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845,876 | Meanwhile, Randall had been appointed to the Chair of Physics at the University of St Andrews. In 1945, he appointed Wilkins as Assistant Lecturer in his department at the University of St Andrews. Randall was negotiating with the Medical Research Council (MRC) to set up a laboratory to apply the experimental methods o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=234248 | 845,426 |
1,163,682 | Examples of conducting networks are electrical power transmission grids, oil and gas pipelines, non-fiber optic undersea communication cables, non-fiber optic telephone and telegraph networks and railways. GIC are often described as being quasi direct current (DC), although the variation frequency of GIC is governed by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9414169 | 1,163,065 |
1,984,562 | Botball is known for the sophistication and complexity of its robotic competitions. What differentiates Botball from other student robotics programs is that the robots are autonomous; therefore, they are not directed by remote control. Students use computer science to program the robots to recognize challenges and then... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14867798 | 1,983,423 |
305,210 | The social democratic governments in the post war period introduced measures of social reform and wealth redistribution through state welfare and taxation policy. For instance the newly elected UK Labour government carried out nationalisations of major utilities such as mines, gas, coal, electricity, rail, iron and ste... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47246185 | 305,048 |
1,706,707 | Professor Krylov leads the iOpenShell lab, a research group focused on theoretical modeling of open-shell and electronically excited species. She develops robust black-box methods to describe complicated multi-configurational wave functions in single-reference formalisms, such as coupled-cluster and equation-of-motion ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11061937 | 1,705,749 |
948,983 | This is a promising and newer microarray application for the diagnosis, study and treatment of complex diseases such as cancer. The technology merges laser capture microdissection (LCM) with micro array technology, to produce reverse-phase protein microarrays. In this type of microarrays, the whole collection of protei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55172 | 948,479 |
1,007,358 | This is the area of greatest success for current energy storage technologies. Single-use and rechargeable batteries are ubiquitous, and provide power for devices with demands as varied as digital watches and cars. Advances in battery technology have generally been slow, however, with much of the advance in battery life... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1646838 | 1,006,838 |
302,263 | The Greek wiretapping case 2004–05, also referred to as Greek Watergate, involved the illegal telephone tapping of more than 100 mobile phones on the Vodafone Greece network belonging mostly to members of the Greek government and top-ranking civil servants. The taps began sometime near the beginning of August 2004 and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=223942 | 302,102 |
1,960,497 | In 1973, the Emergency Medical Services Act was passed in Congress, and Boyd was appointed by Ford to be the Director of the Division of EMS Systems. Boyd was tasked with developing state-wide programs for all 50 states and four territories. Boyd visited states and identified areas where it made social and geographic s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61269479 | 1,959,370 |
721,981 | The design process for what became the Pelican began in early 2000, when designers in the Phantom Works division of Boeing started working on solutions for the United States armed forces objective of moving thousands of troops, weapons, military equipment, and provisions to a war or battle scene faster, such as success... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1879209 | 721,601 |
1,035,953 | Just behind the presumed position of the stomach a very conspicuous large and thick intestine is visible, that has been identified as the duodenum. It is preserved partly in the form of a natural endocast, partly as a petrification still showing the cellular structure, including the mucosa and connective tissue. Some m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3558454 | 1,035,413 |
1,914,014 | Focusing his studies mainly on multiphase phenomena, Kumar is known to have done extensive researches on hydrodynamics and mass transfer in multiphase systems. He developed a two-stage model of bubble formation from single submerged nozzles which clarified the discrepancies in experimental data and is in use with indus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52869306 | 1,912,915 |
1,359,355 | Alyeska reported that about half were too minor to affect the running of the pipeline, but questions lay with more than a thousand welds that might be dangerous. Re-examining the welds would be extremely difficult, since those sections of pipeline were sealed (and in many cases buried). By July, the U.S. Congress began... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24084810 | 1,358,604 |
45,487 | Semiconductor sub-micrometer and nanometer electronic circuits are the primary concern for operating within the normal tolerance in harsh radiation environments like outer space. One of the design approaches for making a radiation-hardened-by-design (RHBD) device is enclosed-layout-transistor (ELT). Normally, the gate ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40345 | 45,470 |
