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645,116 | Relative to other methods of analysis, powder diffraction allows for rapid, non-destructive analysis of multi-component mixtures without the need for extensive sample preparation. This gives laboratories around the world the ability to quickly analyze unknown materials and perform materials characterization in such fie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2296159 | 644,776 |
1,663,954 | Effects-based operations (EBO) is a United States military concept that emerged during the Persian Gulf War for the planning and conduct of operations combining military and non-military methods to achieve a particular effect. An effects-based approach to operations was first applied in modern times in the design and e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9203715 | 1,663,017 |
312,516 | From the neurological perspective, the well-known tendencies of teenagers to be emotional, impulsive, and to take high risks are due to the fact that the limbic system (responsible for emotional thought) is developing faster than the prefrontal cortex (logical reasoning). From the evolutionary viewpoint, this mismatch ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41162624 | 312,348 |
771,206 | The P-38 was the only fighter to make it into combat during World War II with turbo-supercharged V-1710s. The operating conditions of the Western European air war – flying for long hours in intensely cold weather at – revealed several problems with these engines. They had a poor manifold fuel-air distribution and poor ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=76309 | 770,792 |
1,167,139 | In the 1940s, geologist Hans Suess speculated that the regularity that was observed in the abundances of elements may be related to structural properties of the atomic nucleus. These considerations were seeded by the discovery of radioactivity by Becquerel in 1896 as an aside of advances in chemistry which aimed at pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5470137 | 1,166,521 |
200,013 | In the 19th century, experimenters began to detect unexpected forms of radiation: Wilhelm Röntgen caused a sensation with his discovery of X-rays in 1895; in 1896 Henri Becquerel discovered that certain kinds of matter emit radiation on their own accord. In 1897, J. J. Thomson discovered the electron, and new radioacti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13758 | 199,910 |
1,729,761 | During the initial phase of the first experiment station, Atwater expanded his fertilizer program and began to study and experiment with the growth and composition of field crops. The field crop research continued even after the appropriation ceased on a nearby farm; Atwater became particularly interested in plant meta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10465237 | 1,728,787 |
37,354 | In late 2014, the US Navy began early preparation work on the SSN(X). It was planned that the first submarine would be procured in 2025. However, their introduction (i.e., procurement of the first submarine) has been pushed back to 2033/2034. The long-range shipbuilding plan is for the new SSN to be authorized in 2034,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32726 | 37,341 |
1,554,781 | A great deal of new and innovative techniques and ideas have been implemented globally. As countries on an international context gain momentum in the realms of green energy. Mexico specifically gained major momentum for this shortly after the Rio Conference in 1992. The Rio Conference is also known as the Earth Summit.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41447629 | 1,553,900 |
1,935,799 | The macroflora of the Posidonia slate can be described as extremely poor in species. Apart from the remains of Horsetails, it is without exception the remains of coarse branches and fronds from gymnosperms, in which one has a certain can assume transport resistance. Remains of Ferns are completely missing, except for t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62853123 | 1,934,691 |
244,474 | On 1 June 1894, at a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Oxford University, Lodge gave a memorial lecture on the work of Hertz (recently deceased) and the German physicist's proof of the existence of electromagnetic waves 6 years earlier. Lodge set up a demonstration on the quasi-optica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3800477 | 244,347 |
385,309 | Tesla went on to develop a wireless power distribution system that he hoped would be capable of transmitting power long distance directly into homes and factories. Early on he seemed to borrow from the ideas of Mahlon Loomis, proposing a system composed of balloons to suspend transmitting and receiving electrodes in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=570662 | 385,114 |
53,844 | The first modern report of sickle cell disease may have been in 1846, where the autopsy of an executed runaway slave was discussed; the key finding was the absence of the spleen. Reportedly, African slaves in the United States exhibited resistance to malaria, but were prone to leg ulcers. The abnormal characteristics o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21010263 | 53,824 |
1,726,291 | There is significant debate about who is responsible for the regulation of nanotechnology. While some non-nanotechnology specific regulatory agencies currently cover some products and processes (to varying degrees) – by "bolting on" nanotechnology to existing regulations – there are clear gaps in these regimes. This en... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18069384 | 1,725,320 |
