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1,273,020 | In one of his books, Hilgard described a classic test demonstrating how this hidden entity is part of our consciousness. He wrote of a blind student who was hypnotized and, while in a trance state, was told that he would become deaf. The suggestion was so strong that he failed to react to any form of noise, even large ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4198928 | 1,272,329 |
8,423 | In April 2007, the university purchased more than two-thirds of a site for a new campus in Manhattanville, an industrial neighborhood to the north of the Morningside Heights campus. Stretching from 125th Street to 133rd Street, Columbia Manhattanville houses buildings for Columbia's Business School, School of Internati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6310 | 8,420 |
1,594,524 | Besides his academic contributions as a teacher, Datta is reported to have contributed in developing the Jawaharlal Nehru University by establishing schools and centres of excellence within the university. He is also credited with pioneering researches in the field of molecular biology. His researches on Candida albica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48434015 | 1,593,627 |
1,459,715 | The universe was dominated by radiation for most of this stage, and due to the intense heat and radiation, the primordial hydrogen and helium were fully ionized into nuclei and free electrons. In this hot and dense situation, the radiation (photons) could not travel far before Thomson scattering off an electron. The un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1810098 | 1,458,894 |
1,350,303 | Addiction is a chronic brain disorder consisting of compulsive drug-taking and seeking that is maintained despite detrimental effects on various aspects of life including health, relationships, and work. Laboratory procedures can establish compulsive self-administration habits of seeking and ingesting that qualify as a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6226648 | 1,349,557 |
1,220,467 | Nerve excitability examination complements conventional nerve conduction studies by allowing insight into biophysical characteristics of axons, as well as their ion-channel functioning. The protocol is aimed at providing information about nodal as well as internodal ion channels, and the indices are extremely sensitive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5231858 | 1,219,812 |
183,806 | The larger units have their origin in the iron lung, also known as the Drinker and Shaw tank, which was developed in 1928 by J.H Emerson Company and was one of the first negative-pressure machines used for long-term ventilation. It was refined and used in the 20th century largely as a result of the polio epidemic that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=279711 | 183,709 |
1,132,312 | The 1884 founders of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE) included some of the most prominent inventors and innovators in the then new field of electrical engineering, among them Nikola Tesla, Thomas Alva Edison, Elihu Thomson, Edwin J. Houston, and Edward Weston. The purpose of the AIEE was stated "to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1206765 | 1,131,720 |
1,483,914 | Mitochondrial complex V deficiency is a shortage (deficiency) or loss of function in complex V of the electron transport chain that can cause a wide variety of signs and symptoms affecting many organs and systems of the body, particularly the nervous system and the heart. The disorder can be life-threatening in infancy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14179793 | 1,483,078 |
1,235,174 | Functional connectomes can be distilled into constituent intrinsic brain networks that are present during sleep, at rest, and during tasks. These brain networks can also reliably be mapped onto cognitive systems. The default mode network, for example, is composed of regions such as the medial prefrontal cortex, angular... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37691915 | 1,234,511 |
1,227,140 | The crystal's magnetic properties, derived from its ideal shape such as anisotropy which imparted high coercivity and remanent magnetization intensities, resulted in exceptional stability and efficiency for short wavelengths, and it almost immediately appeared in high performance audio tape used in audio cassettes for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4661493 | 1,226,479 |
1,946,338 | In 2004, Yang joined the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania. She was promoted to Professor in 2013 and elected Chair in 2021. Yang is interested in the synthesis and fabrication of novel materials, including self-assembled nanostructures and responsive materials. Through the study of lotus leaves and butterflies... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68686446 | 1,945,226 |
450,867 | The enzootic and endemic zones of "H. capsulatum" can be roughly divided into core areas, where the fungus occurs widely in soil or on vegetation contaminated by bird droppings or equivalent organic inputs, and peripheral areas, where the fungus occurs relatively rarely in association with soil, but is still found abun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9261687 | 450,648 |
914,884 | Reflective practice "is a term that carries diverse meaning" and about which there is not complete consensus. Professor Tim Fletcher of Brock University argues forward-thinking is a professional habit, but we must reflect on the past to inform how it translates into the present and future. Always thinking about 'what's... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2567188 | 914,403 |
