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336,333 | On 29 May 1969, during the Paris Air Show, French transport minister Jean Chamant and German economics minister Karl Schiller signed an agreement officially launching the Airbus A300, the world's first twin-engine widebody airliner. The intention of the project was to produce an aircraft that was smaller, lighter, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2524 | 336,155 |
1,420,364 | The HNMT enzyme resides in the cytosol intracellular fluid. Whereas DAO metabolizes extracellular free histamine, be it either exogenous came with food or mostly endogenous released from granules of mast cells and basophils as a result of allergic reactions, in view of the fact that DAO is mainly expressed in the cells... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11472211 | 1,419,564 |
1,003,079 | Prenatal genetic counseling may help with the decision-making process by walking patients through examples of what some people might do in similar situations, and their rationale for choosing that option. Decisions made by patients are affected by factors including timing, accuracy of information provided by tests, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=251487 | 1,002,561 |
1,256 | Tesla read many works, memorizing complete books, and supposedly possessed a photographic memory. He was a polyglot, speaking eight languages: Serbo-Croatian, Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, and Latin. Tesla related in his autobiography that he experienced detailed moments of inspiration. During his... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21473 | 1,256 |
682,249 | When it arrived to the western market, it was already named charoite. Common tradenames include charoite jade and lilac stone. Although considering its rarity and only type locality, even the highest quality charoite gemstones cost only a few dollars a carat, usually costing between 1.10 - $3 per carat. In its price, c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2206919 | 681,893 |
154,677 | The proposition of social learning was expanded upon and theorized by Canadian psychologist Albert Bandura. Bandura, along with his students and colleagues conducted a series of studies, known as the Bobo doll experiment, in 1961 and 1963 to find out why and when children display aggressive behaviors. These studies dem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7715915 | 154,607 |
1,188,877 | On 15 November 2010, Yurchikhin participated in a spacewalk with cosmonaut and Expedition 25 flight engineer Oleg Skripochka. At 13:25 UTC, he and Skripochka ventured into space outside the ISS from the Pirs airlock to conduct Russian EVA #26. The spacewalk lasted six hours and 27 minutes. It was the fifth for Yurchikh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=677314 | 1,188,245 |
1,002,083 | Houdini is bundled with a production-class renderer, Mantra, which had many similarities to RenderMan in its scope and application in its initial incarnation. Micropolygon rendering is supported, allowing high-quality displacement operations as well as traditional scan-line and raytracing modes. Shaders are scriptable ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=908456 | 1,001,565 |
23,354 | Bacon has been called the father of empiricism. He argued for the possibility of scientific knowledge based only upon inductive reasoning and careful observation of events in nature. He believed that science could be achieved by the use of a sceptical and methodical approach whereby scientists aim to avoid misleading t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11319 | 23,345 |
1,100,071 | Two further studies in the 1990s gave mixed results. One was an X chromosome linkage analysis of 54 pairs of gay brothers carried out by the independent research group of Sanders "et al." in 1998. The results of the study were indistinguishable from the results of the study by Hu "et al.": both reported that the chromo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6341158 | 1,099,511 |
632,946 | Shape and gravity observations collected by "Cassini" suggest a roughly 400 km radius rocky core surrounded by a roughly 160 km envelope of HO, mainly in the form of water ice, but with some models suggesting that the lowermost part of this layer could be in the form of an internal liquid salt water ocean (a situation ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=208186 | 632,608 |
1,894,293 | Despite the introduction of the Norwegian cyclone model just after World War I, the United States did not formally analyze fronts on surface analyses until August 1, 1941, just before the WBAN Analysis Center opened in downtown Washington, D.C. The effort to automate map plotting began in the United States in 1969, wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11165739 | 1,893,209 |
