829 | Additional tests were conducted for US Army Ordnance officials at Springfield Armory in May 1917, and both weapons were unanimously recommended for immediate adoption. In order to avoid confusion with the belt-fed M1917 machine gun, the BAR came to be known as the "M1918" or "Rifle, Caliber .30, Automatic, Browning, M1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=378838 | 76,800 |
98,405 | The characters and acting received a mixed reception. Stephen Godfrey of "The Globe and Mail" rated their performances highly: "time has cemented Leonard Nimoy's look of inscrutability as Mr. Spock [...] DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy is as feisty as ever, and James Doohan as Scotty still splutters about his engineering ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=277006 | 98,363 |
2,116,906 | This was not going to be a slow tactical final. Rogachova went to the front, quickly marked by Melinte and a third former Soviet, double 1983 medalist Yekaterina Podkopayeva. Left behind at the line, Liu rushed forward on the outside, chased by Boulmerka. In dead last place, Qu had to work her way around PattiSue Plume... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13666682 | 2,115,688 |
383,225 | In the 20th century, aerial photography, satellite imagery, and remote sensing provided efficient, precise methods for mapping physical features, such as coastlines, roads, buildings, watersheds, and topography. The United States Geological Survey has devised multiple new map projections, notably the Space Oblique Merc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7294 | 383,030 |
811,448 | As part of DC's 2011 company-wide title relaunch, "The New 52", Katar Hol was re-established as the DCU's Hawkman, using the name Carter Hall. His origin has yet to be fully explained since he appears to not know his alien heritage, believing himself to be human. Issue #0 explains that Katar Hol was once a proud member... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5084528 | 811,016 |
414,814 | Astatine is a radioactive element that has never been seen; a visible quantity would immediately be vaporised due to its intense radioactivity. It may be possible to prevent this with sufficient cooling. Astatine is commonly regarded as a nonmetal, less commonly as a metalloid and occasionally as a metal. Unlike its li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42657422 | 414,611 |
54,316 | The jet engine program was waylaid by a lack of funding, which was primarily due to a prevailing attitude amongst high-ranking officials that the conflict could be won easily with conventional aircraft. Among these was Hermann Göring, head of the Luftwaffe, who cut the engine development program to just 35 engineers in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20488 | 54,296 |
456,705 | Ancestors of "Prochlorococcus" contributed to the production of early atmospheric oxygen. Despite "Prochlorococcus" being one of the smallest types of marine phytoplankton in the world's oceans, its substantial number make it responsible for a major part of the oceans', world's photosynthesis, and oxygen production. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=693305 | 456,482 |
169,801 | Hegemonic masculinity has also been employed in studying media representations of men. Because the concept of hegemony helps to make sense of both the diversity and the selectiveness of images in mass media, media researchers have begun mapping the relations between different masculinities. Portrayals of masculinity in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9928314 | 169,711 |
789,416 | Strokes that occur in the brainstem may cause profound deficits, including locked-in syndrome, in which cognitive, emotional and linguistic abilities remain intact but all or almost all voluntary motor abilities are lost. Most people affected by this type of stroke rely on AAC strategies to communicate, since few recov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2106968 | 788,992 |
1,062,544 | There are several implantable interfaces that are currently available for consumer use including deep brain stimulators, cochlear implants, and cardiac pacemakers. Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has been effective at treating movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease, and cochlear implants have helped many to improv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20511935 | 1,061,990 |
517,244 | Attempts are often made to place traffic signals on a coordinated system so that drivers encounter a green wavea progression of green lights. The distinction between coordinated signals and synchronized signals is very important. Synchronized signals all change at the same time and are only used in special instances or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21844439 | 516,975 |
117,742 | To show support for vaccines against COVID-19, the Royal Society under the guidance of both Nobel prize-winner Venki Ramakrishnan and Sir Adrian Frederick Melhuish Smith added its power to shape public discourse and proposed "legislation and punishment of those who produced and disseminated false information" about the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=496064 | 117,697 |
1,923,543 | An internationally renowned statistician and social scientist, Singer’s scholarly interests focus on improving the quantitative methods used in social, educational, and behavioral research. She is primarily known for her contributions to the practice of multilevel modeling, survival analysis, and individual growth mode... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55507802 | 1,922,440 |
