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1,145,555 | Gravity and the nature of the Kibble balance, which oscillates test masses up and down against the local gravitational acceleration "g", are exploited so that mechanical power is compared against electrical power, which is the square of voltage divided by electrical resistance. However, "g" varies significantly—by near... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61149311 | 1,144,954 |
586,219 | Conventional FISH methods are limited with a low amount of genes that can be simultaneously analyzed due to the small number of distinct color channels, so multiplexed error-robust FISH was designed to overcome this problem. Multiplexed Error-Robust FISH (MERFISH) greatly increases the number of RNA species that can be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57313623 | 585,919 |
850,210 | Historically, there have even been a few rare occasions where a simulation was validated as it was being carried out. One notable such occurrence was just before the famous Ardennes offensive in World War II, when the Germans attacked allied forces during a period of bad weather in the winter of 1944, hoping to reach t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10280894 | 849,758 |
2,019,973 | Transcranial pulsed ultrasound (TPU) uses low intensity, low frequency ultrasound (LILFU) to stimulate the brain. In 2002, Dr. Alexander Bystritsky first proposed the idea that this methodology contained therapeutic benefits. Beginning in 2008, Dr. William Tyler and his research team from Arizona State University began... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40805960 | 2,018,810 |
49,097 | Kirby recalled events somewhat differently. In a 1970 Fanzine interview he confirmed Lee's involvement in the creation of the Fantastic Four but took credit for the main characters and ideas, stating "It was my idea. It was my idea to do it the way it was; my idea to develop it the way it was. I'm not saying Stan had n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11664 | 49,077 |
600,637 | Lindzen has published papers on Hadley circulation, monsoon meteorology, planetary atmospheres, hydrodynamic instability, , global heat transport, the water cycle, ice ages and seasonal atmospheric effects. His main contribution to the academic literature on anthropogenic climate change is his proposal of the iris hypo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=182075 | 600,331 |
1,405,460 | In contrast to the differentiation of ESCs in monolayer cultures, whereby the addition of soluble morphogens and the extracellular microenvironment can be precisely and homogeneously controlled, the three-dimensional structure of EBs poses challenges to directed differentiation. For example, the visceral endoderm popul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1195514 | 1,404,670 |
15,756 | Artificial intelligence (AI) aims to or is required to synthesize goal-orientated processes such as problem-solving, decision-making, environmental adaptation, learning, and communication found in humans and animals. From its origins in cybernetics and in the Dartmouth Conference (1956), artificial intelligence researc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5323 | 15,751 |
310,345 | The Panzer I was upgraded in order to increase its lethality. On 8 August 1937 Major General García Pallasar received a note from Generalísimo Francisco Franco which expressed the need for a Panzer I (or "negrillo", as their Spanish crews called them) with a 20-millimeter gun. Ultimately, the weapon chosen was the Bred... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29073044 | 310,177 |
694,452 | A hidden curriculum may further add to discrimination in the educational system. Hidden curriculum is the idea that race, class, and gender have an influence on the lessons that are taught in schools. Moreover, it is the idea that certain values and norms are instilled through curriculum. For example, U.S. history ofte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16973246 | 694,089 |
502,661 | The FMARS is a monocoque mostly made out of double-skinned wood panels. The habitat is stabilized by ground trusses and steel guy-wires, making the FMARS more stable than MDRS in high wind. The lower desk has more but smaller rooms, and the doors in the FMARS are square and tall. A ladder connects both floors together.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19843 | 502,403 |
1,984,828 | More than 40 distinct mutation variations in SFTPC gene have also been described in patients. Wild-type SP-C proteins are embedded inside the phospholipid bilayer of epithelial type II cell and function to generate and maintain monolayer of surfactant on alveolar surface. Individuals with mutated SFTPC genes tend to ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30022078 | 1,983,689 |