1,515,140 | In what ACS calls "one-to-one computing", every student in the fifth group through the eighth group receives a tablet computer, which they use to manage their daily schedules, work on class assignments, and prepare special projects. Students in early childhood and junior kindergarten have shared tablets available, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8052357 | 1,514,289 |
540,775 | Three drug classes have been used to inhibit H/K-ATPases. H-receptor antagonists, like cimetidine (Tagamet), inhibit the signaling pathway that leads to activation of the ATPase. This type of inhibitor is effective in treating ulcers but does not prevent them from forming, and patients develop tolerance to them after a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4976789 | 540,495 |
338,822 | The large coal deposits of the Carboniferous may owe their existence primarily to two factors. The first of these is the appearance of wood tissue and bark-bearing trees. The evolution of the wood fiber lignin and the bark-sealing, waxy substance suberin variously opposed decay organisms so effectively that dead materi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5401 | 338,642 |
461,900 | Unlike Alpha, SPARC, and MIPS that only allows one register file to load/fetch one operand at the time; it would require multiple register files to achieve superscale. The ARM processor on the other hand does not integrate multiple register files to load/fetch instructions. ARM GPRs have no special purpose to the instr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1680216 | 461,671 |
356,049 | In 1968, the Maharishi conducted a one-hour meeting with Secretary General of the United Nations U Thant. In the 1970s, courses in the TM technique were conducted at 47 military installations around the world (including eight in the U.S.), with 150 enrolling in the course at the West Point military academy. The TM tech... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28677895 | 355,866 |
218,210 | The university's first library, housed at the time in what was meant to be a temporary construction, was destroyed in a fire on Christmas Eve in 1931. Following this, an appeal was made to the public for £80,000 to pay for the construction of a new library, and the acquisition of books. This resulted in the fairly rapi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=320467 | 218,102 |
688,666 | Although sound perception is primarily ascribed with the AVS, the ADS appears associated with several aspects of speech perception. For instance, in a meta-analysis of fMRI studies in which the auditory perception of phonemes was contrasted with closely matching sounds, and the studies were rated for the required level... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1732213 | 688,305 |
1,594,939 | As of 2007, participation in post-secondary education in the Maritimes was higher than the national average, with approximately a 28% participation rate in New Brunswick (NB), while Canada as a whole hovered around 20-26%; this could be partly attributed to the high enrolment of out-of-province students who chose to at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17662787 | 1,594,041 |
1,088,674 | Since CARS is such a nonlinear process there are not really any 'typical' experimental numbers. One example is given below under the explicit warning that just changing the pulse duration by one order of magnitude changes the CARS signal by three orders of magnitude. The comparison should only be used as an indication ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2405272 | 1,088,115 |
1,173,737 | By using an oral DNA vaccine carried in an attenuated non-virulent form of Salmonella typhimurium, which co-encoded secretory chemokine CCL21 and survivin protein in C57BL/6J mice, Xiang "et al." have been able to elicit an immune response carried out by dendritic cells (DCs) and CTLs to eliminate and suppress the pulm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8310787 | 1,173,115 |
80,045 | The eyes of pinnipeds are relatively large for their size and are positioned near the front of the head. One exception is the walrus, whose smaller eyes are located on the sides of its head. This is because it feeds on immobile bottom dwelling mollusks and hence does not need acute vision. A seal's eye is adapted for s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60261 | 80,012 |
1,903,164 | There are two serious problems driving the emergence of Transition Engineering; the exponential growth in the concentration of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere and the lack of growth and imminent decline of conventional oil production sometimes characterised as peak oil. The concentration of carbon dioxide in the a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39425504 | 1,902,072 |
45,938 | Alumni working in politics include state governors, members of the United States Congress, and former United States secretary of state Condoleezza Rice. Notable alumni from the College of Science are Eric F. Wieschaus, winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in medicine, and Philip Majerus, discoverer of the cardioprotective ef... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=146269 | 45,920 |