2,244,376 | In Europe, the Hands-On Universe project is led by Dr. Ferlet and Dr A.-L. Melchior. EU-HOU has been funded through the European Community (EC) program MINERVA (SOCRATES) for a two-year period (2004–2006), and through the European Community (EC) program COMENIUS (LifeLong Learning Program) for two two-year periods (200... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20430586 | 2,243,105 |
1,069,797 | The drill hit oil in the spring of 1989, but only collected about . Gold stated, "It was not coming up at a rate at which you could sell it, but it showed there was oil down there." The drill then ran into technical problems and was stopped at a depth of . The hole was closed, but a second hole was opened for drilling ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=156331 | 1,069,243 |
510,741 | Among domesticated animals, yaks ("Bos grunniens") are the highest dwelling animals of the world, living at . The yak is the most important domesticated animal for Tibet highlanders in Qinghai Province of China, as the primary source of milk, meat and fertilizer. Unlike other yak or cattle species, which suffer from hy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32625124 | 510,476 |
2,135,013 | Harold G. Craighead received his Bachelor of Science degree in physics, with High Honors, from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1974. He received his Ph.D. in physics from Cornell University in 1980. His thesis work involved an experimental study of the optical properties and solar energy applications of met... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13441844 | 2,133,786 |
1,825,522 | Phase 1 Construction of the Sciencenter was accomplished as a result of valuable contributions by a steering committee, corporate lead support, individual and community donors, challenge grant campaign, and community volunteers. Emerson Power Transmission Corporation and Wegmans Food Markets donated cash. A $90,000 dem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17460553 | 1,824,484 |
120,146 | None of the signalling systems discussed above are true telegraphs in the sense of a system that can transmit arbitrary messages over arbitrary distances. Lines of signalling relay stations can send messages to any required distance, but all these systems are limited to one extent or another in the range of messages th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30010 | 120,097 |
2,195,662 | Initially it was the Australian Army which showed greatest interest in radar for controlling shore or harbour defence guns whilst the air force was principally interested in airborne ASV radar. The valve requirements for these radars was the key & the VT90 valve producing 1.5 metre wavelength (200 mc/s) was used for pu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52676648 | 2,194,411 |
536,289 | After the neutral weak currents caused by boson exchange were discovered at CERN in 1973, the electroweak theory became widely accepted and Glashow, Salam, and Weinberg shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering it. The theory of the strong interaction, to which many contributed, acquired its modern form ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6134187 | 536,010 |
1,319,822 | Though the oxidation strikes the nucleic strands randomly, particular residues are more susceptible to ROS, such hotspot sites being hit by ROS at a high rate. Among all the lesions discovered thus far, one of the most abundant in DNA and RNA is the 8-hydroxyguanine. Moreover, 8-hydroxyguanine is the only one measurabl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4788141 | 1,319,096 |
1,526,933 | Smagorinsky invited many scientists from outside the normal circle to provide the broadest perspective on weather forecasts. Very early in his career, he brought pioneering oceanographer Kirk Bryan to GFDL to account for oceanic influences on the weather; and shortly following World War II, with the nation still leery ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5194620 | 1,526,069 |
1,127,702 | The primary action that the newly formed militia saw was from the Fenians, a group of Irish radicals who made several attempts in the late 19th century to invade some parts of southern Canada from the United States. The period of the Fenian raids in the 1860s and early 1870s was the peak of the efficiency of the Canadi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3110164 | 1,127,125 |
1,279,803 | A distinct advantage of microorganisms is that they naturally integrate motility and various biological functions in a conveniently miniaturised package, coupled with autonomous sensing and decision-making capabilities. They are able to adapt and thrive in complex "in vivo" environments and are capable of self-repair a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69133408 | 1,279,108 |
1,524,364 | As noted by Owhadi and collaborators, interplays between numerical approximation and statistical inference can also be traced back to Palasti and Renyi, Sard, Kimeldorf and Wahba (on the correspondence between Bayesian estimation and spline smoothing/interpolation) and Larkin (on the correspondence between Gaussian pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69088046 | 1,523,503 |
1,561,249 | Originally planned for December, a variety of problems delayed the first "Steinbock" raid until the night of 21/22 January 1944. Using every trick the RAF had developed, "Luftwaffe" pathfinders dropped white marker flares along the route and marked London in green. Throughout the raid the attackers dropped large quanti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43764346 | 1,560,363 |