133,421 | By the late 1950s, several silver-conducting electrochemical systems employed solid electrolytes, but such systems possessed undesirable qualities, including low energy density and cell voltages, and high internal resistance. In 1967, the discovery of fast ionic conduction β - alumina for a broad class of ions (Li+, Na... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21227685 | 133,368 |
1,391,231 | This species is second in prevalence after "Aspergillus fumigatus" as a fungal pathogen in cystic fibrosis patients. It causes allergic bronchopulmonary disease and chronic lung lesions that resemble aspergillosis. Infections can also occur in immunocompetent individuals, usually in the lungs and upper respiratory trac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18557449 | 1,390,460 |
795,606 | Western boundary currents are integrated parts in the world's climatic balance. The Kuroshio Current plays an important role in influencing regional climate and weather patterns mainly through the input of warm waters from lower latitudes northward into the western edge of the Pacific basin. Along with the other wester... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=952514 | 795,181 |
583,066 | Three major challenges face the design of disruptively patterned uniforms. Firstly, units frequently move from one terrain to another, where the background colours and contrasts may differ greatly. A uniform designed for woodland will be too strongly contrasting for desert use, and too green for urban use. Therefore, n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37438477 | 582,767 |
1,595,302 | After the war, Alcock wanted to continue his flying career and took up the challenge of attempting to be the first to fly directly across the Atlantic. Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown took off from St John's, Newfoundland, at 1:45 pm local time on 14 June 1919, and landed in Derrygimla bog near Clifden, Ireland, 16 hou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33684900 | 1,594,404 |
1,696,525 | In April 2015, gene editing technology was used on human embryos and debate about the ethics of such actions persisted since. Nonetheless, scientists and policymakers are in agreement that public deliberations should decide the legality of germ line genome editing. Modifying a person's non-heritable DNA with the goal o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=709360 | 1,695,572 |
108,777 | In 1999, Kurzweil published a second book titled "The Age of Spiritual Machines", which goes into more depth explaining his futurist ideas. In it, he states that with radical life extension will come radical life enhancement. He says he is confident that within 10 years we will have the option to spend some of our time... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25984 | 108,732 |
143,179 | In 1936, the team of Romanian physicist Horia Hulubei and French physicist Yvette Cauchois claimed to have discovered element 85 by observing its X-ray emission lines. In 1939, they published another paper which supported and extended previous data. In 1944, Hulubei published a summary of data he had obtained up to tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=901 | 143,121 |
836,162 | As of 2013, the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in the Ukraine remains the world's worst nuclear power plant disaster. Estimates of its death toll are controversial and range from 62 to 25,000, with the high projections including deaths that have yet to happen. Peer-reviewed publications have generally supported a projected to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14163295 | 835,713 |
883,127 | Balle, Campbell, Keenan and Flygare demonstrated that the FTMW technique can be applied within a "free space cell" comprising an evacuated chamber containing a Fabry-Perot cavity. This technique allows a sample to be probed only milliseconds after it undergoes rapid cooling to only a few kelvins in the throat of an exp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=531239 | 882,663 |
1,237,618 | By mid-1968, 36 fixed and mobile ground terminals, the responsibility of the Army, completed the satellite communications system. Originally used for the Army Signal Corps' Project Advent and later co-opted for NASA's Syncom satellite program, two fixed AN/FSC-9 ground terminals, one located at Camp Roberts, California... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66185637 | 1,236,953 |
1,913,406 | The first passive sampling devices were developed in the 1970s to determine concentrations of contaminants in the air. In 1980 this technology was first adapted for the monitoring of organic contaminants in water. The initial type of passive sampler developed for aquatic monitoring purposes was the semipermeable membra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42927021 | 1,912,307 |
12,935 | The Syrian 5th ID subsequently occupied the plateau of the southern Golan. Ben-Shoham tried to maintain a foothold on the access roads by small groups of APCs manned by the 50th Paratrooper Battalion, but these were easily brushed aside. The Syrian 47th Armored Brigade advanced along the escarpment to the north, in the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34276 | 12,930 |
