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976,438 | The men's 100 metres event at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place on 31 July and 1 August 2021 at the Olympic Stadium. 84 athletes were expected to compete; 27 nations used universality places to enter athletes in addition to the 56 qualifying through standard time or ranking (23 universality places were used in 2016).... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60376584 | 975,927 |
797,161 | This was the case from 1791 to 1871, except for the period 1843–49, when oversight was vested in the Revenue Marine Division of the Treasury Department.(Needs Citation) Standing orders for individual cutters were stated in general terms, allowing captains to exercise their discretion and judgment to the fullest. Captai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=426234 | 796,736 |
753,013 | "Telos" is associated with the concept called "techne," which is the rational method involved in producing an object or accomplishing a goal or objective. In the Theuth/Thamus myth, for instance, the section covering "techne" referred to "telos" and "techne" together. The two methods are, however, not mutually exclusiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1067753 | 752,611 |
1,386,027 | Cell–cell recognition occurs when two molecules restricted to the plasma membranes of different cells bind to each other, triggering a response for communication, cooperation, transport, defense, and/or growth. Rather than induce a distal response, like secreted hormones may do, this type of binding requires the cells ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27340103 | 1,385,260 |
1,111,938 | Calculating drug dosages for treatment for more serious diseases like cancer is commonly done through measuring the patient's body surface area. There are approximately 25 different formulae for measuring a patient's body surface area, none of them exact. Studies show that selecting the best method for an individual pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10449471 | 1,111,372 |
1,736,740 | This new technology will employ advanced lasers in the near-infrared region (1.55 µm) of the electromagnetic spectrum. The architecture is based on transmitting a laser beacon from Earth to assist line-of-sight stabilization and pointing back of the downlink laser beam. In addition, efficient codes are used for error f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55858158 | 1,735,763 |
313,075 | The most important issue confronting the administration was how to respond to the Japanese invasion of China. The commander-in-chief of the Asiatic Fleet, Admiral Harry Yarnell, asked for four additional cruisers to help evacuate American citizens from the Shanghai International Settlement, but the Secretary of State, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=448716 | 312,907 |
1,871,605 | According to Alexander H. Smith's organization of the genus "Mycena", "M. aurantiomarginata" is classified in section "Calodontes", subsection "Granulatae", which contains species with roughened cheilocystidia (cystidia on gill edges), such as "M. rosella", "M. flavescens", "M. elegans", and "M. strobilinoides". In his... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30043612 | 1,870,528 |
496,288 | In addition to the live robot run, or "Robot Game", the competition has three additional judged sections with the purpose of providing teams with feedback on their achievement of the "FIRST" LEGO League Challenge learning objectives. The first judging session, "Core Values", is designed to determine how the team works ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=970161 | 496,032 |
719,567 | "P. boisei" remains have been found predominantly in what were wet, wooded environments, such as wetlands along lakes and rivers, wooded or arid shrublands, and semi-arid woodlands, with the exception of the savanna-dominated Malawian Chiwondo Beds. Its abundance likely increased during precession-driven periods of rel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2165275 | 719,187 |
88,530 | The first published suggestion that cooling of the climate could be an effect of a nuclear war, appears to have been originally put forth by Poul Anderson and F. N. Waldrop in their story "Tomorrow's Children", in the March 1947 issue of the "Astounding Science Fiction" magazine. The story, primarily about a team of sc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22171 | 88,495 |
1,785,759 | The Capitals managed to live up to pre-season expectations, finishing as minor premiers with a 16–5 win–loss record. In the Major Semi Final the Capitals played the 2nd placed Adelaide Lightning at the AIS Arena, going down in a hard-fought match 84–91. The loss meant they needed to back up in the Preliminary Final aga... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4121869 | 1,784,755 |