7,018 | A multidisciplinary approach is important for improving quality of life; however, it is difficult to specify a 'core team' as many health services may be needed at different points in time. Multidisciplinary rehabilitation programs increase activity and participation of people with MS but do not influence impairment le... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50603 | 7,015 |
9,442 | Bioinformatics involves the development of techniques to store, data mine, search and manipulate biological data, including DNA nucleic acid sequence data. These have led to widely applied advances in computer science, especially string searching algorithms, machine learning, and database theory. String searching or ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7955 | 9,438 |
2,087,501 | Recently, Wang "et al." reported a BM3 variant capable of performing styrenyl olefin cyclopropanation. As native BM3 displays poor cyclopropanation activity, an enzyme engineering effort was undertaken. At their core, P450s are heme-thiolate enzymes which utilize molecular oxygen (O) and NAD(P)H to perform oxygenation ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53843175 | 2,086,299 |
1,459,729 | When the perturbations have grown sufficiently, a small region might become substantially denser than the mean density of the universe. At this point, the physics involved becomes substantially more complicated. When the deviations from homogeneity are small, the dark matter may be treated as a pressureless fluid and e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1810098 | 1,458,908 |
149,507 | The assignment of the group was to seek a solid-state alternative to fragile glass vacuum tube amplifiers. Their first attempts were based on Shockley's ideas about using an external electrical field on a semiconductor to affect its conductivity. These experiments mysteriously failed every time in all sorts of configur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15737 | 149,439 |
1,646,166 | Menkin was born on August 8, 1901, in Riga, Russian Empire and died at the age of 90 on June 8, 1992 in Boston, Massachusetts . Two years later, her family relocated to the United States. Her father was a successful doctor in New York City, allowing her family to live securely. In 1922, Menkin graduated from Cornell Un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52453978 | 1,645,237 |
2,128,319 | Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) is an ideal material to fabricate microfluidic devices for cell culture applications due to several advantageous properties such as low processing costs, ease of manufacture, rapid prototyping, ease of surface modification, and cellular non-toxicity. While there are several benefits that ari... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57569740 | 2,127,096 |
955,368 | Landscape architecture is a multi-disciplinary field, incorporating aspects of urban design, architecture, geography, ecology, civil engineering, structural engineering, horticulture, environmental psychology, industrial design, soil sciences, botany, and fine arts. The activities of a landscape architect can range fro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=75286 | 954,863 |
991,429 | Seversky also built a two-seater, the 2PA. Evolved in parallel with the P-35, the 2PA was a two-seat fighter and fighter-bomber with a fundamentally similar airframe and offered with either a similar undercarriage to that of the single-seater as the 2PA-L (Land) or with an amphibious float undercarriage as the 2PA-A (A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=675157 | 990,912 |
607,903 | While teaching at the Lausanne Academy, Walras began constructing a mathematical model that assumes a "regime of perfectly free competition", in which productive factors, products, and prices automatically adjust in equilibrium. Walras began with the theory of exchange in 1873 and then he proceeded to map out his theor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46769 | 607,592 |
1,197,986 | Solar oscillations were first observed in the early 1960s as a quasi-periodic intensity and line-of-sight velocity variation with a period of about 5 minutes. Scientists gradually realized that the oscillations might be global modes of the Sun and predicted that the modes would form clear ridges in two-dimensional powe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=408801 | 1,197,345 |
2,055,172 | Rose earned degrees in architecture at Princeton University and Harvard's Graduate School of Design, studying under Michael Graves and Rafael Moneo. After Harvard, Rose worked with landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh, an experience that influenced his design philosophy of architecture that "sees the site." He e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33250458 | 2,053,989 |
192,875 | Before the concept of ice ages was proposed, Joseph Fourier in 1824 reasoned based on physics that Earth's atmosphere kept the planet warmer than would be the case in a vacuum. Fourier recognized that the atmosphere transmitted visible light waves efficiently to the earth's surface. The earth then absorbed visible ligh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23423379 | 192,775 |
1,900,095 | As history would show, this turn of events proved to be fortunate for Maher. Bauer was considered to be one among "the city's prominent social and cultural arbiters." He had come to the United States in 1853 having been a part of the wave of German immigration that had brought Robert Seyfarth's grandfather to the Unite... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24940492 | 1,899,008 |
