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1,306,674 | The course focuses on the strategic and political aspects of war and educationally prepares students for assignments as strategic leaders. The academic year runs from late June through late May. The ASLSP curriculum provides a comprehensive, multifaceted focus at the theater-strategic level across the spectrum of Joint... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47720 | 1,305,958 |
743,773 | In 1987, Atwater mounted another expedition paddling up the Copalis River with Dr. David Yamaguchi, who was then studying the eruptions of Mount St. Helens. The pair happened upon a section of "ghost forest", so-called due to the dead, gray stumps left standing after a sudden inundation of salt water had killed them hu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1102205 | 743,379 |
483,238 | The e-cigarette vapor may also contain tiny amounts of toxicants, carcinogens, and heavy metals. The majority of toxic chemicals found in e-cigarette vapor are below 1% of the corresponding levels permissible by workplace exposure standards, but the threshold limit values for workplace exposure standards are generally ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47016616 | 482,992 |
25,933 | The company released a notional artist's impression of the TR-X aircraft at an Air Force Association conference in Washington on 14 September 2015. Its name was changed to mean "tactical reconnaissance" to reflect its purpose as an affordable peace and wartime intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) aircraf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32310 | 25,924 |
95,130 | Ohio State has several student-managed publications and media outlets. "The Makio" is the official yearbook. "The Makio's" sales plummeted by 60% during the early 1970s; the organization went bankrupt and stopped publication during the late 1970s. The book was revived from 1985 to 1994 and again in 2000, thanks to seve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22217 | 95,089 |
651,523 | The first millimeter-wave full body scanner was developed at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Washington. The operation is one of the four national laboratories Battelle manages for the U.S. Department of Energy. In the 1990s, they patented their 3-D holographic-imagery technology, with res... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16959357 | 651,181 |
1,112,891 | The post-secondary sector includes 2 public universities, Aboriginal-controlled institutions that are affiliated to either one of the public universities, 1 polytechnic, 4 federated colleges, career colleges, 8 regional colleges, and "Campus Saskatchewan" govern by the Ministry of Advanced Education, part of the provin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17661972 | 1,112,325 |
454,956 | The game's online multiplayer mode features three game types; the team opted to limit the number of game types, as opposed to creating an abundance of them, in order to create a "deeper game experience". The multiplayer mode was inspired by the combat encounters of the single-player campaign; the team aimed to recreate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45204814 | 454,734 |
598,575 | SDT was influenced by the elite theories of Karl Marx, Gaetano Mosca, Robert Michels, and Vilfredo Pareto, all of whom argue that societies are ruled by a small elite who rationalize their power through some system of justifying narratives and ideologies. Marx described the oppressive hierarchy of hegemonic groups domi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8377605 | 598,270 |
1,121,106 | The rest of the island is composed of a great variety of Paleozoic rocks of sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic origin. Along the west coast lie the Long Range Mountains, which are formed by an elongated block of the Earth's crust (a horst) which rises to about above sea level. This part of the island was once part of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8090265 | 1,120,532 |
1,048,819 | Thanks to Baer's research expeditions, the scientific investigation of permafrost began in Russia. Baer recorded the importance of permafrost research even before 1837 when observing in detail the geothermal gradient from a 116.7 m deep shaft in Yakutsk. At the end of the 1830s, he recommended sending expeditions to ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17304 | 1,048,274 |
1,097,575 | Scholars such as Robyn Wiegman argue that, "academic feminism is perhaps the most successful institutionalizing project of its generation, with more full-time faculty positions and new doctoral degree programs emerging each year in the field it inaugurated, Women's Studies". Feminist educational theory stems from four ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11719855 | 1,097,015 |
2,229,931 | King was born on 14 February 1922, and attended Latymer Upper School before going up to Jesus College, Cambridge University, graduating in about 1942 with a first class honours degree in mathematics. He then joined the Scientific Civil Service as part of the Ministry of Defence (Navy). After obtaining a PhD from Imperi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42965670 | 2,228,666 |
739,945 | During the 1980s Colt decided to expand on the basic ideas that had been developed in the WAK and BRL guns. The weapon was essentially a modified M16A1 with a new square handguard to cover the enlarged straight gas tube and almost 1 inch thick heavy barrel to make the barrel less susceptible for overheating and hence i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3352016 | 739,553 |