1,690,646 | In addition to his global contributions to cancer research including new discoveries on stem cells, new cancer genes, biomarkers and also biosimilar studies. Professor Justin Stebbing made a global contribution to millions of lives by leveraging an artificial intelligence programme to identify baricitinib as a drug for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65789155 | 1,689,699 |
863,542 | Initial steps towards some convergence of European higher education systems were taken with the signature of the Sorbonne declaration by the Ministers in charge of higher education in France, Italy, the United Kingdom and Germany, in 1998, and later, in 1999, with the signature of the Bologna declaration. The Bologna p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=715164 | 863,082 |
473,691 | The photoelastic phenomenon was first discovered by the Scottish physicist David Brewster, who immediately recognized it as stress-induced birefringence. That diagnosis was confirmed in a direct refraction experiment by Augustin-Jean Fresnel. Experimental frameworks were developed at the beginning of the twentieth cent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1533196 | 473,455 |
1,961,670 | Research in developmental neuropsychology can generally be divided into two categories that are based on two main goals of the field: educational and clinical. The educational approach aims to understand and aid in the education of developing children (or in some cases adults) whom have deficits learning certain skills... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62484990 | 1,960,543 |
1,095,400 | Although the Air Force’s F-X proponents remained hostile to the concept because they perceived it as a threat to the F-15 program, the ADP concept (revamped and renamed as the "F-XX") gained civilian political support under the reform-minded Deputy Secretary of Defense David Packard, who favored the idea of competitive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3031869 | 1,094,840 |
2,036,386 | In 1992, Inter-Coastal Electronics was selected by U.S. Army Communications Electronics Command (CECOM) to provide the real-time casualty assessment (RTCA) interface for the AH-64 Apache Attack Helicopter. This component was called the onboard data interface module (ODIM). As the Army incorporated new technologies, the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42141799 | 2,035,212 |
167,822 | In 1891, when he was 18, Santos-Dumont visited Europe. In England he spent a few months practising his English, and in France he climbed Mont Blanc. This adventure, at an altitude of almost 5,000 metres, gave him a taste for heights. The following year, his father had a serious accident, and released Alberto from paren... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=152687 | 167,732 |
1,096,369 | The Oriented Scintillation Spectrometer Experiment (OSSE) by the Naval Research Laboratory detected gamma rays entering the field of view of any of four detector modules, which could be pointed individually, and were effective in the 0.05 to 10 MeV range. Each detector had a central scintillation spectrometer crystal o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=543428 | 1,095,809 |
1,816,655 | The ozone monitoring instrument (OMI) is a nadir-viewing visual and ultraviolet spectrometer aboard the NASA Aura spacecraft. Aura flies in formation about 15 minutes behind Aqua, both of which orbit the earth in a polar Sun-synchronous pattern. Aura was launched on July 15, 2004, and OMI has collected data since Augus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9301973 | 1,815,621 |
372,547 | University-based organizations include the Future of Humanity Institute (est. 2005) which researches the questions of humanity's long-term future, particularly existential risk. It was founded by Nick Bostrom and is based at Oxford University. The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (est. 2012) is a Cambridge Univ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21221594 | 372,352 |
1,345,399 | Ideomotor Apraxia, often IMA, is a neurological disorder characterized by the inability to correctly imitate hand gestures and voluntarily mime tool use, e.g. pretend to brush one's hair. The ability to spontaneously use tools, such as brushing one's hair in the morning without being instructed to do so, may remain int... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14368827 | 1,344,661 |
2,126,753 | An astronomer, Browning was also Optical and Physical Instrument Maker to Her Majesty's Government. As such, he supplied telescopes to the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. Browning also attached spectroscopes to telescopic equipment, garnering the attention of astronomical physicists J. Norman Lockyer and William Huggin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35561022 | 2,125,532 |