965,061 | The proliferation of thermonuclear weapons coincided with a rise in public concern about nuclear fallout debris contaminating food sources, particularly the threat of high levels of strontium-90 in milk (see the Baby Tooth Survey). This survey was a scientist and citizen led campaign which used "modern media advocacy t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30592 | 964,552 |
2,129,926 | Application deadlines are typically in early January, and application results are revealed in early April, as of 2017. More forms are sent to accepted students for scheduling purposes. Available electives for the year of 2008 included technology math, solar power, seismic engineering, and biomedical engineering. Studen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12110532 | 2,128,702 |
2,001,456 | After teaching at the University of Chicago Divinity School for four years, Kitagawa's mentor, Joachim Wach, died due to illness when he was visiting his family in Europe. Following Wach's death, Kitagawa became the leader of the History of Religions discipline in the University of Chicago Divinity School. Ever since K... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27953973 | 2,000,310 |
1,010,118 | By this time the design was restricted by the limitations imposed by the requirement to the ability to pass through the Panama Canal, a fundamental part of the Navy's strategy as it saved weeks of time when ships had to transfer from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic or vice versa. In the meantime the General Board had... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6313348 | 1,009,597 |
125,560 | Although they were generally well-liked, the high cost of £40 each gun was an issue for the British Army leadership. This became a greater issue when it was discovered that only 2,300 of the 30,000 Bren guns issued to the British Expeditionary Force came back to Britain after the defeat of France. As the result, cost s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=240860 | 125,508 |
844,074 | The problem of limit of detection, or limit of quantification, is encountered in all scientific disciplines. This explains the variety of definitions and the diversity of solutions developed to address the question. In the simplest cases as in nuclear and chemical measurements, definitions and approaches have probably ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2597750 | 843,624 |
175,519 | In 2008, professor Jeremy P. Meyers, in the Electrochemical Society journal "Interface" wrote that fuel cells "are not as efficient as batteries, due primarily to the inefficiency of the oxygen reduction reaction. ... [T]hey make the most sense for operation disconnected from the grid, or when fuel can be provided cont... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1252085 | 175,427 |
1,381,784 | Classically, LN, including LCIS, is characterized by enlargement and distension of acini making up the TDLU by proliferation of monomorphic, dyshesive, small, round, or polygonal cells with loss of polarity and inconspicuous cytoplasm. Essentially, groups of round, almost identical looking cells that fill and expand th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18403722 | 1,381,021 |
1,955,135 | The renovation of Lincoln Hall is also eco-friendly. The roofs within the courtyards are covered with plants reducing rain runoff and increasing the lifespan of the roof. The slate roofing tiles were recycled as mulch for the grounds. Storm drains and sanitary sewers are relined instead of replaced eliminating the need... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3826618 | 1,954,013 |
590,592 | Barad's original training was in theoretical particle physics and quantum field theory. Their book, "Meeting the Universe Halfway", (2007), includes a chapter that contains an original discovery in theoretical physics, which is largely unheard of in books that are usually categorized as "gender studies" or "cultural th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14091688 | 590,290 |
210,080 | The outer surface of the fluke is called the tegument. This is composed of scleroprotein, and its primary function is to protect the fluke from the destructive digestive system of the host. Its also used for renewal of the surface plasma membrane and the active uptake of nutrients, and the uptake of some compounds (e.g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1349358 | 209,973 |
318,077 | During the season, the Tyrrell team had its results stripped after a technical infringement. Soon after the podium ceremony for the Detroit Grand Prix in which Martin Brundle had finished in second place (only 2 seconds behind the Brabham of Nelson Piquet), word arrived that the officials had found impurities in the wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1140073 | 317,907 |
215,941 | Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel are two leading figures in Impressionism, though Debussy rejected this label (in a 1908 letter he wrote "imbeciles call [what I am trying to write in "Images"] 'impressionism', a term employed with the utmost inaccuracy, especially by art critics who use it as a label to stick on Turner... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14566 | 215,833 |