1,626,484 | Archer and Black were both stunned. Undaunted, Archer took a job at the Eldorado ice cream factory in Southwark, loading ice cream into refrigerated vans every night and working at the College unpaid during the day. Eventually, commercial funding was found for the soiled dressings receptacle, and in 1963 he gave up his... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4108991 | 1,625,566 |
1,066,361 | In the 1950s, an excavation effort revealed portions of the original Uraniborg structure and the structure of the underground laboratory space Stjerneborg, which was intended to shield Brahe's instruments from meteorological interference. Shortly after rediscovery, the external walls of the original palace were reconst... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=243449 | 1,065,807 |
1,117,128 | The remainder of Lazarsfeld and Merton's paper discusses structure of ownership and operation of the mass media specific to the USespecially the fact that in the case of magazines, newspapers, and radio, advertising "supports the enterprise": "Big business finances the production and distribution of mass media [...] he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=427665 | 1,116,555 |
285,597 | Bueckers made her season debut on November 14, 2021, recording a career-high 34 points, six rebounds and four assists in a 95–80 win against Arkansas. She matched the program record for points in a season opener set by Kerry Bascom in 1989. On December 5, Bueckers injured her left knee while dribbling the ball up the c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61733357 | 285,443 |
905,171 | The character animation was designed to be realistic, with extensive transitional animations to smooth out shifts between different stances for both the player, other characters and enemies. The zero-G sections were in place alongside the setting, and the team performed extensive research on real space exploration and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13381784 | 904,695 |
250,246 | Kamiya was later the director of "Devil May Cry", which started out as the earliest incarnation of "Resident Evil 4". Initially developed for the PlayStation 2, the game was directed by Hideki Kamiya after producer Shinji Mikami requested that he create a new entry in the "Resident Evil" series. Around the turn of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9134651 | 250,114 |
313,515 | The time resolution needed depends on brain processing time for various events. An example of the broad range here is given by the visual processing system. What the eye sees is registered on the photoreceptors of the retina within a millisecond or so. These signals get to the primary visual cortex via the thalamus in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=226722 | 313,346 |
1,179,727 | The Second Law of Thermodynamics is concerned primarily with whether or not a given process is possible. The Second Law states that no natural process can occur unless it is accompanied by an increase in the entropy of the universe. Stated differently, an isolated system will always tend to disorder. Living organisms a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2747470 | 1,179,103 |
1,820,793 | Year by year Forlanini improved and promoted his method and, in April 1912, he held a famous lecture in Rome titled "Artificial pneumothorax in the treatment of pulmonary phthisis" at the seventh International Congress on Tuberculosis. The presentation was warmly received and, after thirty years of studies on pneumotho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12359592 | 1,819,756 |
1,807,379 | The following year, the "Los Angeles Times" broke another story about USC focusing on George Tyndall, a gynecologist accused of abusing 52 patients at USC. The reports span from 1990 to 2016, and include using racist and sexual language, conducting exams without gloves, and taking pictures of his patients' genitals. "I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69891500 | 1,806,360 |
288,793 | Each cell on a plasma display must be precharged before it is lit, otherwise the cell would not respond quickly enough. Precharging normally increases power consumption, so energy recovery mechanisms may be in place to avoid an increase in power consumption. This precharging means the cells cannot achieve a true black,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=175859 | 288,636 |
429,905 | Some of the most impressive Seljuk monuments were caravanserais built along many trade routes between cities. Hundreds of them were built in the 13th century. Only about a hundred of the caravanserais exist today in varying states of preservation. Several are mostly intact or have been restored. Enough remains of these... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30557685 | 429,694 |
50,621 | Currently the cutting edge of fighter design, fifth-generation fighters are characterized by being designed from the start to operate in a network-centric combat environment, and to feature extremely low, all-aspect, multi-spectral signatures employing advanced materials and shaping techniques. They have multifunction ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10929 | 50,601 |
766,479 | The United States Navy created their own system, the AN/TPS-71 ROTHR (Relocatable Over-the-Horizon Radar), which covers a 64-degree wedge-shaped area at ranges from 500 to 1,600 nautical miles (925 to 3,000 km). ROTHR was originally intended to monitor ship and aircraft movement over the Pacific, and thus allow coordin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1694703 | 766,069 |
953,893 | Talk turned to the curriculum with many arguing that it should focus on Leicester's chief industries hosiery, boots and shoes. Others had higher hopes than just technical training. The education acts of 1902 and 1918, which brought education to the masses was also thought to have increased the need for a college, not l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=354047 | 953,388 |