763,683 | A high-quality image requires a large number of different separations between telescopes. Projected separation between any two telescopes, as seen from the radio source, is called a baseline. For example, the Very Large Array (VLA) near Socorro, New Mexico has 27 telescopes with 351 independent baselines at once, which... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46656 | 763,274 |
294,354 | Nineteenth century wrestling matches were particularly long, and especially Greco-Roman bouts (where holds below the waist and the use of the legs are not allowed) could last as many as eight to nine hours, and even then, it was only decided by a draw. In the 20th century, time limits were set for matches. For more tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1123339 | 294,195 |
1,667,600 | Another system of dichoptic presentation for binocular vision therapy has been proposed by researchers of the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre. Using a modified puzzle video game "Tetris", the interocular suppression of patients with amblyopia was successfully treated with dichotomic training i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40018674 | 1,666,661 |
538,116 | Diver trails also called wreck trails can be used to allow scuba-divers to visit and understand archaeological sites that are suitable for scuba-diving One excellent example is the Florida Public Archaeology Network's (FPAN) "Florida Panhandle Shipwreck Trail." The Florida Panhandle Shipwreck Trail features 12 shipwrec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51795 | 537,837 |
556,233 | Between 1874 and 1878, he studied medicine at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Akademie in Berlin, an academy for military doctors, since his family could not afford the university. As a military doctor, he studied the action of iodoform. Due to his work on Neurotomia opticociliaris (or optociliary neurotomy), Behring became a docto... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53373 | 555,944 |
857,434 | The Romans' part in the clearances of the once extensive Caledonian forest remains a matter of debate. That these forests were once considerably more extensive than they are now is not in dispute, but the timing and causes of the reduction are. The 16th-century writer Hector Boece believed that the woods in Roman times... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18691820 | 856,979 |
18,755 | Following early engagements in Afghanistan and Iraq, U.S. Special Operations Forces reported that M855 ammunition used in M4A1 rifles was ineffective. In 2005, the Pentagon issued a formal request to the ammunition industry for "enhanced" ammunition. The only business that responded was the Federal Cartridge Company, o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35022 | 18,747 |
768,762 | Formula One had recently lost one of its top drivers: Bruce McLaren had been killed testing a Can-Am car at the Goodwood circuit in southern England. But the F1 circus had returned to a wild and dangerous place: the notorious ultra-fast Spa-Francorchamps circuit had returned to the calendar for the 1970 season after so... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1140091 | 768,350 |
1,498,851 | The "EMT 950 Schallplatten-Wiedergabe-Maschine" was introduced in 1976 in two types, ‘Standard’, (‘950’, 693 millimeters wide) with controls on the left side of the disc, and a ‘Narrowline Model’ (‘950 E’ or ‘Schmale Ausführung’, 519 mm wide, 573 mm deep, introduced at the end of 1977) conceived for less spacious studi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7933660 | 1,498,007 |
213,673 | A snowball earth, from around 720-635 mya in the Cryogenian period, is believed to have been caused by early photosynthetic organisms, which reduced the concentration of carbon dioxide and increased the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere. Based on molecular clock studies of the previous decade or so, a 2022 study obser... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11008314 | 213,565 |
1,133,592 | Arthur R. Marshall led the efforts to undo the damage. According to Douglas, Marshall was successful in portraying the Everglades from the Kissimmee Chain of Lakes to Florida Bay—including the atmosphere, climate, and limestone—as a single organism. Rather than remaining the preserve of conservation organizations, the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17601646 | 1,132,999 |
1,511,458 | In the extreme environment of high temperatures and the leaching caused by the heavy rain of tropical rain forests, the clay and organic colloids are largely destroyed. The heavy rains wash the alumino-silicate clays from the soil leaving only sesquioxide clays of low CEC. The high temperatures and humidity allow bacte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64613245 | 1,510,608 |
880,378 | Single-event upsets were first described during above-ground nuclear testing, from 1954 to 1957, when many anomalies were observed in electronic monitoring equipment. Further problems were observed in space electronics during the 1960s, although it was difficult to separate soft failures from other forms of interferenc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2158886 | 879,914 |
781,687 | From 1983 to 1997, "Scientific American" has produced an encyclopedia set of volumes from their publishing division, the Scientific American Library. These books were not sold in retail stores, but as a Book of the Month Club selection priced from $24.95 to $32.95. Topics covered dozens of areas of scientific knowledge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29507 | 781,269 |