399,353 | In 1952, the U.S. military assigned Jay W. Lathrop and James R. Nall at the National Bureau of Standards (later the U.S. Army Diamond Ordnance Fuze Laboratory, which eventually merged to form the now-present Army Research Laboratory) with the task of finding a way to reduce the size of electronic circuits in order to b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23748 | 399,155 |
1,971,325 | In their study of proteins, Osborne and Mendel also aided in the discovery of vitamins. During their feeding trials, they noticed that young rats fed diets with sufficient carbohydrate (in the form of wheat flour) and purified protein, but with vegetable fats or lard instead of butter grew and developed normally for ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13561040 | 1,970,191 |
557,020 | He was born in Grodno (then Second Polish Republic, since 1945 part of Belarus) on April 29, 1926. He was the youngest of three children in his Lithuanian Jewish family, with the Yiddish given name "Pesach". His family moved to the United States on May 11, 1928, settling in Boston and later in Philadelphia, where his f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1016348 | 556,731 |
134,777 | Circumstantial evidence indicates that the baroque bassoon was a newly invented instrument, rather than a simple modification of the old dulcian. The dulcian was not immediately supplanted, but continued to be used well into the 18th century by Bach and others; and, presumably for reasons of interchangeability, reperto... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4207 | 134,722 |
1,086,410 | The HIPEC technique was also further improved upon by suggesting multiple modalities of delivery. The "Coliseum" technique as well as a similar approach described by Dr. Paul Sugarbaker in 1999 were open abdominal techniques where heated chemotherapy was poured in. Benefits of this open approach included direct access ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30860773 | 1,085,852 |
10,027 | The British and Americans exchanged nuclear information but did not initially combine their efforts. Britain rebuffed attempts by Bush and Conant in 1941 to strengthen cooperation with its own project, codenamed Tube Alloys, because it was reluctant to share its technological lead and help the United States develop its... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19603 | 10,023 |
1,851,909 | In the late 1950s, as the Civil Rights Movement gathered momentum in the US, Fordham students and school officials expressed ambivalence about racial justice. In the late 1960s, Fordham became a center of political activism and countercultural activity. At the Rose Hill Campus, the Fordham branch of Students for a Demo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53885358 | 1,850,848 |
1,145,589 | Cell, developmental, and reproductive biology have been a central part of the MBL's programs since the 1890s. Important discoveries in these fields at the MBL reach back to 1899, when Jacques Loeb demonstrated artificial parthenogenesis in sea urchin eggs; to 1905, when Edwin Grant Conklin first identified egg cytoplas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=391313 | 1,144,988 |
2,106,450 | Eric Higgs was born in Brantford, Ontario, to David P.J. Higgs and Barbara Isabel Stowe. His pre-school years were in North Delta, British Columbia (near Vancouver). He attended public school in Thornhill, Ontario (near Toronto), and secondary school (Brantford Collegiate and Pauline Johnston Secondary School) in Brant... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8084673 | 2,105,237 |
835,707 | Many of the problems encountered will benefit from special attention, as problems are often related more to "input and output" issues than to intellectual impairment. Problems with eye movement control make it difficult for people with A–T to read, yet most fully understand the meaning and nuances of text that is read ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1058672 | 835,258 |
1,595,205 | In addition, the first electron deflection experiments with sufficient precision was conducted by Rogers "et al." (1940), who developed an improved setup. The radium decay series yields a spectrum of beta particles with a wide range of energies. The earlier measurements by Kaufmann, Bucherer, and others had used flat p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8808602 | 1,594,307 |
660,250 | The first truly quantitative reconstruction of Northern Hemisphere temperatures had been published in 1993 by Bradley and Phil Jones, but it and subsequent reconstructions compiled averages for decades, covering the whole hemisphere. Mann wanted temperatures of individual years showing differences between regions, to f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=345811 | 659,905 |
902,135 | William James addressed the benefits of attention by saying, "Only those items which I notice shape my mind – without selective interest, experience is utter chaos". Humans have a limited mental capacity that is incapable of attending to all the sights, sounds and other inputs that rush the senses every moment. Inatten... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1677048 | 901,659 |
2,015,549 | Richens stated that "a unilateral habit is the prime diagnostic feature of "U. plotii"." This habit of branching tends to make Plot appear narrow from some angles. Before the advent of Dutch elm disease, this slender, "loose-habited", monopodial tree grew to a height of and was chiefly characterized by its cocked crown... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5961044 | 2,014,389 |
