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1,297,691 | There are approximately 3,200 undergraduates in the College of Engineering, representing all departments. Undergraduate admissions to the College of Engineering is the most selective in the university as a whole. For the 2016-2017 application cycle, the acceptance rate has continued to stay at a low 6.4%, largely a res... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=367361 | 1,296,979 |
1,691,827 | Crudely described the purpose of the operation is to break the connection between the patient’s thoughts and his emotions. It is to relieve the connection between the patient’s thoughts and his emotions. It is to relieve mental tension, to take the sting out of experience and thus to favour improvement or to hasten rec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16036540 | 1,690,876 |
1,474,022 | The conflict fell into three broad phases. During the initial phase following the fall of France in 1940 and the establishment of Japanese bases in France's Far Eastern colonial territories, Thailand opened up an air offensive along the Mekong frontier, attacking Vientiane, Sisophon, and Battambang with relative impuni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2938344 | 1,473,191 |
462,076 | An SNP array is a useful tool for studying slight variations between whole genomes. The most important clinical applications of SNP arrays are for determining disease susceptibility and for measuring the efficacy of drug therapies designed specifically for individuals. In research, SNP arrays are most frequently used f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5293306 | 461,847 |
1,864,886 | Research in the Zandstra Laboratory is focused on the regeneration of functional tissues from stem cells, and the development and utilization of tools to modulate the responses of stem cells "in vitro" and "in vivo". Interest in the generation of primary cells and tissues "ex vivo" is driven both by their potential use... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8316030 | 1,863,814 |
133,372 | Bosch superseded the D-Jetronic system with the "K-Jetronic" and "L-Jetronic" multi-point injection systems for 1973, though some cars (such as the Volvo 164) continued using D-Jetronic for the following several years. The L-Jetronic uses a mechanical airflow meter (L for Luft, German for "air") that produces a signal ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37161 | 133,319 |
1,658,970 | Born in Delaware, Ohio, Rowland received a majority of his education in public schools and, due to accelerated promotion was able to graduate high school several weeks before his 16th birthday. In the summers during his high school career, Frank was entrusted to run the local weather service station. This was Rowland's... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=637217 | 1,658,037 |
725,633 | Once thought of as a refutation to evolutionary theory, atavisms are "now seen as potent evidence of how much genetic potential is retained...after a particular structure has disappeared from a species". "Atavisms are the reappearance of a lost character typical of remote ancestors and not seen in the parents or recent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2339577 | 725,252 |
1,537,717 | The Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA) is a standardized testing initiative in United States higher educational evaluation and assessment. It uses a "value-added" outcome model to examine a college or university's contribution to student learning which relies on the institution, rather than the individual student, as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8708164 | 1,536,845 |
1,678,535 | In the long term, many paroxysmal symptoms occur along with AHC, and while these symptoms vary in strength depending on the person, they are consistent features of AHC. It is thought that some of these symptoms are brought on or worsened by hemiplegic attacks, though it is not known for certain. Patients suffer persist... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7202374 | 1,677,592 |
1,511,537 | One of the first abnormalities that may be detected is coarsening of the facial features; these symptoms can begin at 3–6 months of age. Skeletal abnormalities occur by about age 6 months, but may not be clinically obvious until 10–14 months. Patients may experience debilitating spine and hip deformities, carpal tunnel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25733404 | 1,510,687 |
1,113,302 | The Miles Master was a tandem-seat low-wing cantilever monoplane, powered by a single reciprocating engine. Initial models used the Kestrel XXX engine; capable of providing up to 745 hp (555 kW), this powerplant enabled the aircraft to achieve a maximum speed of 296 mph (477 km/h), which reportedly made the Master as f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=534705 | 1,112,736 |