2,153,966 | Application Defined Network (ADN) is an enterprise data network that uses virtual network and security components to provide a dedicated logical network for each application. This allows customized security and network policies to be created to meet the requirements of that specific application. ADN technology allows f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40463989 | 2,152,735 |
664,410 | Adult "Elysia chlorotica" are usually bright green in color owing to the presence of "Vaucheria litorea" chloroplasts in the cells of the slug's digestive diverticula. Since the slug does not have a protective shell or any other means of protection, the green color obtained from the algae also functions as a camouflage... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8440262 | 664,063 |
1,668,667 | The geyser phenomenon occurs following an extended period of complete darkness, and the geysers themselves occur at the beginning of polar spring, when temperatures are in the range of , and the sun angle is only a few degrees above the horizon. The extreme environment, low Sun angles during the geyser occurrence, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36298144 | 1,667,727 |
420,417 | In probability theory, the Gillespie algorithm (or the Doob-Gillespie algorithm or "Stochastic Simulation Algorithm", the SSA) generates a statistically correct trajectory (possible solution) of a stochastic equation system for which the reaction rates are known. It was created by Joseph L. Doob and others (circa 1945)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4438763 | 420,212 |
1,124,396 | In the western portion of the range of "M. grisescens", from 1978 to 2002, "M. grisescens" populations at 21 of 48 (44%) maternity caves showed a significantly increasing trend, 17 (35%) had no trend, and 10 (21%) were decreasing. A study in 2003 attempted a species-wide assessment in gray bat summer cave populations. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=827802 | 1,123,822 |
749,596 | The surface area of Mimas is slightly less than the land area of Spain or California. The low density of Mimas, 1.15 g/cm, indicates that it is composed mostly of water ice with only a small amount of rock. As a result of the tidal forces acting on it, Mimas is noticeably prolate; its longest axis is about 10% longer t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=208742 | 749,198 |
346,860 | Electrolyte-free pure water electrolysis has been achieved by using deep-sub-Debye-length nanogap electrochemical cells. When the gap distance between cathode and anode even smaller than Debye-length (1 micron in pure water, around 220 nm in distilled water), the double layer regions from two electrodes can overlap, le... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3206764 | 346,679 |
1,090,080 | While the Mermin–Wagner theorem prevents any spontaneous symmetry breaking on a global scale, ordering transitions of Kosterlitz–Thouless–type may be allowed. This is the case for the XY model where the continuous (internal) symmetry on a spatial lattice of dimension , i.e. the (spin-)field's expectation value, remains... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4186556 | 1,089,520 |
1,885,458 | In toxicology, the quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) approach is a method for predicting toxicity based on the properties and structure of a toxicant. This method has been developed under the assumption that a group of chemicals, with similar structural components, will result in similar toxic effects... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39400005 | 1,884,377 |
727,126 | According to "Tribes That Slumber" by Thomas Lewis and Madeline Kneberg, corn was "the staff of life to the Cherokee", who grew three types of corn. "Flour corn" had "very large, white kernels". "Six weeks corn" was a type similar to popcorn, roasted at milk stage. "Hominy corn" came in different colors of "smooth, har... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39564241 | 726,744 |
1,571,190 | The first performance followed on 28 February 1912, the same night as the first performance of Nielsen's 3rd Symphony. Carl Nielsen himself conducted the Royal Danish Orchestra at the Odd Fellows Mansion in Copenhagen with Peder Møller, Nielsen's preferred virtuoso, as soloist. Nielsen spoke of the "great enthusiasm" w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28903518 | 1,570,302 |
355,150 | Though he had helped to come up with the design and had been a long-time proponent of the concept, Teller was not chosen to head the development project (his reputation of a thorny personality likely played a role in this). In 1952 he left Los Alamos and joined the newly established Livermore branch of the University o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37782 | 354,967 |
644,399 | The rise of cheap computing power and digital receiver technology in the 1980s led to a resurgence of interest in passive radar technology. For the first time, these allowed designers to apply digital signal processing techniques to exploit a variety of broadcast signals and to use cross-correlation techniques to achie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1766338 | 644,059 |