2,033,825 | Divalents Lanthanides are extremely reducing (can reduce alkali cations) compounds. Of these divalent lanthanides, Samarium(II) iodide, SmI, is a common reducing agent that is used in a variety of synthetic applications, mainly because all other divalent lanthanides are unstable. Complexes of Sm(II) have also been inve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22809644 | 2,032,652 |
1,279,177 | STS-131 "Discovery" (April 5 to 20, 2010), a resupply mission to the International Space Station, was launched at night from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. On arrival at the station, "Discovery"s crew dropped off more than 27,000 pounds of hardware, supplies and equipment, including a tank full of ammonia coolant t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6919200 | 1,278,483 |
756,108 | Stridsbåt 90 H(alv) (Strb 90 H; CB90) is a class of fast military assault craft used by several countries after being originally developed for the Swedish Navy by Dockstavarvet. Its name means Combat Boat 90 Half; the "90" refers to the year of acceptance (1990) and "Half" refers to the fact that it can carry and deplo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4008483 | 755,705 |
1,996,458 | For fiscal year 2019-2020, MSU's "total" research expenditures were $713.2 million, and "Federally" funded research expenditures were $329.7 million, capping a long history of productive research. In the late 19th century, botany professor William J. Beal's research consisted of using cross-fertilization leading to hyb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5056021 | 1,995,315 |
1,436,750 | Levine briefly returned to UC Berkeley as a postdoctoral fellow with Gerry Rubin. He then joined the faculty of Columbia University, where he "led the discovery of the modular organization of the regulatory regions of developmental genes." After isolating the "even-skipped" ("eve") gene, Levine's team determined that e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36580976 | 1,435,941 |
1,504,875 | In all of these examples a spectrum is acquired that spans the entire mid-IR range for each pixel, this is considerably more powerful than measuring the absorption of a single wavelength as is the case for AFM-IR when using either the method of Dazzi "et al". or Hill "et al". Reading and his group demonstrated how, bec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44893854 | 1,504,029 |
1,309,273 | A rift began to emerge between developed and developing countries over pre-2020 action. On the first day of the conference, developing countries, including China and India, asked for an agenda item to discuss this issue, which refers to the emission cuts that developed countries are required to make prior to 2020 under... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55794633 | 1,308,557 |
2,144,435 | Saurodektes is an extinct genus of owenettid procolophonoid parareptile known from the earliest Triassic deposits of Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. It was first named by Sean P. Modesto, Ross J. Damiani, Johann Neveling and Adam M. Yates in 2003 and the type species is Saurodectes rogersorum. The generic name "Sa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40712064 | 2,143,204 |
611,404 | One of CDC's greatest commercial successes with PLATO was an online testing system developed for National Association of Securities Dealers (now the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority), a private-sector regulator of the US securities markets. During the 1970s Michael Stein, E. Clarke Porter and PLATO veteran Jim G... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1000474 | 611,093 |
1,862,339 | Michigan, who was led by 2013 national player of the year Trey Burke, was a #4 seed in the South Regional of the 2013 NCAA tournament. In the 2nd round, Glenn Robinson III scored 21 points to lead the Wolverines past South Dakota State 71-56. In the 3rd Round, Michigan crushed VCU with a 78–53 win to advance to the Swe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42421429 | 1,861,270 |
330,209 | Hatching may take as long as two or three days to complete, as the shell of the egg is thick. Newly hatched chicks are semi-altricial, covered with only a thin layer of down and entirely dependent on their parents for food and warmth. The chick usually hatches before the mother's return, and the father feeds it a curd-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=223204 | 330,034 |
1,353,389 | Students are admitted to the school on musical ability and talent. The application process involves an audition, and advance 'advice auditions' are offered to help potential applicants to prepare. In addition to competency in playing an instrument, qualities such as aural awareness, creativity and ability to sight-read... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=483941 | 1,352,642 |