200,012 | At the end of the 19th century, physics had evolved to the point at which classical mechanics could cope with highly complex problems involving macroscopic situations; thermodynamics and kinetic theory were well established; geometrical and physical optics could be understood in terms of electromagnetic waves; and the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13758 | 199,909 |
959,892 | Though Ray had primarily focused on history and literature until this stage, chemistry was then a compulsory subject in the FA degree. As the Metropolitan Institution offered no facilities for science courses at the time, Ray attended physics and chemistry lectures as an external student at the Presidency College. He w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2325728 | 959,384 |
376,849 | Francis Bacon (no direct relation to Roger, who lived 300 years earlier) was a seminal figure in philosophy of science at the time of the Scientific Revolution. In his work "Novum Organum" (1620)an allusion to Aristotle's "Organon"Bacon outlined a new system of logic to improve upon the old philosophical process of syl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37010 | 376,654 |
2,010,467 | A group of orthologous or homologous genes can be analysed in terms of the presence or absence of group members in the reference genomes; such patterns are called phylogenetic profiles. To find HGT events, phylogenetic profiles are scanned for an unusual distribution of genes. Absence of a homolog in some members of a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46968364 | 2,009,315 |
766,663 | Review findings suggest that hyperglycemia that occurs in mice due to a habitual high-fat diet leads to a reduction in signalling by orexin receptor-2, and that orexin receptors may be a future therapeutic target. Leptin is a hormone produced by fat cells and acts as a long-term internal measure of energy state. Ghreli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276251 | 766,252 |
2,001,199 | The attacking forces engaged in the April War (6 to 17 April 1941) were 2,373 aircraft strong, including 1,212 aircraft from Germany, 647 from Italy and 287 from Hungary, while the Royal Yugoslav Air Force had 494 airplanes, only 269 of a modern type. Thus the ratio in the beginning of operations was 5:1 in favor of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48791069 | 2,000,053 |
1,464,294 | Garwin served on the U.S. President's Science Advisory Committee from 1962–65 and 1969–72, under Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon. He has been a member of the JASON Defense Advisory Group since 1966. As a member of the Institute for Defense Analyses' Jason Division of U.S. university scientists. on Sat. February ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5189415 | 1,463,471 |
600,322 | The field includes nanorobots and biological machines, which constitute a very useful tool to develop this area of knowledge. In the past years, researchers have made many improvements in the different devices and systems required to develop functional nanorobots – such as motion and magnetic guidance. This supposes a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2154572 | 600,016 |
752,299 | Direct TPMS (dTPMS) directly measures tire pressure using hardware sensors. In each wheel, most often on the inside of the valve, there is a battery-driven pressure sensor which transfers pressure information to a central control unit which reports it to the vehicle's onboard computer. Some units also measure and alert... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3684992 | 751,897 |
395,112 | Indirect evidence for endothermy is provided by the body shape of derived ichthyosaurs, which with its short tail and vertical tail fin seems optimised for a high cruising speed that can only be sustained by a high metabolism: all extant animals swimming this way are either fully warm-blooded or, like sharks and tuna, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=314101 | 394,917 |
1,129,355 | In 1970 the then minister of defence Helmut Schmidt decided that the education of military officers in Germany had to be reviewed and had to include full academic studies. After one year the "Ellwein commission" presented its proposal for the creation of two civilian colleges within the armed forces. Students should ge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13695991 | 1,128,777 |
654,731 | The Hotchkiss was based on a design by Captain Baron Adolf Odkolek von Ujezda of Vienna, first patented in July 1889 with further patents following in the following years, tested in 1893 in Saint-Denis, near Paris. The patents had been purchased in 1894–1895 by the firm of Benjamin Hotchkiss. Benjamin Hotchkiss was no ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1876110 | 654,387 |
802,607 | The K series was introduced in 1988 by Rover Group as a powerplant for the Rover 200 car. It was the second volume-production implementation of the low-pressure sand-casting (or LPS) technique in a new plant sited between East Works and Cofton Hackett. (The first volume application of the LPS process had been for the M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=533547 | 802,178 |
603,386 | From 1969, the National Plan for Industrial Development was aimed at substituting imports in all areas of manufacture. A series of laws were enacted in the following years to create this situation, affecting passenger cars as well as commercial vehicles. Gradual limitations on CBU vehicle imports were introduced, reach... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49352436 | 603,076 |