1,414,864 | In the 16th century, works by Otto Brunfels, Hieronymus Bock, and Leonhart Fuchs helped to revive interest in natural history based on first-hand observation; Bock in particular included environmental and life cycle information in his descriptions. With the influx of exotic species in the Age of Exploration, the number... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4016139 | 1,414,067 |
1,064,082 | General complications associated with surgical treatment include infection, bleeding, blood clots, wound healing problems, and damage to surrounding nerves and blood vessels. Specific complications associated with surgical treatment of ankle fractures include fracture healing in an abnormal position (malunion), post-tr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3208482 | 1,063,528 |
568,834 | Great Britain and Northern Ireland, represented by the British Olympic Association (BOA), competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom, from 27 July to 12 August 2012 as the host nation and the team of selected athletes was officially known as Team GB. British athletes have competed at every Summer Ol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28580478 | 568,544 |
199,954 | Hipparchus (190–120 BCE), focusing on astronomy and mathematics, used sophisticated geometrical techniques to map the motion of the stars and planets, even predicting the times that Solar eclipses would happen. He added calculations of the distance of the Sun and Moon from the Earth, based upon his improvements to the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13758 | 199,851 |
259,966 | At the time it entered the fleet, the S-3 introduced an unprecedented level of systems integration. Previous ASW aircraft like the Lockheed P-3 Orion and S-3's predecessor, the Grumman S-2 Tracker, featured separate instrumentation and controls for each sensor system. Sensor operators often monitored paper traces, usin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29475 | 259,832 |
1,093,535 | Katz Ezov et al. presented evidence that in natural "S. cerevisiae" populations clonal reproduction and a type of “self-fertilization” (in the form of intratetrad mating) predominate. Ruderfer et al. analyzed the ancestry of natural "S. cerevisiae" strains and concluded that outcrossing occurs only about once every 50,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4350664 | 1,092,975 |
1,911,703 | Badè attended public schools but also studied with a private tutor. He grew up speaking English and German and learned Greek and Latin as a boy. He attended Moravian College and the associated seminary, earning his way by playing organ and giving music lessons, attaining AB and BD degrees. He was ordained at Bethlehem,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38524295 | 1,910,604 |
419,129 | Evidence from research and observations indicated that the conceptual models of Construction Management and the tools it utilizes (work breakdown structure, critical path method, and earned value management) fail to deliver projects 'on-time, at budget, and at desired quality' (Abdelhamid 2004). With recurring negative... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10098365 | 418,924 |
628,615 | The California Academy of Science green roof has several environmentally friendly features, as well as sustainable design. Renzo Piano was inspired by seven major hills of San Francisco, which typically refers to: Telegraph Hill, Nob Hill, Russian Hill, Rincon Hill, Mount Sutro, Twin Peaks and Mount Davidson. The livin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=498041 | 628,280 |
1,850,477 | Torquato is a world authority on the theory of random heterogeneous media. This area dates back to the work of James Clerk Maxwell, Lord Rayleigh and Einstein, and has important ramifications in the physical and biological sciences. Random media abound in nature and synthetic situations, and include composites, thin fi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38397364 | 1,849,416 |
1,652,952 | World War II was a crucial time for the university. At the beginning of the war, before the United States joined, the campus was not much affected and boasted 3,500 students. The only military related ventures were the establishment of the Naval ROTC in summer 1941 and contributions to military research done by the sci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33791684 | 1,652,020 |
443,877 | In early 1900s, Abraham formulated a generalization of Lorentz self-force to arbitrary velocities whose physical consistency was later shown by Schott. Schott was able to derive Abraham equation and attributed "acceleration energy" to be the source of energy of the electromagnetic radiation. Originally submitted as an ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3209246 | 443,662 |
856,134 | A lack of a kind of realism (understood here as asserting independent existence and evolution of physical quantities, such as position or momentum, without the process of measurement) is crucial in the Copenhagen interpretation. Realistic interpretations (which were already incorporated, to an extent, into the physics ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=211602 | 855,679 |