1,682,077 | The earliest "documented" evidence of Mozart's connection with Stadler dates from a year or two later. The clarinetist's playing evoked the following response in Johann Friedrich Schink's "Litterarische Fragmente": My thanks to you, brave virtuoso! I have never heard the like of what you contrived with your instrument.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=219080 | 1,681,134 |
105,010 | The definitions focus on the process more than the product, which means there could be GMOS and non-GMOs with very similar genotypes and phenotypes. This has led scientists to label it as a scientifically meaningless category, saying that it is impossible to group all the different types of GMOs under one common defini... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12339 | 104,965 |
1,965,727 | The ability to better characterize and quantify safety margin holds the key to improved decision making about LWR design, operation, and plant life extension. A systematic approach to characterization of safety margins represents a vital input to the licensee and regulatory analysis and decision making that will be inv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23379149 | 1,964,598 |
1,407,135 | In spite of its straitened circumstances, with Illumina as one of its owners the company could still receive the latest sequencing machines and reagents. In 2011, deCODE and Illumina collaborated on a paper that gave an early hint at the power of WGS imputation, turning 500 sequences into 40,000 whole genomes of data. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1494572 | 1,406,345 |
120,059 | Will Mulcaster argued that while much research and creative thought has been devoted to generating alternative strategies, too little work has been done on what influences the quality of strategic decision making and the effectiveness with which strategies are implemented. For instance, in retrospect it can be seen tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=239450 | 120,010 |
789,989 | Three fresh brigades were moved up to the Red Line by 9:30 a.m., 10 April to support the advance whereupon they leapfrogged existing units occupying the Red line and advanced to the Blue Line. By approximately 11:00 a.m., the Blue Line, including Hill 135 and the town of Thélus, had been captured. The advance briefly h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5567596 | 789,564 |
98,366 | Khambatta also faced difficulties during filming. She refused to appear nude as called for in the script during the Ilia probe's appearance. The producers got her to agree to wear a thin skin-colored body stocking, but she caught a cold as a result of the shower mist, created by dropping dry ice into warm water and fun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=277006 | 98,324 |
1,463,056 | "Galileo" was not launched until 17 October 1989, on STS-34 using the IUS. The spacecraft took six years to reach Jupiter instead of two, as it had to fly by Venus and Earth twice to garner enough speed to reach Jupiter. The delay jeopardized the mission. When JPL tried to use "Galileo"s high gain antenna, it was found... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65467235 | 1,462,233 |
1,986,252 | The NPOI is an astronomical interferometer laid out in a three-arm "Y" configuration, with each equally-spaced arm measuring long. There are two types of stations that can be used in the NPOI. Astrometric stations, used to measure the positions of celestial objects very accurately, are fixed units placed apart, with on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1517197 | 1,985,111 |
242,626 | In 2007, the company produced and shipped its first product, an enterprise firewall. In 2009, Gartner released a publication defining the next-generation firewall. In contrast to traditional firewalls of the time which relied on simple rules such as port numbers and protocol to block traffic, the authors stated that ne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37486268 | 242,499 |
2,247,679 | NGC 4178 is the "New General Catalogue" identifier for a barred spiral galaxy in the equatorial constellation of Virgo. It was discovered April 11, 1825 by English astronomer John Herschel. Located some 43.8 million light years away, this galaxy spans arc minutes and is seen at a low angle, being inclined by 77° to the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48732137 | 2,246,407 |
794,707 | The hypothesis that the bumps along the ulna represented muscular insertion points or ridges was subsequently examined, and the results presented, at the 2015 meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. Elena Cuesta Fidalgo, along with two of the researchers who initially described "Concavenator" (Ortega and San... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28752234 | 794,282 |
355,062 | Many groups continued their hunter-gatherer ways of life, although their numbers have continually declined, partly as a result of pressure from growing agricultural and pastoral communities. Many of them reside in the developing world, either in arid regions or tropical forests. Areas that were formerly available to hu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=210098 | 354,879 |