870,452 | A significant introduction to the Archimedes' software portfolio came with the release of ArtWorks by Computer Concepts in late 1992. Described in one preview as "perhaps the easiest to use, but most advanced graphic illustration package, on any personal computer today", ArtWorks provided an object-based editing paradi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63145 | 869,992 |
1,941,594 | Social insects have evolved an array of sanitary behaviours to keep their nests clean, thereby reducing the probability of parasite establishment and spread within the colony. Such behaviours can be employed either prophylactically, or actively, upon demand. For example, social insects can incorporate materials with an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51046084 | 1,940,483 |
2,009,131 | The most studied model for ALS is the rodent, mouse model, which provide the most complex representation of nervous system that is considered the closest in mimicking human nervous system. In this model, the phenotype, and genotype characteristics can be studied and controlled. Many researchers have used transgenic mou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55680252 | 2,007,979 |
1,980,557 | The idea of evolution at the molecular level being driven by the random processes of mutation and genetic drift, largely independent from natural selection, was controversial at the time; the provocative title further emphasized the break with mainstream evolutionary thought, which was dominated by the synthetic theory... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20636644 | 1,979,419 |
360,541 | The 20th century was a significant era for electrophysiology. In 1902 and again in 1912, Julius Bernstein advanced the hypothesis that the action potential resulted from a change in the permeability of the axonal membrane to ions. Bernstein's hypothesis was confirmed by Ken Cole and Howard Curtis, who showed that membr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=156998 | 360,353 |
859,909 | Newcomen took forward Papin's experiment and made it workable, although little information exists as to exactly how this came about. The main problem to which Papin had given no solution was how to make the action repeatable at regular intervals. The way forward was to provide, as Savery had, a boiler capable of ensuri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=165062 | 859,451 |
1,913,529 | Following her residency, Pierce accepted an assistant professor position at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, after which she served at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) as a senior investigator in the radiation oncology branch from 1990 to 1992. During her final year at NCI, Pierce p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66773548 | 1,912,430 |
1,430,573 | Brady Kirkpatrick was added to the Harvard baseball staff in July 2018. Kirkpatrick will primarily work with the pitching staff and comes to Cambridge after a two-year stint at Monmouth University, with prior coaching and recruiting experience at the University of Rochester and the University of San Diego. In his first... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21159112 | 1,429,769 |
900,115 | The first known flight of an aircraft powered by a pulse detonation engine took place at the Mojave Air & Space Port on 31 January 2008. The project was developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory and Innovative Scientific Solutions, Inc. The aircraft selected for the flight was a heavily modified Scaled Composites ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=233071 | 899,640 |
1,826,765 | SYMAP's ability to print cheap, albeit low quality, maps using readily available technology led to rapid adoption in the late 1960s. SYMVU software, developed in 1969 to illustrate surface displays, was another popular product. GRID, CALFORM, and POLYVRT products further explored the raster versus vector approach to ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47557282 | 1,825,726 |
1,739,842 | Gram-negative bacteria deploy their periplasm to secrete OMVs for trafficking bacterial biochemicals to target cells in their environment. OMVs also carry endotoxic lipopolysaccharide initiating disease process in their host. This mechanism imparts a variety of benefits like, long-distance delivery of bacterial secreto... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42716479 | 1,738,862 |
2,007,574 | In Saxony-Anhalt, the species forages deep in valleys when temperatures are above , but on warmer slopes or rocky areas when it is colder. There, "M. alcathoe" is relatively easy to capture in August, because "M. brandtii" and "M. mystacinus" already start swarming in late July. Although there are some records of "M. a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30201177 | 2,006,423 |
629,317 | In January 2016, "The Washington Post" reported on plans by university president Simon P. Newman to use a questionnaire administered to freshman students to dismiss 20 to 25 freshmen in the first weeks of school to improve the school's retention statistics. The questionnaire included questions about students' mental he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=863822 | 628,979 |
775,150 | Phagocytosis is common and probably appeared early in evolution, evolving first in unicellular eukaryotes. Amoebae are unicellular protists that separated from the tree leading to metazoa shortly after the divergence of plants, and they share many specific functions with mammalian phagocytic cells. "Dictyostelium disco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=443416 | 774,734 |
