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1,299,597 | Goff's accumulated design portfolio of 500 projects (about one quarter of them built) demonstrates a restless, sped-up evolution through conventional styles and forms at a young age, through the Prairie Style of his heroes and correspondents Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Sullivan, then into original design. Finding insp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1438317 | 1,298,883 |
1,564,421 | Butterworth described Grünbaum's case that psychoanalysis can be tested as convincing. Laor described the book as "an admirably erudite and scholarly authoritative study". He credited Grünbaum with showing that Freud was aware of many of the problems with his theories. However, he criticized Grünbaum for failing to dis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34449875 | 1,563,534 |
1,948,349 | Kane was an undergraduate at Princeton University, and interrupted his education to serve in the army during World War II. He graduated from Princeton University in 1948, and went directly to Cornell University to study towards his PhD in Physics, which was awarded in 1953 on an experimental project related to vacuum t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51320853 | 1,947,236 |
1,626,975 | Generally, the liquid phase will solidify into a continuous ductile matrix that encapsulates the harder, brittle particles. Mechanical properties are typically the primary concern of sintered components, which is a composite with the hard phase providing strength and the matrix providing toughness. The mechanical prope... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66940304 | 1,626,057 |
345,067 | Calculations by physicist Allen Everett show that warp bubbles could be used to create closed timelike curves in general relativity, meaning that the theory predicts that they could be used for backwards time travel. While it is possible that the fundamental laws of physics might allow closed timelike curves, the chron... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37856 | 344,886 |
854,439 | In 2010, Robert Brodschneider and Karl Crailsheim conducted a study on the health and nutrition in honey bee colonies. The study focused on overall colony health, adult nutrition, and larva nutrition as a function of the effect of pesticides, monocultures and genetically modified crops to see if the anthropogenically c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=524396 | 853,984 |
562,652 | Protein precipitate formation occurs in a stepwise process. First, a precipitating agent is added and the solution is steadily mixed. Mixing causes the precipitant and protein to collide. Enough mixing time is required for molecules to diffuse across the fluid eddies. Next, proteins undergo a nucleation phase, where su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8253098 | 562,363 |
108,481 | The game's opening details events one year past, when Dickson, Dunban and Mumkhar were fighting a Mechon army. Mumkhar deserts them then gets attacked and, in the process of defeating the Mechon, the Monado paralyses Dunban's right arm. In the present, Shulk studies the Monado in Colony 9, where Dunban and Fiora live. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25992553 | 108,436 |
126,666 | Depth of field increases with f-number, as illustrated in the image here. This means that photographs taken with a low f-number (large aperture) will tend to have subjects at one distance in focus, with the rest of the image (nearer and farther elements) out of focus. This is frequently used for nature photography and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=168244 | 126,614 |
1,263,673 | Following the ascending curve of the economy growth, the air transportation in Romania experiences a favorable trend. Carpatair is the Romanian airline with the most spectacular growth; the national carrier TAROM is recovering from a difficult period at the beginning of the 2000s, 2004 being the first profitable year i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1900108 | 1,262,985 |
303,777 | In mid-2012, the U.S. Senate recommended zeroing out funding for the SDB II due to fielding delays with the F-35 Lightning II. With the delay in SDB II fielding, Boeing recommended an upgrade to their SDB as a temporary gap-filler to get desired performance at a fraction of the cost. Called the Laser Small Diameter Bom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30874902 | 303,615 |
1,047,387 | Pyrotherapy (artificial fever) is a method of treatment by raising the body temperature or sustaining an elevated body temperature using a fever. In general, the body temperature was maintained at 41 °C (105 °F). Many diseases were treated by this method in the first half of the 20th century. In general, it was done by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20169107 | 1,046,842 |
602,388 | The first lecture she gave was titled ""De aqua corpore naturali elemento aliorum corporum parte universi"", which can roughly be translated from Latin as, "Water as a natural element of all other bodies". The University, however, still held that women were to lead private lives, so she was more restricted than male te... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1647075 | 602,079 |
444,389 | Early work in cross-cultural psychology was suggested in Lazarus and Steinthal's journal "Zeitschrift für Völkerpsychologie und Sprachwissenschaft" [Journal of Folk Psychology and Language Science], which began to be published in 1860. More empirically oriented research was subsequently conducted by Williams H. R. Rive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11507939 | 444,174 |