1,744,211 | By contrast, the study was well received by Muller's peers in climate science research. James Hansen, a leading climate scientist and head of NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies commented that he had not yet read the research papers but was glad Muller was looking at the issue. He said "It should help inform those... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31299401 | 1,743,227 |
772,515 | Regarding the first point, nanoscale MOF (NMOF) synthesis has been mentioned in an earlier section. The latter obstacle addresses the limitation of the antenna effect. Smaller linkers tend to improve MOF stability, but have higher energy absorptions, predominantly in the ultraviolet (UV) and high-energy visible regions... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9821563 | 772,100 |
1,925,198 | By 1980, complementary bipolar ICs became possible and Allison Research released the first monolithic Blackmer gain cell IC. The ECG-101, which was designed by Paul Buff, contained only the core of a modified Blackmer cell – a set of eight matched transistors – and was intended for pure class A operation. It had a uniq... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63925564 | 1,924,094 |
844,030 | The Wasp III is the result of a multi-year joint development effort between AeroVironment and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to create a small, portable, reliable, and rugged unmanned aerial platform designed for front-line day or night reconnaissance and surveillance. The Wasp weighs only , is 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24740113 | 843,580 |
1,659,009 | Chinese scientists first discovered the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronavirus in February 2003, but due to initial misinterpretation of the data, the information of the correct agent associated with SARS was suppressed and the outbreak investigation had a delayed start. Advanced hospital facilities were ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20485252 | 1,658,076 |
272,158 | Whichever the form of the crystallizer, to achieve an effective process control it is important to control the retention time and the crystal mass, to obtain the optimum conditions in terms of crystal specific surface and the fastest possible growth. This is achieved by a separation – to put it simply – of the crystals... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1266658 | 272,010 |
1,164,479 | Visitors to "The Art of Video Games" at the Smithsonian American Art Museum were greeted by a 12-foot projection that included excerpts from most of the 80 games featured in the exhibition with a chipmusic soundtrack written and recorded by 8 Bit Weapon and ComputeHer. An interior gallery included a series of short vid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32507866 | 1,163,862 |
1,936,124 | In 2003, she joined the advisory board of United States Environmental Protection Agency PM2.5 Clean Air. Between 2003 and 2006 Prather studied whether ATOFMS could be used to measure the carbonaceous components of aerosols (including PAHs) and help to understand atmospheric processes, distinguishing between organic (OC... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59545995 | 1,935,016 |
1,468,812 | LSHTM served a crucial role in reshaping scientific research and public health in the post-war period. Sir Austin Bradford Hill, a professor of Medical Statistics at the school, was the statistician on the Medical Research Council Streptomycin in Tuberculosis Trials Committee and their 1948 study evaluating the use of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=531365 | 1,467,988 |
90,302 | Two federal agencies have supported various weather modification research projects, which began in the early-1960s: The United States Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation; Department of the Interior) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA; Department of Commerce). Reclamation sponsored several clou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=449660 | 90,262 |
152,276 | As climate change becomes a bigger issue, it has moved from social and natural sciences to political debates. Carrying capacity currently tends to be thought of as a natural and normal balance between nature and humans. Carrying capacity depends on the amount of natural resources available to a population and how much ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47544 | 152,208 |
1,311,158 | According to Irrational's Ken Levine, the name "Columbia", in reference to the female figure that personifies the United States, and the idea of American exceptionalism did not come about until six to eight months before the game's reveal. An early concept was to depict a group of technology geeks against a band of lud... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38977195 | 1,310,440 |
663,161 | Zooplankton are tiny animals suspended in the water column. Like phytoplankton, these species have developed mechanisms that keep them from sinking to deeper waters, including drag-inducing body forms, and the active flicking of appendages (such as antennae or spines). Remaining in the water column may have its advanta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4479734 | 662,816 |
1,235,090 | In May 2017, SwissMicros released pre-production samples of an RPN calculator closely resembling the HP-42S, the "DM42". The final product was released on the 9 December 2017. Even though slightly smaller (144×77×13 mm, 170 g) than the original HP-42S (148×80×15 mm, 170 g), the calculator comes with an additional top r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=730770 | 1,234,427 |