1,517,320 | Non-volatile memory (NVM) can be leveraged for in-memory compute, thereby reducing the frequency of data transfer between storage and processing units. This can ultimately improve compute time and energy efficiency over hierarchical system architectures by eliminating the Von Neumann bottleneck. Hence, when using multi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64305316 | 1,516,468 |
1,004,056 | In September 2015, the USAF revealed that the LRS-B's development was much further along than had been publicly acknowledged, and more than usual before a contract award. Final requirements had been finalized since May 2013. Both competitors had mature proposals with prototyping activities and wind tunnel tests along w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34042348 | 1,003,538 |
1,119,384 | Doped metal oxides for use as transparent conducting layers in photovoltaic devices are typically grown on a glass substrate. This glass substrate, apart from providing a support that the oxide can grow on, has the additional benefit of blocking most infrared wavelengths greater than 2 μm for most silicates, and conver... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22645659 | 1,118,811 |
63,813 | Railgun velocities generally fall within the range of those achievable by two-stage light-gas guns; however, the latter are generally only considered to be suitable for laboratory use, while railguns are judged to offer some potential prospects for development as military weapons. A light gas gun, the Combustion Light ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=218930 | 63,788 |
467,181 | Since there is abundant mechanical energy generated on human bodies in people's everyday life, we can make use of the triboelectric nanogenerator to convert this amount of mechanical energy into electricity, for charging portable electronics and biomedical applications. This will help to greatly improve the convenience... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30057479 | 466,946 |
85,835 | From 1931 to 1933, the Stravinskys lived in Voreppe, a commune near Grenoble in southeastern France. In June 1934, the couple acquired French citizenship. Later in that year, they left Voreppe to live on rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré in Paris, where they stayed for five years. The composer used his citizenship to publis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38172 | 85,801 |
447,050 | "Nepenthes × alisaputrana" (originally published as ""Nepenthes × alisaputraiana"") is named in honour of Datuk Lamri Ali, Director of Sabah Parks. It is only known from a few remote localities within Kinabalu National Park where is grows in stunted, open vegetation over serpentine soils at around 2000 m above sea leve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3779130 | 446,834 |
1,480,161 | One major issue to consider for field emitters is the effect of contamination. In order to achieve electron emission at low voltages, field emitter array tips are built on a micrometer-level scale sizes. Their performance depends on the precise construction of these small structures. They are also dependent on being co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2860340 | 1,479,327 |
342,611 | The first skeleton, known as the London Specimen (BMNH 37001), was unearthed in 1861 near , Germany, and perhaps given to local physician in return for medical services. He then sold it for £700 (roughly £83,000 in 2020) to the Natural History Museum in London, where it remains. Missing most of its head and neck, it wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2995 | 342,430 |
769,573 | A CFRP bicycle frame weighs less than one of steel, aluminum, or titanium having the same strength. The type and orientation of the carbon-fiber weave can be designed to maximize stiffness in required directions. Frames can be tuned to address different riding styles: sprint events require stiffer frames while enduranc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23809352 | 769,161 |
855,621 | The conventional direct laryngoscope uses a line of sight provided by a rigid viewing instrument with a light on the blade or intra-oral portion which requires a direct view of the target larynx; this view is clearly seen in 80-90% of attempts. The frequent failure of direct laryngoscopy to provide an adequate view for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=352047 | 855,166 |
1,516,762 | Louis-Daniel Beauperthuy (Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, France, August 25, 1808 – Demerara, British Guiana, September 3, 1871) was a Venezuelan-French physician who made important contributions to the study of the causes of infectious diseases such as yellow fever, malaria, and leprosy. He was the first to systematically ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29302481 | 1,515,910 |
1,146,006 | Smaller, less powerful engines also allowed savings in civil engineering upgrades as they permitted lighter-laid track and cheaper bridges to be retained for longer into the 20th Century - thus there is an interaction with Route Availability - primarily based on axle loadings - although this concept was not formalised ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=564296 | 1,145,404 |