1,988,260 | Another criterion to search for analogue sites are locations where the exploration conditions of future astronauts can be simulated. Future explorers of the Moon or Mars will have to handle various conditions, such as reduced gravity, radiation, work in pressurized space suits and extreme temperatures. Preparing astron... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35469303 | 1,987,118 |
1,027,144 | The final goal pursued by the Vienna Circle was unified science, that is the construction of a "constitutive system" in which every legitimate statement is reduced to the concepts of lower level which refer directly to the given experience. "The endeavour is to link and harmonise the achievements of individual investig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=225873 | 1,026,610 |
1,932,021 | He was born in a bourgeois Serbian family in Tabán, a part of Buda inhabited mostly by Serbs. After the death of his parents he lived with his elder sister in Аrad, where he went to primary school and attended two years of gymnasium. Later he moved to Szeged and returned to his brother's house in Taban, in order to fin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3940233 | 1,930,913 |
410,691 | By 1869, when the pioneering Swiss ophthalmologist Johann Horner wrote a thesis entitled "On the treatment of keratoconus", the disorder had acquired its current name. The treatment at that time, endorsed by the leading German ophthalmologist Albrecht von Graefe, was an attempt to physically reshape the cornea by chemi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=252630 | 410,489 |
1,080,396 | The spawning behavior has significant consequences for captive breeding (see below). The celestial pearl danio appears to be adapted to somewhat ephemeral habitats. It does not have a dedicated spawning season, nor do the females lay continuously. Rather, they produce small batches of around 30 eggs per spawning episod... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9768862 | 1,079,840 |
1,713,347 | A global forecast model is a weather forecasting model which initializes and forecasts the weather throughout the Earth's troposphere. It is a computer program that produces meteorological information for future times at given locations and altitudes. Within any modern model is a set of equations, known as the primitiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30890995 | 1,712,381 |
206,898 | For the tomb of Jahan's late wife though, where the mausoleum is sited at the edge of the garden, there is a debate amongst scholars regarding why the traditional charbagh form has not been used. Ebba Koch suggests a variant of the charbagh was employed; that of the more secular waterfront garden found in Agra, adapted... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13325558 | 206,791 |
775,885 | The fact that the papillomavirus life cycle strictly requires keratinocyte differentiation has posed a substantial barrier to the study of papillomaviruses in the laboratory, since it has precluded the use of conventional cell lines to grow the viruses. Because infectious BPV-1 virions can be extracted from the large w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=606000 | 775,469 |
2,121,399 | Guru Nanak College is situated in outskirts of Budhlada city. To tribute the 500th birth anniversary of "Shri Guru Nanak Dev Ji", it was started in 1971 by eminet personalities of the city keeping in mind the noble cause to make education affordable and accessible to all people of Budhlada city. In beginning, it was un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52167964 | 2,120,180 |
2,087,823 | Bouchard is an Olympian and was a long time member of the women's Canadian National Swim Team. She reached semi-finals in both her individual events, i.e. the 100M and 200M backstroke (top ten overall finish in the 200M backstroke) at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games. Bouchard has a considerable amount of internat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46724754 | 2,086,621 |
1,226,495 | Electrokinetics have been exploited in bio-MEMS for separating mixtures of molecules and cells using electrical fields. In electrophoresis, a charged species in a liquid moves under the influence of an applied electric field. Electrophoresis has been used to fractionate small ions, charged organic molecules, proteins, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19081158 | 1,225,835 |
675 | The F-35's reliability and availability have fallen short of requirements, especially in the early years of testing. The ALIS maintenance and logistics system was plagued by excessive connectivity requirements and faulty diagnoses. In late 2017, the GAO reported the time needed to repair an F-35 part averaged 172 days,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11812 | 675 |
