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98,346 | Dick Rubin handled the film's props, and set up a makeshift office in the corner of stage 9 throughout production. Rubin's philosophy as property master was that nearly every actor or extra ought to have something in their hands. As such, Rubin devised and fabricated about 350 props for the film, 55 of which were used ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=277006 | 98,304 |
1,136,481 | By the middle of the 19th century all of the world's major land masses, and most of the minor ones, had been discovered by Europeans and their coastlines charted. This marked the end of this phase of science as the of 1872–1876 began exploring the deep seas beyond a depth of 20 or 30 meters. In spite of the growing com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31642145 | 1,135,888 |
934,013 | The IAT has engendered some controversy in both the scientific literature and in the public sphere (e.g. in the "Wall Street Journal"). For example, it has been interpreted as assessing familiarity, perceptual salience asymmetries, or mere cultural knowledge irrespective of personal endorsement of that knowledge. A mor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1791156 | 933,521 |
1,358,805 | In Norway scapolite-hornblende rocks have long been known at Ødegården and other localities. They have been called spotted gabbros, but usually do not contain feldspar, the white spots being entirely scapolite while the dark matrix enveloping them is an aggregate of green or brownish hornblende. In many features they b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1179763 | 1,358,054 |
284,620 | Custom-fabricated products are in the foreground of an optimal supply and are individually manufactured. If the physical examination of a patient is carried out precisely, the clinical picture often shows a combination of several functional deviations. Each functional deviation can be slight or severe. The combination ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26734587 | 284,466 |
159,731 | During 1972, a pair of heavily modified OH-6As were utilized by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) via Air America for a covert wire-tapping mission. The aircraft, dubbed "500P" (penetrator) by Hughes, began as an ARPA project, codenamed "Mainstreet", in 1968. Development included test and training flights in Culver... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=605092 | 159,646 |
927,519 | In 1913, Leonard Rowntree and John Abel of Johns Hopkins Hospital developed the first dialysis system which they successfully tested in animals. A Dutch doctor, Willem Johan Kolff, constructed the first working dialyzer in 1943 during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. Due to the scarcity of available resources, K... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56511 | 927,031 |
2,104,880 | The organization was established in 1990 by Kendrick Frazier, the editor of "Skeptical Inquirer". The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry's (CSICOP) focus during that time was to start local skeptic groups. Frazier, as a resident of Albuquerque, felt that the area had a good mix of potential members. "We have a lot of biza... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44743174 | 2,103,667 |
405,218 | On his return to Belgium in 1925, he became a part-time lecturer at the Catholic University of Louvain and began the report that was published in 1927 in the "Annales de la Société Scientifique de Bruxelles" ("Annals of the Scientific Society of Brussels") under the title "Un Univers homogène de masse constante et de r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=224698 | 405,018 |
138,002 | Measurements of the energy and arrival directions of the ultra-high-energy primary cosmic rays by the techniques of "density sampling" and "fast timing" of extensive air showers were first carried out in 1954 by members of the Rossi Cosmic Ray Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The experiment employed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47687 | 137,946 |
1,739,680 | In the words of camouflage researchers Innes Cuthill and A. Székely, the English zoologist and camouflage expert Hugh Cott's 1940 book "Adaptive Coloration in Animals" provided "persuasive arguments for the survival value of coloration, and for adaptation in general, at a time when natural selection was far from univer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53867278 | 1,738,700 |
1,815,368 | Voltage-gated potassium channels are essential in regulating neuronal membrane potential, and in contributing to action potential production and firing. In mammalian CNS neurons, KCNB1 is a predominant delayed rectifier potassium current that regulates neuronal excitability, action potential duration, and tonic spiking... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14773966 | 1,814,334 |
1,141,485 | The development of crowd simulation software has become a modern and useful tool in designing urban environments. Whereas the traditional method of urban planning relies on maps and abstract sketches, a digital simulation is more capable of conveying both form and intent of design from architect to pedestrian. For exam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=886876 | 1,140,891 |
1,866,924 | Computing with memory platforms are typically used to provide the benefit of hardware reconfigurability. Reconfigurable computing platforms offer advantages in terms of reduced design cost, early time-to-market, rapid prototyping and easily customizable hardware systems. FPGAs present a popular reconfigurable computing... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26559592 | 1,865,849 |