1,794,928 | Georgius Agricola is considered the 'father of mineralogy'. Nicolas Steno founded the stratigraphy (the study of rock layers (strata) and layering (stratification)), the geology characterizes the rocks in each layer and the mineralogy characterizes the minerals in each rock. The chemical elements were discovered in ide... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38876462 | 1,793,919 |
992,845 | "Computer Space" debuted at the MOA show on October 15–17, 1971. Dabney's wooden cabinet for the initial prototype was replaced with a curvy, futuristic fiberglass cabinet designed by Bushnell with modelling clay and built by a swimming pool manufacturer. A control panel extended from the main body of the cabinet and c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=292879 | 992,328 |
26,494 | On 5 June 1944, B-29s raided Bangkok, in what is reported as a test before being deployed against the Japanese home islands. Sources do not report from where they launched and vary as to the numbers involved—77, 98, and 114 being claimed. Targets were Bangkok's Memorial Bridge and a major power plant. Bombs fell over t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53179 | 26,484 |
793,114 | The activity of SARM1 helps to explain the protective nature of the survival factor NMNAT2, as NMNAT enzymes have been shown to prevent SARM1-mediated depletion of NAD. This relationship is further supported by the fact that mice lacking NMNAT2, which are normally not viable, are completely rescued by SARM1 deletion, p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1037544 | 792,689 |
2,023,111 | Few anticipated what came next at the tournament, held at the Ashburn Ice House in Ashburn, VA from March 7–10, 2013: wins over West No. 1 Alaska (2–1) and defending Division 2 national champion Wisconsin-Stout (3–1) on the first two days of the championships. With the top seed in the semifinals already secure after ju... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51386378 | 2,021,947 |
646,585 | Health numeracy requires basic numeracy but also more advanced analytical and statistical skills. For instance, health numeracy also requires the ability to understand probabilities or relative frequencies in various numerical and graphical formats, and to engage in Bayesian inference, while avoiding errors sometimes a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=397245 | 646,245 |
1,661,060 | As is true for any structure shaped by natural selection, bird anatomy has evolved to fit a particular species' behavior and lifestyle. For example, birds that live in dense forests and require high maneuverability and precise landing capabilities tend to have wing shapes and body plans that reduce stability to allow t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26865891 | 1,660,126 |
1,438,585 | Willi Hennig only visited international institutions abroad twice, in spite of receiving many invitations for guest lectures. From 1 September to 30 November 1967, he worked at the Entomology Research Institute at Canada's Department of Agriculture in Ottawa and participated in the International Congress of Entomology ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33952 | 1,437,775 |
1,472,879 | Idiopathic hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (IHH), otherwise known as congenital GnRH deficiency, has a known genetic basis. This heterogenous disease is caused by defects in GnRH secretion from the pituitary or the effect of GnRH on the pituitary. Implicated loci encode proteins necessary for proper GnRH secretion, actio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15738568 | 1,472,049 |
1,651,127 | Occurring for a variety of reasons, land expropriation, or the disruption of traditional ownership of land by more powerful interests such as local elites, governments, or transnational corporations, can also markedly affect nutritional status. Robbins details examples in Mexico of peasants facing land expropriation in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17200325 | 1,650,195 |
1,465,414 | The potential complete removal of plutonium from the waste stream of the reactor reduces the concern that presently exists with spent nuclear fuel from most other reactors that arises with burying or storing their spent fuel in a geological repository, as they could possibly be used as a plutonium mine at some future d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1429401 | 1,464,591 |
1,883,911 | Vijay Kumar was born on 7 November 1954 at Sasaram, a place known for its quarries, in Rohtas district in the Indian state of Bihar. His early college education was at Sahibganj College of Tilka Manjhi Bhagalpur University from where he completed his BSc (Hons) in zoology in 1972 and earned an MSc from Magadh Universit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53545803 | 1,882,830 |