1,595,845 | A second generation of SID methods attempted to make SID methods directly operate on input-output measurements of the LTI system in the decade 1985–1995. One such generalization was presented under the name of the Eigensystem Realization Algorithm (ERA) made use of specific input-output measurements considering the imp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54150730 | 1,594,946 |
444,860 | Use of oxygen or sulfur as the nucleophilic atom causes minor differences in catalysis. Compared to oxygen, sulfur's extra d orbital makes it larger (by 0.4 Å) and softer, allows it to form longer bonds (d and d by 1.3-fold), and gives it a lower p"K" (by 5 units). Serine is therefore more dependent than cysteine on op... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2533237 | 444,645 |
1,409,443 | Japaridze’s computability logic is a game-semantical approach to logic in an extreme sense, treating games as targets to be serviced by logic rather than as technical or foundational means for studying or justifying logic. Its starting philosophical point is that logic is meant to be a universal, general-utility intell... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=617121 | 1,408,651 |
2,243,053 | Braddy erected in 1995 "P. macdonaldi" for Lower Permian trackways found in the Hueco Formation of New Mexico, becoming the youngest species of the ichnogenus. The specimens, including holotype P23404, are housed in the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. The ichnospecies is named in honor of Jerry MacDon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15331437 | 2,241,782 |
296,905 | The buildings sector accounts for 23% of global energy-related emissions. About half of the energy is used for space and water heating. Building insulation can reduce the primary energy demand significantly. Efficient electric heating and cooling loads may also provide a flexible resource that can participate in demand... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2119179 | 296,745 |
1,835,057 | Hartmann had been under surveillance in the Soviet Union, since 1947, for “anti-Soviet statements and attitudes.” After his return to Germany, he was the subject of the intelligence investigation "Tablette" (Tablet). Hartmann's reading of foreign scientific journals, as well as his management style, brought suspicion o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15281946 | 1,834,008 |
1,952,879 | Her opera, "Speechless", was first performed in February 2019 at the Perth Festival. Hope wrote it as a response to "The Forgotten Children: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention" presented by the 2014 Human Rights Commission. "Australian Arts Review" writer described it as, "a compelling, courageous ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4234907 | 1,951,758 |
690,831 | In 1921 Wright's path analysis became the theoretical ancestor of causal modeling and causal graphs. He developed this approach while attempting to untangle the relative impacts of heredity, development and environment on guinea pig coat patterns. He backed up his then-heretical claims by showing how such analyses coul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6672748 | 690,468 |
667,835 | Latin America has some of the world's highest rates of women studying scientific fields; it also shares with the Caribbean one of the highest proportions of female researchers: 44%. Of the 12 countries reporting data for the years 2010–2013, seven have achieved gender parity, or even dominate research: Bolivia (63%), V... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3135183 | 667,487 |
1,865,190 | Barbara Demeneix was nominated to the Chair of Comparative Physiology in the National Museum of Natural History in Paris in 1995. This position was previously held by Claude Bernard, Jean-Pierre Flourens and Frédéric Cuvier. In 1998 she took on the twin direction of Museum Comparative Physiology Laboratory and the CNRS... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54237668 | 1,864,117 |
846,718 | First multi-campus university of Pakistan, having five modern campuses based in different cities. These campuses are located in Chiniot-Faisalabad,Sheen Academy, Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore and Peshawar, providing standard educational environment and recreational facilities to 11,000 students, out of which 500 are facul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1237204 | 846,268 |
897,214 | A seasonal dead zone exists in the central part of Lake Erie from east of Point Pelee to Long Point and stretches to shores in Canada and the United States. Between the months of July and October the dead zone has the ability to grow to the size of 10,000 square kilometers. Lake Erie has an excess of phosphorus due to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=626072 | 896,742 |
362,080 | The prefrontal cortex is of significant importance when top-down processing is needed. Top-down processing by definition is when behavior is guided by internal states or intentions. According to the two, “The PFC is critical in situations when the mappings between sensory inputs, thoughts, and actions either are weakly... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1967493 | 361,890 |