959,930 | Frank E. Horton, former president of the University of Oklahoma, was selected thirteenth president in October 1988 and continued the growth of the university, fostered by the previous presidents. Horton began a large strategic planning effort and organized the growth of the university. To help achieve the plans, in 199... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33431636 | 959,422 |
717,715 | Split-ring resonators (SRRs) in various test configurations have been shown to be extremely effective as radar absorbers. SRR technology can be used in conjunction with the technologies above to provide a cumulative absorption effect. SRR technology is particularly effective when used on faceted shapes that have perfec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4148025 | 717,336 |
1,099,736 | The low level of connectivity and the high proportion of specialists in pollination networks contrast with the view that generalization rather than specialization is the norm in networks. Indeed, most plants species are visited by a diverse array of pollinators which exploit floral resources from a wide range of plant ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66619486 | 1,099,176 |
409,847 | Aside from the "Uranverein" and von Ardenne's team in Berlin-Lichterfelde, there was also a small research team in the Henschel Flugzeugwerke: the study group under the direction of Prof. Dr. Ing. Herbert Wagner (1900–1982) searched for alternative sources of energy for airplanes and became interested in nuclear energy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1397318 | 409,645 |
1,923,514 | Ecosystem engineers, such as many types of corals, deep-sea mussels, and hydrothermal vent tubeworms, contribute to primary productivity and create the structural habitats and nutrient resources that are the foundation of their respective ecosystems. All of these taxa engage in mutualistic nutritional symbioses with mi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62893752 | 1,922,411 |
306,148 | In patients with kidney failure, there is a risk of a rare but serious illness called nephrogenic systemic fibrosis (NSF) that is caused by the use of gadolinium based contrast agents. The disease resembles scleromyxedema and to some extent scleroderma. It may occur months after a contrast agent has been injected. Its ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12243 | 305,984 |
59,446 | Archaea are the target of a number of viruses in a diverse virosphere distinct from bacterial and eukaryotic viruses. They have been organized into 15-18 DNA-based families so far, but multiple species remain un-isolated and await classification. These families can be informally divided into two groups: archaea-specifi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19179592 | 59,421 |
1,684,001 | Structuralists have proposed different mechanisms that might have guided the formation of body plans. Before Darwin, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire argued that animals shared homologous parts, and that if one was enlarged, the others would be reduced in compensation. After Darwin, D'Arcy Thompson hinted at vitalism and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6914308 | 1,683,057 |
222,142 | From that set of considerations, Boyd concluded that to maintain an accurate or effective grasp of reality one must undergo a continuous cycle of interaction with the environment geared to assessing its constant changes. He was hardly the first to do so but expanded Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by suggesting th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=163161 | 222,033 |
394,990 | These tests have prompted US responses in weapons development. By 2018, the AGM-183 and Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon were in development per John Hyten's USSTRATCOM statement on 8 August 2018 (UTC). At least one vendor is developing ceramics to handle the temperatures of hypersonics systems. There are over a dozen US h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14564979 | 394,795 |
1,801,770 | Contracts for constructing a new runway, 32/14, were awarded in late November 1955 to R. B. Tyler and Hyde Construction Co. of Jackson, Mississippi, whose $3,191,577 bid was the lowest received for the project, said Col. Walter W. Woodard, deputy chief of staff for material for the Air Proving Ground Command. The new r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33714574 | 1,800,761 |
1,042,017 | In 1949, the huge carbonatite-hosted bastnäsite deposit was discovered at Mountain Pass, San Bernardino County, California. This discovery alerted geologists to the existence of a whole new class of rare earth deposit: the rare earth containing carbonatite. Other examples were soon recognized, particularly in Africa an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=191159 | 1,041,474 |
1,384,802 | During this period, Prosser met and married Allen Rufus Prosser, who worked as an elevator operator at a department store in Austin, and the two were married in 1916. While working at Anderson in 1921, Prosser also began to work towards her bachelor's degree at Samuel Huston College. She completed her Bachelor of Arts ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13646566 | 1,384,035 |
608,986 | Although there is some uncertainty and ambiguity in defining safety culture, there is no uncertainty over the relevance or significance of the concept. Mearns et al. stated that "safety culture is an important concept that forms the environment within which individual safety attitudes develop and persist and safety beh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2994173 | 608,675 |
1,547,772 | In 1969, Lawrence Hall became the center of one of the largest student protests at Pitt during the late 1960s era when many student demonstrations were occurring around the world. A group calling itself the Concerned Students and Faulty attempted a three-day, round-the-clock fast in the lobby of the building to protest... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11939694 | 1,546,894 |
