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1,568,203 | In 1946, Stubbe was born in Champaign, Illinois. In 1968, Stubbe received a BS degree in chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania, and worked as an undergraduate in the laboratory of Professor Edward R. Thornton. After she received her PhD degree in organic chemistry under the guidance of Professor George Kenyon f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22072352 | 1,567,316 |
135,743 | Dyson agreed that technically humans and additional CO emissions contribute to warming. However, he felt that the benefits of additional CO outweighed any associated negative effects. He said that in many ways increased atmospheric carbon dioxide is beneficial, and that it is increasing biological growth, agricultural ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11397 | 135,688 |
1,618,152 | PLCs catalyze the reaction in two sequential steps. The first reaction is a phosphotransferase step that involves an intramolecular attack between the hydroxyl group at the 2' position on the inositol ring and the adjacent phosphate group resulting in a cyclic IP intermediate. At this point, DAG is generated. However, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3233543 | 1,617,239 |
279,371 | With the invention of the metric system, based on powers of ten, there was an attempt to replace degrees by decimal "degrees" in France and nearby countries, where the number in a right angle is equal to 100 gon with 400 gon in a full circle (1° = gon). This was called or "grad". Due to confusion with the existing term... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1195294 | 279,221 |
1,465,255 | In a 1965 paper, Derek J. de Solla Price described the inherent linking characteristic of the SCI as "Networks of Scientific Papers". The links between citing and cited papers became dynamic when the SCI began to be published online. The Social Sciences Citation Index became one of the first databases to be mounted on ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1235972 | 1,464,432 |
922,019 | Chunks of concrete had been falling from the garage ceiling since the 1990s, and when Chancellor Collins ordered the closure, 600 spaces had already been lost due to ongoing repairs and rerouting of passenger and vehicular traffic. Because of the salt water atmosphere and the road salt from vehicles, the steel reinforc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=99867 | 921,533 |
215,826 | Rush was a leading proponent of heroic medicine. He firmly believed in such practices as bloodletting patients (a practice now known to be generally harmful, but at the time common practice), as well as purges using calomel and other toxic substances. In his report on the Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic of 1793, Rus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=260899 | 215,718 |
1,402,916 | During the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, and throughout the period of Jordanian rule of Jerusalem which ended in 1967, Jordanian authorities and military forces undertook a policy described by their military commander as "calculated destruction,", aimed at the Jewish Quarter in the Old City of Jerusalem. The Jordanian actions... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15703061 | 1,402,129 |
1,365,381 | INS Shivaji had its humble origin as replacement for the ‘Stokers’ Training School’ at HMIS Dalhousie, in Naval Dockyard, Bombay (now Mumbai). Commissioned by the then Governor of Bombay, John Colville, as HMIS Shivaji on 15 February 1945, it became INS Shivaji on 26 January 1950. To provide scope for further expansion... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46789362 | 1,364,625 |
2,077,129 | Anschütz profited directly from the rise of the National Socialists: After his Jewish institute director Stern had already been dismissed in April 1933 under the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service, Anschütz finally received the longed-for assistant position in November 1933. The position had prev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64077033 | 2,075,930 |
1,265,950 | Although the low-frequency radio system was used for decades as the main aeronautical navigation method during low visibility and night flying, it had some well-known limitations and drawbacks. Pilots had to listen to the signals, often for hours, through the early generation headsets of the day. The course lines, whic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23697364 | 1,265,262 |
4,389 | Within hours, the Chicxulub impact would have created immediate effects such as earthquakes, tsunamis, and a global firestorm that likely killed unsheltered animals and started wildfires. However, it would also have had longer-term consequences for the environment. Within days, sulphate aerosols released from rocks at ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8311 | 4,387 |
1,986,673 | Gill regularly contributes to the public understanding of climate science and conservation. She is interested in STEM diversity, how scientists embrace new media and increasing disabled access at conferences. She is the co-host of the podcast "Warm Regards" (founded July 2016) along with meteorologist Eric Holthaus and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56314819 | 1,985,531 |
1,456,700 | Five different observing authorities contributed to primary levelling sections in the Australian National Levelling Network that were used to determine the Australian Height Datum, each utilising their own levelling parties that conducted a combination of one-way and two-way levelling. These levelling parties consisted... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6715497 | 1,455,880 |