1,082,425 | Having, in his view, perfected many of his ideas and designs for steam engines, Evans turned his attention once more to the commercial propagation of his inventions. His first steam engines had been constructed on an ad-hoc basis, often with improvised tools and workers, and he had relied heavily on blacksmiths and oth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=389929 | 1,081,868 |
1,360,500 | The pharmacology of antidepressants is not entirely clear. The earliest and probably most widely accepted scientific theory of antidepressant action is the monoamine hypothesis (which can be traced back to the 1950s), which states that depression is due to an imbalance (most often a deficiency) of the monoamine neurotr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41213514 | 1,359,748 |
1,906,767 | Born on 22 July 1951, Y. D. Sharma did his early college studies at Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar University (formerly known as Agra University) from where he earned his bachelor's (BSc) and master's (MSc) degrees. Subsequently, he did his doctoral studies at M. J. P. Rohilkhand University and after securing a PhD for his thesi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53451450 | 1,905,671 |
250,711 | Farnsworth was born August 19, 1906, the eldest of five children of Lewis Edwin Farnsworth and Serena Amanda Bastian, a Latter-day Saint couple living in a small log cabin built by Lewis' father near Beaver, Utah. In 1918, the family moved to a relative's ranch near Rigby, Idaho, where his father supplemented his farmi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42890 | 250,578 |
1,717,248 | PDRC is not proposed as a standalone solution to global warming, but to be coupled with a global reduction in CO2 emissions and transition off of fossil fuel energy. Otherwise, "the radiative balance will not last long, and the potential financial benefits of mitigation will not fully be realized because of continued o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71855084 | 1,716,279 |
2,155,536 | The Paleoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project is a project, somewhat along the lines of AMIP or CMIP, to coordinate and encourage the systematic study of atmospheric general circulation models (AGCMs) and to assess their ability to simulate large climate changes such as those that occurred in the distant past. Pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1514344 | 2,154,305 |
478,257 | In the November of that year, the Leader Project goes awry as unexplained and random code is detected within the nanomorph Supervisor. The EGO virus, believed to be the most potent computer virus ever known, has infected its collective consciousness. The Supervisor begins to develop self awareness through it, identifyi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=224662 | 478,017 |
127,145 | The Copenhagen interpretation is a collection of views about the meaning of quantum mechanics principally attributed to Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg. It is one of the oldest of numerous proposed interpretations of quantum mechanics, as features of it date to the development of quantum mechanics during 1925–1927, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56369 | 127,093 |
1,386,512 | As early as December 1923, Struve defended his PhD thesis on short-period spectroscopic double stars at the University of Chicago. Frost helped him in waiving some required PhD examinations, e.g. in French and German, stating that Struve had done ample reading of scientific literature back in Russia, and was fluent in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=584584 | 1,385,745 |
780,222 | Cardiac interoception has been widely studied as a method of evaluating interoceptive sensation. This is done using different tasks including heartbeat counting, heartbeat tapping, heartbeat detection and heartbeat attention tasks. Heartbeat counting tasks ask participants to count the number of felt heartbeats during ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54842715 | 779,805 |
2,172,826 | "Megf8" also known as Multiple Epidermal Growth Factor-like Domains 8, is a protein coding gene that encodes a single pass membrane protein, known to participate in developmental regulation and cellular communication. It is located on chromosome 19 at the 49th open reading frame in humans (19q13.2). There are two isofo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42149365 | 2,171,584 |
705,578 | On 1 January 2016, Blackburn was interviewed about her studies, discovering telomerase, and her current research. When she was asked to recall the moment of telomerase discovery she stated:Carol had done this experiment, and we stood, just in the lab, and I remember sort of standing there, and she had this – we call it... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=989870 | 705,209 |
1,326,154 | Interactive accounts assume that all available information is processed at the same time and can immediately influence the computation of the final analysis. In the interactive model of sentence processing, there is no separate module for parsing. Lexical access, syntactic structure assignment, and meaning assignment h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9736729 | 1,325,427 |
1,209,924 | With Morris Halle and others, Chomsky founded the graduate program in linguistics at MIT in 1961. The program immediately attracted some of the brightest young American linguists. Jerry Fodor and Jerrold Katz, both graduates of the Ph.D. program at Princeton, and Paul Postal, a Ph.D. from Yale, were some of the first s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24400467 | 1,209,277 |