729,931 | Matthias Rath has been extensively criticized for presenting his vitamin supplements as a treatment for AIDS and for testing them in illegal trials in South Africa. A former associate of Linus Pauling, Rath has promoted vitamins as a treatment for HIV infection, describing treatment with effective antiretroviral drugs ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=327995 | 729,547 |
947,995 | Wagner et al. developed two object recognition algorithms especially designed with the limitations of current mobile phones in mind. In contrast to the classic SIFT approach, Wagner et al. use the FAST corner detector for feature detection. The algorithm also distinguishes between the off-line preparation phase where f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1208345 | 947,491 |
540,144 | Notoungulata is an extinct order of mammalian ungulates that inhabited South America from the early Paleocene to the Holocene, living from approximately 61 million to 11,000 years ago. Notoungulates were morphologically diverse, with forms resembling animals as disparate as rabbits and rhinoceroses. Notoungulata are th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2274270 | 539,864 |
893,461 | 2006: the Lexus LS introduced an advanced pre-collision system (APCS), added a twin-lens stereo camera located on the windshield, and a more sensitive radar to detect smaller "soft" objects such as animals and pedestrians. A near-infrared projector located in the headlights allows the system to work at night. With the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18012843 | 892,991 |
1,358,089 | After World War II, with the policies of the Roosevelt Administration, economic boom of the 1950s, and rise in Federalism, public projects became financed through direct government funding. Additionally, the federal government began setting criteria and procedures for architects and engineers to comply on federal const... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29332110 | 1,357,339 |
1,049,735 | Before the start of the Pacific War on 7 December 1941, "Kasuga Maru" had made two voyages to Formosa and Palau, including one ferrying Mitsubishi A5M (Allied reporting name: "Claude") fighters to Palau just days before the beginning of the war. In between transport missions, the ship trained naval aviators. Shortly af... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9287958 | 1,049,189 |
2,102,832 | His wartime experience had shown him the importance of the British Red Cross Society and he was instrumental in founding the Edinburgh branch and was to become its Honorary Secretary or Chairman for more than 30 years. In 1908 he joined the recently formed Territorial Force, and, along with several other RIE surgeons, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61157259 | 2,101,620 |
1,448,586 | Debate continued through 1950s, gradually becoming a central focus of population genetics. A 1958 study of "Drosophila" by Wallace suggested that radiation-induced mutations "increased" the viability of previously homozygous flies, providing evidence for heterozygote advantage and the balance position; Wallace estimate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11863361 | 1,447,770 |
1,186,689 | The PSP was designed by for the Sony Computer Entertainment subsidiary of Sony Corporation. Early models pre-installed with 1.xx firmware were made in Japan but in order to cut costs, Sony has farmed out PSP production to non-Japanese manufacturers, mainly in China for units pre-installed with firmware version 2.00 and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16354585 | 1,186,060 |
930,948 | People with this condition in the brain may or may not experience symptoms. Some complications of the condition are life-threatening or cause major disruptions to normal functioning. Dangerous seizures due to compression of the brain, bleeding inside the brain tissue, vision problems, difficulty with speaking or using ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36135963 | 930,457 |
542,907 | The published portfolio contained 19 by 24 inch plates in 36 by 36-inch frames, numbered from 1 to 781 in an order mostly based on types of movement (starting with "Walking" followed by "Walking and turning around", "Starting for a run", "Running", et cetera). The plates came in eleven categorized volumes with title pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70173577 | 542,627 |
650,617 | Lenski chose to carry out the experiment with the bacteria grown in a glucose-limited medium called DM25, which is based on a minimal medium developed by Bernard Davis for use in isolating auxotrophic mutants of "E. coli" using penicillin as a selective agent. To make DM25, the minimal medium is supplemented with a low... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17998857 | 650,276 |