528,334 | The White Paper consists of two main building blocks, an ‘ecosystem of excellence’ and a ‘ecosystem of trust’. The latter outlines the EU's approach for a regulatory framework for AI. In its proposed approach, the Commission differentiates between 'high-risk' and 'non-high-risk' AI applications. Only the former should ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63451675 | 528,060 |
1,085,589 | Most of the language's slowness stemmed from three problems. The first is that the floating-point math routines were poorly optimized. In the Ahl benchmark, a single exponent operation, which internally loops over the slow multiplication function, was responsible for much of the machine's poor showing. Second, the conv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64701882 | 1,085,031 |
1,441,032 | In the mid 1970s Mark Cummins, while working for the Texas Forest Service, developed a water expansion system known as the Texas Snow Job. Mr. Cummins invented the CAFS and was issued the US Patent 4318443 in 1982. This pioneering Class A CAFS used dish-washing detergents or a pine soap derivative, which was readily av... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6323833 | 1,440,222 |
1,564,326 | Although the timpani was still considered primarily an outdoor instrument, it started being used during indoor concerts to provide rhythmic support for trumpet fanfares. Most of the time, players would not have written music to follow because parts were handed down from generation to generation and were learned by rote... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26164030 | 1,563,439 |
983,230 | In 1975, Amotz Zahavi proposed a verbal model for how signal costs could constrain cheating and stabilize an "honest" correlation between observed signals and unobservable qualities, based on an analogy to sports handicapping systems. He called this idea the handicap principle. The purpose of a sports handicapping syst... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1318175 | 982,716 |
140,212 | On 11 February 2016, the LIGO collaboration announced the first observation of gravitational waves, from a signal detected at 09:50:45 GMT on 14 September 2015 of two black holes with masses of 29 and 36 solar masses merging about 1.3 billion light-years away. During the final fraction of a second of the merger, it rel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8111079 | 140,155 |
1,630,007 | The University of Economics in Katowice maintains international partnerships with numerous higher education institutions. The cooperation includes such initiatives as: ERASMUS program, business trips of academic and administrative staff, organization of scientific conferences and promotional events, as well as joint in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2667396 | 1,629,088 |
1,625,045 | The "DIO3" gene codes for type 3 iodothyronine deiodinase (D3), an enzyme that inactivates thyroid hormones and is highly expressed throughout fetal development, peaking early and decreasing towards the end of gestation. Part of the DLK1-Dio3 imprinting control region, this gene is one involved in the epigenetic proces... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5196189 | 1,624,129 |
2,016,625 | He was appointed in 1954 to the position of Department Head and Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Metal Research in Stuttgart. A year later, he received the Habilitation from the University of Stuttgart for his comprehensive study of the discharge of metal ions in corrosion. The years 1954–1961 in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13660531 | 2,015,463 |
51,824 | During a user trial on 20 January 2009, BrahMos was tested with a new navigation system but it failed to hit the target. BrahMos Aerospace Corporation's director Dr A. Sivathanu Pillai said, ""The missile performance was absolutely normal until the last phase, but the missile missed the target, though it maintained the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1814876 | 51,804 |
1,440,557 | HTLV-1 and HTLV-2 share broad similarities in their overall genetic organization and expression pattern, but they differ substantially in their pathogenic properties. The virus utilizes the GLUT-1 and NRP1 cellular receptors for their entry, although HTLV-1, but not HTLV-2, is dependent on heparan sulfate proteoglycans... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21410982 | 1,439,747 |
544,305 | A popular hypothesis mentioned by Peter Milner, in his 1974 article "A Model for Visual Shape Recognition", has been that features of individual objects are bound/segregated via synchronization of the activity of different neurons in the cortex. The theory, called binding-by-synchrony (BBS), is hypothesized to occur th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=941613 | 544,023 |
1,042,611 | Toyota opted to develop the car to minimise the impact of the 2013 Technical Regulations which increased the minimum weight of manufacturer Le Mans Prototype 1 (LMP1) vehicles by by focusing on fine-tuning the engine for power improvement, efficiency and reliability. They also manufactured new chassis tubs consisting o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34484574 | 1,042,068 |
819,812 | Following the initial flights of the type, in addition to continuing flight testing, an increasing emphasis was placed on the performance of pre-arranged aerial displays at various airshows; in such a capacity, the EAP would demonstrate its capabilities, such as its high level of agility, to a wide audience, often cons... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=979983 | 819,371 |