1,529,385 | The first prototype of the RDM flew in January 1980 and production deliveries began in early 1983. Thomson funded development of the RDM from the Cyrano IV at a cost of FFr350m (~US$50m); the RDI air intercept derivative was funded by the French government. The RDM was intended for export Mirage 2000's and the first 50... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34575438 | 1,528,521 |
1,918,086 | Most of the walls were built in the wattle-and-daub style. The construction of these houses first started by erecting the framework of larger timbers in place (photo 1), which would take the weight of the structure, and then the space between these timbers would be filled in with a "wattle" made of pliable smaller bran... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25802154 | 1,916,986 |
1,243,508 | It is not within the scope of this paper, however, to discuss technical criteria by which hypotheses are given high, low, or negative degrees of confirmation. Our purpose is simply to glance at several examples of a type of scientific activity which fails completely to conform to scientific standards, but at the same t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1878393 | 1,242,835 |
775,101 | Phagocytes are cells that protect the body by ingesting harmful foreign particles, bacteria, and dead or dying cells. Their name comes from the Greek "", "to eat" or "devour", and "-cyte", the suffix in biology denoting "cell", from the Greek "kutos", "hollow vessel". They are essential for fighting infections and for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=443416 | 774,685 |
927,382 | All enveloped viruses also have a capsid, another protein layer, between the envelope and the genome. The virus wraps its delicate nucleic acid with a protein shell known as the capsid, from the Latin capsa, meaning "box," in order to shield it from this hostile environment. Similar to how numerous bricks come together... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4450311 | 926,894 |
1,678,821 | The T1 had outstanding throughput with massive numbers of threads supported by the processor, but older applications burdened with single thread bottlenecks occasionally exhibited poor overall performance. Single-threaded application weakness was mitigated with the follow-on SPARC T4 processor. The T4 core count was re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2580615 | 1,677,878 |
1,313,291 | Warshel was born to a Jewish family in 1940 in kibbutz Sde Nahum, Mandatory Palestine. Warshel served in the Israeli Armored Corps. After serving the Israeli Army (final rank Captain), Warshel attended the Technion, Haifa, where he received his BSc degree in chemistry, "summa cum laude", in 1966. Subsequently, he earne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12835538 | 1,312,571 |
449,011 | John D. Niles observed that "Bypassing earlier scholarship, critics of the past fifty years have generally traced the current era of "Beowulf" studies back to 1936", meaning to Tolkien's essay, which he called "eloquent and incisive". Niles argued that the essay quickly came to be a starting point, as scholars from the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2380069 | 448,793 |
1,076,421 | BPI was founded in 1883, after Joshua Plaskitt petitioned the Baltimore City authorities to establish a school for instruction in engineering. The original school was named the Baltimore Manual Training School, and its first class was made up of about sixty students, all of whom were male. The official name of the scho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=913572 | 1,075,866 |
1,066,693 | For radiation protection of the power plant staff and population, the ALARA principle is applied. This principle ensures that the radiation exposure inside and outside the power plant is As Low As Reasonably Achievable and well below the limits set by legislation. The impact of the NPP operation on the environment and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10143800 | 1,066,139 |
1,706,236 | The flight dynamics is one of the most accurate for its time. The landing is accurately difficult, the player has to master the AoA (Angle of Attack) and vertical velocity during approach, unlike other combat simulations of its time For example, "F-15 Strike Eagle II" had extremely unrealistic landings where all the pl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24126230 | 1,705,278 |
347,835 | From the Big Bang through the present day, matter and dark matter in the universe are thought to have been concentrated in stars, galaxies, and galaxy clusters, and are presumed to continue to do so well into the future. Therefore, the universe is not in thermodynamic equilibrium, and objects can do physical work. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=362722 | 347,654 |
497,507 | Knowledge of maternal diet induced epigenetic changes is important not only for scientists, but for the general public. Perhaps the most obvious place of importance for maternal dietary effects is within the medical field. In the United States and worldwide, many non-communicable diseases, such as cancer, obesity, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=343457 | 497,250 |
646,476 | Pregnancy has been traditionally defined as the period of time eggs are incubated in the body after egg-sperm union. Although the term often refers to placental mammals, it has also been used in the titles of many international, peer-reviewed, scientific articles on fish, e.g. Consistent with this definition, there are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44046994 | 646,136 |
737,515 | Often the term "5-speed transmission" refers simply to the gearbox, that uses gears and gear trains to provide speed and torque block conversions from a rotating power source to another device. The most common use is in motor vehicles, where the transmission adapts the output of the internal combustion engine to the dr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=609147 | 737,126 |