278,855 | On March 23, 1965, Young and Grissom entered their capsule at 7:30 a.m. They conducted their preflight system checkout ahead of schedule but had to delay the launch after there was a leak in an oxidizer line in the Titan II GLV. Gemini 3 launched at 9:24 a.m. from LC-19 and entered in a elliptical orbit. Twenty minutes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=303563 | 278,705 |
1,882,863 | From 2001 POST received a growing number of requests for advice from parliamentarians in developing countries. It became clear that a real need existed to strengthen capacity in developing country parliaments. In 2005, POST held discussions on this issue with the Gatsby Foundation, which led to a special initiative to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4208984 | 1,881,782 |
700,100 | In its 471 years of operation, the University of San Marcos has passed through several locations, of which it maintains and stands out: the "Casona de San Marcos", a historic location of the university with more than 400 years of history —part of the area and of the list of buildings in the Historic Center of Lima that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1070670 | 699,735 |
313,068 | On October 14, 1927, he reached flag rank, the first member of his cadet class to do so, and returned to Washington as the Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance. The following year he bought a town house on Florida Avenue near Dupont Circle for $20,000 (). He also had assets that he had acquired through his marriage to Louis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=448716 | 312,900 |
50,169 | "Dekkera/Brettanomyces" is a genus of yeast known for its important role in the production of 'lambic' and specialty sour ales, along with the secondary conditioning of a particular Belgian Trappist beer. The taxonomy of the genus "Brettanomyces" has been debated since its early discovery and has seen many reclassifica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34385 | 50,149 |
800,804 | The GDPR addresses algorithmic bias in profiling systems, as well as the statistical approaches possible to clean it, directly in recital 71, noting thatthe controller should use appropriate mathematical or statistical procedures for the profiling, implement technical and organisational measures appropriate ... that pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55817338 | 800,377 |
169,079 | Total parenteral nutrition (TPN) is given to patients with intestinal failure or a variety of other gastrointestinal problems. Under normal settings, TPN causes a slight elevation of ALP levels. However, this does not indicate cholestasis alone. In the case of TPN-induced cholestasis, there is an excessive elevation of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2632843 | 168,989 |
1,658,222 | The body of "Taenia asiatica" is yellowish-white in colour, about 350 cm long and 1 cm broad, divided into the anterior scolex, followed by a short neck and a highly extended body proper called strobila. It is an acoelomate animal with no body cavity or digestive system. The scolex bears four simple suckers as attachme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26890853 | 1,657,289 |
118,280 | A non-radioactive method for transferring the DNA molecules of sequencing reaction mixtures onto an immobilizing matrix during electrophoresis was developed by Herbert Pohl and co-workers in the early 1980s. Followed by the commercialization of the DNA sequencer "Direct-Blotting-Electrophoresis-System GATC 1500" by GAT... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1158125 | 118,235 |
1,500,486 | During the 1970s, he co-operated with Cardinal Karol Wojtyła of Kraków, later to become Pope John Paul II, within the framework of the International Society for Phenomenology. He published the first comment articles on the future Pope's anthropological conception. During the 1980s he engaged in a critique of legal posi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3810935 | 1,499,641 |
163,315 | Since Harlow's pioneering work on touch research in development, recent work in rats has found evidence that touch during infancy resulted in a decrease in corticosteroid, a steroid hormone involved in stress, and an increase in glucocorticoid receptors in many regions of the brain. Schanberg and Field found that even ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=839100 | 163,230 |
1,025,435 | The history of biology traces the study of the living world from ancient to modern times. Although the concept of "biology" as a single coherent field arose in the 19th century, the biological sciences emerged from traditions of medicine and natural history reaching back to Ayurveda, ancient Egyptian medicine and the w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=322460 | 1,024,902 |
1,350,959 | Very little more is known of the personal history of Erasistratus: he lived for some time at Alexandria, which was at that time beginning to be a celebrated medical school, and gave up practice in his old age, that he might pursue his anatomical studies without interruption. He and fellow physician Herophilus practiced... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=262935 | 1,350,213 |
1,226,898 | LNG shipping first became a possibility in 1959 when the Methane Pioneer, a converted WWII freighter safely transported Liquefied Natural Gas into the United Kingdom. After proving that LNG can be safely transported across the ocean, the LNG shipping industry boomed and now employs 200 billion dollars annually in capit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42203516 | 1,226,237 |
510,169 | The thicknesses of SAMs can be measured using ellipsometry and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), which also give information on interfacial properties. The order in the SAM and orientation of molecules can be probed by Near Edge Xray Absorption Fine Structure (NEXAFS) and Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1753270 | 509,904 |