1,322,462 | One limitation of this assay is that there could be inconsistencies with the depth and size of the scratch. When the scratch is done manually, it's susceptible to 'ragged' edge boundaries, which make analyzing data more difficult. Also, the damage could physically damage the cells adjacent to the wound and create inac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48851576 | 1,321,736 |
759,829 | Currently, NASA is using advanced computational tools to understand how to best counteract the bone and muscle atrophy experienced by astronauts in microgravity environments for prolonged periods of time. The Human Research Program's Human Health Countermeasures Element chartered the Digital Astronaut Project to invest... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1614102 | 759,423 |
1,541,407 | The men's 800 metres at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea had an entry list of 70 competitors from 53 nations, with nine qualifying heats (70), four second-round races (32) and two semifinals (16), before the final (8) took off on Monday September 26, 1988. The maximum number of athletes per nation had bee... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8098492 | 1,540,534 |
1,977,490 | 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 latter being UMas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54095645 | 1,976,352 |
861,548 | It was only after the war that the Americans learned the identity of "Archerfish"s quarry: "Shinano," the biggest aircraft carrier ever built at the time. It was originally the third of the s, but had been converted into a 72,000-ton supercarrier after the Battle of Midway. Four of "Archerfish"s six torpedoes had hit, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1002122 | 861,089 |
1,791,897 | Research into more efficient diesel engines occurred after the 1970s energy crisis, resulting in a new market for fuel-efficient vehicles. A newly developed gas turbine engine design promised high thermal efficiency, but needed a material that could withstand temperatures. The high heat did not allow for readily availa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63644325 | 1,790,890 |
2,014,163 | During the early 19th century, a more structured form of athletics began to appear. Pedestrianism, in which people were allowed to wager on long distance competitive walking and running events, brought a standardising of athletics which reflected the modernisation of Welsh industrial society. In the second half of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36348738 | 2,013,004 |
125,942 | Surgery can be performed on mass lesions or to eliminate objects that have penetrated the brain. Mass lesions such as contusions or hematomas causing a significant mass effect (shift of intracranial structures) are considered emergencies and are removed surgically. For intracranial hematomas, the collected blood may be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1057414 | 125,890 |
1,900,215 | In 2004, Rai developed MogIA, an AI system that uses millions of data points from public platforms including Google, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in the U.S. to make predictions. The AI system was named after Mowgli, a child in Rudyard Kipling's novel The Jungle Book. It has correctly predicted the winners of all four... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37098347 | 1,899,127 |
656,591 | The XF5U design was promising: specifications given at the time promised great maneuverability and speeds up to 452 mph (727 km/h). However, it came at the time when the United States Navy was switching from propeller driven to jet propelled aircraft. By 1946, the XF5U-1 project was already long over its expected devel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1228958 | 656,247 |
2,097,409 | The link between a pregnant mother and the fetus is such that "at all sites of direct cell-to-cell contact, maternal tissues (decidua and blood) are juxtaposed to extraembryonic cells (trophoblast).” According to Cunningham, "after conception, a biomolecular communication system is established between the fetus and mot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25350372 | 2,096,201 |
368,737 | The Romans did not have records of their early calendars but, like modern historians, assumed the year originally began in March on the basis of the names of the months following June. The consul M. Fulvius Nobilior (r.189BC) wrote a commentary on the calendar at the Temple of Hercules Musarum that claimed January had ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25792 | 368,544 |
1,548,617 | Through Jagow had difficult relations with the SS, one of his main duties was ensure the Swabians (the term used for "volksdeutsche" living on the Great Hungarian Plain, so-called because most of their families originated in Swabia) and the Saxons (the term used for "volksdeutsch" in Transylvania, whose family historie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65256855 | 1,547,736 |