148,647 | In September 1961, a Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) PDP-1 minicomputer was installed in the "kludge room" on the 2nd floor of Building 26, the location of the MIT Electrical Engineering Department. The PDP-1 was to complement the older TX-0, and like it had a punched tape reader and writer, and additionally accept... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5482854 | 148,586 |
1,900,092 | . Seyfarth began his career as an architect at the age of 17 working for Fiedler during the time the latter was architect to the board of education, and records show his position at the time he was hired to be "messenger" (although, as noted above, his graduation notice suggested something more than that), for which he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24940492 | 1,899,005 |
662,882 | Asperger's 1940 work, "Autistic psychopathy in childhood", found that four of the 200 children studied had difficulty with integrating themselves socially. Although their intelligence levels appeared normal, the children lacked nonverbal communication skills, failed to demonstrate empathy with their peers, and were phy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13302907 | 662,537 |
824,254 | When cultured and exposed to ionizing radiations in liquid media, "Deinococcus radiodurans" could survive up to 25 kGy. Horne et al. (2022) have studied the effects of desiccation and freezing on the microbial survivability to ionizing radiations considering the feasibility studies to return Martian subsurface soil sam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23545973 | 823,811 |
833,245 | At the 2012 United States Olympic Trials, the qualifying meet for the 2012 Summer Olympics, Eaton started day one of the decathlon competition with two world decathlon bests, the equivalent of a world record for athletes competing in a full decathlon. The first in the 100-meter (10.21), and then in the long jump (). To... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23192127 | 832,796 |
707,514 | The recovery mission faced numerous challenges, with winter weather being chief among them. The village of Potskho Etseri was used as the base of operations. A special container lined with of lead and weighing was built for the purpose. An old military truck was converted for hauling the container. Special handling too... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67844064 | 707,145 |
1,053,794 | The games of round three were played on June 23 and June 24, with tie-breaks on the evening of June 24. The surprise of round three was Ivanchuk (5) being knocked out by Kasimdzhanov (28). The two standard time control games had been fairly quiet affairs and were both drawn (the second, with Kasimdzhanov white, after j... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=735508 | 1,053,248 |
95,444 | The scope of ecology contains a wide array of interacting levels of organization spanning micro-level (e.g., cells) to a planetary scale (e.g., biosphere) phenomena. Ecosystems, for example, contain abiotic resources and interacting life forms (i.e., individual organisms that aggregate into populations which aggregate ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9630 | 95,403 |
907,456 | "Killzone" takes place in a fictional world set in the year 2357. After nuclear war rendered much of the Earth uninhabitable in 2055, world governments formed an international order known as the United Colonial Nations. Partnering with private firms, the UCN moved to establish human colonies in Alpha Centauri, a system... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1247019 | 906,978 |
433,024 | In a review of dozens of articles involving mice in prolonged pain experiments, researchers found "there were no references to the "3Rs"" which in turn "raise serious questions about whether the 3Rs' principles of Replacement, Reduction, and Refinement are being appropriately implemented by researchers and institutions... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40251468 | 432,811 |
215,603 | Biofeedback is a treatment for anismus (paradoxical contraction of puborectalis during defecation). This therapy directly evolved from the investigation anorectal manometry where a probe that can record pressure is placed in the anal canal. Biofeedback therapy is also a commonly used and researched therapy for fecal in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=292906 | 215,495 |
1,348,887 | Electronic lab notebooks used for development or research in regulated industries, such as medical devices or pharmaceuticals, are expected to comply with FDA regulations related to software validation. The purpose of the regulations is to ensure the integrity of the entries in terms of time, authorship, and content. U... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1616185 | 1,348,145 |
10,031 | When cooperation resumed after the Quebec agreement, the Americans' progress and expenditures amazed the British. The United States had already spent more than $1 billion ($ billion today), while in 1943, the United Kingdom had spent about £0.5 million. Chadwick thus pressed for British involvement in the Manhattan Pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19603 | 10,027 |
1,639,788 | Particle physics is an important field of application for computer algebra and exploits the capabilities of Computer Algebra Systems (CAS). This leads to valuable feed-back for the development of CAS. Looking at the history of computer algebra systems, the first programs date back to the 1960s. The first systems were a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17156914 | 1,638,861 |
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