2,023,177 | From 2000–01 through 2002–03, regional rankings were the sole method for determining ACHA National Tournament bids. The inaugural 2000–01 season featured teams divided into East and West Regions, with the top four from each in February's final ranking invited to nationals. For 2001–02 and 2002–03, the setup was expande... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51386378 | 2,022,013 |
1,007,314 | Mechanical inertia is the basis of this storage method. When the electric power flows into the device, an electric motor accelerates a heavy rotating disc. The motor acts as a generator when the flow of power is reversed, slowing down the disc and producing electricity. Electricity is stored as the kinetic energy of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1646838 | 1,006,794 |
1,028,159 | Over the years, there have been a number of engine development versions, which are grouped by series numbers. The Series I collection of derivatives came out in 1954, producing a sea-level static power rating of at a ambient temperature. Successive engine follow-ups included the Series II, which was introduced in 1958 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2395247 | 1,027,625 |
1,014,558 | "Mio" will be spin stabilized at 15 rpm with the spin axis perpendicular to the equator of Mercury. It will enter a polar orbit at an altitude of , outside of MPO's orbit. The top and bottom of the octagon act as radiators with louvers for active temperature control. The sides are covered with solar cells which provide... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=551228 | 1,014,037 |
819,624 | Antibiotics in the aminoglycoside class, such as gentamicin and tobramycin, may produce cochleotoxicity through a poorly understood mechanism. It may result from antibiotic binding to NMDA receptors in the cochlea and damaging neurons through excitotoxicity. Aminoglycoside-induced production of reactive oxygen species ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=618910 | 819,183 |
1,721,258 | The FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health held a Circulatory System Devices Panel in December 2006 to review data presented by Cordis and Boston Scientific to determine if drug-eluting stents should be considered less safe than bare metal stents. It became evident at the meeting that with all the data publishe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10678092 | 1,720,288 |
1,523,894 | Friction and wear have been technological issues since ancient periods. On the one hand, the scientific approach of the last centuries towards the comprehension of the underlying mechanisms was focused on macroscopic aspects of tribology. On the other hand, in nanotribology, the systems studied are composed of nanometr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2536597 | 1,523,033 |
47,482 | Each atom in a graphene sheet is connected to its three nearest neighbors by a strong σ-bond, and contributes to a valence band one electron that extends over the whole sheet. This is the same type of bonding seen in carbon nanotubes and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and (partially) in fullerenes and glassy carbon.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=911833 | 47,463 |
1,142,061 | Modern video transmission and storage systems using the Internet and mobile networks are typically based on RTP/IP for real-time services (conversational and streaming) and on computer file formats like mp4 or 3gp. Most RTP/IP access networks are typically characterized by a wide range of connection qualities and recei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11487078 | 1,141,467 |
120,169 | Getting a cable across the Atlantic Ocean proved much more difficult. The Atlantic Telegraph Company, formed in London in 1856, had several failed attempts. A cable laid in 1858 worked poorly for a few days (sometimes taking all day to send a message despite the use of the highly sensitive mirror galvanometer developed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30010 | 120,120 |
342,989 | The simplicity of the rotary engine makes it well-suited for mini, micro, and micro-mini engine designs. The Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) Rotary Engine Lab at the University of California, Berkeley, has previously undertaken research towards the development of rotary engines of down to 1 mm in diameter, with d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33303 | 342,808 |
1,348,031 | The University of Chicago made a site occupied by tennis courts available to the Manhattan District on a one dollar lease, for the construction of a new chemistry building with of space. Stone and Webster commenced work on this in September 1942 and it was completed in December. It was soon found to be too small and an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1951235 | 1,347,290 |
1,498,585 | Overall mortality during the first year as reported in three studies (all of which included individuals treated for their TMD), range between 15 and 21% in TMD and between 4 and 12% in Downs syndrome (no "GATA1" mutation). Virtually all of the deaths occurring in TMD happened within the first 6 months. Risk factors tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68511227 | 1,497,741 |
1,588,701 | Genesereth's research is broadly based on the use of computational logic for such applications as integrating knowledge from heterogeneous sources, as a common format for exchanging knowledge, as a foundation for agent-based knowledge representation and software engineering, as an enhancement to spreadsheets known as a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62607321 | 1,587,807 |