1,594,886 | Several weeks after the release of "Sexual Ecology", a new activist group called "Sex Panic! "was formed in New York City, in part to combat the book's agenda. In an interview in "LinguaFranca" founding members Gregg Gonsalves, an AIDS activist, and Michael Warner, an English professor, described how "Sex Panic!" arose... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6047998 | 1,593,988 |
697,131 | The range of the dusky shark extends worldwide, albeit discontinuously, in tropical and warm-temperate waters. In the western Atlantic Ocean, it is found from Massachusetts and the Georges Bank to southern Brazil, including the Bahamas and Cuba. In the eastern Atlantic Ocean, it has been reported from the western and c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4283435 | 696,767 |
523,158 | The project to create the PAL device was managed by John Birkner and the actual PAL circuit was designed by H. T. Chua. In a previous job (at mini-computer manufacturer Computer Automation), Birkner had developed a 16-bit processor using 80 standard logic devices. His experience with standard logic led him to believe t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=578693 | 522,886 |
193,944 | Fibrous ceramic filters are made from several different types of ceramic fibers that are mixed together to form a porous medium. This medium can be formed into almost any shape and can be customized to suit various applications. The porosity can be controlled in order to produce high flow, lower efficiency or high effi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2917407 | 193,844 |
1,025,236 | The success of the process is evinced by the number of claimants as "discoverers" of flotation. In 1961, American engineers celebrated "50 years of flotation" and enshrined James Hyde and his Butte & Superior mill. In 1977, German engineers celebrated the "hundredth anniversary of flotation" based on the brothers Besse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1567681 | 1,024,703 |
1,343,472 | The structure of the SHMT monomer is similar across prokaryotes and eukaryotes, but whereas the active enzyme is a dimer in prokaryotes, the enzyme exists as a tetramer in eukaryotic cells, though the evolutionary basis for this difference in structure is unknown. However, the evolutionary path taken by SHMT going from... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10413444 | 1,342,736 |
2,075,987 | In the 1990s, the society researched and disseminated the results of several studies about footwear and its effects on feet and ankles. In particular, the studies often identified issues with women's footwear and, specifically, high heels. In a 1992 partnership with the National Shoe Retailers Association (NSRA), the A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66060975 | 2,074,790 |
998,179 | With his student Joseph Jastrow, Charles S. Peirce randomly assigned volunteers to a blinded, repeated-measures design to evaluate their ability to discriminate weights. Peirce's experiment inspired other researchers in psychology and education, which developed a research tradition of randomized experiments in laborato... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=364299 | 997,661 |
1,475,973 | A geological survey map typically superimposes the surveyed extent and boundaries of geological units on a topographic map, together with information at points (such as measurements of orientation of bedding planes) and lines (such as the intersection of faults with the land surface). The maps and reports created by ge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1750814 | 1,475,141 |
1,225,701 | SvalSat is located on Platåberget, a mountain plateau above mean sea level just outside Longyearbyen on the island of Spitsbergen in Svalbard, Norway. The location on the 78th parallel north is favorable to communication with satellites in low polar orbits. The facility consists of close to 100 antenna systems (as of d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35487214 | 1,225,041 |
1,469,249 | On 12 October 2006, 100 Muslim scholars and clerics, including the Grand Muftis of Egypt, Russia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Turkey, Uzbekistan and Oman, as well as clerics and academics from the Middle East, Asia, North Africa, Europe and North America, published an open letter to the Pope. All the eight schools of thought and j... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7004399 | 1,468,425 |
1,181,231 | Histone post-translational modifications were first identified and listed as having a potential regulatory role on the synthesis of RNA in 1964. Since then, over several decades, chromatin theory has evolved. Chromatin subunit models as well as the notion of the nucleosome were established in 1973 and 1974, respectivel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=553741 | 1,180,607 |