1,847,013 | Although preliminary experiments have shown a wide range of effects due to the magnetic field, the mechanism has not yet been elucidated. Having known that the delay of flowering is downregulating in cryptochrome related genes affected by the near-null magnetic field under blue light, cryptochrome is taking as a potent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60977793 | 1,845,956 |
1,576,717 | Prof. Greene contracted E. Waters & Sons, a firm in Troy known for boat manufacture, to work on the project. In 1878 they finished the paper observatory dome for the newly erected building. The construction method was almost identical to that used at the time for paper boats: thick linen paper was formed over a mold wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32133136 | 1,575,828 |
1,187,143 | Since the MIPS architecture is licensable, it has attracted several processor start-up companies over the years. One of the first start-ups to design MIPS processors was Quantum Effect Devices (see next section). The MIPS design team that designed the "R4300i" started the company SandCraft, which designed the "R5432" f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53839062 | 1,186,512 |
305,876 | In 1867, physician Theophilus Turner near Fort Wallace in Kansas uncovered a plesiosaur skeleton, which he donated to Cope. Cope attempted to reconstruct the animal on the assumption that the longer extremity of the vertebral column was the tail, the shorter one the neck. He soon noticed that the skeleton taking shape ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1398078 | 305,713 |
1,591,281 | After opening 8-0, Georgetown faced its first ranked opponent of the season on December 22, visiting No. 2 Memphis, the winner of 36 straight home games. The Hoyas led by as many as eight points in the first half – the last time was 35-27 with 4:40 left in the half – but the Tigers then began to make shots more consist... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14518554 | 1,590,386 |
837,292 | Early treatments of neural networks can be found in Herbert Spencer's "Principles of Psychology", 3rd edition (1872), Theodor Meynert's "Psychiatry" (1884), William James' "Principles of Psychology" (1890), and Sigmund Freud's Project for a Scientific Psychology (composed 1895). The first rule of neuronal learning was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1726672 | 836,843 |
1,908,633 | There are several factors that put people at higher risk of contracting Type 2 diabetes. Among these are obesity, lack of exercise, and aging. But, not everyone that becomes diabetic falls under these categories. However, what has become clear is that there are multiple loci which increase a person's susceptibility to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35839849 | 1,907,536 |
426,231 | From 1950 to 1956, he held a professorship at the University of Redlands, where he continued his X-ray research. Baez took leave for a year to work with UNESCO in 1951, and stationed his family in Baghdad to establish the physics department and laboratory at Baghdad University. In 1959, Baez accepted a faculty position... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2891853 | 426,023 |
207,314 | A number of manufacturers including Richard Bach, Richard Garrett & Sons, Charles Burrell & Sons and Clayton & Shuttleworth applied the Boydell patent under licence. The British military were interested in Boydell's invention from an early date. One of the objectives was to transport Mallet's Mortar, a giant 36 inch we... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=125371 | 207,207 |
382,519 | Motor imagery involves the imagination of the movement of various body parts resulting in sensorimotor cortex activation, which modulates sensorimotor oscillations in the EEG. This can be detected by the BCI to infer a user's intent. Motor imagery typically requires a number of sessions of training before acceptable co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=623686 | 382,324 |
1,223,333 | The affected infant tends to be short, with a disproportionately large head. The fetal head of infants born with iniencephaly are hyperextended while the foramen magnum is enlarged and opens through the widened pedicles. The defective neural arches directly into the upper cervical reach of the spinal canal, causing the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=232047 | 1,222,673 |
1,019,235 | Another approach to viewing the ways in which information is processed in humans was suggested by Jean Piaget in what is called the "Piaget's Cognitive Development Theory" (Presnell, 1999). Piaget developed his model based on development and growth. He identified four different stages between different age brackets cha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=315578 | 1,018,708 |
916,678 | Before the war, many observers believed the US and its allies could win but might suffer substantial casualties (certainly more than any conflict since Vietnam), and that the tank battles across the harsh desert might rival those of North Africa during World War II. After nearly 50 years of proxy wars, and constant fea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=161323 | 916,195 |