2,168,484 | Lars Jaeger (born 1969 in Heidelberg, Germany) is a Swiss-German author, entrepreneur, financial theorist, and alternative investment manager. He writes on the history and philosophy of science and technology, and has in the past been an author on hedge funds, quantitative investing, and risk management. In his widely ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37030760 | 2,167,247 |
1,889,340 | Respected by colleagues for his design versatility, Jones was also masterful at understanding structural engineering. Described as possessing both an artist's eye and engineer's intellect, he set both aptitudes to work in winning combination. Among the three hundred structures Jones designed, from whimsical park buildi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16278316 | 1,888,257 |
574,307 | C-values vary enormously among species. In animals they range more than 3,300-fold, and in land plants they differ by a factor of about 1,000. Protist genomes have been reported to vary more than 300,000-fold in size, but the high end of this range ("Amoeba") has been called into question. Variation in C-values bears n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2354482 | 574,013 |
108,853 | The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis (YDIH) or Clovis comet hypothesis is a speculative attempt to explain the onset of the Younger Dryas (YD) as an alternative to the long standing and widely accepted cause due to a significant reduction or shutdown of the North Atlantic "Conveyor" in response to a sudden influx of fre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11338425 | 108,808 |
1,470,193 | This method is typical of 'pump-probe' experiments, where a pulsed laser is used to excite the electrons in a material (such as a molecule or semiconducting solid) from their ground states to higher-energy excited states. A probing light source, typically a xenon arc lamp or broadband laser pulse created by supercontin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4136723 | 1,469,368 |
436,646 | Often such buildings, especially if constructed on a moderate slope, are erected on a platform connected to a perimeter foundation through low stud-walls called "cripple wall" or "pin-up". This low wall structure itself may fail in shear or in its connections to itself at the corners, leading to the building moving dia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=923301 | 436,432 |
1,806,977 | A line of research investigates long term potentiation (LTP), a process that describes how a memory can be consolidated between two neurons, or brain cells, ultimately by creating a circuit within the brain that can encode a memory. To initiate a learning circuit between two neurons, one prominent study described using... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37957946 | 1,805,958 |
416,571 | Conceptions of what constitutes capitalism have changed significantly over time, as well as being dependent on the political perspective and analytical approach adopted by the observer in question. Adam Smith focused on the role of enlightened self-interest (the "invisible hand") and the role of specialization in promo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1375342 | 416,368 |
642,905 | CMF has been tested against large-caliber armor-piercing rounds. S-S CMF panels were manufactured and paired with a ceramic faceplate and aluminum backplate. The layered hard armors were tested against 12.7 × 99 mm ball and AP rounds at a range of impact velocities. The mild steel cores of the ball rounds penetrated on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2324595 | 642,566 |
1,411,483 | Groundwater transportation of radionuclides belongs to the key pathways of contamination of lands engaged in agricultural production. In particular, due to vertical migration with rises of water levels, radioactive particles infiltrate soils and subsequently get into plants through the absorption system of their roots.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59803219 | 1,410,690 |
928,669 | In the Communist Bloc, the music of the Second Viennese School proved an often bewildering or professionally dangerous but sometimes exciting or inspiring alternative to socialist realist art music, given access. Whereas Berg's "Lyric Suite", performed by the Kolisch Quartet at the 1927 Baden-Baden ISCM festival where ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65676 | 928,179 |
1,372,483 | Kaito Gakko was formed under David Kawaikoolihilihi Nu'uhiwa, who studied with Okazaki starting in 1938, and John Cahill, (Danzan-Ryu's sensei, during Okazaki's internment.) After a fighting career with more than 100 consecutive undefeated matches, Professor Nuuhiwa blended his real world fighting experiences, includin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1383904 | 1,371,726 |
818,478 | Computational physics problems are in general very difficult to solve exactly. This is due to several (mathematical) reasons: lack of algebraic and/or analytic solvability, complexity, and chaos. For example, - even apparently simple problems, such as calculating the wavefunction of an electron orbiting an atom in a st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=106418 | 818,039 |
314,425 | Frail elderly people may choose to decline some kinds of medical care, because the risk-benefit ratio is different. For example, frail elderly women routinely stop screening mammograms, because breast cancer is typically a slowly growing disease that would cause them no pain, impairment, or loss of life before they wou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=436825 | 314,256 |