71,953 | Several of the "Resident Evil" mansion's pre-rendered backdrops were inspired by The Overlook Hotel, the setting for the 1980 horror film, "The Shining". Mikami also cited the 1978 film "Dawn of the Dead" as a negative inspiration for the game. The game was initially conceived as a fully 3D first-person update of "Swee... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1789064 | 71,926 |
873,260 | Among the impacts of deep sea mining, it is theorized that sediment plumes could have the greatest impact. Plumes are caused when the tailings from mining (usually fine particles) are dumped back into the ocean, creating a cloud of particles floating in the water. Two types of plumes occur: near-bottom plumes and surfa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10431114 | 872,800 |
339,608 | An inductor is characterized by its inductance, which is the ratio of the voltage to the rate of change of current. In the International System of Units (SI), the unit of inductance is the henry (H) named for 19th century American scientist Joseph Henry. In the measurement of magnetic circuits, it is equivalent to . In... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14896 | 339,428 |
1,709,346 | In 1675, Bruce bought the estate of Loch Leven from the Earl of Morton. The estate included an old manor near Kinross, as well as the ruins of Loch Leven Castle, famous as the jail of Mary, Queen of Scots. After carrying out repairs on the old manor, and beginning to lay out the gardens, Bruce began work on his new hom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7516835 | 1,708,387 |
1,178,477 | Kaplansky was also an accomplished amateur musician. He had perfect pitch, studied piano until the age of 15, earned money in high school as a dance band musician, taught Tom Lehrer, and played in Harvard's jazz band in graduate school. He also had a regular program on Harvard's student radio station. After moving to t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3149881 | 1,177,853 |
799,871 | Since 2003, the South African Air Force has dispatched multiple Oryx into the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in support of UN-led peacekeeping operations in the country. In 2003, a pair of Oryx were stationed in the Ituri/Bunia area as part of a bilateral agreement with France, being briefly used to facilitate troo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=487267 | 799,445 |
10,008 | The first nuclear device ever detonated was an implosion-type bomb during the Trinity test, conducted at New Mexico's Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range on 16 July 1945. Little Boy and Fat Man bombs were used a month later in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively, with Manhattan Project personne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19603 | 10,004 |
1,034,340 | "Pterygotus" is classified as part of the pterygotid family of eurypterids, to which it lends its name, a group of highly derived eurypterids of the Silurian to Devonian periods that differ from other groups by a number of features, perhaps most prominently in the chelicerae (the first pair of limbs) and the telson (th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1581540 | 1,033,803 |
1,873,472 | War broke out and in 1941 Porter joined the Canadian Army as an Intelligence Officer and, towards the end of the war in 1943, he was part of the Allied invasion of Italy and Sicily. After the war he worked with a colonel in London writing a history of Canada's involvement in the war while studying for the entrance exam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1779318 | 1,872,395 |
754,581 | At the outbreak of World War I (1914 –1918), Alfred Marshall was still working on his last revisions of his "Principles of Economics". The 20th century's initial climate of optimism was soon violently dismembered in the trenches of the Western Front. During the war, production in Britain, Germany, and France was switch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7881361 | 754,178 |
316,705 | In 1995, the Province of Alberta gave the University of Calgary a large tract of land west of the Main Campus with the understanding it would be used in the future to advance the university's mission, vision, values and priorities. About a third of the size of downtown Calgary, the land overlooks the Bow River valley a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=89668 | 316,536 |
1,017,702 | Electrospray ionization has also been achieved at pressures as low as 25 torr and termed subambient pressure ionization with nanoelectrospray (SPIN) based upon a two-stage ion funnel interface developed by Richard D. Smith and coworkers. The SPIN implementation provided increased sensitivity due to the use of ion funne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=428085 | 1,017,178 |
1,569,245 | In 1970 Fritzsch visited the Aspen Center for Physics, where he met Murray Gell-Mann. They started a collaboration, first in Aspen, later at the California Institute of Technology. In 1971 they introduced the concept of the colour charge quantum number which allowed them in collaboration with William A. Bardeen to expl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47253863 | 1,568,358 |