1,044,346 | Biological structuralism objects to an exclusively Darwinian explanation of natural selection, arguing that other mechanisms also guide evolution, and sometimes implying that these supersede selection altogether. Structuralists have proposed different mechanisms that might have guided the formation of body plans. Befor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53955838 | 1,043,802 |
1,779,309 | The SWAM experiments will require two main inputs. First is platforms to access the nooks and corners in the undersea domain and the second is the signal processing abilities that will pre-process the data and undertake effective processing to derive meaningful inputs. The conventional ship-borne deployment of sensors ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60878831 | 1,778,306 |
293,993 | One of the most prevalent types of work-related injuries is musculoskeletal disorder. Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WRMDs) result in persistent pain, loss of functional capacity and work disability, but their initial diagnosis is difficult because they are mainly based on complaints of pain and other symptoms... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36479878 | 293,834 |
2,112,924 | One of the most significant yet uncertain components of predictive climate change models is the impact of aerosols on the climate system. Aerosols affect Earth's radiation balance directly and indirectly. The direct effect occurs when aerosol particles scatter, absorb, or exhibit a combination of these two optical prop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62264747 | 2,111,709 |
757,766 | By the mid-1980s, computers had outgrown these video systems and needed better displays. Most home and basic office computers suffered from the use of the old scanning method, with the highest display resolution being around 640x200 (or sometimes 640x256 in 625-line/50 Hz regions), resulting in a severely distorted tal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56189 | 757,362 |
1,386,513 | Struve was a highly successful administrator who brought fame to Yerkes Observatory and rebuilt the astronomy department of the University of Chicago. In particular, he gradually renewed the scientific staff, dismissing stagnated permanent researchers who were not making significant contributions to science but were oc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=584584 | 1,385,746 |
2,087,734 | Sushil Atreya's research addresses crosscutting themes of the origin and evolution of the atmospheres of the planets and moons of the Solar System, climate evolution, and planetary habitability. Atreya combines numerical modeling, spacecraft and ground-based observations, and data analysis in his study. He has also bee... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69895415 | 2,086,532 |
1,064,348 | The principal architects for the buildings were Rex Savidge and John Gelsthorpe of Architects' Design Group (ADG) from Baker Street, Nottingham. Heliodon modelling was used to determine the visual and psychological impact of the structures to be used on site due to their scale. This created a Zone of Visual Influence (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19273099 | 1,063,794 |
568,768 | The 431-cubic-inch displacement 1938-40 Cadillac V16 was one of the last new American auto engine designs prior to World War Two. As such, it incorporated some of the latest thinking. Nine main bearings provided a crankshaft main bearing support between each 135 degree opposing pair of cylinders. The square bore and st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1129179 | 568,478 |
293,967 | In July 2008, the NRO declassified the existence of its Synthetic Aperture Radar satellites, citing difficulty in discussing the creation of the Space-Based Radar with the United States Air Force and other entities. In August 2009, FOIA archives were queried for a copy of the NRO video, "Satellite Reconnaissance: Secre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=377048 | 293,808 |
1,060,682 | Between 1877 and 1931, Albert A. Michelson made multiple measurements of the speed of light. His 1877–79 measurements were performed under the auspices of Simon Newcomb, who was also working on measuring the speed of light. Michelson's setup incorporated several refinements on Foucault's original arrangement. As seen i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=148819 | 1,060,130 |
148,655 | Beginning in mid-1962 and continuing over the next few years, members of the PDP-1 programming community at MIT, including Russell and the other Hingham Institute members, began to spread out to other schools and employers such as Stanford University and DEC, and as they did they spread the game to other universities a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5482854 | 148,594 |
1,754,556 | Traditional science is representative of two distinct philosophical traditions within the history of science, but e-Science, it is being argued, requires a paradigm shift, and the addition of a third branch of the sciences. "The idea of open data is not a new one; indeed, when studying the history and philosophy of sci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1001976 | 1,753,566 |
835,013 | Horrigan Hall is named after the university's first president, Msgr. Alfred Horrigan, and serves as the campus center. Architects Thomas J. Nolan & sons designed the facility in "modern" 1950s style and Al J. Schneider Company was the general contractor. The exterior is of rough textured brick with limestone trim. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=394938 | 834,564 |
840,937 | Version 2, released a few months later on 17 April 1984, was an incremental improvement to the original Turbo Pascal, to the point that the reference manual was at first identical to version 1's, down to having 1983 as the copyright date on some of the compiler's sample output, but had a separate "Addendum to Reference... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38273 | 840,487 |