2,129,510 | After completing his postdoctoral position with Dr. Susan Berget at Baylor College of Medicine in Biochemistry in 1986, Smith became an assistant professor at the University of Rochester. Between 1991-1994, Smith discovered the molecular mechanism by which proteins recognize messenger RNA and participate in site-specif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42927273 | 2,128,286 |
9,200 | On April 9, 1994, the first 777, number WA001, was rolled out in a series of 15 ceremonies held during the day to accommodate the 100,000 invited guests. The first flight took place on June 12, 1994, under the command of chief test pilot John E. Cashman. This marked the start of an 11-month flight test program that was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=89260 | 9,196 |
294,907 | His first volume in a projected trilogy on the life of Stalin, "Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928" (976 pp., Penguin Random House, 2014) analyzes his life through 1928, and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. It received reviews in newspapers, magazines, and academic journals, The second volume, "Stalin: Waiting for Hit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3963186 | 294,747 |
364,922 | Externally, the TT-33 is very similar to John Browning's blowback operated FN Model 1903 semiautomatic pistol, and internally it uses Browning's short recoil tilting-barrel system from the M1911 pistol. In other areas the TT-33 differs more from Browning's designs—it employs a much simpler hammer/sear assembly than the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1069594 | 364,731 |
1,435,172 | While significant progress has been made in the islet transplantation field, many obstacles remain that currently preclude its widespread application. Two of the most important limitations are the currently inadequate means for preventing islet rejection, and the limited supply of islets for transplantation. Current im... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6580862 | 1,434,366 |
1,703,435 | By now many studies in different fields have led to the conclusion that present-day non-African population is the result of the diversification in several different lineages of an ancestral, well-structured, metapopulation which was the protagonist of an out-of-Africa expansion, in which it carried a subset of African ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58990374 | 1,702,479 |
1,311,162 | Booker is voiced by veteran voice actor Troy Baker, while Elizabeth is voiced by actress Courtnee Draper. Baker and Draper's participation in the development process was atypical for most video games; instead of just coming in to record their lines, Levine considered them as collaborators on the story development proce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38977195 | 1,310,444 |
899,703 | On September 1, 2016, a Falcon 9 Full Thrust launch vehicle exploded during a propellant fill operation for a standard pre-launch static fire test at Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 40. There were no reported injuries, as the area was cleared for the test. However the payload, the Spacecom AMOS-6 communications satellite... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53357431 | 899,228 |
1,379,525 | The toxicity of graphene-family nanoparticles is a matter of ongoing research. The toxicity (both in vivo and cytotoxicity) of GQDs are related to a variety of factors including particle size, methods of synthesis, chemical doping and so on. Many authors claim, that GQDs are biocompatible and cause only low toxicity as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45426554 | 1,378,763 |
1,402,054 | Examples of the use of personalized medicine include oncogenomics and pharmacogenomics. Oncogenomics is a field of study focused on the characterization of cancer–related genes. With cancer, specific information about a tumor is used to help create a personalized diagnosis and treatment plan. Pharmacogenomics is the st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14402695 | 1,401,267 |
1,198,458 | Chanute was too old to fly himself, so he partnered with younger experimenters, including Augustus M. Herring and William Avery. In 1896 Chanute, Herring, and Avery tested a design based on the work of German aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal, as well as hang gliders of their own design in the dunes along the shore of L... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=404300 | 1,197,817 |
1,506,484 | In 1897, John Jacob Abel in Baltimore partially purified adrenal extracts to what he called “epinephrin”, and Otto von Fürth in Strasbourg to what he called “Suprarenin”. The Japanese chemist Jōkichi Takamine, who had set up his own laboratory in New York, invented an isolation procedure and obtained it in pure crystal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38791208 | 1,505,638 |
1,411,288 | Neoclassical ballet is a genre of dance that emerged in the 1920s and evolved throughout the 20th century. Artists of many disciplines in the early 1900s began to rebel against the overly dramatized style of the Romantic Period. As a result, art returned to a more simplistic style reminiscent of the Classical Period, e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=819568 | 1,410,495 |
221,101 | Diagnosis is by complete blood count (CBC). However, in some cases, a more accurate absolute eosinophil count may be needed. Medical history is taken, with emphasis on travel, allergies and drug use. Specific test for causative conditions are performed, often including chest x-ray, urinalysis, liver and kidney function... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=238806 | 220,992 |