118,618 | There are two separate questions to consider. First, is the divergence a real one such that the zero-point energy really is infinite? If we consider the volume is contained by perfectly conducting walls, very high frequencies can only be contained by taking more and more perfect conduction. No actual method of containi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=84400 | 118,572 |
1,886,668 | He also had a major hand in influencing Norman Borlaug to pursue a career in phytopathology. In 1938, in a speech entitled "These Shifty Little Enemies that Destroy our Food Crops", Stakman discussed the manifestation of the plant disease rust, a parasitic fungus that feeds on phytonutrients, in wheat, oat and barley c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6450762 | 1,885,586 |
764,318 | In Japan, dyers have mastered the technique of producing a bright red to orange-red dye (known as "carthamin") from the dried florets of safflower ("Carthamus tinctorius"). A bath solution of cold water is first prepared, to which is added the collected flowers. Steeping in cold water releases a yellow pigment (coloran... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30378542 | 763,908 |
1,588,128 | Bernal made numerous contributions to the field of psychology. She received quite a few awards for her developments on children's clinical work and due to her experiences with the prejudices of society at large, she made a huge difference in the recruitment of Hispanics into her field and to the treatment of minorities... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39206022 | 1,587,234 |
2,108,921 | UMD followed on that season with an even more spectacular 1980-81 campaign. The Bulldogs took first at the Southern Minnesota Invitational and second at both the Northern Iowa Classic and the Gulf Stream Golf Intercollegiate Tournament (Kolquist winning medalist honors at the Southern Minnesota and Northern Iowa events... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50172482 | 2,107,707 |
1,179,222 | "Vulcanodon" is known only from a single locality on an island in Lake Kariba, the largest artificial lake in the world, in northern Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia). The island, located west of Bumi Hills, is called "Island 126/127", after early, unpublished lake charts, but has no formal name. The first bone was found by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3030960 | 1,178,598 |
1,143,317 | Certain models of data sanitization delete or add information to the original database in an effort to preserve the privacy of each subject. These heuristic based algorithms are beginning to become more popularized, especially in the field of association rule mining. Heuristic methods involve specific algorithms that u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67273665 | 1,142,717 |
1,939,853 | PIMs require that the non-network macromolecular structure is rigid and non-linear. In order to maintain permanent microporosity the rotation along the polymer chain must be prohibited through the use of fused ring structure or strongly hindered by steric inhibition to avoid conformation changes that would allow the po... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62577114 | 1,938,743 |
563,881 | Consideration of iron's importance to phytoplankton growth and photosynthesis dates to the 1930s when Dr Thomas John Hart, a British marine biologist based on the in the Southern Ocean speculated - in "On the phytoplankton of the South-West Atlantic and Bellingshausen Sea, 1929-31" - that great "desolate zones" (areas ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4145551 | 563,591 |
1,549,462 | In low risk pregnancies, testing the mothers' serum is not part of the routine prenatal tests. Therefore, the congenital heart block is usually diagnosed during a routine obstetrical ultra sound. The first symptom in most cases is a slow heart rate which can be detected using fetal echocardiogram and Doppler ultra soun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63072534 | 1,548,581 |
1,665,339 | Type 1 PRCC, also known as a renal tumor caused by a genetic predisposition of hereditary papillary renal cancer syndrome, compromises approximately 25% of all PRCCs. In the perspective of immunochemistry, it has a profile of strong CK7 and alpha-methyl acyl-CoA racemase (AMACR) expression at most focal CA-IX expressio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63591324 | 1,664,402 |
1,935,603 | The Moore School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was at the center of developments in high-speed electronic computing in 1946. On February 14 of that year it had publicly unveiled the ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, developed in secret beginning in 1943 for the Army's Ballistics Research Lab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6477918 | 1,934,495 |
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