1,655,793 | Some theories that are often used in criminology to help get an understanding for why crimes are being committed are differential association and control theory. Edwin Sutherland developed the differential association theory. This theory's basis is that criminal behavior is a learned thing in which people learn to be c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15947428 | 1,654,860 |
1,161,229 | In archaeology in the 1960s, the environment was seen as having a "passive" interaction with humans. With the inclusion of Darwinism and ecological principles, however, this paradigm began to shift. Prominent theories and principles of the time (oasis theory, catastrophism, and "longue duree") emphasized this philosoph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=982249 | 1,160,613 |
1,369,433 | Converging evidence suggests/supports that a sustained inflammatory response in the brain is a core feature of AD pathology and may be a key factor in AD pathogenesis. The brains of AD patients exhibit several markers of increased inflammatory signaling. The inflammatory hypothesis proposes that chronically elevated in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7201415 | 1,368,677 |
198,738 | The LHDs are able to transport 1,046 soldiers and their equipment, and can carry 1,600 in overload conditions. The embarked force is called the Amphibious Ready Element Landing Force (ARE-LE) based on an infantry company of up to 220 soldiers. Army planners considered several options for forming an amphibious force inc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3310889 | 198,636 |
1,102,401 | The VISh-23Ye propeller was delayed, and early test runs were conducted using a different propeller with manual pitch control (VISh-3Ye). Consequently, the engine was prone to overheating, and to compensate for this the cowling flaps restricting airflow around the engine were removed. Despite these problems, and the fa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2363776 | 1,101,840 |
1,517,451 | Analyzing variability in the location of gross anatomical landmarks such as sulci is an accepted method for studying evolutionary hominin brain reorganization. The position of the lunate sulcus in the occipital lobe has been studied in humans, early hominin endocasts, apes, and monkeys by researchers seeking to make in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24921013 | 1,516,599 |
112,830 | Educational psychologists distinguish between several types of constructivism: individual (or psychological) constructivism, such as Piaget's theory of cognitive development, and social constructivism. This form of constructivism has a primary focus on how learners construct their own meaning from new information, as t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1944675 | 112,785 |
1,094,790 | Researchers at the centre are divided into seven units: Chemistry and Physics of Materials, Engineering Mechanics, Evolutionary and Organismal Biology, Molecular biology and Genetics, New Chemistry, Theoretical Sciences, Education Technology and Geodynamics. There are two off-campus units: Chemical Biology and Condense... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2481515 | 1,094,230 |
167,592 | Alfa Romeo dominated all before them in the 1950 season, winning every race bar one in the championship with the pre-war "Alfetta" 158s. The sole exception was the Indianapolis 500, which was part of the championship (1950 to 1960), although not run to Formula One regulations and never contested by the teams that parti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=640098 | 167,505 |
265,652 | Some liquid water may occur transiently on the Martian surface today, but limited to traces of dissolved moisture from the atmosphere and thin films, which are challenging environments for known life. No large standing bodies of liquid water exist on the planet's surface, because the atmospheric pressure there averages... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21857752 | 265,508 |
839,760 | The end of the Cold War meant that funding dried up and the joint venture had to wait until 1997 for their first sale - to Chile - of the new design, which was designated the in export markets. The same year Spain started to look again at its requirements, and in 1998 they indicated that they would buy four Scorpènes, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23853018 | 839,311 |
162,042 | Great Britain, and England in particular, became one of the most prosperous economic regions in the world between the late 1600s and early 1800s as a result of being the birthplace of the industrial revolution that began in the mid-eighteenth century. The developments brought by industrialization resulted in Britain be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33643110 | 161,957 |
958,214 | Andrew Huxley, whom Alan Hodgkin described as "wizard with scientific apparatus", had just discovered the mechanism of the nerve impulse (action potential) transmission (for which he and Hodgkin later won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1963) in 1949 using his own design of voltage clamp, and was looking f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45502636 | 957,708 |
72,818 | With respect to this original description, implementations often make minor but important variations. Notably, the scheme as presented below includes elements equal to the pivot among the candidates for an inversion (so "greater than or equal" and "less than or equal" tests are used instead of "greater than" and "less ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3268249 | 72,791 |