2,201,857 | On April 16, 1970, French received a phone call from Grumman Aerospace Corp. requesting assistance with an issue that arose during the Apollo 13 emergency and its return to earth. A team of six UTIAS professors was assembled to quickly provide advice on how much air pressure to use to separate and push the lunar module... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70485480 | 2,200,604 |
543,151 | Mining feasibility studies have identified impacts on surface water, groundwater, wetlands, flora, fauna and related social issues. Additionally, these impacts include increased drainage of salts, sediments thought channels and streams near the mine sites. There has been an increased fleeting dust generation contaminat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3154089 | 542,871 |
184,097 | One important cause for differences in different assessments has been carcinogenicity. If the dose-response of TCDD in causing cancer is linear, it might be a true risk. If the dose-response is of a threshold-type or J-shape, there is little or no risk at the present concentrations. Understanding the mechanisms of toxi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20663724 | 184,000 |
1,756,920 | One of the major factors that affect chironomid distribution is the climate conditions at local, regional, and global scales. Changes in these conditions are preserved as a fossil record over large periods of time. Through paleolimnological methods, including chironomid assessment, these changes can be extrapolated to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4635545 | 1,755,929 |
1,417,495 | Historically, the SML has been summarized as being a microhabitat composed of several layers distinguished by their ecological, chemical and physical properties with an operational total thickness of between 1 and 1000 µm. In 2005 Hunter defined the SML as a "microscopic portion of the surface ocean which is in contact... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12264442 | 1,416,696 |
1,680,193 | Historically, the SML has been summarized as being a microhabitat composed of several layers distinguished by their ecological, chemical and physical properties with an operational total thickness of between 1 and 1000 µm. In 2005 Hunter defined the SML as a "microscopic portion of the surface ocean which is in contact... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69445009 | 1,679,250 |
1,079,086 | On September 24, 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed Devils Tower as the first National Monument. Devils Tower is a Wyoming landmark, a high tower of rock, visible for nearly . It has been a guidepost and a religious site. In December of that year, three more National Monuments were created. El Morro, New Mex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19187901 | 1,078,531 |
332,803 | Epicurus was an extremely prolific writer. According to Diogenes Laërtius, he wrote around 300 treatises on a variety of subjects. More original writings of Epicurus have survived to the present day than of any other Hellenistic Greek philosopher. Nonetheless, the vast majority of everything he wrote has now been lost ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10073 | 332,626 |
2,033,284 | Born in 1975, he grew up in the New South Wales city of Bathurst and attended high school at St Stanislaus' College, from which he graduated in 1991. He studied for a degree in rural cience at the University of New England for a year before leaving to spend a year full-time in the army. He then returned to university, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5320786 | 2,032,112 |
2,161,289 | Big mechanisms are large, explanatory models of complicated systems in which interactions have important causal effects. Whilst the collection of big data is increasingly automated, the creation of big mechanisms remains a largely human effort, which is becoming increasingly challenging, according to the fragmentation ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10795520 | 2,160,055 |
1,744,176 | The National Research Universal (NRU) reactor was a 135 MW nuclear research reactor built in the Chalk River Laboratories, Ontario, one of Canada’s national science facilities. It was a multipurpose science facility that served three main roles. It generated radionuclides used to treat or diagnose over 20 million peopl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2802690 | 1,743,192 |
297,303 | CBA generally attempts to put all relevant costs and benefits on a common temporal footing, using time value of money calculations. This is often done by converting the future expected streams of costs (formula_1) and benefits (formula_2) into a present value amount with a discount rate (formula_3) and the net present ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=374583 | 297,143 |
1,752,805 | The social cognitive theory of morality argues that personal values and standards of conduct of each individual arise from many different sources of influence and are maintained by institutional promotion. It also argues that a broad and dynamic social reality is what governs the adoption of personal values and standar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=929728 | 1,751,816 |
591,806 | The placement of tubes is not a cure. If middle ear disease has been severe or prolonged enough to justify tube placement, there is a strong possibility that the child will continue to have episodes of middle ear inflammation or fluid collection. There may be early drainage through the tube ("tube otorrhea") in about 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1262373 | 591,504 |