2,140,228 | Founded in 1979, ACT was originally established to provide an organization for scientists in the field of toxicology with the goals of advancing the field of toxicology and acting as a forum for the exchange of information between regulators, academia, and industry. Although the initial focus was for environmental conc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48010779 | 2,138,998 |
862,040 | The search for new superhard materials has generally taken two paths. In the first approach, researchers emulate the short, directional covalent carbon bonds of diamond by combining light elements like boron, carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen. This approach became popular in the late 1980s with the exploration of CN and B-C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1196186 | 861,581 |
2,137,369 | Originally from Canada, Macmillan received a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering physics in 1950 from Queen's University. He later attended the University of Cambridge from 1952 to 1955, where he was a member of Gonville and Caius College, and earned a Master of Science degree. During his studies, he published se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59448768 | 2,136,140 |
2,053,505 | One of the main objectives of NA63 is to study the trident “Klein-like” production. This phenomenon happens in very strong electromagnetic fields, when an electron in motion penetrates the field and emits an electron/positron pair. For this to happen, the field must be greater than the so-called critical field E0 = 1.3... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47515861 | 2,052,323 |
254,694 | Enterovirus B includes coxsackievirus B1,2,3,4,5,6; coxsackievirus A9; echovirus 1-33 and enterovirus B69-113. Coxsackie B viruses are found worldwide and can cause myocarditis (inflammation of the heart); pericarditis (inflammation of the sac surrounding the heart); meningitis (inflammation of the membranes that line ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1190487 | 254,561 |
2,175,493 | is an automated telescope designed to slew very rapidly to the location of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), to enable the simultaneous measurement of optical counterparts. Since GRBs can occur anywhere in the sky, are often poorly localized, and fade very quickly, this implies very rapid slewing (less than 10 sec) and a wide f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34332578 | 2,174,249 |
153,343 | Flowers and his team of some fifty people in the switching group spent eleven months from early February 1943 designing and building a machine that dispensed with the second tape of the Heath Robinson, by generating the wheel patterns electronically. Flowers used some of his own money for the project. This prototype, M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6229 | 153,273 |
477,716 | The basic concept is rather unconventional: the car is driven by a central "power module", also known as a "powerpack" or a "drive container", powered on both axles. Two light end modules, each with a bogie, rest on the power module, which produces useful traction weight on the driving axles. The end modules also use t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4941360 | 477,476 |
1,735,675 | The history of orienteering begins in the late 19th century in Sweden, where it originated as military training. The actual term "orienteering" was first used in 1886 at the Swedish Military Academy Karlberg and meant the crossing of unknown land with the aid of a map and a compass. The competitive sport began when the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19116173 | 1,734,698 |
798,418 | The gender disparity in IT is not global. The ratio of female to male computer scientists is significantly higher in India compared to the West, and in 2015, over half of internet entrepreneurs in China were women. In Europe, Bulgaria and Romania have the highest rates of women going into computer programming. In gover... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2279544 | 797,993 |
241,234 | In November 2008, the U.S. Department of Energy, which had oversight over the reactor in Oak Ridge, allowed the scientific use of the extracted berkelium. The production lasted 250 days and ended in late December 2008, resulting in 22 milligrams of berkelium, enough to perform the experiment. In January 2009, the berke... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67611 | 241,114 |
616,492 | The crew of Coast Guard HC-130H CGNR 1500 were instrumental in saving the lives of ten crew members from Navy P3C PD-2 "Alfa Foxtrot 586" (Bureau No. 159892) after that aircraft ditched in the North Pacific Ocean west of Shemya Island on 26 October 1978. Arriving on scene after dark in turbulent weather, CG 1500 marked... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6204230 | 616,178 |
702,060 | Robert Gordon was a Scottish merchant, who had grown up in Aberdeen and graduated from Marischal College. Following a successful career, mostly in Danzig where he amassed a fortune, he retired to Aberdeen around 1720. In the last decade of his life, he prepared plans for a Hospital similar to that founded in Edinburgh ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=381864 | 701,695 |
456,816 | Another approach some companies have used to prevent clones is via trademarks as to prevent clones and knockoffs. Notably, King have gotten a United States trademark on the word "Candy" in the area of video games to protect clones and player confusion for their game "Candy Crush Saga". They have also sought to block th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53955866 | 456,593 |
2,114,742 | The roughly barrel-shaped AdiC subunit of approx. 45 Å diameter consists of 12 transmembrane helices, TMS1 and TMS6 being interrupted by short non-helical stretches in the middle of their transmembrane spans. Biochemical analysis of homologues places the amino and carboxy termini on the intracellular side of the membra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49101146 | 2,113,527 |