1,535,424 | The Process of education has been focused on preparing specialists for work in various communities and national health care systems. Our educational offer has been adjusted to requirement laid down in the resolutions validated by our Government within the European Union co-operation. Following the entry of Poland into ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=869497 | 1,534,556 |
2,139,257 | Kalipada Pahan (born 19 February 1964; Midnapore) is a Professor of Neurological Sciences, Biochemistry and Pharmacology, and the Floyd A. Davis, M.D., Endowed Chair in Neurology at the Rush University Medical Center. He is also a research career scientist at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Jesse Brown VA Medical C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39740298 | 2,138,027 |
858,608 | Accumulated heat is an important consideration in the operation of a compressor in an internal combustion engine. Of the three basic supercharger types, the Roots design historically possessed the worst thermal efficiency, especially at high pressure ratios. In accordance with the ideal gas law, a compression operation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=229703 | 858,150 |
26,485 | On 18 February 1943, the second prototype, flying out of Boeing Field in Seattle, experienced an engine fire and crashed. The crash killed Boeing test pilot Edmund T. Allen and his 10-man crew, 20 workers at the Frye Meat Packing Plant and a Seattle firefighter. Changes to the production craft came so often and so fast... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53179 | 26,475 |
1,407,147 | In tandem with its screening work, deCODE used its genetics capabilities to sequence the virus from hundreds of infected individuals, and to draw a kind of genealogy of the different clades of the virus in the country. This showed how during the early weeks of the pandemic the virus had entered the country with people ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1494572 | 1,406,357 |
965,058 | Eisenhower had supported nuclear testing after World War II. In 1947, he rejected arguments by Stafford L. Warren, the Manhattan Project's chief physician, concerning the detrimental health effects of atmospheric testing, agreeing instead with James Bryant Conant, a chemist and participant in the Manhattan Project, who... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30592 | 964,549 |
927,328 | This meaning is different from remote control vehicles operating on land or in the air. ROVs are unoccupied, usually highly maneuverable, and operated by a crew either aboard a vessel/floating platform or on proximate land. They are common in deepwater industries such as offshore hydrocarbon extraction. They are linked... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=299462 | 926,841 |
804,372 | After World War II, the U.S. Army Air Force determined that an improved automatic cannon with an extremely high rate of fire was required against fast-moving enemy jet aircraft. Using experience gained from the "Luftwaffe" MG 151 and MK 108 cannons, a larger-caliber cannon shell for the new gun was deemed desirable. In... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65681263 | 803,943 |
407,210 | Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary scientific study of the mind and its processes. It examines what cognition is, what it does, and how it works. It includes research on intelligence and behavior, especially focusing on how information is represented, processed, and transformed (in faculties such as perception,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6880483 | 407,009 |
118,584 | In 1948 Hendrik Casimir showed that one consequence of the zero-point field is an attractive force between two uncharged, perfectly conducting parallel plates, the so-called Casimir effect. At the time, Casimir was studying the properties of "colloidal solutions". These are viscous materials, such as paint and mayonnai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=84400 | 118,538 |
1,390,643 | Within this changing view of psychosis and schizophrenia, the model has developed from a divergence of several different ideas, and from a number of sites, beginning with the closure of psychiatric institutions signaling a move toward community based care. In 1986, the Northwick Park study discovered an association bet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20769394 | 1,389,872 |
44,601 | In 2020 the world renewable hydropower capacity was 1,330 GW. Only a third of the world's estimated hydroelectric potential of 14,000 TWh/year has been developed. New hydropower projects face opposition from local communities due to their large impact, including relocation of communities and flooding of wildlife habita... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25784 | 44,584 |
922,029 | On July 1, 2017, Barry Mills became interim chancellor after Keith Motley's resignation. In September 2017, for the second consecutive year, "U.S. News & World Report" ranked UMass Boston within the first tier of national universities on its Best Colleges Ranking, and elevated the school in the rankings to a tie at num... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=99867 | 921,543 |