1,359,686 | Researchers often use heterologous expression techniques to study protein interactions. For example, bacteria has been optimized in the heterologous expression and biosynthesis of nitrogenase through NifEN. This is able to be expressed and engineered in E.coli. Through this host, it remains exceedingly challenging to h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29071957 | 1,358,935 |
1,807,120 | At the early 18th century, the electric signals from living tissues have been investigated. These researchers have promoted many innovations in healthcare especially in medical diagnostic. Some example is based on electrical signals produced by human tissues, including Electrocardiogram (ECG), Electroencephalography (E... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30883500 | 1,806,101 |
464,112 | In the early 1990s, an ALZA-funded research program began to develop a new dosage form of methylphenidate for the treatment of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Methylphenidate's short half-life required multiple doses to be administered each day to attain long-lasting coverage, which made ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8031252 | 463,882 |
2,139,813 | SensorDynamics was founded in 2003 by Herbert Gartner, Hubertus Christ, Jürgen Tittel and Volker Kempe. Financed by national and international Venture Capital investors the company successfully closed four equity rounds in 2004, 2007, 2009 and 2011. In 2005 SensorDynamics was ranked under the top 100 European high tech... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23979212 | 2,138,583 |
181,355 | "L. acidophilus" grows naturally in the oral, intestinal, and vaginal cavities of mammals. Nearly all Lactobacillus species have special mechanisms for heat resistance which involves enhancing the activity of chaperones. Chaperones are highly conserved stress proteins that allow for enhanced resistance to elevated temp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=965861 | 181,260 |
1,516,783 | Alfredo Jahn (Caracas, 1867– Caracas,1942) finished his studies at the Central University of Venezuela in 1886. The following year, he participated in the preliminary studies for the construction of a major railroad between Caracas and Valencia with extension to San Carlos. As a Civil Engineer, he worked with civil eng... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29302481 | 1,515,931 |
162,122 | Big business grew much more slowly in Britain than in the United States, with the result that by the late 19th century the much larger American corporations were growing faster and could undersell the smaller competitors in Britain. A key was the vertical integration. In the United States, the typical firm expanded by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33643110 | 162,037 |
1,417,501 | Life at air–water interfaces has never been considered easy, mainly because of the harsh environmental conditions that influence the SML. However, high abundances of microorganisms, especially of bacteria and picophytoplankton, accumulating in the SML compared to the underlying water were frequently reported, accompani... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12264442 | 1,416,702 |
162,140 | It has been suggested that the industrial sector was slow to adjust to global changes, and that there was a striking preference for leisure over industrial entrepreneurship among the elite. In 1910, the British Empire's share of world industrial capacity stood at 15%, just behind Germany's 16%, and less than half of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33643110 | 162,055 |
270,924 | The 19th century was also the period in which physiology, including neurophysiology, professionalized and saw some of its most significant discoveries. Among its leaders were Charles Bell (1774–1843) and François Magendie (1783–1855) who independently discovered the distinction between sensory and motor nerves in the s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1573230 | 270,776 |
325,405 | In September 2019 there were three Boxer-related announcements. On 10 September it was revealed that the target date for the UK's MIV programme to receive its main gate approval was 22 October 2019. It was reported that the business case for the purchase of an initial batch of 508 vehicles, valued at about GBP1.2 billi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=656230 | 325,232 |
2,034,961 | The International Committee for Standardization of Hematology (ICSH) was established and initiated by the European Society of Hematology (ESH) in 1963. From the 1970s to about 2000, the Management Committee met and worked at least once a year. As a result, members of the committees published many important guidelines a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60779324 | 2,033,788 |
915,974 | The SIMD vector processor (VMX128) was modified for the Xbox to include a dot-product instruction. The dot-product instruction took far less latency than discrete instructions. The VMX128 was also modified by the addition of direct 3D (D3D) compressed data format. This led to an approximate 50 percent savings in requir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12366110 | 915,493 |
565,700 | On 16 August 2010, Iranian officials withdrew Mohammed Soleimani from the men's under-48-kilogram category taekwondo final against Israel's Gili Haimovitz, citing an ankle injury. According to the officials, Soleimani had first hurt his ankle at the World Junior Championships in Mexico earlier in the year, and the inju... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13765908 | 565,410 |