514,830 | The gun bearing factory designation 19-K (Cyrillic "19-К") was a combination of a modified carriage of the 37 mm anti-tank gun model 1930 (built according to a documentation bought from Rheinmetall) with a 45 mm barrel designed in March 1932. and adopted by the Red Army on March 23, 1932. The 45 mm caliber was selected... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52709187 | 514,564 |
231,322 | Dietary minerals are inorganic chemical elements required by living organisms, other than the four elements carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen that are present in nearly all organic molecules. Some have roles as cofactors, while others are electrolytes. The term "mineral" is archaic, since the intent is to describe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=93827 | 231,203 |
557,258 | To obtain funding for the cyclotron that he wanted, Oliphant wrote to the British prime minister, Neville Chamberlain, who was from Birmingham. Chamberlain took up the matter with his friend Lord Nuffield, who provided £60,000 () for the project, enough for the cyclotron, a new building to house it, and a trip to Berke... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=315710 | 556,969 |
1,247,936 | The landing was controlled by automatic firing of its Draco thrusters during the atmospheric reentry. In a carefully timed sequence of events, dual drogue parachutes deploy at an altitude of to stabilize and slow the spacecraft. The full deployment of the drogues triggers the release of the three main parachutes, each ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29971322 | 1,247,260 |
575,166 | Following the reports in 2007 that Avandia can significantly increase the risk of heart attacks, the drug has been controversial. A 2010 article in "Time" uses the Avandia case as evidence of a broken FDA regulatory system that "may prove criminal as well as fatal". It details the disclosure failures, adding, "Congress... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=604046 | 574,872 |
897,079 | Induced pluripotent stem cells, commonly abbreviated as iPS cells or iPSCs, are a type of pluripotent stem cell artificially derived from a non-pluripotent cell, typically an adult somatic cell, by inducing a "forced" expression of certain genes and transcription factors. These transcription factors play a key role in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26982208 | 896,607 |
1,901,535 | In 1952, a team from the Netherlands was invited to compete with the British team. This was the first International Stoke Mandeville Games, an event that is generally recognized as the precursor to the present day Paralympic Games. The focus for NWAA and later, WSUSA, during the first four decades was competitive sport... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34184676 | 1,900,446 |
32,974 | On 30 October 1935, a test flight determining the rate of climb and service ceiling was planned. The command pilot was Major Ployer Peter Hill, Wright Field Material Division Chief of the Flying Branch, his first flight in the Model 299. Copilot was Lieutenant Donald Putt, while Boeing chief test pilot Leslie R. Tower ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4997 | 32,962 |
1,551,307 | In 1935 one of Blair's recent arrivals, Roger B. Colton, convinced him to send an engineer to investigate the US Navy's CXAM radar project. The navy's system traced its development from experiments conducted by Albert H. Taylor and Leo C. Young at the United States Naval Research Laboratory in the early 1920s. William ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3511504 | 1,550,426 |
1,376,479 | Katz graduated from Johns Hopkins University (BA 1964) and from Princeton University, where in 1965 he received his master's degree and in 1966 he received his doctorate under supervision of Bernard Dwork with thesis "On the Differential Equations Satisfied by Period Matrices". After that, at Princeton, he was an instr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1451427 | 1,375,717 |
454,326 | Charitable members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Virginia established the school in Ferrum, Virginia in 1913 to provide educational opportunities to underprivileged youth in the state's Blue Ridge Mountains region. The Virginia Conference Woman's Home Missionary Society (VCWHMS) under President Mrs. Lee Britt wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2273027 | 454,104 |
594,030 | Theoretical work has extended the original model to include the effects of dissipation and damping, typically via a phenomenological approach. Proposed extensions have also incorporated the inclusion of multiple modes of the quantum field, allowing for coupling to additional energy levels within the atom, or the presen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5907185 | 593,725 |
295,630 | The most successful eurypterid by far was the Middle to Late Silurian "Eurypterus", a generalist, equally likely to have engaged in predation or scavenging. Thought to have hunted mainly small and soft-bodied invertebrates, such as worms, species of the genus (of which the most common is the type species, "E. remipes")... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=765459 | 295,470 |
1,402,366 | In 1970, William A. Woods introduced the augmented transition network (ATN) to represent natural language input. Instead of "phrase structure rules" ATNs used an equivalent set of finite state automata that were called recursively. ATNs and their more general format called "generalized ATNs" continued to be used for a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27837170 | 1,401,579 |