452,192 | When solar energetic particles reach the Earth's atmosphere they cause ionisation that creates nitric oxide (NO) and other reactive nitrogen species, which then precipitate out in the form of nitrates. Since all energetic charged particles are deflected to a greater or lesser extent by the geomagnetic field, they enter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24728109 | 451,973 |
1,390,021 | Since their fossils show no signs of a gut or other organs, they were originally classified as some kind of sponge. Butterfield and Nicholas (1996) argued that they were closely related to sponges on the grounds that the detailed structure of chancellorid sclerites is similar to that of fibers of spongin, a collagen pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4863813 | 1,389,250 |
1,924,377 | The COVID-19 pandemic forces the AIAS to cease all in-person activities at the beginning of 2020. President Erin Conti (Illinois Institute of Technology) and vice president Sara Taketatsu (University of Colorado - Boulder) lead the board in efforts to adapt programs and events to a virtual environment. Membership numbe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=607666 | 1,923,274 |
511,780 | This treatise documented a wide range of pharmaceutical practices, including the use of ephedrine as a drug. It includes valuable information on metallurgy and the steel and iron industries during 11th century China. He created a systematic approach to listing various different minerals and their use in medicinal conco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1861611 | 511,514 |
669,476 | Towards the end of the 19th century, Harvard psychologist William James described the testing effect in the following section of his 1890 book "The Principles of Psychology" ""A curious peculiarity of our memory is that things are impressed better by active than by passive repetition. I mean that in learning (by heart,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=905659 | 669,126 |
655,980 | The first experiments that successfully developed transgenic amphibians into embryos began in the 1980s with Xenopus laevis. Later, germline transgenic axolotls in Ambystoma mexicanum were produced in 2006 using a technique called I-SceI-mediated transgenesis which utilizes the I-SceI endonuclease enzyme that can break... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22696587 | 655,636 |
728,381 | Le Corbusier (1887–1965) pioneered a new urban form called towers in the park. His approach was based on defining the house as 'a machine to live in'. The Plan Voisin he devised for Paris, which was never fulfilled, would have involved the demolition of much of historic Paris in favour of 18 uniform 700-foot tower bloc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45346 | 727,997 |
1,728,314 | Stanley produced a 'Panoptic Stereoscope' in 1855, which was financially successful. Stereoscopes had sold for five shillings each – Stanley discovered a simpler method to make them, which enable him to sell them for one shilling. He was able to take an additional shops at 3–4 Great Turnstile and 286 High Holborn, as w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24125236 | 1,727,340 |
1,654,071 | Predictions of meteorological variables are provided by meteorological institutes. Meteorologists employ atmospheric models for weather forecasts on short and medium term periods. An atmospheric model is a numerical approximation of the physical description of the state of the atmosphere in the near future, and usually... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8768560 | 1,653,139 |
1,651,971 | The greater part of the world's peatlands occur in the northern hemisphere, encompassing both boreal and temperate regions. Global estimates indicate that northern peatlands cover 3,794,000 km2, storing about 450 Gt of C at a density of approximately 118,318 t C km−2 . Peatlands form in poorly drained areas under condi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54076293 | 1,651,039 |
443,862 | During the 2000s, the company developed two closely related multi-engine fixed-wing aircraft, the XP-1 maritime patrol airplane and the XC-2 transport aircraft. Kawasaki was appointed as the prime contractor for both programmes during 2001, its launch occurred almost 30 years after the previous large-scale domestic dev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16593309 | 443,647 |
1,876,148 | Beginning in 1954, the battalion spent twelve years at Fort Stewart, Georgia before their next major period of active service in Vietnam. At Fort Stewart, the battalion’s mission was to construct, rehabilitate and maintain military routes of communications and facilities, and perform related engineering work in the com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45115811 | 1,875,070 |
98,404 | "The Motion Picture" was met with mixed reviews from critics; a 2001 retrospective for the BBC described the film as a critical failure. The film holds a 54% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 54 contemporary and modern reviews. Roger Ebert, reviewing the film on "Sneak Previews", liked it, calling it "fun" and "a good... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=277006 | 98,362 |
1,775,498 | In a report in "Science" from 2000, William E. Vinje and Jack Gallant outlined a series of experiments used to test elements of the efficient coding hypothesis, including a theory that the non-classical receptive field (nCRF) decorrelates projections from the primary visual cortex. To test this, they took recordings fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5198024 | 1,774,501 |
1,217,592 | The history of activity-dependent plasticity begins with Paul Bach y Rita. With conventional ideology being that the brain development is finalized upon adulthood, Bach y Rita designed several experiments in the late 1960s and 1970s that proved that the brain is capable of changing. These included a pivotal visual subs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20510214 | 1,216,939 |