1,898,814 | After his Ph.D. studies, Stefan Ulmer joined the ASACUSA CUSP experiment at CERN in 2012 as a postdoctorate fellow, and contributed to the production of the first polarized beam of antihydrogen atoms. Simultaneously, he worked on setting up the BASE experiment. He invented a reservoir trap technique that allowed BASE t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68244764 | 1,897,730 |
125,957 | Cognitive deficits that can follow TBI include impaired attention; disrupted insight, judgement, and thought; reduced processing speed; distractibility; and deficits in executive functions such as abstract reasoning, planning, problem-solving, and multitasking. Memory loss, the most common cognitive impairment among he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1057414 | 125,905 |
109,605 | In the future, the possibility of a black hole production at the highest energy accelerators may arise if certain predictions of superstring theory are accurate. This and other possibilities have led to public safety concerns that have been widely reported in connection with the LHC, which began operation in 2008. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18589032 | 109,560 |
783,531 | Astronaut training was supervised by Raymond Zedehar, who reported to Warren North, the Director of Flight Crew Operations at the MSC. Initially, each of the astronauts was given four months' of classroom instruction on subjects such as spacecraft propulsion, orbital mechanics, astronomy, computing, and space medicine.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1636015 | 783,112 |
1,605,240 | The geology of Bolivia comprises a variety of different lithologies as well as tectonic and sedimentary environments. On a synoptic scale, geological units coincide with topographical units. The country is divided into a mountainous western area affected by the subduction processes in the Pacific and an eastern lowland... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27462051 | 1,604,336 |
1,681,941 | In the fall of 1978, Tod Machover arrived at IRCAM in Paris, and was introduced to Giuseppe di Giugno's digital synthesizer 4 series. "Light" was premiered at the Metz Festival in November 1979 using 4C, the brain-child of di Giugno's concept that "synthesizers should be made for musicians, not for the people that make... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5255479 | 1,680,998 |
328,675 | In the original Comtean usage, the term "positivism" roughly meant the use of scientific methods to uncover the laws according to which both physical and human events occur, while "sociology" was the overarching science that would synthesize all such knowledge for the betterment of society. "Positivism is a way of unde... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2871407 | 328,501 |
479,973 | As the Yayoi economy used no form of currency, bartering was used to trade goods and services, predominantly farm implements. Yayoi farmers fished, hunted, gathered and farmed. The introduction of a highly advanced form of rice cultivation using irrigation propelled the Yayoi economy. Terraced paddy fields made the Yay... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16234875 | 479,731 |
1,274,179 | The earliest publication to offer instruction to the public on building working steam engine models was the "Model Dockyard Handy-book" (2nd edition 1867) by E. Bell, proprietor of the Model Dockyard shop in London, which also offered the parts and completed models for sale. Bell was, he said, "Ship Modeller and Mechan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1363915 | 1,273,487 |
341,615 | The U.S. Air Force's bombing campaign during the Persian Gulf War's Operation Desert Storm was less effective than initially reported, in part because it had no precision bombs that were accurate in all types of weather. Laser guidance packages on bombs proved exceptionally accurate in clear conditions, but amid airbor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=201690 | 341,434 |
367,730 | In addition, in November 2020, the Greek multinational company Intracom Defense Electronics (IDE) was placed head of a consortium that included the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUT), the University of Patras, as well as many other Greek and European companies from Cyprus, Spain and the Netherlands, for the des... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=363254 | 367,537 |
2,120,090 | Phylogenomic analysis indicates that enzymes with true CCR activity first evolved in the of land plants. Most if not all modern land plants and all vascular plants are believed to have at least one functional CCR, an absolute requirement for any plant species with lignified tissues. Most CCR homologs are highly express... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14132613 | 2,118,871 |
1,917,391 | Adam Kendon (born in London in 1934, son of Frank Kendon) was one of the world's foremost authorities on the topic of gesture, which he viewed broadly as meaning all the ways in which humans use visible bodily action in creating utterances including not only how this is done in speakers but also in the way it is used i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2072724 | 1,916,291 |