1,440,181 | Glasersfeld was born in Munich, where his father, Leopold, worked as a cultural attaché in Vienna before going into photography after World War I. He was a student of mathematics at the University of Vienna before having to move out because of the Nazi threat, considering that his Pan-European family (they subscribed t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1404267 | 1,439,371 |
1,656,152 | The cap is initially convex when young, but in maturity flattens out, usually with a shallow central depression; the margin is often inrolled. The cap ranges from white to light gray or yellow. It has a characteristic feel similar to the touch of chamois skin, usually being dry, but is sticky when moist. It measures in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15428823 | 1,655,219 |
849,105 | In the late twentieth century, oral cholera vaccines started to be used on a massive scale, with millions of vaccinations taking place, as a tool to control cholera outbreaks in addition to the traditional interventions of improving safe water supplies, sanitation, handwashing and other means of improving hygiene. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21053458 | 848,655 |
873,997 | Throughout this period, some coastal regions, and all of southern Italy, remained under Byzantine or Lombard control. The Imperial authority never extended much south of the Italian Peninsula. Southern Italy was divided amongst the two Lombards duchies of Spoleto and Benevento, who accepted Charlemagne's suzerainty onl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1161280 | 873,535 |
2,049,732 | His first year of university level education was spent studying Electrical Engineering at Zürich's ETH (Technology Institute) during 1983/84. He then switched to the University of Bern where he studied Physical Chemistry between 1984 and 1989, receiving his first degree on 25 May 1989 in exchange for a dissertation ent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67732896 | 2,048,551 |
2,085,405 | The development of facile chemical glycosylation protocols is essential to synthesizing complex oligosaccharides. Among many diverse type of glycosidic linkages, the 1,2-"cis"-β-glycoside, which exists in many biologically relevant glycoconjugates and oligosaccharides, is arguably one of the most difficult to synthesiz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22483052 | 2,084,204 |
1,348,420 | Since the Earth bulges at the equator and mountains and deep oceanic trenches allow for deviations of several kilometers relative to an uniformly smooth spheroid, cosmic-rays bombard the Earth's surface unevenly based on the latitude and altitude. Thus, many geographic and geologic considerations must be understood in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4154187 | 1,347,678 |
409,208 | A worldwide search is on for cheap processes to sequester CO by mineral reactions, called enhanced weathering. Removal by reactions with olivine is an attractive option, because it is widely available and reacts easily with the (acid) CO from the atmosphere. When olivine is crushed, it weathers completely within a few ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45159 | 409,006 |
833,579 | With the "Anschluss", Germany's unification with Austria on 12 March 1938, Meitner lost her Austrian citizenship. James Franck offered to sponsor her immigration to the United States, and Bohr offered a temporary place at his institute, but when she went to the Danish embassy for a visa, she was told that Denmark no lo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64011351 | 833,130 |
1,993,474 | Tantalum(IV) sulfide is an inorganic compound with the formula TaS. It is a layered compound with three-coordinate sulfide centres and trigonal prismatic or octahedral metal centres. It is structurally similar to molybdenum disulfide MoS, and numerous other transition metal dichalcogenide materials. The 1T-TaS polytype... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5445341 | 1,992,331 |
1,760,266 | DNA sequencing and fossil records have derived evidence that this mutualistic relationship between fungi and plants is extremely ancient. It is even suggested that different subspecies of fungi have played major roles in shaping the plants immune system in the early evolutionary moments of plants colonizing land. Speci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49336567 | 1,759,273 |
1,593,089 | In many applications the positive semi-definite inner product formula_38 depends on the chosen fundamental decomposition, which is, in general, not unique. But it may be demonstrated (e. g., cf. Proposition 1.1 and 1.2 in the paper of H. Langer below) that any two metric operators formula_5 and formula_67 compatible wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5571012 | 1,592,192 |
276,528 | Over a series of long-distance phone calls, Meitner and Frisch came up with a simple experiment to bolster their claim: to measure the recoil of the fission fragments, using a Geiger counter with the threshold set above that of the alpha particles. Frisch conducted the experiment on 13 February, and found the pulses ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18070 | 276,378 |