562,744 | Lycoming announced its LF500 family of turbofans in September 1988, starting with the LF507-1H and LF507-1F, which were certificated in October 1991 and March 1992, respectively. In June 1992, the company outlined improvements to the LF500 family's core, which included a wide-chord fan to move more air, uprated fan gea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14948860 | 562,455 |
290,316 | Indoor Air Quality seeks to reduce volatile organic compounds, or VOCs, and other air impurities such as microbial contaminants. Buildings rely on a properly designed ventilation system (passively/naturally or mechanically powered) to provide adequate ventilation of cleaner air from outdoors or recirculated, filtered a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1344439 | 290,159 |
229,044 | Monitoring system logs has grown more prevalent as complex cyber-attacks force compliance and regulatory mechanisms to mandate logging security controls within a Risk Management Framework. Logging levels of a system started with the primary function of troubleshooting system errors or debugging code compiled and run. A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27262733 | 228,927 |
1,439,503 | When a bioactive ligand with a known structure is to be screened against a protein with limited structural information, modeling is done with regard to ligand structure. Pharmacophore modeling identifies key electronic and structural features that are associated with therapeutic activity across similarly bioactive stru... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48999251 | 1,438,693 |
1,620,027 | Rashid Bashir is Dean of The Grainger College of Engineering, Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering and Professor of Bioengineering, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was the Executive Associate Dean and Chief Diversity Officer at the Carle-Illinois College of Medicine (07/2017 – 12/2018) at U... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38591647 | 1,619,112 |
696,593 | Proximity and access to water have been key factors in human settlement through history. Water, along with the spaces around it, create a potential for transport, trade, and power generation. They also provide the human population with resources like recreation and tourism in addition to drinking water and food. Many o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10040229 | 696,229 |
1,422,883 | The oldest known thalattosauroids ("Thalattosaurus", "Paralonectes", and "Agkistrognathus" of British Columbia's Sulphur Mountain Formation) lived in eastern Panthalassa, along what is now the western coast of North America. Müller (2005, 2007) argued that at least one branch of thalattosauroids had managed to spread w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14067771 | 1,422,082 |
1,154,743 | Levy was brought in to a new company called Retro Computers Ltd, by his friend Sir Clive Sinclair. This company was formed after a meeting with Sinclair and Paul Andrews who conceived the Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega games console. This was backed by members of the public on a crowd funding site raising over £150,000 in 2... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=591100 | 1,154,133 |
237,879 | The Soviets started experimenting with nuclear technology in 1943 with very little regard of nuclear safety as there were no reports of accidents that were ever made public to learn from, and the public was kept in hidden about the radiation dangers. Many of the nuclear devices left behind radioactive isotopes which ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1217440 | 237,760 |
223,178 | Studies of classical genetic markers showed that Koreans tend to have a close genetic affinity with Mongolians among East Asians. Ancient genome comparisons revealed that the genetic makeup of Koreans can be best described as an admixture of an Northern hunter-gatherer component as well as that of a influx of rice-farm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58702403 | 223,068 |
859,204 | Mental rotation is the ability to mentally represent and "rotate" 2D and 3D objects in space quickly and accurately, while the object's features remain unchanged. Mental representations of physical objects can help utilize problem solving and understanding. For example, Hegarty (2004) showed that people manipulate ment... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49045837 | 858,746 |
1,468,486 | Advances in military technology aided the Song dynasty in its defense against hostile neighbors to the north. The flamethrower found its origins in Byzantine-era Greece, employing Greek fire (a chemically complex, highly flammable petrol fluid) in a device with a siphon hose by the 7th century. The earliest reference t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10444102 | 1,467,662 |
832,638 | Advances in military technology aided the Song dynasty in its defense against hostile neighbors to the north. The flamethrower found its origins in Byzantine-era Greece, employing Greek fire (a chemically complex, highly flammable petrol fluid) in a device with a siphon hose by the 7th century. The earliest reference t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=90815 | 832,189 |
1,373,973 | A number of different methods are used to evaluate a polymer's resistance to environmental stress cracking. A common method in the polymer industry is use of the Bergen jig, which subjects the sample to variable strain during a single test. The results of this test indicate the critical strain to cracking, using only o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17075935 | 1,373,215 |