799,769 | In recent years, new research has suggested that the Lascaux cave paintings in France may incorporate prehistoric star charts. Michael Rappenglueck of the University of Munich argues that some of the non-figurative dot clusters and dots within some of the figurative images correlate with the constellations of Taurus, t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2864 | 799,343 |
1,021,267 | Characteristically fresh LSW is formed at intermediate depths by deep convection in the central Labrador Sea, particularly during winter storms. This convection is not deep enough to penetrate into the NSOW layer which forms the deep waters of the Labrador Sea. LSW joins NSOW to move southward out of the Labrador Sea: ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5097491 | 1,020,738 |
1,445,469 | Biosecurity, a management measure used to prevent the transmission of diseases and disease agents on the facility, is important to keep in mind when designing a facility. In order to achieve a high level of biosecurity, collection facilities should be placed as far as possible from one another, as well as from farms. A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50642488 | 1,444,653 |
1,030,274 | Those new laws provided the EU with possibly the most stringent GMO regulations in the world. The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) was created in 2002 with the primary goal of preventing future food crises in Europe. All GMOs, along with irradiated food, are considered "new food" and subject to extensive, case-by-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33942954 | 1,029,740 |
2,142,659 | The trials took place at the Necker Hospital in Paris, France in 2002. The lead researchers were Dr. Alain Fischer and Dr. Marina Cavazzana-Calvo, who were both employed by the hospital. The researchers were investigating treatments for severe combined immune deficiency (SCID), a disease that had been linked to the X-c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54071237 | 2,141,428 |
390,406 | In general, but with several exceptions, mathematicians and general relativists prefer spacelike vectors to yield a positive sign, , while particle physicists tend to prefer timelike vectors to yield a positive sign, . Authors covering several areas of physics, e.g. Steven Weinberg and Landau and Lifshitz ( and respect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=230488 | 390,211 |
154,929 | A preprint by Boston University researchers, published on 14 October 2022, described their experiments splicing the SARS-CoV-2 BA.1 Omicron's spike protein into an ancestral SARS-CoV-2 variant isolated in the early days of the pandemic, creating a new chimeric version of the virus. All of the six mice exposed to the an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66516195 | 154,859 |
1,505,919 | The Biological General Repository for Interaction Datasets (BioGRID) is an open access database that houses genetic and protein interactions curated from the primary biomedical literature for all major model organism species and humans. , the BioGRID contains 1,928 million interactions as drawn from 63,083 publications... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4400671 | 1,505,073 |
776,838 | 623 South Wabash Avenue was built in 1895, designed by Solon S. Beman, architect of the industrial town of Pullman, one of the 19th century's largest, most complex, and globally famous planned industrial communities for the Pullman Palace Car Company. The ten-story 623 South Wabash building was originally built for the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1914203 | 776,422 |
787,878 | The atmosphere is a fluid. As such, the idea of numerical weather prediction is to sample the state of the fluid at a given time and use the equations of fluid dynamics and thermodynamics to estimate the state of the fluid at some time in the future. The process of entering observation data into the model to generate i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1505381 | 787,454 |
895,134 | A September 2012 weapons technology swap deal and a July 2014 agreement on the sharing of defence technology were seen as preliminary steps towards Australian-Japanese collaboration on a submarine design, or towards integrating technologies like the "Sōryū"s Kockums-designed air-independent propulsion Stirling engines ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15174021 | 894,664 |
167,615 | In 1968, Lotus lost its exclusive right to use the DFV. McLaren built a DFV-powered car and a new force appeared on the scene when Ken Tyrrell entered his team using Cosworth-powered French Matra chassis driven by ex-BRM Jackie Stewart as lead driver. Clark took his last win at the 1968 season opening South African Gra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=640098 | 167,528 |
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