1,678,902 | Esau was born on 3 April 1898 in Yekaterinoslav, Russian Empire ("now Dnipro, Ukraine") to a family of Mennonites of German descent, so-called "Russian Mennonites". She began studying agriculture in Moscow, but after a year her family was prompted by the Bolshevik Revolution to move to Germany where she completed her s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2164542 | 1,677,959 |
454,958 | The user interface design (UI) for "The Last of Us" underwent various different iterations throughout development. User interface designer Alexandria Neonakis originally intended to integrate the weapon upgrade system into the weapon slotting system, in order to constantly remind players to upgrade their weapons. Upon ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45204814 | 454,736 |
2,161,984 | This work has since progressed to show that exercise can have beneficial effects for the brains of animals that have been exposed to ethanol while in the womb, an animal model of fetal alcohol syndrome effects. His current work continues to examine how exercise can benefit the brain. He is part of the Island Medical Pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6841939 | 2,160,749 |
641,055 | Hooker regularly corresponded with the chief government scientist in New Zealand, Sir James Hector. He sent his son Willy (aged 15) to stay in New Zealand with the recently married Hector in 1869, Willy was sickly and coughing up blood, and a warmer climate was recommended. Though well-behaved he was indolent. Hector s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=364723 | 640,716 |
1,559,773 | The University's buildings, along with most of its records and files, were destroyed in a widespread 1845 fire that wiped out 20 square blocks of the most valuable part of Pittsburgh. Classes were held in Trinity Church until a new building was constructed on Duquesne Way (on what was the site of the former Horne's dep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13999007 | 1,558,887 |
1,900,274 | Kim has worked on a diverse set of research areas. His early works concentrated on mathematical phylogenetics, which started during his graduate school with Drs. Robert R. Sokal and F. James Rohlf who pioneered computational methods in evolutionary tree estimation. Among his works in this area, Junhyong Kim introduced ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38570216 | 1,899,186 |
1,823,964 | Perpendicular to the beam path, there exist a number of optical ports for viewing the plasma at different radial positions. For a given plasma discharge, a fiber bundle system is placed on one of these ports, and is used to collect emission along its line-of-sight (black tubes on top of the machine contain light collec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2203151 | 1,822,926 |
1,352,976 | There are many uses imaginable on this basis. A surfboard of vitrimers could be brought into a new shape, scratches on a car body could be "cured" and cross-linked plastic or synthetic rubber items could be welded. Vitrimers which are prepared from metathesis of dioxaborolanes with different polymers that are commercia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42791912 | 1,352,229 |
1,070,342 | Laccases have the potential to crosslink food polymers such as proteins and nonstarch polysaccharides in dough. In non-starch polysaccharides, such as arabinoxylans (AX), laccase catalyzes the oxidative gelation of feruloylated arabinoxylans by dimerization of their ferulic esters. These cross-links have been found to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6664738 | 1,069,788 |
169,788 | Social embodiment calls for a more rigid definition of what a hegemonically masculine man is and how the idea is actually carried out in real life. The pattern of embodiment involved in hegemony has been recognized in the earliest formulations of the concept but called for more theoretical attention. The importance of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9928314 | 169,698 |
1,746,989 | Pediatric nurse practitioners deliver care across the country to children aging from newborn to 21. Most PNPs practice on all pediatric ages but some specialize in specific age groups such as adolescents or neonatal. Nurse practitioners are able to prescribe medications in all 50 states however, each state has differen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41624007 | 1,746,003 |
1,592,102 | As expected, Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary on the afternoon of 23 May, and almost the entire Austro-Hungarian fleet left Pola soon after to deliver an immediate response against Italian cities and towns along the Adriatic coast, aiming to interdict land and sea transport between southern Italy and the northern ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51038733 | 1,591,206 |
191,254 | Eugene Fama (born 1939) is an American financial economist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2013 for his work on empirical asset pricing and is the fourth most highly cited economist of all time. He has spent all of his teaching career at the University of Chicago and is the originator of the efficient-m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=417454 | 191,155 |
672,120 | Treatment of strongyloidiasis can be difficult and if ceasing treatment before being entirely cleared "Strongyloides" via the autoinfective cycle has been known to live in individuals for decades; even after initial or inadequate sustained treatment. Continued treatment, blood and stool monitoring thus may be necessary... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1494024 | 671,768 |
1,875,648 | AoT encompasses not only the study of the processes and products of modern science and engineering, but also the techniques of small-scale societies (such as basket-weaving and bow and arrow fabrication), and the technologies of the past recoverable only by archaeology. Methodologically, AoT shares much in common with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71498816 | 1,874,571 |