846,127 | It was the first genetic disease treated with hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (osteoclasts are derived from hematopoietic precursors). There is no cure, although curative therapy with bone marrow transplantion is being investigated in clinical trials. It is believed the healthy marrow will provide cells from wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=526100 | 845,677 |
405,844 | Although still only available at Magnavox dealers, national marketing for Odyssey began in late 1973. The company lowered the price to US$50 if purchased with a television. The console was released that year with different games in 12 other countries: Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, the Sovi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=77262 | 405,644 |
2,187,709 | Water chemistry of anchialine systems are directly related to the amount of connectivity to the adjacent marine and freshwater inputs, and evaporative losses. Major nutrient compositions (carbon, nitrate, phosphate, and silicate) from the ocean and groundwater sources determine the biogeochemical cycles in an anchialin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72402042 | 2,186,461 |
815,413 | Reacting to the high price of oil and its growing dependence on imports, in 1975 Brazil launched the Pro-alcool program, a huge government-subsidized effort to manufacture ethanol fuel (from its sugar cane crop) and ethanol-powered automobiles. These ethanol-only vehicles were very popular in the 1980s, but became econ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8340209 | 814,979 |
1,034,386 | Laura Deming is the daughter of John and Tabitha Deming; she grew up in New Zealand. Deming and her brother, Trey, were homeschooled; she says she taught herself "calculus and probability and statistics, and French literature and history". At age 8, Deming became interested in the biology of aging, and at age 12 she jo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48900102 | 1,033,849 |
2,087,049 | Freely available Global Atmospheric Models such as ERA5 data are generated using Copernicus Climate Change Service Information developed for numerical weather prediction. These models can provide accurate and high-resolution (still is coarse for InSAR studies) parameters for characterizing the atmosphere state. Therefo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71698021 | 2,085,847 |
859,311 | The functional unit of the eye is the photoreceptor cell, which contains the opsin proteins and responds to light by initiating a nerve impulse. The light sensitive opsins are borne on a hairy layer, to maximise the surface area. The nature of these "hairs" differs, with two basic forms underlying photoreceptor structu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5645086 | 858,853 |
943,424 | Dye can be used in water, or smoke in air, in order to see streaklines, from which pathlines can be calculated. Streaklines are identical to streamlines for steady flow. Further, dye can be used to create timelines. The patterns guide design modifications, aiming to reduce the drag. This task is known as "streamlining"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=166086 | 942,922 |
1,082,623 | Operation of technologies involving long-term geologic storage of waste fluids have been shown to induce seismic activity in nearby areas, and correlation of periods of seismic dormancy with minima in injection volumes and pressures has even been demonstrated for fracking wastewater injection in Youngstown, Ohio. Of pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1016556 | 1,082,066 |
108,898 | Since the early days of communication, diplomats and military commanders understood that it was necessary to provide some mechanism to protect the confidentiality of correspondence and to have some means of detecting tampering. Julius Caesar is credited with the invention of the Caesar cipher c. 50 B.C., which was crea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15036 | 108,853 |
231,071 | The AW609 is powered by a pair of Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6C-67A turboshaft engines, which each drive a three-bladed proprotor. These engines possess roughly twice the horsepower of the similarly sized AgustaWestland AW169 helicopter. Both of the engine and proprotor pairs are mounted on a load-bearing rotatable pylon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=840022 | 230,952 |
1,591,271 | Hormones are known to regulate heteroblastic change in plants. One hormone that has been identified is gibberellin. In a study, it was used to spontaneously revert the mature form of Hedera "helix" (a common English ivy) to its juvenile form. After being sprayed with gibberellin acid some of the ivies began to produce ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44815911 | 1,590,376 |
760,037 | Until the development of non-lethal weapons, police officers around the world had few if any non-lethal options for riot control. Common tactics used by police that were intended to be non-lethal or less lethal included a slowly advancing wall of men with batons, officers on horses trained to deal with policing situati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=146808 | 759,631 |
1,514,275 | Sharma founded the Indian Institute of Advanced Research in 2006, helped by endowments from the Puri Foundation for Education in India, to conduct research and provide higher education in plant sciences, human health, biomolecular medicine and bioinformatics. She served as president and executive director until 2012, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43995033 | 1,513,424 |