1,365,773 | The dynamic magma underneath plates we are living on induces volcanic activity on Earth's surface. To advance the understanding in volcanological science and active volcano monitoring, the main data streams aided by remote sensing include surface deformation and thermal measurement plus the gas flux and composition. Se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55514078 | 1,365,017 |
1,966,305 | In subsequent work the technique's latent capability was eventually achieved. That work, depending on advanced radar circuit designs and precision sensing of departures from ideal straight flight, along with more sophisticated optical processors using laser light sources and specially designed very large lenses made fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71515213 | 1,965,176 |
1,313,314 | In 1949, bull semen was cryopreserved for the first time by a team of scientists led by Christopher Polge. This led to a much wider use of cryopreservation today, with many organs, tissues and cells routinely stored at low temperatures. Large organs such as hearts are usually stored and transported, for short times onl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=219284 | 1,312,594 |
1,398,804 | The discipline of conservation biology has traditionally been concerned with the preservation of biodiversity and the habitats that organisms are dependent upon. However, soundscape ecology encourages biologists to consider natural soundscapes as resources worthy of conservation efforts. Soundscapes that come from rela... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31352483 | 1,398,031 |
1,082,418 | Despite this setback, within a year Evans had found a client. The Philadelphia Board of Health was concerned with the problem of dredging and cleaning the city's dockyards and removing sandbars: in 1805 Evans convinced them to contract him to develop a steam-powered dredge. The result was the "Oruktor Amphibolos", or "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=389929 | 1,081,861 |
105,810 | In modern calculations, the terms "geocentric" and "heliocentric" are often used to refer to reference frames. In such systems the origin in the center of mass of the Earth, of the Earth–Moon system, of the Sun, of the Sun plus the major planets, or of the entire Solar System, can be selected. Right ascension and decli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=244588 | 105,765 |
1,065,609 | The Maudsley story dates from 1907, when once leading Victorian psychiatrist Henry Maudsley offered London County Council £30,000 (apparently earned from lucrative private practice in the West End) to help found a new mental hospital that would be exclusively for early and acute cases rather than chronic cases, have an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2289772 | 1,065,055 |
1,990,082 | The difficulty of isolating Schwann cells and subsequently inducing proliferation is a large obstacle. A solution is to selectively induce cells such as ectomesenchymal stem cells (EMSCs) into Schwann cell-like phenotypes. EMSCs are neural crest cells that migrate from the cranial neural crest into the first branchial ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11088829 | 1,988,939 |
402,782 | There are numerous proposed explanations of the Flynn effect, such as the rise in efficiency of education, along with skepticism concerning its implications. Similar improvements have been reported for semantic and episodic memory. Some research suggests that there may be an ongoing reversed Flynn effect (i.e., a decli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11773 | 402,582 |
1,344,249 | It opened in 1971, with Danny O'Hare as first principal (1971-1974). Patrick O'Donnell, PC, UDC, the Vice-Chairman of the Donegal Vocational Education Committee, accepted the building's key in May 1971. The inaugural meeting of an entity known as the "council", acting in an advisory capacity on policy and resources to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=620283 | 1,343,512 |
2,051,681 | Molecular biological methods for bioaerosol are significantly faster and more sensitive than conventional culture-based methods, and they are also able to reveal a larger diversity of microbes. Targeting the variation in the 16S rRNA gene, a microarray (PhyloChip) was used to conduct comprehensive identification of bot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25400387 | 2,050,500 |
186,982 | Though cinema and soundtracks represent the major uses of surround techniques, its scope of application is broader than that, as surround sound permits creation of an audio-environment for all sorts of purposes. Multichannel audio techniques may be used to reproduce contents as varied as music, speech, natural or synth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=253836 | 186,885 |
1,667,387 | Soon after the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, the AFC sent aircraft to assist the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force in capturing German colonies in what is now north-west New Guinea. These colonies surrendered quickly however, before the planes were even unpacked. The first operational flights ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3630911 | 1,666,448 |
17,648 | After winning the International Fighter Aircraft Competition, a program aimed at providing effective low-cost fighters to American allies, in 1970 Northrop introduced the second-generation F-5E Tiger II in 1972. This upgrade included more powerful engines, larger fuel capacity, greater wing area and improved leading ed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11142 | 17,642 |
232,178 | Hoth commanded the 3rd Panzer Group during Operation Barbarossa in 1941. This unit included the XXXIX Panzer Corps, LVII Panzer Corps, V Army Corps, and VI Army Corps which consisted of four Panzer divisions (7th, 12th, 19th, and 20th), three motorized divisions (14th, 20th, 18th), and four infantry divisions (5th, 6th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=261665 | 232,059 |