93,418 | He never, in his words, "assigned the cause of this power". In all other cases, he used the phenomenon of motion to explain the origin of various forces acting on bodies, but in the case of gravity, he was unable to experimentally identify the motion that produces the force of gravity (although he invented two mechanic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=244611 | 93,377 |
466,302 | Affective forecasting can be divided into four components: predictions about valence (i.e. positive or negative), the specific emotions experienced, their duration, and their intensity. While errors may occur in all four components, research overwhelmingly indicates that the two areas most prone to bias, usually in the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2426547 | 466,069 |
1,304,437 | The ethics of neurocognitive enhancement, that is the use of drugs and other brain interventions to make normal people "better than well", is an example of a neuroethical issue with both familiar and novel aspects. On the one hand, we can be informed by previous bioethical work on physical enhancements such as doping f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=703002 | 1,303,721 |
1,494,773 | Breeding occurs from spring through to late summer; the nest is generally situated in thick vegetation and less than above the ground. It is a round or domed structure made of loosely woven grasses and spider webs, with an entrance in one side. Two or more broods may be laid in an extended breeding season. A clutch con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4096922 | 1,493,932 |
1,607,069 | PI has been used extensively in analysis of the health care system, particularly in regard to communication between health care providers and patients. The health-care system inherently involves communication between health-care providers (e.g., doctors, nurses, various therapists, dietitians, social workers, counselor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11022357 | 1,606,164 |
968,453 | Bacteria in the human gut’s intestines are the most diverse in the human body and play a vital role in human health. In the gastrointestinal tract, dysbiosis manifests particularly during small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), commonly caused by a decrease in the passage of food and waste through the gastrointes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6396743 | 967,943 |
1,423,903 | Introduction to Solid State Physics, known colloquially as Kittel, is a classic condensed matter physics textbook written by American physicist Charles Kittel in 1953. The book has been highly influential and has seen widespread adoption; Marvin L. Cohen remarked in 2019 that Kittel's content choices in the original ed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65741913 | 1,423,101 |
529,393 | LTD affects hippocampal synapses between the Schaffer collaterals and the CA1 pyramidal cells. LTD at the Schaffer collateral-CA1 synapses depends on the timing and frequency of calcium influx. LTD occurs at these synapses when Schaffer collaterals are stimulated repetitively for extended time periods (10–15 minutes) a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=487921 | 529,119 |
2,081,881 | The Human Engineering Laboratory was responsible for providing the Army with human factors engineering support in the design of combat vehicles, aviation, artillery air defense, weapons, equipment, and more. Human factors engineering places more support in considering the needs and convenience of the operator early in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70607475 | 2,080,681 |
397,592 | In September 2013, Bell announced it would partner with Lockheed Martin to develop the V-280. Lockheed will provide integrated avionics, sensors, and weapons to the aircraft. Additional partners were announced in the following months, including Moog Inc. for the flight control systems, GE Aviation for the engines, GKN ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39167147 | 397,396 |
1,056,073 | The Australian archaeologist Vere Gordon Childe was one of the first to explore and expand this concept of the relationships between cultures especially in the context of prehistoric Europe. By the 1920s sufficient archaeological material had been excavated and studied to suggest that diffusionism was not the only mech... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1728479 | 1,055,525 |
699,277 | The largest radio galaxies have lobes or plumes extending to megaparsec scales (more in the case of giant radio galaxies like 3C236), implying a timescale for growth of the order of tens to hundreds of millions of years. This means that, except in the case of very small, very young sources, we cannot observe radio sour... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=211168 | 698,913 |
1,722,727 | Ultramicrobacteria are bacteria that are smaller than 0.1 μm under all growth conditions. This term was coined in 1981, describing cocci in seawater that were less than 0.3 μm in diameter. Ultramicrobacteria have also been recovered from soil and appear to be a mixture of Gram-positive, Gram-negative and cell-wall-lack... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18083680 | 1,721,757 |
240,136 | CalArts offers various undergraduate and graduate degrees in programs that are related to and combine music, art, dance, film, animation, theater, and writing. Students receive intensive professional training in an area of their creative aspirations without being cast into a rigid pattern. The Institute's overall focus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=165084 | 240,016 |