2,195,499 | In May 1912 in a President's Address to the University of Sydney Engineering Society JPVM set out his ideas on the effective manner in which Engineers should be trained. He believed teaching of engineering was more than just technical matters & to his mind included character, clearness of thought & expression, general ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52676648 | 2,194,249 |
1,649,337 | Since 2004, different types of nanotube and nanowire based motors have been developed, in addition to nano- and micromotors of different shapes. Most of these motors use hydrogen peroxide as fuel, but some notable exceptions exist. These silver halide and silver-platinum nanomotors are powered by halide fuels, which ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1390297 | 1,648,405 |
1,237,348 | Entrusted with the management and expansion of this metropolitan network is the TASK Computer Centre, which was set up at Gdańsk University of Technology in 1994. Today it is based in the new Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics building. As one of the five supercomputer centres in Poland, it prov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=785196 | 1,236,684 |
1,392,224 | The first is that we are led to a theory with differential wave propagation. The field functions are continuous functions of continuous parameters and , and the changes in the fields at a point are determined by properties of the fields infinitesimally close to the point . For most wave fields (for example, sound waves... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=701496 | 1,391,453 |
1,466,242 | Right after the end of the war, in 1947 The Law on Serbian Academy of Science brought certain changes in its structure, when instead of the expert academies, six departments were formed as well as the certain number of the institutes. With the enlarged spectre of activities, the need for the necessary spatial capacitie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4705234 | 1,465,419 |
1,096,440 | "Orientia tsutsugamushi" causes a complex and potentially life-threatening disease known as scrub typhus. Infection starts when chiggers bite on the skin during their feeding. The bacteria are deposited at the site of feeding (inoculation), where they multiply. They cause progressive tissue damage (necrosis), which lea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12300557 | 1,095,880 |
272,687 | It remains unclear who first discovered the organism. David Douglas Cunningham, Surgeon Major of the British Indian army, may have seen it in 1885 without being able to relate it to the disease. Peter Borovsky, a Russian military surgeon working in Tashkent, conducted research into the etiology of "oriental sore", loca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=198491 | 272,539 |
1,820,377 | In later years Forrester became Professor of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine, the George Burns and Gracie Allen Professor of Cardiovascular Research, and Chief of the Division of Cardiology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. In these roles, he served as mentor for several hundred ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44523992 | 1,819,340 |
1,173,564 | In 2012, there are devices built for medical professionals to analyze specific diseases or take specific health measurements, but there is not one all-purpose consumer device to diagnose a variety of conditions. Numerous accounts speculate that the advent of high-power computer chips, cell-phone technology, and improve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37804721 | 1,172,944 |
1,835,621 | Development of CICE began in 1994 by Elizabeth Hunke at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Since its initial release in 1998 following development of the Elastic-Viscous-Plastic (EVP) sea ice rheology within the model, it has been substantially developed by an international community of model users and developers. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58881336 | 1,834,572 |
1,868,220 | The AVU relied heavily on World Bank grants and did not become self-financing as it originally had planned to do. For this reason, the AVU changed into an intergovernmental organization in 2003 via an intergovernmental charter signed by 15 SSA countries. Beyond not meeting its initial expectations, critics argue that t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37796710 | 1,867,144 |
1,002,369 | US Army M728A1s were deployed in support of the United Nations' Resolution, NATO led Implementation Force (IFOR) in December 1995. Their initial mission was to assist in protecting and demining the international airport at Sarajevo. By September 1996 their mission had expanded to include road clearance, bunker demoliti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=559429 | 1,001,851 |
152,575 | A contract for two aircraft, now designated the XP-89, and a full-scale mock-up was approved on 13 June, although construction of the mock-up had begun immediately after the USAAF announced that the N-24 had been selected. It was inspected on 25 September and the USAAF had some reservations. The inspectors believed tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=458875 | 152,507 |
455,154 | All the units are equipped with emergency response systems, which can prevent release of radioactive material into the environment even in case of serious accident; for example breakage of pipes in the reactor cooling circuit. The reactor cooling circuit is housed in hermetic reinforced concrete boxes that can withstan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20003674 | 454,932 |