1,195,252 | Plants can be exposed to many stress factors such as disease, temperature changes, herbivory, injury and more. Therefore, in order to respond or be ready for any kind of physiological state, they need to develop some sort of system for their survival in the moment and/or for the future. Plant communication encompasses ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53754650 | 1,194,612 |
174,340 | Among the nine underground tests that were carried between 1962 and 1969, the last one was the most powerful and had the highest yield of transuranium elements. Milligrams of einsteinium that would normally take a year of irradiation in a high-power reactor, were produced within a microsecond. However, the major practi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9479 | 174,249 |
1,838,680 | There is International Department in the Academy. Since 1998 a lot of work has been done in the international cooperation area, networking and liaisoning with regional, domestic and international funds and organizations that administer international academic and scientific exchange programs. It also familiarizes studen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27891542 | 1,837,631 |
2,241,667 | The college was founded on February 8, 1693, under a royal charter (technically, by letters patent) granted by King William III and Queen Mary II, to establish the College of William and Mary in Virginia to ""make, found and establish a certain Place of Universal Study, a perpetual College of Divinity, Philosophy, Lang... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20795001 | 2,240,396 |
1,633,438 | Susskind has mediated fifty complex disputes in the United States and in other parts of the world, and is an authority on complex, multi-party negotiations. Since the early 1970s, he has helped to train thousands of negotiators and mediators in the public and private sectors and to promote the use of mediation to resol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28082228 | 1,632,516 |
1,942,675 | A meta-analysis of randomized controlled studies from 1970 to 2012 showed that lowering blood pressure via antihypertensive medications is associated with a reduction in heart failure and stroke risk. Additionally, an Epidemiology of Vascular Aging (EVA) study showed that participants with high blood pressure exhibited... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65270239 | 1,941,564 |
502,103 | A graphite coated blank is placed into a heated press. Air pressure is used to force the metal into a bubble shape before the male mold is pushed into the underside of the bubble to make an initial impression. Air pressure is then used from the other direction to final form the metal around the male mould. This process... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=262043 | 501,845 |
1,238,613 | A further refinement of microscopic methods consists of the use of strongly convergent polarized light (conoscopic methods). This is obtained by a wide angled achromatic condenser above the polarizer, and a high power microscopic objective. Those sections are most useful which are perpendicular to an optic axis, and co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4387316 | 1,237,946 |
230,752 | Tsiolkovsky conceived a number of ideas that have been later used in rockets. They include: gas rudders (graphite) for controlling a rocket's flight and changing the trajectory of its center of mass, the use of components of the fuel to cool the outer shell of the spacecraft (during re-entry to Earth) and the walls of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17087 | 230,634 |
331,150 | In his medical writings, Maimonides described many conditions, including asthma, diabetes, hepatitis, and pneumonia, and he emphasized moderation and a healthy lifestyle. His treatises became influential for generations of physicians. He was knowledgeable about Greek and Arabic medicine, and followed the principles of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19445 | 330,973 |
527,166 | In his 2006 re-evaluation, Carpenter examined the paleobiology of giant sauropods, including "Amphicoelias", and addressed the question of why this group attained such a huge size. He pointed out that gigantic sizes were reached early in sauropod evolution, with very large sized species present as early as the late Tri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20597704 | 526,893 |
523,551 | A number of large-scale investigations about language learning and the increased emphasis on reading skills in the 1920s led to the notion of "vocabulary control". It was discovered that languages have a core basic vocabulary of about 2,000 words that occur frequently in written texts, and it was assumed that mastery o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29572509 | 523,279 |
983,078 | The peak periods for the two debates were in the 1930s and the 1960s. According to economic historian Gregory R Woirol, the two episodes share several similarities. In both cases academic debates were preceded by an outbreak of popular concern, sparked by recent rises in unemployment. In both cases the debates were not... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32040137 | 982,565 |
497,510 | High fat diets in utero are believed to cause metabolic syndrome. Metabolic syndrome is a set of symptoms including obesity and insulin resistance that appear to be related. This syndrome is often associated with type II diabetes as well as hypertension and atherosclerosis. Using mice models, researchers have shown tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=343457 | 497,253 |