331,191 | However, Maimonides was also one of the most influential figures in medieval Jewish philosophy. His brilliant adaptation of Aristotelian thought to Biblical faith deeply impressed later Jewish thinkers, and had an unexpected immediate historical impact. Some more acculturated Jews in the century that followed his death... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19445 | 331,014 |
1,864,853 | Injuries and retirements from the side over the next year allowed new players to come into the side. Out went Atherton, Hick, Ramprakash, Gough, Cork, Tufnell and Andrew Caddick and in came Marcus Trescothick, Michael Vaughan, Andrew Flintoff, Matthew Hoggard, Simon Jones, Stephen Harmison and Ashley Giles. Hussain loo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10829204 | 1,863,781 |
2,083,183 | Vectors in Three-dimensional Space (1978) is a book concerned with physical quantities defined in "ordinary" 3-space. It was written by J. S. R. Chisholm, an English mathematical physicist, and published by Cambridge University Press. According to the author, such physical quantities are studied in Newtonian mechanics,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16303447 | 2,081,983 |
632,661 | According to Gordon Pusch, a physicist at Argonne National Laboratory, various breakeven calculations on muon-catalyzed fusion omit the heat energy the muon beam itself deposits in the target. By taking this factor into account, muon-catalyzed fusion can already exceed breakeven; however, the recirculated power is usua... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=285048 | 632,323 |
49,132 | Here, Johnny was seen living with his older sister, Susan, in fictional Glenview, Long Island, New York, where he continued high school and, with youthful naiveté, attempted to maintain a "secret identity". In "Strange Tales" #106 (March 1963), Johnny discovered that his friends and neighbors knew of his dual identity ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11664 | 49,112 |
1,617,673 | The final had twelve men toe the line. Uniquely, Murray Halberg used a sprinter's crouched start in lane 1 and sprinted into the lead from the gun. In future years, this kind of start would become forbidden in a long race. Halberg held that lead until there were two laps to go where he was passed in a rush by Mervyn Li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10658422 | 1,616,760 |
136,658 | Data centers have their roots in the huge computer rooms of the 1940s, typified by ENIAC, one of the earliest examples of a data center. Early computer systems, complex to operate and maintain, required a special environment in which to operate. Many cables were necessary to connect all the components, and methods to a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=579730 | 136,603 |
1,314,229 | Diabetes mellitus occurs throughout the world, but is more common (especially type 2) in the more developed countries. The greatest increase in prevalence is, however, occurring in low- and middle-income countries including in Asia and Africa, where most patients will probably be found by 2030. The increase in incidenc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39550875 | 1,313,508 |
1,673,684 | Filamentary damage tracks in glass caused by laser pulses were first observed by Michael Hercher in 1964. Filament propagation of laser pulses in the atmosphere was observed in 1994 by Gérard Mourou and his team at University of Michigan. The balance between the self-focusing refraction and self-attenuating diffraction... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3290067 | 1,672,742 |
232,919 | Upon taking office, Roosevelt proposed new federal regulation of trusts. As the states had not prevented the growth of what he viewed as harmful trusts, Roosevelt advocated the creation of Cabinet department designed to regulate corporations engaged in interstate commerce. He also favored amending the Interstate Commer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3520221 | 232,800 |
452,317 | He studied at Philadelphia's renowned University of Pennsylvania and later earned the degree of MD at the city's Jefferson Medical College in 1850. During the Civil War, he was director of treatment of nervous injuries and maladies at Turners Lane Hospital, Philadelphia, and at the close of the war became a specialist ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=853456 | 452,098 |
2,164,576 | In his book, "Galileo Courtier: The Practice of Science in the Culture of Absolutism," Mario Biagioli looks to shed light on the ways in which a society characterized by patronage relationships affected one of astronomy's, and modern science's, greatest heroes: Galileo Galilei. Biagioli looks to uncover aspects of Gali... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26849705 | 2,163,339 |
1,718,719 | The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a collection of 17 global goals set by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015. Biodiversity and ecosystems feature prominently across many of the SDGs and associated targets. They contribute directly to human well-being and development priorities. Biodiversity is at the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60945092 | 1,717,749 |
694,098 | In the early 20th century, Albert Mathews seminally correlated regeneration of a cnidarian polyp with the potential difference between polyp and stolon surfaces, and affected regeneration by imposing countercurrents. Amedeo Herlitzka, following on the wound electric currents footsteps of his mentor, du Bois-Raymond, th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55498066 | 693,735 |