569,050 | In preparation of South Korea's participation in the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup Asian qualifiers, a two-week break from the regular season was scheduled in February 2022 for the national team call-ups. The Korean Basketball League was hit by the coronavirus as early as December 2021, with Changwon LG Sakers reporti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6844102 | 568,760 |
25,942 | To decrease the risk of developing decompression sickness, pilots breathe 100% oxygen for an hour prior to taking off to remove nitrogen from the blood. A portable oxygen supply is used during transport to the aircraft. Since 2001, more than a dozen pilots have reportedly suffered the effects of decompression sickness,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32310 | 25,933 |
573,369 | Combinations of chromatographic methods can be used to purify a target molecule. The purpose of purifying proteins with FPLC is to deliver quantities of the target at sufficient purity in a biologically active state to suit its further use. The quality of the end product varies depending the type and amount of starting... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3865434 | 573,075 |
513,447 | Neonatal rotation was a solution for humans evolving larger brain sizes. Comparative zoological analysis has shown that the size of the human brain is anomalous, as humans have brains that are significantly larger than other animals of similar proportions. Even among the great apes, humans are distinctive in this regar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2368360 | 513,181 |
81,803 | In the 7th century BC, the Greek mathematician Thales of Miletus used geometry to solve problems such as calculating the height of pyramids and the distance of ships from the shore. He is credited with the first use of deductive reasoning applied to geometry, by deriving four corollaries to Thales' theorem. Pythagoras ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18973446 | 81,770 |
2,129,206 | The landscaped lawn and mature trees are State significant as representative of the features of a 1930s institutional garden. The significance arises from the relationship between the building and the grounds, which exemplifies the taste for surrounding Interwar Georgian Revival free-standing buildings with formal gard... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57539511 | 2,127,983 |
589,875 | In 1845, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts finally agreed to construct a building for Bridgewater State Normal School, the first building ever erected in America for the preparation of teachers. This two-story wooden building, 64 feet by 42 feet, accommodating 84 students, was to be the institution's educational plant ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=721772 | 589,573 |
1,681,254 | Certain samples of Moon rock and lunar dust soil from the Apollo 11 and Apollo 17 missions, mounted on the wooden plaque displays especially for Brazil, Canada, Cyprus, Honduras, Ireland, Malta, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37521312 | 1,680,311 |
612,379 | The F-111K was to be based around the airframe of the original F-111A version built for the U.S. Air Force, but was to feature a number of alterations and adaptations. Structurally, the aircraft would be similar to F-111A with the heavy duty undercarriage from the strategic bomber version. This allowed for a greater gr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39518516 | 612,068 |
929,926 | Paul Birch suggests that, in addition to cooling the planet with a sunshade in L1, "heat pipes" could be built on the planet to accelerate the cooling. The proposed mechanism would transport heat from the surface to colder regions higher up in the atmosphere, similar to a solar updraft tower, thereby facilitating radia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4923982 | 929,435 |
1,635,410 | If a patient needs to be treated with surgery, a standard surgical procedure would be called for; the patient would be resting in Fowler’s position, a semi-sitting position, under general anesthesia. The exact size, shape, and distance between the acromion to the midpoint of the cyst are measured by a digital radiograp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35228663 | 1,634,487 |
2,113,427 | Astronomy classes at the University of Illinois date to its earliest days. The first courses focused on measurement of the night sky and was taken by civil engineering students to sharpen their surveying skills. A small observatory consisting of a 4-inch refractor and a small transit telescope was constructed by 1872. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7524908 | 2,112,212 |
1,132,448 | In his private life, he was a sportsman, cross-country skiing and skating in winter time, during his regular visits to Switzerland and Norway; deprived of these winter sports during the First World War he started climbing. Between the ages of 20 and 25 he spent a large part of his spare time cycling. With the invention... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=758508 | 1,131,856 |
642,880 | Participation and interaction between participants and instructors involves significant and continuous preparation. Online educators are often members of a larger team consisting of instructional and graphic designers and information technology specialists; being open to becoming a member of the team will assist in a s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51875172 | 642,541 |
237,762 | The Pyrenean ibex was a subspecies of Spanish ibex that lived on the Iberian peninsula. While it was abundant through medieval times, over-hunting in the 19th and 20th centuries led to its demise. In 1999, only a single female named Celia was left alive in Ordesa National Park. Scientists captured her, took a tissue sa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39379960 | 237,643 |