442,147 | In 2004 further development stalled for some reasons. While some countries (Austria, Spain, Switzerland) switched to ETCS with some benefit, German and French railway operators had already introduced proven and modern types of domestic train protection systems for high speed traffic, so they would gain no benefit. Furt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8286932 | 441,932 |
1,824,826 | One of the major health threats presented from the over consumption of these high mercury levels is the development of learning disabilities and developmental problems in children. This is the result of over mercury exposure after birth, and/or over consumption of high mercury levels of the mother during pregnancy. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49463141 | 1,823,788 |
847,855 | LUVOIR-A, previously known as the High Definition Space Telescope (HDST), would be composed of 36 mirror segments with an aperture of in diameter, offering images up to 24 times sharper than the Hubble Space Telescope. LUVOIR-A would be large enough to find and study the dozens of Earthlike planets in our nearby neighb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52350237 | 847,405 |
1,226,514 | The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a fundamental molecular biology technique that enables the selective amplification of DNA sequences, which is useful for expanded use of rare samples e.g.: stem cells, biopsies, circulating tumor cells. The reaction involves thermal cycling of the DNA sequence and DNA polymerase t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19081158 | 1,225,854 |
958,587 | People with HUS commonly exhibit the symptoms of thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA), which can include abdominal pain, low platelet count, elevated lactate dehydrogenase LDH, (a chemical released from damaged cells, and which is therefore a marker of cellular damage) decreased haptoglobin (indicative of the breakdown of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=542776 | 958,081 |
362,950 | While special relativity prohibits objects from moving faster than light with respect to a local reference frame where spacetime can be treated as flat and unchanging, it does not apply to situations where spacetime curvature or evolution in time become important. These situations are described by general relativity, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5985207 | 362,760 |
1,741,303 | In an effort to make its front-line soldiers and fighter pilots fight longer, harder, and with less concern for individual safety, the German army ordered them to take military-issue pills made from methamphetamine and a primarily cocaine-based stimulant. Pervitin, a methamphetamine drug newly developed by the Berlin-b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52569772 | 1,740,321 |
156,094 | In their natural habitat, they grow in the understory; most cultivars prefer part shade, especially in hotter climates, but they will also grow in heavy shade. Some cultivars will tolerate full sun, more so at higher latitudes and less at lower latitudes; red, purple-red, black-red, bronze, and some dark green cultivar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30864270 | 156,022 |
2,158,648 | In 1983 Tamas Székely graduated from Kossuth University (now the University of Debrecen), Hungary, as a teacher of biology and chemistry. In 1983 he undertook his PhD on foraging ecology of forest birds at Kossuth University. After completing his PhD in 1986, he became a research assistant with the Hungarian Ornitholog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67048782 | 2,157,416 |
1,328,295 | Avian malaria is a vector-transmitted disease caused by protozoa in the genera "Plasmodium" and "Haemoproteus"; these parasites reproduce asexually within bird hosts and both asexually and sexually within their insect vectors, which include mosquitoes (Culicidae), biting midges (Ceratopogonidae), and louse flies (Hippo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11131113 | 1,327,567 |
2,081,433 | Bennetzen's research interests include plant genome structure/evolution and gene function relationships, transposable element (TE) biology, genetic diversity in under-utilized crops of the developing world, rapid evolution of complex disease resistance loci in plants, fine structure recombinational analysis, the coevol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7138103 | 2,080,233 |
95,510 | Soil is the living top layer of mineral and organic dirt that covers the surface of the planet. It is the chief organizing centre of most ecosystem functions, and it is of critical importance in agricultural science and ecology. The decomposition of dead organic matter (for example, leaves on the forest floor), results... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9630 | 95,469 |
418,613 | Clark's donation enabled Hofmann to continue individual study in science and mathematics, and he continued to take music lessons from Heinrich Urban (composition) and with the pianist and composer Moritz Moszkowski. In 1892, Rubinstein accepted Hofmann as his only private pupil, the two meeting for 42 sessions in Dresd... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=440258 | 418,408 |
2,024,924 | The admirable collaboration and cooperation provided by this Section to Plant Breeding & Genetics and Cytogenetics disciplines has overlaid in the development of virus resistance varieties. The survey during the crop season revealed that virus was prevalent across the belt. However under various agronomic practices and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14192720 | 2,023,759 |