182,607 | During the 19th century, ideas about education started to change: modern ideas that defined education as a right, rather than as a privilege available only to a small elite, started to gain support in North America and Europe. Mass elementary education was introduced, and more and more coeducational schools opened. Tog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1515358 | 182,511 |
1,779,652 | In 1951, the United States Department of Defense became interested in oil shale as an alternative resource for producing a jet fuel. The United States Bureau of Mines continued its research program at Anvil Point until 1956. It opened a demonstration mine which operated at a small scale. From 1949 to 1955 it also teste... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12825955 | 1,778,649 |
1,226,516 | In blood analysis, white blood cells, platelets, bacteria, and plasma must be separated. Sieves, weirs, inertial confinement, and flow diversion devices are some approaches used in preparing blood plasma for cell-free analysis. Sieves can be microfabricated with high-aspect-ratio columns or posts, but are only suitable... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19081158 | 1,225,856 |
168,861 | On 1 April 2021, a preliminary report from a phase III clinical trial in Chile revealed that CoronaVac is safe and induces humoral and cell-mediated immunity in adults (18–59 years old) and the elderly (60 years or older) similar to previous phase II trials conducted in China with the same age groups and immunization s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65084949 | 168,771 |
2,111,348 | Researchers at the institute are engaged in basic and applied research across a spectrum of disciplines including agriculture and forestry, biodiversity and ecosystem health, atmospheric resources, climate and associated natural hazards, cultural resources and history of human settlements, disease and public health, em... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36466449 | 2,110,133 |
1,510,929 | Saria uses big data to manage chronic diseases. She is part of a National Science Foundation (NSF) award that looks at scleroderma. She uses machine learning to analyse medical records and identify similar patterns of disease progression. The system works out which treatments have been effectively used for various symp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59409767 | 1,510,079 |
170,957 | Samuelson was born in Gary, Indiana, on May 15, 1915, to Frank Samuelson, a pharmacist, and Ella "née" Lipton. His family, he later said, was "made up of upwardly mobile Jewish immigrants from Poland who had prospered considerably in World War I, because Gary was a brand new steel-town when my family went there". In 19... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=216669 | 170,867 |
195,923 | Cristoforetti was assigned to fly to the International Space Station a second time in spring 2022. She is flying on the fourth mission of NASA's Commercial Crew Program, SpaceX Crew-4 on a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft. The mission launched on April 27, 2022, before docking later that day. Cristoforetti's second missio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22874727 | 195,823 |
1,537,599 | The nasal concha, or turbinates, is composed of little bones and soft tissue that provide structure to the nose and aid in the perception of smell. Paleontological work on other protomammals has identified specialized ridges lined between the orbital fissures, superior to the maxillary plate. Research has yet to define... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46405867 | 1,536,727 |
2,031,784 | John Templeton's interest in botany began with an experimental garden laid out according to a suggestion in Rousseau's 'Nouvelle Heloise' and following Rousseau's 'Letters on the Elements of Botany'. Here he cultivated many tender exotics out of doors and began botanical studies which lasted throughout his life and cor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2730678 | 2,030,614 |
666,851 | If a small freight or commuter railroad does not operate on another railroad territory, then there is no interoperability-based reason that obligates them to use spectrum to implement PTC. In addition, if a small freight or commuter railroad only operates on their own territory and hosts other guest railroads (freight ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11562996 | 666,503 |
1,541,137 | On 11 September 2001, two planes were hijacked and flown towards New York City. Then Federal Aviation Administration contacted the North American Aerospace Defense Command's Northeast Air Defense Sector at Rome, New York, bypassing standard procedures. NORAD ordered the 101st Fighter Squadron to scramble its jets. Two ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15747616 | 1,540,264 |
305,282 | All three ships were present for the action of 19 August 1916, but the British and German fleets both withdrew before engaging each other directly, the British having lost a pair of light cruisers to German U-boats and the Germans having had one battleship damaged by a British submarine. By the end of the year, "Resolu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=465646 | 305,119 |
1,683,962 | Arthur Mannering Tyndall, William Hunter McCrea, and Julius Miller reviewed the book upon its release in 1951. Arthur Tyndall noted his preference for the setup of the new edition and wrote that "if there are any mistakes or omissions in it, the reviewer was too immersed in the atmosphere of the book to notice them". T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65293114 | 1,683,019 |
520,536 | Epiretinal membrane or macular pucker is a disease of the eye in response to changes in the vitreous humor or more rarely, diabetes. Sometimes, as a result of immune system response to protect the retina, cells converge in the macular area as the vitreous ages and pulls away in posterior vitreous detachment (PVD). PVD ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10115966 | 520,265 |