167,612 | In 1967 Lotus introduced the Lotus 49, powered by the Ford-Cosworth DFV V-8 engine that was to dominate Formula One for the next decade. Like the Repco the Cosworth was light and compact but it was a real racing engine using 4-valve DOHC heads and delivered much more power. Cosworth had aimed for and exceeded this when... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=640098 | 167,525 |
1,651,395 | The General Duty Clause of the Occupational Safety and Health Act requires all employers to keep their workplace free of serious recognized hazards. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration also has recording and reporting requirements for occupational injuries and illness under for businesses with more than 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53376859 | 1,650,463 |
60,035 | In 1995, Sampson noted that earlier studies had found that the horns and frills of ceratopsians most likely had a function in intraspecific display and combat, and that these features would therefore have resulted from sexual selection for successful mating. Likewise, in 1997 Horner concluded that such ornamentation wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1792493 | 60,010 |
1,632,598 | The female mosquito lays a raft of eggs on the surface of water. The larval and pupal stages of the life cycle take place under water, but after metamorphosis, adults of both sexes leave the water and visit flowers to feed on nectar. Before it starts to breed, the female mosquito needs a meal of vertebrate blood to pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61043927 | 1,631,676 |
789,395 | An evaluation of an individual's abilities, limitations and communication needs is necessary to select appropriate AAC techniques. The purpose of the assessment is to identify potential AAC approaches that can bridge discrepancies between a potential user's current communication and their present and future communicati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2106968 | 788,971 |
46,739 | The theory of more sophisticated mean-field type particle Monte Carlo methods had certainly started by the mid-1960s, with the work of Henry P. McKean Jr. on Markov interpretations of a class of nonlinear parabolic partial differential equations arising in fluid mechanics. We also quote an earlier pioneering article by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56098 | 46,721 |
843,676 | Integrated circuit design involves the creation of electronic components, such as transistors, resistors, capacitors and the interconnection of these components onto a piece of semiconductor, typically silicon. A method to isolate the individual components formed in the substrate is necessary since the substrate silico... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2951035 | 843,226 |
967,286 | A first scheme, initiated by Lesseps, was immediately drawn out by two French engineers who were in the Egyptian service, Louis Maurice Adolphe Linant de Bellefonds called "Linant Bey" and Mougel Bey. This project, differing from others that were previously presented or that were in opposition to it, provided for a dir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=314522 | 966,776 |
403,702 | Gearbox's Randy Pitchford said that the idea of "Borderlands" was inspired both being an avid role-playing game (RPG) fan, including roguelikes such as "NetHack" and action role-playing games like "Ultima" and "Diablo", and being drawn into first-person shooters (FPS) that he worked on in his early career, including "D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12785426 | 403,502 |
1,035,059 | NPC cultures are especially difficult to work with because live brain cells are sensitive and tend to contaminate each other. In order to get clearer results, labs need cleaner materials, meaning more pure NPC lines. A study done in 2019 (with the funding support of New York Stem Cell Foundation and the Association for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22327978 | 1,034,519 |
1,873,741 | The James Bay hydroelectric project, dubbed by then-premier Robert Bourassa as Quebec's "Project of the Century", would earn the company national recognition and set the stage for the Dessau's international expansion. With a generating capacity of 16,000 MW and spanning an area the size of New York State, James Bay fea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28236970 | 1,872,664 |
1,566,074 | "Urania propitia" had a lasting effect in the world of astronomy, inspiring her fellow astronomers and correspondents to eliminate errors and eir on the side of simplicity when deriving calculations. However, a fire broke out in the streets of Byczyna, Poland and destroyed Maria Cunitz and her husband Elias von Löwen's... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1098952 | 1,565,187 |
630,148 | In April 2019, GBRf announced that the locomotives would be rebuilt as Class 69s by Progress Rail at its Longport facility. The rebuild scheme involves the replacement of the original Ruston-Paxman RK3 engine with the EMD 710 powerplant, while newer electronic control systems based on those present on the were also ins... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60015502 | 629,810 |