1,609,031 | The taxonomic history of the Family Stethacanthidae has been rather complicated because the findings of complete skeletons are very unusual, and as result early workers such as St. John & Worthen, and Newberry were unable to recognise the association of the spine, dentition teeth, and dermal denticles of these sharks. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10993792 | 1,608,126 |
1,056,547 | Since the proton beams for BNCT are quite powerful (~20-100 kW), the neutron generating target must incorporate cooling systems capable of removing the heat safely and reliably to protect the target from damage. In the case of the lithium-7, this requirement is especially important due to the low melting point and chem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32637211 | 1,055,999 |
771,380 | Not every thunderstorm, supercell, squall line, or tropical cyclone will produce a tornado. Precisely the right atmospheric conditions are required for the formation of even a weak tornado. Tornadoes can form in any month when conditions are favorable. 1,000 or more tornadoes a year are reported in the contiguous Unite... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8293375 | 770,966 |
1,511,097 | Microballoon spheres and Paraloid B72 were used as gap filler and in the structural remodeling due to their high bulking ability while reducing the contact surface area (and further damage) to the bones, long-term stability, and easy removal. Using the same technique throughout the restoration “limit[s] the number of d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50186956 | 1,510,247 |
225,649 | The World Health Organization (WHO) published a guideline on protecting workers from potential risk of manufactured nanomaterials at the end of 2017. WHO used a precautionary approach as one of its guiding principles. This means that exposure has to be reduced, despite uncertainty about the adverse health effects, when... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=868108 | 225,533 |
1,745,840 | Where disturbance is regular, breeding failure for golden eagles is significantly more frequent. This was inferred in the 1982 Scottish breeding bird survey when disturbances were heavy in the Highlands. Sheep farmers and egg-collectors are the leading cause of disturbances at the nests. Recreation, forest management a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50585577 | 1,744,856 |
1,031,723 | Wolkowitz et al. (2001) presented a 10-year-old male patient, with no prior psychiatric history, who showed significant declines in academic performance that began during a 5-week course of glucocorticoid treatment for acute asthma flare. The medications included prednisone, and methylprednisolone, plus albuterol, becl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39677685 | 1,031,187 |
2,012,711 | Marquette loss – they faced the 13th seed, Pittsburgh, which had upset 12th-seeded St. John's the previous day to advance to meet Georgetown. Georgetown entered the game as the second-best defensive team in the Big East, allowing opponents only 59 points a game on the season, and held the Panthers scoreless during two ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33673923 | 2,011,554 |
1,889,404 | The sinking of in 1912 spurred the Canadian inventor Reginald Fessenden (1866–1932) to begin work on a long-distance underwater sound transmission and reception system that could detect hazards in the path of a ship. This led to the invention of the Fessenden oscillator, an electro-acoustic transducer which by 1914 had... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52205564 | 1,888,321 |
4,951 | Following the US Navy's retirement of its Tomcats in 2006, Iran sought to purchase spare parts for its aircraft. In January 2007, the U.S. Department of Defense announced that sales of spare F-14 parts would be suspended over concerns of the parts ending up in Iran. In July 2007, the remaining American F-14s were shred... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11719 | 4,949 |
1,315,970 | However, although the wheels of change in science education had been set in motion during the late 1970s, it was not until the 1980s that STS perspectives began to gain a serious footing in science curricula, in largely Western contexts (Gaskell, 1982). This occurred at a time when issues such as, animal testing, envir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7895944 | 1,315,245 |
1,922,748 | Several of the 45+ departments, along with their faculty, have been noted for important contributions to their fields. Numerous members of the Department of English, which includes the top-ranked Program in Creative Writing, have distinguished themselves nationally and internationally, most notably Pulitzer Prize for p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4694647 | 1,921,645 |
303,813 | However, the Iraqi IADS had several fatal flaws of which Coalition air forces were able to take advantage. The system was primarily oriented towards defending against much smaller attacks from Iraq's most likely enemies – Iran, Syria and Israel – and focused on point defense rather than area defense. This meant there w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=573491 | 303,651 |
1,705,174 | On September 16, CDC director Redfield told a Senate hearing that HHS and the White House Office of Management and Budget had ordered him to transfer $300 million from his agency's budget to HHS, to be spent on a public relations campaign directed by Caputo. He added that CDC had not been consulted about the proposed p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65365100 | 1,704,218 |