265,409 | Project Orion team member Freeman Dyson proposed in 1968 an interstellar spacecraft using nuclear pulse propulsion that used pure deuterium fusion detonations with a very high fuel-burnup fraction. He computed an exhaust velocity of 15,000 km/s and a 100,000-tonne space vehicle able to achieve a 20,000 km/s delta-v all... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14843 | 265,266 |
305,194 | On 3 May, in Chicago, a fight broke out when strikebreakers attempted to cross the picket line, and two workers died when police opened fire upon the crowd. The next day on 4 May, anarchists staged a rally at Chicago's Haymarket Square. A bomb was thrown by an unknown party near the conclusion of the rally, killing an ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47246185 | 305,032 |
814,616 | Reproduction is costly for anadromous salmonids because their life history requires transition from saltwater to freshwater streams and long migrations, which can be physiologically taxing. The transition between cold oceanic water to warm freshwater and steep elevation changes in Northern Pacific rivers could explain ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22610793 | 814,183 |
1,471,829 | French mathematician Eugène Estanave was encouraged by Gaumont to investigate the parallax stereogram and started working with the technique late in 1905. On January 24, 1906, Estanave filed for French patent 371.487 for a stereophotography device and stereoscopy using line sheets. It included his "changing" pictures t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46533570 | 1,471,000 |
1,415,329 | The IIASA Challenges and Opportunities for Economic Integration within a wider European and Eurasian Space project served as a unique, depoliticized platform where key stakeholders could engage in evidence-based dialogue. In 2018, the project published three reports containing analyses and recommendations in several im... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1826969 | 1,414,532 |
846,297 | Following the Spanish Civil War, most armies, including the U.S. Army, realized that they needed tanks armed with cannon and not merely with machine guns. The Cavalry had already opted for a single, larger turret on its nearly identical M1 combat car. In December 1938, OCM No. 14844 directed that a single M2A3 be remov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2585953 | 845,847 |
1,396,624 | Prior to this, however, the original British colonies retained a much more ad hoc, improvisational approach to pharmacy, and "there were, as was to be expected in a land so vast and so sparsely settled, virtually no limitations as to where or by whom pharmacy could be practiced." Lines between the professions of pharma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34631752 | 1,395,853 |
1,912,736 | It all began in February 2008, when Maqsudul Alam approached Professor Ahmad Shamsul Islam, Coordinator of GNOBB (Global Network of Bangladeshi Biotechnologists) regarding the possibility of sequencing the jute genome. The Bangladeshi science community, which was already looking into the possibility of getting the jute... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27752237 | 1,911,637 |
265,990 | Since Descartes was believed to be volcanic, a good deal of this training was geared towards volcanic rocks and features, but field trips were made to sites featuring other sorts of rock. As Young later commented, the non-volcanic training proved more useful, given that Descartes did not prove to be volcanic. In July 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1970 | 265,846 |
300,757 | There has been extensive research on selective estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs) such as tamoxifen, which is used to treat breast cancer. There have been experiments using a SARMs C-6 and S-23 on male mice as a contraceptive agent. Treatment of osteoporosis has been explored as SARMs have been found to have trophic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13421277 | 300,596 |
1,076,424 | The subsequent trial began on June 16, 1952. The NAACP's intentions were to end segregation at the 50-year-old public high school. In the BPI case they argued that BPI's offerings of specialized engineering courses violated the "separate but equal" clause because these courses were not offered in high schools for black... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=913572 | 1,075,869 |
1,177,521 | On December 17, 2010 ARB adopted a cap-and-trade program to place an upper limit on state-wide greenhouse gas emissions. This is the first program of its kind on this scale in the United States, though in the north-eastern United States, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) works on a similar principle. Throug... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7186486 | 1,176,898 |
830,107 | The DSSC has a number of attractive features; it is simple to make using conventional roll-printing techniques, is semi-flexible and semi-transparent which offers a variety of uses not applicable to glass-based systems, and most of the materials used are low-cost. In practice it has proven difficult to eliminate a numb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1932063 | 829,660 |
851,604 | The first formulation of a quantum theory describing radiation and matter interaction is due to Paul Dirac, who, during 1920, was first able to compute the coefficient of spontaneous emission of an atom. Paul Dirac described the quantization of the electromagnetic field as an ensemble of harmonic oscillators with the i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5951576 | 851,151 |