1,520,933 | One of the most important traits for nanoparticle delivery systems is that they must be biodegradable on the scale of a few days. A few common polymer materials used for drug delivery studies are polybutyl cyanoacrylate (PBCA), poly(isohexyl cyanoacrylate) (PIHCA), polylactic acid (PLA), or polylactide-co-glycolide (PL... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41086554 | 1,520,072 |
1,818,663 | Anthropogenic climate change is likely to cause significant changes in subglacial stream systems. As glacial melting increases as a result of rising global temperatures, water flux into and discharge from subglacial streams increases as well. Greater water input from surface melting may affect the hydrology of subglaci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31213939 | 1,817,628 |
100,885 | Beginning in the late 1960s, the United Kingdom operated four s, each armed with sixteen US-built UGM-27 Polaris missiles. The Polaris missile was supplied to Britain following the terms of the 1963 Polaris Sales Agreement. This nuclear deterrent system was known as the UK Polaris programme. In the early 1980s the Brit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69933 | 100,840 |
1,726,486 | The fourth phase of activity began one million years ago when the Cordilleran Ice Sheet retreated from the upper flanks of the adjacent lava plateau, creating Mount Edziza proper which is the most northerly of the four central volcanoes. It is a steep-sided stratovolcano and the largest and highest of the peaks that fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19294556 | 1,725,515 |
828,635 | The college also has well-equipped physics, chemistry and biotechnology laboratories to support the requirements of their respective departments; the Mass Communication and Videography department has a video library to assist its film students. The Central Library, spread over two floors, houses reference books from a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1336766 | 828,189 |
1,974,580 | The increase in precipitation increases external loading of organic matter, nutrients and sediments in lakes. Moreover, increased discharge events promoted by increased rainfall can also alter mixing dynamics and cause physical flushing of organisms. While lower precipitation associated with high evaporation rates also... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59168336 | 1,973,443 |
706,908 | The anti-aircraft fire control problem was more complicated because it had the additional requirement of tracking the target in elevation and making target predictions in three dimensions. The outputs of the Mark 1A were the same (gun bearing and elevation), except fuze time was added. The fuze time was needed because ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21169396 | 706,539 |
592,126 | Researchers predict an average yield of 14.6 dry tonnes per hectare per year for miscanthus on marginal land in China, 12.6% below expected average yield on arable land. They calculate that miscanthus on marginal land in China can produce 31.7 EJ (exajoule) of energy annually, an amount equivalent to 39% of the country... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8202316 | 591,824 |
1,275,880 | The more widely studied approach is magnetic confinement. Since the plasma is electrically charged, it will follow magnetic lines of force and a suitable arrangement of fields can keep the fuel away from the container walls. The fuel is then heated over an extended period until some of the fuel in the tail starts under... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61634889 | 1,275,187 |
331,461 | Increasing levels of nitrogen deposition are shown to have a number of negative effects on both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Nitrogen gases and aerosols can be directly toxic to certain plant species, affecting the aboveground physiology and growth of plants near large point sources of nitrogen pollution. Change... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59414 | 331,284 |
100,557 | In the United States, biotin is promoted as a dietary supplement for strengthening hair and fingernails, though scientific data supporting these outcomes in humans are very weak. A review of the fingernails literature reported brittle nail improvement as evidence from two pre-1990 clinical trials that had administered ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54118 | 100,512 |
1,279,427 | This fungus is characterized by a fruiting body (technically an apothecia) with a pinkish-purple color and more or less gelatinous consistency. The apothecia, typically in diameter, start with a roughly spherical shape, then eventually flatten out to become shallowly cup-shaped with a wavy edge and smooth upper surface... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23267768 | 1,278,732 |