1,861,101 | In 2006 and 2007, the European Distributed Institute for Taxonomy held workshops to propose protected areas as potential ATBI pilot sites, and between 2007 and 2008 established two large pilots in the Maritime Alps and the Gemer Region of Slovakia. The rationale for these and other areas was:“The increasing need of sou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31897427 | 1,860,032 |
998,554 | Variations on the case-control approach. A common alternative to case-control GWA studies is the analysis of quantitative phenotypic data, e.g. height or biomarker concentrations or even gene expression. Likewise, alternative statistics designed for dominance or recessive penetrance patterns can be used. Calculations a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11808249 | 998,036 |
1,184,468 | The various cell structures in the human body must be vascularized to receive the nutrients and gas exchange in order to survive. Similarly, 3D cell cultures in vitro require certain levels of fluid circulation, which can be problematic for dense, 3D cultures where cells may not all have adequate exposure to nutrients.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39905795 | 1,183,841 |
486,720 | Attitudes of the Russian space program and NASA towards Phase One were also of concern to the astronauts involved. Because of Russia's financial issues, many workers at the TsUP felt that the mission hardware and continuation of "Mir" was more important than the lives of the cosmonauts aboard the station. As such the p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=976586 | 486,471 |
483,241 | A 2018 study found significantly higher amounts of metals in e-cigarette vapor samples in comparison with the e-liquids before they came in contact with the customized e-cigarettes that were provided by everyday e-cigarette users. Lead and zinc were 2,000% higher and chromium, nickel, and tin were 600% higher. The e-ci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47016616 | 482,995 |
186,540 | College-level courses were offered for the first time during the 1863–64 academic year. In early 1864, the 38th Congress authorized the institution to grant and confirm college degrees and an enabling act was signed by President Lincoln on April 8. Today, April 8 is celebrated at Gallaudet as "Charter Day" in commemora... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=184191 | 186,443 |
1,860,771 | Wesleyan owns a publishing concern, Wesleyan University Press. For several decades a division of the Press, American Educational Publications, produced a series called "My Weekly Reader" which was a subscription service to elementary schools used across the country. It was sold in 1965 to Xerox Corporation for 400,000 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22260574 | 1,859,703 |
1,502,496 | Application of the Linnaean system of binomial nomenclature for species, and uninomials for genera and higher ranks, has led to many advantages but also problems with homonyms (the same name being used for multiple taxa, either inadvertently or legitimately across multiple kingdoms), synonyms (multiple names for the sa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6900845 | 1,501,650 |
522,248 | The IEEE 1344 standard for synchrophasors was completed in 1995, and reaffirmed in 2001. In 2005, it was replaced by IEEE C37.118-2005, which was a complete revision and dealt with issues concerning use of PMUs in electric power systems. The specification describes standards for measurement, the method of quantifying t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5199213 | 521,976 |
2,074,238 | When the British Medical Association formed a new sub-section devoted to tropical medicine the following year, Manson was made the president and Davidson was one of three vice-presidents. At a meeting of the sub-section in July 1898, both men presented papers on malaria. Then Manson would bring out his own text book, "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65131998 | 2,073,045 |
127,807 | Fibre-reinforced composite materials have gained popularity (despite their generally high cost) in high-performance products that need to be lightweight, yet strong enough to take harsh loading conditions such as aerospace components (tails, wings, fuselages, propellers), boat and scull hulls, bicycle frames and racing... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=157616 | 127,755 |
1,954,211 | The group absorbed new personnel, moving several times from Bradley Field to Westover Field, Massachusetts in November and then to Trumbull Field, Connecticut in January 1943 where it received the majority of personnel. Once aircraft were received and pilots proficient, the squadrons were assigned to alert duty over Ne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2872588 | 1,953,090 |
207,582 | Strong research funding helped 'elite American universities' dominate global rankings in the early 21st century, making them attractive to international students, professors and researchers. Other countries, though, are offering incentives to compete for researchers as funding is threatened in the US and US dominance o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3189597 | 207,475 |
1,704,616 | There is, as yet, little evidence that Mexico’s economy will undergo deep structural changes overnight. The absence of any industrial policy suggests that the Mexican economy will remain dependent on oil and manufactured exports associated with global value chains, as well as remittances. Mexico’s main targets, as outl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20904887 | 1,703,660 |
261,609 | Color case hardening is the predecessor of all metal coloring typically employed in the firearms industry. Contemporary heat-treatable steels did not exist or were in their infancy. Soft, low-carbon steel was used, but strong materials were needed for the receivers of firearms. Initially case hardening was used but did... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3140419 | 261,470 |