2,055,524 | Bob Richards entered the competition as the defending champion and the best in the world, though he never managed to beat Dutch Warmerdam's world record of set back in 1942 throughout his career. Richards stayed in first place throughout the competition, with a first attempt clearance at every height up to 4.53m. It wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10675826 | 2,054,341 |
7,044 | Improvement in neuroimaging techniques such as positron emission tomography (PET) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) carry a promise for better diagnosis and prognosis predictions. Regarding MRI, there are several techniques that have already shown some usefulness in research settings and could be introduced into clin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50603 | 7,041 |
826,822 | Research on the power of self-affirmation exercises has shown promising results as well. One such study found that a self-affirmation exercise (in the form of a brief in-class writing assignment about a value that is important to them) significantly improved the grades of African-American middle-school students, and re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1809033 | 826,378 |
87,614 | Nevertheless, they have proven useful in exploring a wide range of questions in fundamental physics, and the years since the initial discoveries by the JILA and MIT groups have seen an increase in experimental and theoretical activity. Examples include experiments that have demonstrated interference between condensates... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4474 | 87,579 |
1,957,286 | Poroma is a benign, relatively common skin tumor that has the cellular features similar to those of a sweat gland duct. This tumor typically occurs as a solitary stalkless nodule on the soles and palms but may occur in any area where there are sweat glands. Porocarcinoma (also termed eccrine porocarcinoma and malignant... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70005268 | 1,956,162 |
508,087 | As time has passed, history and sociology have developed into two different specific academic disciplines. Historical data was used and is used today in mainly these three ways. The first one is: Examining a theory through a Parallel investigation. To correspond with the natural-science conceptions of laws, and to look... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13727840 | 507,823 |
949,841 | The East Asian miracle (EAM) has been used to criticize the validity of the Kuznets curve theory. The rapid economic growth of eight East Asian countries—Japan; the Four Asian Tigers South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong; Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia—between 1965 and 1990, was called the East Asian miracle. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1458404 | 949,337 |
2,036,425 | In May, 2004, an application to the newly announced CFI Research Hospital Fund resulted in a $10.9 million award to build out lab space and consolidate all operations on the 14th and 15th floors of the Toronto Medical Discovery Tower (TMDT) in the MaRS Discovery District. TCAG was the first occupant of TMDT (in August,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18041561 | 2,035,251 |
305,190 | In 1914 the unions of the transport workers, the mine workers and the railway workers had formed a Triple Alliance. In 1919, Lloyd George sent for the leaders of the Triple Alliance, one of whom was miner's leader Robert Smillie, a founder member of the Independent Labour Party in 1889 who was to become a Labour Party ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47246185 | 305,028 |
425,441 | In <time datetime="2007-06">June 2007</time>, a detailed update was released explaining the cause of the problem, and the solution that was being worked on. Although electrostatic patches caused by non-uniform coating of the spheres were anticipated, and were thought to have been controlled for before the experiment, i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=531104 | 425,233 |
1,596,396 | Anthony Atala, M.D., is the director of the institute, which is located in Wake Forest Innovation Quarter in downtown Winston-Salem. Atala was recruited by Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in 2004, and brought many of his team members from the Laboratory for Tissue Engineering and Cellular Therapeutics at the Childre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9357386 | 1,595,497 |
1,456,395 | Term “heliophysics” (Russian: “гелиофизика”) was widely used in Russian-language scientific literature. The Great Soviet Encyclopedia third edition (1969—1978) defines “Heliophysics” as “[…] a division of astrophysics that studies physics of the Sun". In 1990, the Higher Attestation Commission, responsible for the adv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6737547 | 1,455,575 |
1,211,926 | In 1968, Robert Wexler of Abbott Laboratories developed the Analgizer, a disposable inhaler that allowed the self-administration of methoxyflurane vapor in air for analgesia. The Analgizer consisted of a polyethylene cylinder 5 inches long and 1 inch in diameter with a 1 inch long mouthpiece. The device contained a rol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25086260 | 1,211,274 |
2,168,993 | One of the biggest failures in market transactions is the imbalance of information that is provided to consumer via producer. “Information asymmetry” is an economic concept that is used to explain this failure: it deals with the study of decisions in transactions where one party has more or better information than the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31677000 | 2,167,756 |
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