210,812 | A scanning tunneling microscope (STM) is a type of microscope used for imaging surfaces at the atomic level. Its development in 1981 earned its inventors, Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer, then at IBM Zürich, the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986. STM senses the surface by using an extremely sharp conducting tip that can d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27774 | 210,705 |
1,743,805 | The university has 16 teaching schools (departments), 1 independent college and 1 continuous education college and enrolls students from 31 provinces (municipalities and autonomous regions) in China. It now has a registered full-time undergraduates of over 30,000 PhD and Master's degree candidates of around 4,700. It s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20503591 | 1,742,821 |
1,902,018 | Grazier is a frequent public speaker about science, space, technology, and the portrayal of science and scientists by the entertainment industry. He has spoken to K-12 and college classes, given commencement addresses, spoken at film festivals, and gave a TEDx talk about the search for life in the Solar System. In 2011... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46885105 | 1,900,928 |
1,857,163 | A site for the dwelling was secured by digging a drift into the steep hillside and piling the excavated earth and stone out in front until a terrace large enough to accommodate the projected house had been provided. The floor area was scooped out to shallow saucer shape—in this case 9 m. in diameter—and coated with mud... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33434432 | 1,856,095 |
1,720,808 | Five hundred and ninety-nine students formed a committee to collect petition signatures in the spring of 1958, assisted by the Alumni Association and the "Citizens for Arizona State University" led by Walter Craig and John B. Mills. They needed 28,859 valid signatures, but by July 1 they had collected 63,956 signatures... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15831397 | 1,719,838 |
1,071,339 | Eric W. Weisstein, the creator of the site, was a physics and astronomy student who got into the habit of writing notes on his mathematical readings. In 1995 he put his notes online and called it "Eric's Treasure Trove of Mathematics." It contained hundreds of pages/articles, covering a wide range of mathematical topic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=374235 | 1,070,785 |
961,916 | In 2001, scientists challenged 950 Vietnamese farmers to try IPM. In one plot, each farmer grew rice using their usual amounts of seed and fertilizer, applying pesticide as they chose. In a nearby plot, less seed and fertilizer were used and no pesticides were applied for 40 days after planting. Yields from the experim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=420764 | 961,407 |
1,772,425 | A chemical structure can be represented by a bond network of the kind familiar in molecular diagrams. The infinitely connected bond networks found in crystals can be simplified into finite networks by extracting one formula unit and reconnecting any broken bonds to each other. If the bond network is not known, a plausi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5094808 | 1,771,428 |
1,628,218 | Synthetic genetic array analysis (SGA) is a high-throughput technique for exploring synthetic lethal and synthetic sick genetic interactions (SSL). SGA allows for the systematic construction of double mutants using a combination of recombinant genetic techniques, mating and selection steps. Using SGA methodology a quer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18844051 | 1,627,299 |
1,415,563 | Schölkopf studied mathematics, physics, and philosophy in Tübingen and London. He was supported by the Studienstiftung and won the Lionel Cooper Memorial Prize for the best M.Sc. in Mathematics at the University of London. He completed a Diplom in Physics, and then moved to Bell Labs in New Jersey, where he worked with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1368665 | 1,414,766 |
359,485 | In 1923, Dirac graduated, once again with first class honours, and received a £140 scholarship from the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. Along with his £70 scholarship from St John's College, this was enough to live at Cambridge. There, Dirac pursued his interests in the theory of general relativity, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24742 | 359,298 |
1,945,562 | Life Length is Spain’s most accredited laboratory as it holds the relevant Spanish licenses but is also Spain’s only U.S. Federally-accredited laboratory under CLIA as well as ISO 15189 certified. Life Length offers its services in three primary fields: for B2B clients in the pharmaceutical, biotech, nutraceutical and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54715525 | 1,944,450 |
1,964,052 | Basudeb DasSarma was born in Barisal in East Bengal now Bangladesh on early January 1923. His parents were Ashutosh DasSarma, an ayurvedic physician ("kaviraj") and an active Indian independence movement activist and Surabala DasSarma. He started his education at the early age of 4. His first lessons were the Bengali a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33418993 | 1,962,924 |