649,150 | In March 2011, the journal "Nature" published a pair of articles on micro-connectomes: Bock et al. and Briggman et al. In both articles, the authors first characterized the functional properties of a small subset of cells, and then manually traced a subset of the processes emanating from those cells to obtain a partial... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15978180 | 648,809 |
1,792,119 | Article 10 creates an administrative agency lodged within the Department of Public Service, the Board on Electric Generation Siting and the Environment, to conduct the reviews and make final administrative siting decisions. The Board has seven members; five are agency heads (the "Permanent Board") and two are appointed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21401237 | 1,791,112 |
1,218,058 | Social epidemiologists research how SES (socio-economic status) determines varying access to resources like income and prestige can generate stratification in health and quality of life. Often, their investigations relate to the social determinants of health which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24842835 | 1,217,404 |
496,626 | Zack Handlen of "The A.V. Club" considered "The Law of Non-Contradiction" one of the best episodes in the entire show, including previous seasons, as well as his possible personal favourite. He gave it an A rating, stating "It lacks the emotional power of events from previous seasons, but in its place achieves a sustai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53977445 | 496,370 |
113,231 | In order to meet ever more demanding specifications, over time the CH-53G received modifications from 1990 designed to improve its service life and operational capabilities. These involved three major upgrades: new missile warning and self-protection systems; provision for two external fuel tanks allowing range to be i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=674186 | 113,186 |
248,246 | At the critical level Peirce examined the forms of abductive arguments (as discussed above), and came to hold that the hypothesis should economize explanation for plausibility in terms of the feasible and natural. In 1908 Peirce described this plausibility in some detail. It involves not likeliness based on observation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60459 | 248,118 |
1,688,777 | Single-lip deep hole drilling is usually used to produce holes in the diameter range of D = 0.5...40 mm. This range of application is currently limited at the lower end by the manufacturing technology to realize the coolant channels inside the tool and the increasing challenges in grinding technology with decreasing to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65795802 | 1,687,831 |
281,463 | In September 1854, Lister house surgeoncy appointment was finished. With the prospect of being out of a job, he had spoken to his father about seeking a position at the Royal Free Hospital in London. However, Sharpey had written to Syme, warning him that it was unlikely that Lister would be welcome at the Royal Free as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16535 | 281,310 |
987,718 | In its interferometric operating mode, the light from the telescopes is reflected off mirrors and directed through tunnels to a central beam combining laboratory. In the year 2001, during commissioning, the VLTI successfully measured the angular diameters of four red dwarfs including Proxima Centauri. During this opera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=151648 | 987,202 |
281,266 | In the same year as MX-798, 1946, William B. McLean began studies of a similar concept at the Naval Ordnance Test Station, today known as Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake. He spent three years simply considering various designs, which led to a considerably less complicated design than the Falcon. When his team had ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1396771 | 281,113 |
1,252,575 | His grandson James Riordon, a former physicist and engineer who heads the American Physical Society media relations office, initially conceived of the distributed computing project Einstein@home, which searches gravitational wave data for signals from massive rotating objects such as pulsars. His granddaughter Barbara ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=365255 | 1,251,897 |
469,113 | Electromagnetic emission from HH objects is caused when their associated shock waves collide with the interstellar medium, creating what is called the "terminal working surfaces". The spectrum is continuous, but also has intense emission lines of neutral and ionized species. Spectroscopic observations of HH objects' do... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1123615 | 468,877 |
1,377,865 | Metriorhynchids were the only group of archosaurs to become fully adapted to the marine realm, becoming pelagic in lifestyle. With tail flukes, reduced limb musculature, and long bones histologically comparable to other obligately aquatic animals, they were almost certainly incapable of terrestrial locomotion; combined... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5353692 | 1,377,103 |
438,106 | Mitchell, with limited time to prepare an entry, knew that there was not enough time left to design a new aircraft from scratch. The obvious means of improving the S.6's performance was by obtaining more power from the R-Type engine. Engineers at Rolls-Royce had managed to increase the available power of the engine by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4091776 | 437,892 |
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