799,720 | A criticism of this method is that it can be statistically weak. Schaefer in particular has questioned how robust the claimed alignments in the Caracol are. Because of the wide variety of evidence, which can include artefacts as well as sites, there is no one way to practice archaeoastronomy. Despite this it is accepte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2864 | 799,294 |
33,491 | Over the past few years, there have been several developments toward establishing new IITs. On 1 October 2003, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee announced plans to create more IITs "by upgrading existing academic institutions that have the necessary promise and potential". Subsequent developments led to the formation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23883046 | 33,479 |
1,845,458 | In an attempt to derive data for lower altitudes and remove the stratospheric influence, several researchers have developed synthetic products that subtract the higher-altitude values from the lowest altitude (TMT) measurement. Such a data-analysis technique is dependent on modeling the effect of altitude on temperatur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30471028 | 1,844,403 |
1,894,289 | The earliest surface analyses from the United States featured a map of the continental U.S. with indications of cloud cover and wind direction arranged on an early form of what has become a station model. A general indication of the weather for various cities around the country was also included on the bottom of the ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11165739 | 1,893,205 |
153,214 | The program is focused on three objectives: Providing graduate and undergraduate students with a transformative research experience, engaging partners in rural development and food security, and facilitating public-private partnerships between the U.S. and India. The Wisconsin–India Science and Technology Exchange Prog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=422558 | 153,144 |
1,888,255 | The inaugural meeting of ILAS took place at Brigham Young University (including one day at the Sundance Mountain Resort) in Provo, Utah, USA, from August 12–15, 1989. The organizing committee consisted of Wayne Barrett, Daniel Hershkowitz, Charles Johnson, Hans Schneider, and Robert C. Thompson. Much additional support... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63337149 | 1,887,172 |
870,457 | Aside from the hybrid word processor and spreadsheet application, PipeDream, being released in versions 3 and 4 for the RISC OS desktop environment, Colton Software released a standalone word processor, Wordz, in 1993, with plans for companion applications and a degree of integration between them. The first of these co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63145 | 869,997 |
1,902,789 | Lizards have wide spread forms of osteoderms, especially on the skull roof which fuses with the present dermal bone. These cranial osteoderms are comparable to the ones on the body. Typically lizards have 2 longitudinal rows that include large medial and smaller lateral plates. These plates extend down the neck, trunk ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51692420 | 1,901,698 |
1,256,670 | In 1872-3 the College of Chemistry moved into a new building at South Kensington (now the Henry Cole wing of the Victoria and Albert museum), along with the physics and biology classes previously taught at the School of Mines. The building, built on land acquired for "educational purposes" by the commissioners of the G... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=99332 | 1,255,986 |
1,378,760 | The inhibition of apoptosis is one of the key features of cancer so finding ways to manipulate and overcome this inhibition to form the apoptosome and activate caspases are important in the development of new cancer treatments. The ability to directly cause apoptosome activation is valuable in cancer therapies because ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3736715 | 1,377,998 |
83,674 | The Standard Model of particle physics is the theory describing three of the four known fundamental forces (electromagnetic, weak and strong interactions - excluding gravity) in the universe and classifying all known elementary particles. It was developed in stages throughout the latter half of the 20th century, throug... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47641 | 83,640 |
1,042,951 | In 2003 Funaki and others proposed an approach similar to the M2P2 design and called it the MagnetoPlasma Sail (MPS) that started with a coil formula_116=0.2 m and a magnetic field falloff rate of formula_325=1.52 with injected plasma creating an effective sail radius of formula_34=26 km and assumed a conversion effici... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37845 | 1,042,407 |
1,889,414 | By January 1923, the Coast and Geodetic Survey had decided to install a Hayes sonic rangefinder – an early echo sounder – aboard the survey ship USC&GS "Guide", which the Coast and Geodetic Survey planned to commission into its fleet later that year; successful operation of the sonic rangefinder would require a precise... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52205564 | 1,888,331 |
1,088,997 | Many plant communities have evolved under low nutrient conditions; therefore, increased N inputs can alter biotic and abiotic interactions, leading to changes in community composition. Several nutrient addition studies have shown that increased N inputs lead to dominance of fast-growing plant species, with associated d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11632817 | 1,088,438 |
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