133,652 | He contributed 117 "Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester" from 1817 until his death in 1844 while president of that organisation. Of these the earlier are the most important. In one of them, read in 1814, he explains the principles of volumetric analysis, in which he was one of the earliest r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44112 | 133,599 |
236,572 | A hygrometer is an instrument used to measure the amount of water vapor in air, in soil, or in confined spaces. Humidity measurement instruments usually rely on measurements of some other quantities such as temperature, pressure, mass, a mechanical or electrical change in a substance as moisture is absorbed. By calibra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=282350 | 236,453 |
136,250 | The PR.7 variant of the Canberra, fitted with Avon 109 engines, executed a 1953 reconnaissance flight over the Soviet rocket launch and development site at Kapustin Yar, although the UK government has never admitted the existence of such a flight. Warned by either radar or agents inside the British government, the Sovi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=201787 | 136,195 |
1,666,346 | In October 2007 an astute medical interpreter noticed similar neurological symptoms being reported by Spanish-speaking patients seeking treatment from different physicians at the Austin Medical Center, in Austin, Minnesota. Not only did these patients share similar neurological symptoms, they also worked at the same po... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15588705 | 1,665,407 |
1,348,034 | Construction of the reactor, known as Chicago Pile-1 (CP-1), began on the morning of 16 November 1942. The work was carried out in twelve-hour shifts, with a day shift under Zinn and a night shift under Anderson. When completed, the wooden frame supported an elliptical-shaped structure, high, wide at the ends and acros... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1951235 | 1,347,293 |
491,865 | Aflatoxin B is an aflatoxin produced by "Aspergillus flavus" and "A. parasiticus". It is a very potent carcinogen with a TD 3.2 μg/kg/day in rats. This carcinogenic potency varies across species with some, such as rats and monkeys, seemingly much more susceptible than others. Aflatoxin B is a common contaminant in a va... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23579933 | 491,611 |
1,794,067 | The slow but continuous production of hydrogen in deep low-permeability argillaceous formations could represent a problem for the long-term disposal of radioactive waste (Ortiz "et al.", 2001; Nagra, 2008; recent Nagra NTB reports). Indeed, a gas pressure build-up could occur if the rate of hydrogen production by the a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28222911 | 1,793,058 |
1,256,113 | In 1959, Adolf Butenandt identified the first intraspecific chemical signal (bombykol) from the silk moth, "Bombyx mori", with material obtained by grinding up 500,000 moths. The same year, Karlson and Lüscher proposed the term 'pheromone' to describe this type of signal. Also in 1959, Gottfried S. Fraenkel also publis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=619320 | 1,255,429 |
1,160,187 | Fisher was motivated to obtain scientific experimental results without the explicit influence of prior opinion. The significance test is a probabilistic version of Modus tollens, a classic form of deductive inference. The significance test might be simplistically stated, "If the evidence is sufficiently discordant with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15515301 | 1,159,572 |
1,666,844 | Scholars that advocate for curriculum integration argue that the topics studied should originate with students and their teachers, and not from district-imposed curriculum packages. This raises the important issue of accountability (Stevenson, 1998). As school districts often have decision-making panels that consist of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4132335 | 1,665,905 |
177,790 | There are no records of Napier's early education, but many believe that he was privately tutored during early childhood. At age 13, he was enrolled in St Salvator's College, St Andrews. Near the time of his matriculation the quality of the education provided by the university was poor, owing in part to the Reformation'... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15993 | 177,697 |
1,571,493 | During a leave of absence from the University of Illinois, LaValle started working from Oulu, Finland for Oculus VR in September 2012, a few days after their Kickstarter campaign. He served as their principal scientist from March 2013 until the company was acquired by Facebook in July 2014, addressing virtual reality c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18079508 | 1,570,605 |
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