150,129 | Stevens Institute of Technology opened in 1870, offering a rigorous engineering curriculum grounded in scientific principles and the humanities. The original course of study was a single, rigorous curriculum based upon the European Polytechnic model of engineering science (following the French and German scientific and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=292132 | 150,061 |
747,645 | During the original planning stages for the early Space Shuttle missions, NASA management under the Carter Administration felt a need to undertake initial tests of the system prior to the first orbital flight. To that end, Vice President Walter F. Mondale as chairman of the National Space Council suggested a suborbital... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=177543 | 747,249 |
1,807,433 | In 1996, six traits were indicated distinguishing "C. lewisi" from other species. The bifurcated vertebrae of the neck and back have a narrow but deep cleft incising the tops of the neural spines, resulting in a V-shaped transverse profile instead of the U-shaped profile typical of "Camarasaurus" species. The bifurcati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4290515 | 1,806,414 |
853,029 | In their paper, Gould and Lewontin employed the analogy of spandrels in Renaissance architecture, such as the curved areas of masonry between arches supporting a dome that arise as a consequence of decisions about the shape of the arches and the base of the dome, rather than being designed for the artistic purposes for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7335684 | 852,575 |
2,172,253 | Darrell Nicholson wrote in a review in "Practical Sailor", "the Etap 37 occupies a spot at the high end of the market when measured against most production boats of similar size. However, she is priced competitively compared to quality boats designed for offshore passages. Buyers will pay a premium for her unsinkabilit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67303433 | 2,171,012 |
585,928 | A pair of LOX tanks (similar to those used in the Apollo service module) would provide, along with small tanks of nitrogen, the crew with breathing air at sea-level or "cruising altitude" pressure (1 or 0.7 atm), with a small "surge tank" providing necessary life support during reentry and touchdown. Lithium hydroxide ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38310558 | 585,628 |
181,089 | Certain aircraft have presented unusual pressurization scenarios. The supersonic airliner Concorde had a particularly high pressure differential due to flying at unusually high altitude: up to while maintaining a cabin altitude of . This not only increased airframe weight, but also saw the use of smaller cabin windows ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1488888 | 180,995 |
61,436 | The genus "Salmonella" is part of the family of Enterobacteriaceae. Its taxonomy has been revised and has the potential to confuse. The genus comprises two species, "S. bongori" and "S. enterica", the latter of which is divided into six subspecies: "S. e. enterica", "S. e. salamae", "S. e. arizonae", "S. e. diarizonae"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42114 | 61,411 |
60,032 | Subsequent studies have sought to determine the precise relationships within this part of the evolutionary tree, with conflicting results regarding the question whether "Styracosaurus albertensis" or "Einiosaurus" might have been in the direct line of ascent to "Achelousaurus". In 2005, an analysis by Michael Ryan and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1792493 | 60,007 |
2,148,940 | During the next several years, the department experienced growth in a number of areas, including bringing in new faculty members. Some came on tenure lines, others as temporary, especially during tight budget times, and still others replacing those who moved elsewhere. The temporary faculty played important roles in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47120039 | 2,147,709 |
1,624,630 | Explanations for the decline vary. From a market perspective, the simplest explanation is substitution by fossil fuels, which proved cheaper for industrial production of many materials. Beyond this, misaligned incentives and cultural aspects of the industry may have restrained investor enthusiasm and adoption by farmer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2468801 | 1,623,714 |
2,146,379 | Rossi's academic career was conducted at the University of Pisa, where he attained a doctorate in philosophy and medicine in 1759. He was then made a professor of logic in 1763, a position he held until 1801, when he finally received the chair for natural history with the special field "insectology", making him the wor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5114688 | 2,145,148 |
73 | Historically, device manufacturers and mobile carriers have typically been unsupportive of third-party firmware development. Manufacturers express concern about improper functioning of devices running unofficial software and the support costs resulting from this. Moreover, modified firmware such as CyanogenMod sometime... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12610483 | 73 |
710,036 | In physics, transport phenomena are all irreversible processes of statistical nature stemming from the random continuous motion of molecules, mostly observed in fluids. Every aspect of transport phenomena is grounded in two primary concepts : the conservation laws, and the constitutive equations. The conservation laws,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27147535 | 709,665 |
571,756 | The growth of trade in Greece led to the development of financial techniques. Most merchants, lacking sufficient cash assets, resorted to borrowing to finance all or part of their expeditions. A typical loan for a large venture in 4th century BC Athens, was generally a large sum of cash (usually less than 2,000 drachma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5425195 | 571,465 |