605,595 | The newspaper is an of the printing press from which the press derives its name. The 16th century sees a rising demand for up-to-date information which can not be covered effectively by the circulating hand-written newssheets. For "gaining time" from the slow copying process, Johann Carolus of Strassburg is the first t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9240851 | 605,285 |
1,892,098 | Nozick views human rationality as an evolutionary adaptation. Its delimited purpose and function may be responsible for biases and blind spots, possibly accounting for philosophy's difficulty with perennial questions that are remote from the exigencies that drive natural selection. He offers a reformulation of the deci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6980744 | 1,891,015 |
1,913,078 | The squadron became part of Twelfth Air Force in August 1943 and continued to support the British Eighth Army by attacking troop concentrations, gun positions, bridges, roads, and rail lines in southern Italy. It operated in the area of the Anzio beachhead from January to March 1944. The unit participated in the drive ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22954465 | 1,911,979 |
1,228,087 | Cosmic noise, also known as galactic radio noise, is not actually sound, but a physical phenomenon derived from outside of the Earth's atmosphere. It can be detected through a radio receiver, which is an electronic device that receives radio waves and converts the information given by them to an audible form. Its chara... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40969 | 1,227,425 |
1,059,746 | Cyclic molecules often exist in much more rigid conformations than their linear counterparts. Even very large macrocycles like erythromycin exist in defined geometries despite having many degrees of freedom. Because of these properties, it is often easier to achieve asymmetric induction with macrocyclic substrates rath... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4879260 | 1,059,195 |
173,953 | In recent years, a simplified "Shake 'n Bake" one-pot synthesis has become more popular. The method is suitable for such small batches that pseudoephedrine restrictions are less effective, it uses chemicals that are easier to obtain (though no less dangerous than traditional methods), and it is so easy to carry out tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40542151 | 173,862 |
1,363,453 | Archaeologists use petrography to identify mineral components in pottery. This information ties the artifacts to geological areas where the raw materials for the pottery were obtained. In addition to clay, potters often used rock fragments, usually called "temper" or "aplastics", to modify the clay's properties. The ge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=894729 | 1,362,700 |
174,342 | Separation procedure of einsteinium depends on the synthesis method. In the case of light-ion bombardment inside a cyclotron, the heavy ion target is attached to a thin foil, and the generated einsteinium is simply washed off the foil after the irradiation. However, the produced amounts in such experiments are relative... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9479 | 174,251 |
1,474,897 | The Caltech nuclear physicist William Alfred Fowler used his sabbatical leave to visit Hoyle in Cambridge from 1954 to 1955. The pair invited Margaret Burbidge and Geoffrey Burbidge to join them in Cambridge, as the couple had recently published extensive work on stellar abundances that would be required to test Hoyle'... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12317945 | 1,474,065 |
1,375,912 | A little farther from the Treasury, at the foot of the mountain called "en-Nejr", is a massive theatre, positioned so as to bring the greatest number of tombs within view. At the point where the valley opens out into the plain, the site of the city is revealed with striking effect. The theatre was cut into the hillside... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42585943 | 1,375,151 |
719,079 | The first documentation of human reaction time as a scientific variable would come several centuries later, from practical concerns that arose in the field of astronomy. In 1820, German astronomer Friedrich Bessel applied himself to the problem of accuracy in recording stellar transits, which was typically done by usin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4778196 | 718,699 |
425,169 | The Johnson Center for Science and Community Life was opened in September 2014. The expansion cost $57 million largely funded by Nancy and G. Timothy Johnson in a capital campaign named "Campaign North Park". The Johnson Center is considered a "state-of-the-art" addition to North Park University's science programs and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=512421 | 424,961 |