1,044,341 | Jean-Baptiste Lamarck's 1809 evolutionary theory, transmutation of species, was based on a progressive (orthogenetic) drive toward greater complexity. Lamarck also shared the belief, common at the time, that characteristics acquired during an organism's life could be inherited by the next generation, producing adaptati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53955838 | 1,043,797 |
954,959 | Georges Cuvier's analysis of fossils and discovery of extinction disrupted static views of nature in the early 19th century, confirming geology as showing a historical sequence of life. British natural theology, which sought examples of adaptation to show design by a benevolent Creator, adopted catastrophism to show ea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=328815 | 954,454 |
616,508 | During April and again in June 1993, Coast Guard Forces St. Louis (CGF)was activated for flooding on the Mississippi, Missouri and Illinois River basins. The '500 year' flooding closed over of river to navigation and claimed 47 lives. Historic levels of rainfall in the river tributaries caused many levee breaks along t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6204230 | 616,194 |
1,857,055 | Attenborough starts the second programme by looking at potential future events, before warning that what happens over the next few years is crucial. A BBC weather forecast for the year 2050 shows that summer temperatures of 38 °C for the UK are "par for the course". The probable range by which the planet will warm over... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7564445 | 1,855,987 |
133,331 | In terms of applications, a massive number of new technologies were developed in the 20th century. Technologies such as electricity, the incandescent light bulb, the automobile and the phonograph, first developed at the end of the 19th century, were perfected and universally deployed. The first car was introduced by Ka... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14400 | 133,278 |
736,883 | Immersive technology has grown immensely in the past few decades, and is continuing to progress. VR has even been described as the learning aid of the 21st century. Head mounted displays(HMD) is what allows users to get the full immersive experience. The HMD market is expected to be worth over 25 billion USD by the yea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10499965 | 736,495 |
2,199,946 | An only child, Dallos was born in 1934 in Budapest, Hungary. He attended the Technical University of Budapest from 1953 to 1956, majoring in electrical engineering. After participating in the 1956 anti-Soviet revolution, he escaped and immigrated to the United States. He finished his undergraduate work at the Illinois ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47027926 | 2,198,694 |
2,057,624 | David Anderson (born August 4, 1952) is a former college professor. He was trained as a literary historian at Princeton University (Ph.D. 1980), where he studied with D. W. Robertson, and at universities in Italy (beginning with support from a Fulbright Fellowship, 1978), especially the scholarly circle around Giuseppe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51095438 | 2,056,439 |
746,666 | NDT methods rely upon use of electromagnetic radiation, sound and other signal conversions to examine a wide variety of articles (metallic and non-metallic, food-product, artifacts and antiquities, infrastructure) for integrity, composition, or condition with no alteration of the article undergoing examination. Visual ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=255047 | 746,271 |
576,835 | Stereotactic radiosurgery was first developed in 1949 by the Swedish neurosurgeon Lars Leksell to treat small targets in the brain that were not amenable to conventional surgery. The initial stereotactic instrument he conceived used probes and electrodes. The first attempt to supplant the electrodes with radiation was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1172094 | 576,539 |
935,287 | The X-31 design was essentially an all-new airframe design, although it borrowed heavily on design elements and sometimes actual parts of previous production, prototype, and conceptual aircraft designs, including the British Aerospace Experimental Airplane Programme (choice of wing type with canards, plus underfuselage... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=579826 | 934,793 |
551,235 | Substantial evidence in Tibetan highlanders suggests that variation in haemoglobin and blood-oxygen levels are adaptive as Darwinian fitness. It has been documented that Tibetan women with a high likelihood of possessing one to two alleles for high blood-oxygen content (which is rare in other women) had more surviving ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39127332 | 550,947 |
87,308 | Jenner sent a paper reporting his observations to the Royal Society in April 1797. It was not submitted formally and there is no mention of it in the Society's records. Jenner had sent the paper informally to Sir Joseph Banks, the Society's president, who asked Everard Home for his views. Reviews of his rejected report... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61088 | 87,273 |
209,649 | After World War II, the hypothesis that Peking Man inhabited the cave once again became the mainstay, modeled around Jiǎ's 1975 book "The Cave Home of Peking Man". In 1985, American archaeologist Lewis Binford and Chinese palaeoanthropologist Ho Chuan Kun instead hypothesised that Zhoukoudian was a "trap" which humans ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=253340 | 209,542 |
983,085 | At the 2014 Davos meeting, Thomas Friedman reported that the link between technology and unemployment seemed to have been the dominant theme of that year's discussions. A survey at Davos 2014 found that 80% of 147 respondents agreed that technology was driving jobless growth. At the 2015 Davos, Gillian Tett found that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32040137 | 982,572 |