1,687,853 | Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary on the afternoon of 23 May 1915, and almost the entire Austro-Hungarian fleet left Pola soon after to deliver an immediate response against Italian cities and towns along the Adriatic coast, aiming to interdict land and sea transport between southern Italy and the northern regions ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46387997 | 1,686,907 |
802,757 | The goal of the missions was, above all, to become self-sufficient in relatively short order. Farming, therefore, was the most important industry of any mission. Prior to the establishment of the missions, the native peoples knew how to utilize bone, seashells, stone, and wood for building, tool making, weapons, and mu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59599 | 802,328 |
1,020,939 | Radical surgical resection is the main treatment for PLS; it is also an important palliative intervention to relieve symptoms due to the compression of organs and tissues. Surgery may require removal of an entire compressed organ such as the kidney or colon. Regardless of this surgery, however, local recurrence rates a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1386912 | 1,020,410 |
88,211 | From 1971 to 1973, at the behest of Ambassador Joseph Farland, Yeager was assigned as the Air Attache in Pakistan to advise the Pakistan Air Force which was led by Abdur Rahim Khan (the first Pakistani to break the sound barrier). He arrived in Pakistan at a time when tensions with India were at a high level. One of Ye... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6185 | 88,176 |
1,845,013 | Homeopathy is among the worst examples of faith-based medicine... These axioms [of homeopathy] are not only out of line with scientific facts but also directly opposed to them. If homeopathy is correct, much of physics, chemistry, and pharmacology must be incorrect... To have an open mind about homeopathy or similarly ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15032831 | 1,843,958 |
123,730 | Actuaries use skills primarily in mathematics, particularly calculus-based probability and mathematical statistics, but also economics, computer science, finance, and business. For this reason, actuaries are essential to the insurance and reinsurance industries, either as staff employees or as consultants; to other bus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43405 | 123,679 |
1,041,822 | Using data from the ECA study, Eaton, Anthony, Mandel, and Garrison (1990) found that members of three occupational groups, lawyers, secretaries, and special education teachers (but not other types of teachers) showed elevated rates of "DSM-III" major depression, adjusting for social demographic factors. The ECA study ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18079605 | 1,041,279 |
1,908,790 | Based on a plan to set up The Falmouth Polytechnic Society originated by Anna Maria Fox at the age of seventeen, Charles was one of the projectors and founders of what became the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society at Falmouth in 1835, following being granted a Royal warrant by King William the IV and, in conjunction wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4904048 | 1,907,692 |
815,784 | In 1892, Cope (then 52 years old) was granted expense money for field work from the Texas Geological Survey. With his finances improved, he was able to publish a massive work on the "Batrachians of North America", which was the most detailed analysis and organization of the continent's frogs and amphibians ever mastere... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=415000 | 815,350 |
1,580,386 | Pellegrino was born in Newark, New Jersey and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He and his wife, Clementine Coakley Pellegrino, were married for 68 years, until her death in May, 2012. He was the father of seven children: Thomas (d. 2011); Stephen (d. 1981); Virginia; Michael; Andrea; Alice; and Leah. Pellegrino had two gr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4497012 | 1,579,496 |
47,928 | In 2014, Lincoln Laboratory announced a new imaging chip with more than 16,384 pixels, each able to image a single photon, enabling them to capture a wide area in a single image. An earlier generation of the technology with one fourth as many pixels was dispatched by the U.S. military after the January 2010 Haiti earth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41958 | 47,908 |
2,037,515 | Since 1991, Richards has been working for the AO Research Institute Davos (ARI) performing R&D of fracture fixation devices. His current position is both Executive Director Research & Development for the AO Foundation and Director of Research and Development, a position he has held since 2009. His research into implant... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50641721 | 2,036,340 |
213,222 | The shift in Aalto's design approach from classicism to modernism is epitomised by the Viipuri Library in Vyborg (1927–35), which went through a transformation from an originally classical competition entry proposal to the completed high-modernist building. His humanistic approach is in full evidence in the library: th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2009 | 213,114 |
10,128 | On the morning of 9 August 1945, a second B-29 ("Bockscar"), piloted by the 393d Bombardment Squadron's commander, Major Charles W. Sweeney, lifted off with a Fat Man on board. This time, Ashworth served as weaponeer and Kokura was the primary target. Sweeney took off with the weapon already armed but with the electric... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19603 | 10,124 |
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