1,061,445 | In the 1780s for the French Academy of Sciences, Lavoisier, Laplace, and Seguin investigated and published relationships between direct calorimetry and respiratory gas exchanges from mammalian subjects. 100 years later in the 19th century for the Connecticut-based Wesleyan University, Professors Atwater and Rosa provid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1660393 | 1,060,892 |
1,698,903 | From the mid-16th century onwards, the university of Douai had Europe-wide influence as a prominent centre of neo-Latin literature, contributing also to the dissemination of printed knowledge. With 1,500 to 2,000 registered students and several hundred professors, it was the second largest university of France during t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3626573 | 1,697,949 |
864,111 | The power of isospin symmetry and related methods comes from the observation that families of particles with similar masses tend to correspond to the invariant subspaces associated with the irreducible representations of the Lie algebra SU(2). In this context, an invariant subspace is spanned by basis vectors which cor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=672218 | 863,651 |
1,125,266 | In his 1838 work "Epicrisis Systematis Mycologici seu Synopsis Hymenomycetum", Elias Magnus Fries introduced the "Polyporei". August Corda published the name validly the following year, retaining Fries's concept. American mycologist William Alphonso Murrill, in a series of publications in the early 1900s, classified th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3075404 | 1,124,691 |
750,538 | The history of the submarine spans the entire history of human endeavour as mankind has since early civilisation sought to explore and travel under the sea. Humanity has employed a variety of methods to travel underwater for exploration, recreation, research and significantly warfare. While early attempts, such as thos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4551386 | 750,140 |
435,242 | The Visitor Centre at the VanDusen Botanical Garden in Vancouver, British Columbia was designed in parallel with the regenerative design framework developed by Perkins+Will. The site of the new visitor center was 17,575 m and the building itself 1,784 m. A four stage process was identified and included: education and p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14967273 | 435,028 |
1,998,934 | While a graduate student, Crutchfield and students from the University of California, Santa Cruz (including Doyne Farmer) built a series of computers that were capable of calculating the motion of a moving roulette ball, predicting which numbers could be excluded from the outcome. Equipped with hidden electronic equipm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35918217 | 1,997,790 |
1,968,427 | Infection with cereal cyst nematode is associated with a reduction in grain yield which may be of significant proportions. Thresholds of harmfulness depend on the population density of the nematode and differ among various cultivars and varieties. The weather conditions and soil types are also an important factor, with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11906863 | 1,967,294 |
1,485,496 | The seeds of the idea that would become King's College were planted in a sermon in October 1826 by Hugh James Rose – then Christian Advocate at the University of Cambridge, later the first Professor of Divinity at Durham University and the second Principal of King's. A year later, on 30 October 1827, a letter from 'Alp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49301271 | 1,484,659 |
369,374 | The current energy system contributes to many environmental problems, including climate change, air pollution, biodiversity loss, the release of toxins into the environment, and water scarcity. As of 2019, 85% of the world's energy needs are met by burning fossil fuels. Energy production and consumption are responsible... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1055890 | 369,181 |
236,894 | Alex makes contact with his sister, Dana, who assists him in tracking down targets, leading to the infiltration of Gentek headquarters, where Alex encounters a young woman called Elizabeth Greene who is contained in the building. Greene is a host for Blacklight, and upon her escape, she unleashes it upon Manhattan. Dan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12374528 | 236,775 |
1,462,530 | By ejecting the French from North America, the British victory made it impossible for the Iroquois and other native groups to play off rival European powers against one another. The Indians who had been allied with France realized their weak position when Amherst cancelled the gift-giving. They reacted quickly to Brita... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25885927 | 1,461,707 |
99,006 | The psychosocial adaptation of girls and women with trisomy X is dependent on environmental factors. Girls growing up in stable environments with healthy home lives tend to have relatively high adaptive and social functioning, while significant behavioural and psychological issues are predominantly seen in those from t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67599209 | 98,963 |
155,306 | As a subset of plastic, FR plastics are liable to a number of the issues and concerns in plastic waste disposal and recycling. Plastics pose a particular challenge in recycling because they are derived from polymers and monomers that often cannot be separated and returned to their virgin states. For this reason not all... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=944339 | 155,236 |
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