2,056,098 | Field trials have proven that the device produces usable images (image analysis is a separate topic covered in the broader literature). The technology is substantially more cost-effective than other existing SPI devices and able to be deployed from small vessels (ca. 5 m) by two persons operating a light frame or davit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14917968 | 2,054,914 |
1,528,655 | Because they ride on a cushion of air generated between their wings and the water's surface and don't actually fly, as such, surface-effect vehicles (SEVs) are able to sustain payloads approximately three times the weight of those carried by equivalent-sized airplanes. This fact - taken together with their small size, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37738505 | 1,527,791 |
2,018,260 | Schroeder commanded at all levels from platoon through Joint Task Force and has extensive experience in strategic planning, resource management/allocation, and operations research and systems analysis. As the Deputy Commander of the U.S. Army in Europe, Schroeder supervised 14 separate organizations with an operating b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46785140 | 2,017,097 |
741,256 | One of his most important works, the "Missa Papae Marcelli" (Pope Marcellus Mass) has been historically associated with erroneous information involving the Council of Trent. According to this tale (which forms the basis of Hans Pfitzner's opera "Palestrina"), it was composed in order to persuade the Council of Trent th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12776 | 740,864 |
663,581 | In 2000, controversial and self-described "transgenic artist" Eduardo Kac appropriated standard laboratory work by biotechnology and genetics researchers in order to both utilize and critique such scientific techniques. In the only putative work of transgenic art by Kac, the artist claimed to have collaborated with a F... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22562859 | 663,236 |
596,993 | The origin and invention of the Bowden cable is open to some dispute, confusion and myth. The invention of the Bowden cable has been popularly attributed to Sir Frank Bowden, founder and owner of the Raleigh Bicycle Company who, circa 1902, was reputed to have started replacing the rigid rods used for brakes with a fle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=295477 | 596,688 |
547,569 | The first DNA sequencing methods were developed by Gilbert (1973) and Sanger (1975). Gilbert introduced a sequencing method based on chemical modification of DNA followed by cleavage at specific bases whereas Sanger's technique is based on dideoxynucleotide chain termination. The Sanger method became popular due to its... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=127511 | 547,282 |
1,741,364 | After Landau moved to the Kapitza institute in Moscow (to avoid arrest for comparing Stalinism to Nazism), Pomeranchuk also moved there, working for the tanning industry. He returned to Leningrad in 1938, lecturing, completing his Ph.D. and becoming employed as a junior scientist. He joined the Lebedev Institute of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3581465 | 1,740,382 |
57,843 | In 1983, Robert Howard started R.H. Research, later named Howtek, Inc. in Feb 1984 to develop a color inkjet 2D printer, Pixelmaster, commercialized in 1986, using Thermoplastic (hot-melt) plastic ink. A team was put together, 6 members from Exxon Office Systems, Danbury Systems Division, an inkjet printer startup and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1305947 | 57,819 |
1,450,182 | The wars in Cuba at the turn of the 20th century spurred Congress to authorize an increase in the size of the Corps of Cadets to 481 in 1900. The period between 1900 and 1915 saw a construction boom as much of West Point's old infrastructure was torn down and rebuilt. A new administration building, barracks, academic b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20793344 | 1,449,366 |
1,566,661 | Acoustic telemetry is based on the principles of sonar, which was developed to detect submarines during World War I. The properties of acoustic systems favour their use in deep waters with high conductivity and low turbulence. The first acoustic telemetry equipment was developed for studying fish in 1956 by the U.S. Bu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42307707 | 1,565,774 |
1,643,654 | Researchers originally assumed that perfect conservation of these long stretches of DNA implied evolutionary importance, as these regions appear to have experienced strong negative (purifying) selection for 300-400 million years. More recently, this assumption has been replaced by two main hypotheses: that UCEs are cre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32778957 | 1,642,727 |
1,084,455 | In 2009, Zanno and colleagues stated therizinosaurs were the most-widely regarded candidates for herbivory among theropods and listed features associated with this diet. These included small, densely packed, coarse serrations; lanceolate (lance-shaped) teeth with a low replacement rate; a beak at the front of the jaws;... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=636977 | 1,083,898 |
55,814 | However, this conclusion was questioned by several researchers following the publication of the paper. J. M. Kale Sniderman used the same methodology as Head and colleagues on the Pleistocene monitor lizard "Varanus priscus", comparing it to the extant Komodo dragon. Sniderman calculates that following this method, the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21396352 | 55,790 |
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