1,052,402 | According to the China Greentech Report 2009, jointly issued by the PricewaterhouseCoopers and American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai and released on 10 Sept in Dalian, China, the estimated size of China's green technology market could be between US$500 billion and US$1 trillion annually, or as much as 15 percent of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16017389 | 1,051,856 |
2,208,333 | "Epichrysocharis burwelli" larvae create small reddish or brownish galls on both sides of the leaves of "Corymbia citriodora", showing no preference for any side of the leaf. Each gall produces a "blister" on either side of the leaf. When the adult emerges it creates a round hole in the centre of the gall. The galls ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54335661 | 2,207,075 |
1,417,534 | The peace of 1815, however, changed his career. At the age of twenty-one De la Beche joined the Geological Society of London. He became an avid fossil collector and illustrator, collaborating with William Conybeare on an important paper on ichthyosaur and plesiosaur anatomy that was presented before the Society in 1821... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=373387 | 1,416,735 |
95,212 | Popper said that he was a socialist for "several years", and maintained an interest in egalitarianism, but abandoned it as a whole because socialism was a "beautiful dream", but, just like egalitarianism, it was incompatible with individual liberty. Popper initially saw totalitarianism as exclusively right-wing in natu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16623 | 95,171 |
373,087 | NAS is useful for more than just general centralized storage provided to client computers in environments with large amounts of data. NAS can enable simpler and lower cost systems such as load-balancing and fault-tolerant email and web server systems by providing storage services. The potential emerging market for NAS ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=451995 | 372,892 |
237,960 | The Michael DeGroote School of Medicine has notably developed admission tests adopted by other schools. In 2001, they developed the multiple-mini interview to address long-standing concerns over standard panel interviews; viewed as poor reflectors for medical school performance. This format uses short, independent asse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=342555 | 237,841 |
1,359,689 | Another important use of heterologous expression is to screen different drugs in a host system rather than a more expensive or difficult to sustain native system. An example of this would be using Mycobacterium marinum as an alternative host system compared to directly using Mycobacterium tuberculosis. M. tuberculosis ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29071957 | 1,358,938 |
1,916,076 | He toured South Africa in 1964/65, taking three wickets in the Test at Johannesburg, but was struck down by a back injury in 1965. He returned to form and fitness in style in 1966, taking 94 wickets at 18.74 and bagging 8 for 48, the best bowling figures of his career, against Derbyshire at Lord's. After England had lo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3726623 | 1,914,977 |
1,550,492 | The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia witnesses exceptional progress in many fields such as health and science. King Saud University's College of Medicine was established in 1967 during the reign of King Faisal. Actual studies began in 1969. The choice of members for the Teaching Board and the supervision of exams until 1978 wer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40914663 | 1,549,611 |
1,947,678 | Each member institution furnishes a "faculty representative" to the "Centro"; from these, four are elected by the institutional representatives to sit on a governing board called the Managing Committee, with a fifth member provided by Duke University, which provides administrative services to the ICCS. The Managing Com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3275244 | 1,946,565 |
1,244,437 | The importance of perlecan to mammalian development is demonstrated by perlecan gene knockout experiments. Nearly half of all mice in which the perlecan gene has been knocked out (perlecan null mice) die at embryonic day 10.5, when the perlecan gene normally starts to be expressed. Others die just after birth with seve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4328716 | 1,243,764 |
962,471 | In 1900, Hendrik Lorentz tried to explain gravity on the basis of his ether theory and the Maxwell equations. After proposing (and rejecting) a Le Sage type model, he assumed like Ottaviano-Fabrizio Mossotti and Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner that the attraction of opposite charged particles is stronger than the repulsi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13478488 | 961,962 |
110,273 | A second-generation approach to controlled fusion power involves combining helium-3 and deuterium. This reaction produces a helium-4 ion () (like an alpha particle, but of different origin) and a high-energy proton (positively charged hydrogen ion). The most important potential advantage of this fusion reaction for pow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14380 | 110,228 |