937,863 | Operation Varsity was the only time the Locust was used in action with the 6th Airborne Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment or the British Army as a whole. A report issued at the end of a conference held by the Director (Air) of the War Office in January 1946 confirmed that the Locust design was considered obsolete; any l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=335693 | 937,363 |
1,276,667 | Although Germany's socialist government persuaded their reluctant navy to share some older designs from the First World War, sources agree that the most useful information was obtained in Italy. However, statements of what was acquired are very inconsistent. The memoirs of , a younger designer who subsequently joined M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10683646 | 1,275,974 |
382,524 | Another type of VEP used with applications is the P300 potential. The P300 event-related potential is a positive peak in the EEG that occurs at roughly 300 ms after the appearance of a target stimulus (a stimulus for which the user is waiting or seeking) or oddball stimuli. The P300 amplitude decreases as the target st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=623686 | 382,329 |
1,278,045 | In the field of biology, bright-field transmission electron microscopy (BF-TEM) and high-resolution TEM (HRTEM) are the primary imaging methods for tomography tilt series acquisition. However, there are two issues associated with BF-TEM and HRTEM. First, acquiring an interpretable 3-D tomogram requires that the project... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8898050 | 1,277,352 |
846,967 | Drug delivery systems, lipid- or polymer-based nanoparticles, can be designed to improve the pharmacokinetics and biodistribution of the drug. However, the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of nanomedicine is highly variable among different patients. When designed to avoid the body's defence mechanisms, nanoparticl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21514 | 846,517 |
131,479 | While very popular in the 1980s and early 1990s, implementations of Pascal that closely followed Wirth's initial definition of the language were widely criticized as being unsuitable for use outside teaching. Brian Kernighan, who popularized the C language, outlined his most notable criticisms of Pascal as early as 198... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23773 | 131,427 |
1,947,751 | Paul Milgrom was born in Detroit, Michigan, April 20, 1948, the second of four sons to Jewish parents. Milgrom graduated from the University of Michigan in 1970 with an AB in mathematics. He worked as an actuary for several years in San Francisco at the Metropolitan Insurance Company and then at the Nelson and Warren c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71643069 | 1,946,638 |
25,963 | The presidential order did not restrict U-2 flights outside eastern Europe. In May 1956, Turkey approved the deployment of Detachment B at Incirlik Air Base, near Adana, Turkey. Before the new detachment was ready, however, Detachment A in late August used Adana as a refueling base to photograph the Mediterranean. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32310 | 25,954 |
2,014,665 | By January 1969, proliferating antiaircraft defenses in the Barrel Roll area in the Kingdom of Laos were making operations ever riskier for Slow FACs such as the Raven FACs. The concept of stationing FACs at the same base with their strike aircraft was bruited. Volunteers from the 469th Tactical Fighter Squadron were a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22836078 | 2,013,506 |
1,104,792 | The mid-deck Glove Box (MGBX) was a facility designed for materials science and biological science experiment handling. It consisted of two primary systems; an Interface Frame (IF) and a Glovebox (GB). The MGBX facility (with associated electronics) provided an enclosed working area for experimental manipulation and ob... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=557153 | 1,104,229 |
132,907 | British expectations had been set by performance figures established by the unarmed and unarmored XP-39 prototype. The British production contract stated that a maximum speed of +/- 4% was required at rated altitude. In acceptance testing, actual production aircraft were found to be capable of only at . To enable the a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=458867 | 132,854 |
504,684 | In addition to trophic positioning of organisms, δN values have become commonly used in distinguishing between land derived and natural sources of nutrients. As water travels from septic tanks to aquifers, the nitrogen rich water is delivered into coastal areas. Waste-water nitrate has higher concentrations of N than t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=174238 | 504,422 |
321,842 | A number of functional brain imaging studies have shown that the insular cortex is activated when drug users are exposed to environmental cues that trigger cravings. This has been shown for a variety of drugs, including cocaine, alcohol, opiates, and nicotine. Despite these findings, the insula has been ignored within ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1495134 | 321,670 |
1,365,772 | Mangrove offers protection against tsunami and storms from sweeping away inland areas because the mangrove fringes were damaged and took all the energy. Remote sensing of mangrove and vegetation as a natural barrier to manage risks therefore becomes a hot topic. The recent advancement and development is highly anticipa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55514078 | 1,365,016 |
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