1,945,199 | The common bent-wing bat can be found in the following countries: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cameroon, China, Croatia, possibly Ethiopia, France, Georgia, Gibraltar, Greece, Guinea, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Japan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40538690 | 1,944,087 |
1,785,443 | Sordaria fimicola is a species of microscopic fungus. It is commonly found in the feces of herbivores. "Sordaria fimicola" is often used in introductory biology and mycology labs because it is easy to grow on nutrient agar in dish cultures. The genus "Sordaria", closely related to "Neurospora and Podospora", is a membe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1301158 | 1,784,439 |
775,478 | The Pinaceae, or pine family, are conifer trees or shrubs, including many of the well-known conifers of commercial importance such as cedars, firs, hemlocks, larches, pines and spruces. The family is included in the order Pinales, formerly known as Coniferales. Pinaceae are supported as monophyletic by their protein-ty... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=312940 | 775,062 |
1,198,432 | The Royal Aircraft Factory conducted spinning tests on the type, concluding that the R.E.8 was quite hard to spin and recovered easily; but the fin was redesigned with slightly increased area to improve spin recovery. The modification resulted in the production version being no less stable than the B.E.2e; and while th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1001363 | 1,197,791 |
398,888 | In January, he won the Category 20 2020 Tata Steel Masters with a round to spare, scoring 10/13 (+7–0=6), two points ahead of second-placed Magnus Carlsen. As a result, he reached a rating of 2842 on the February FIDE rating list, his highest since October 2014. As the runner-up of the 2018 World Championship, Caruana ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10837948 | 398,690 |
322,713 | Despite Dvořák's newfound success, a February 1888 performance of Stabat Mater in Vienna fell victim to more anti-Czech feeling and what the composer called "destructive criticism". He heartily thanked Richter for his "courage and devoted sympathy". In 1890, influenced by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Dvořák also visited R... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=76572 | 322,541 |
16,095 | Soon after, Nash learned from Paul Garabedian, recently returned from Italy, that the then-unknown Ennio De Giorgi had found nearly identical results for elliptic partial differential equations. De Giorgi and Nash's methods had little to do with one another, although Nash's were somewhat more powerful in applying to bo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=102567 | 16,090 |
30,254 | Mosquito nets help keep mosquitoes away from people and reduce infection rates and transmission of malaria. Nets are not a perfect barrier and are often treated with an insecticide designed to kill the mosquito before it has time to find a way past the net. Insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) are estimated to be twice as e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20423 | 30,244 |
1,149,168 | Prior to recent technological advances, most health data were collected within health care systems. As individuals move through health care systems, they interact with health care providers and this interaction produces health information. These touch points include, clinics/physician offices, pharmacies, payers/insura... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55565558 | 1,148,561 |
1,880,287 | Juniperus maritima is a species of juniper known by the common name seaside juniper. It is native to the central Salish Sea region in southwestern British Columbia and northwestern Washington, where it is an endemic species and is abundant on coast bluffs as well as on dry mountain ridges on the Olympic Peninsula. It w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30217129 | 1,879,206 |
2,182,612 | Tauschia howellii is a rare species of flowering plant in the carrot family known by the common names Howell's umbrellawort and Howell's tauschia. It is endemic to the Klamath Mountains of far southern Oregon and far northern California, where it is limited to nine occurrences in the Siskiyou Mountains. It grows in mou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29024484 | 2,181,365 |
1,243,988 | ASP has similar pharmacological activation to murine "agouti", as melanocortin receptors are inhibited through competitive antagonism. Inhibition of melanocortin by ASP can also be through non-competitive methods, broadening its range of effects. The function of ASP differs to murine "agouti". ASP effects the quality o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5509325 | 1,243,315 |
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