doc_id int32 18 2.25M | text stringlengths 245 2.96k | source stringlengths 38 44 | __index_level_0__ int64 18 2.25M |
|---|---|---|---|
237,521 | Dawkins begins by discussing the altruism that people display, indicating that he will argue it is explained by gene selfishness, and attacking group selection as an explanation. He considers the origin of life with the arrival of molecules able to replicate themselves. From there, he looks at DNA's role in evolution, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44190 | 237,402 |
327,023 | Rutherford was knighted in 1914. During World War I, he worked on a top secret project to solve the practical problems of submarine detection by sonar. In 1916, he was awarded the Hector Memorial Medal. In 1919, he returned to the Cavendish succeeding J. J. Thomson as the Cavendish professor and Director. Under him, No... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9603 | 326,849 |
1,537,274 | In order to explain the irregularity of RRAT pulses, we note that most of the pulsars which have been labelled as RRATs are entirely consistent with pulsars which have regular underlying emission which is simply undetectable due to the low intrinsic brightness or large distance of the sources. However, assuming that wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4219489 | 1,536,403 |
1,028,842 | The scintillation process in GaAs doped with silicon and boron impurities is different from conventional scintillators in that the silicon "n"-type doping provides a built-in population of delocalized electrons at the bottom of the conduction band. Some of the boron impurity atoms reside on arsenic sites and serve as a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=454323 | 1,028,308 |
850,862 | In 1993, with the release of IEC-1131, later to become IEC-61131-3, the industry moved towards increased code standardization with reusable, hardware-independent control software. For the first time, object-oriented programming (OOP) became possible within industrial control systems. This led to the development of both... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7333367 | 850,409 |
1,515,269 | In 2017, fatalities of vehicle accidents totaled 37,133, with 3,166 of those resulting from distraction-related vehicle crashes. Research has shown that a majority of these crashes were due to human error. Because of this, the government-funded National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHSTA) recommends that cons... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11154759 | 1,514,418 |
418,626 | Cylinders recorded c. 1890 for Thomas Edison were some of the earliest recordings of classical music and were lost during World War I. Four cylinders made in Russia in 1895–1896, with music by Mendelssohn, Louis Brassin and Rubinstein, have been recently discovered and issued on CD. He made two series of reproducing pi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=440258 | 418,421 |
1,469,816 | A flurry of recording activity bridges "Earth, Sun, Moon" to the self-titled album that followed just over a year later. The punched-up 1988 single version of "Mirror People", released as a follow-up to "No New Tale to Tell", can be found on 2003's hits collection "Sorted! The Best of Love and Rockets", while the exten... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4311063 | 1,468,991 |
774,990 | In 1900 Henry Fairfield Osborn suggested that Central Asia may have been the center of origin of most animal species, including humans, which caught the attention of explorer and zoologist Roy Chapman Andrews. This idea later gave rise to the First (1916 to 1917), Second (1919) and Third (1921 to 1930) Central Asiatic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1064031 | 774,574 |
60,356 | In July 1985, Greece signed a contract for 40 Mirage 2000s comprising 36 single-seat aircraft and 4 two-seat trainers. The order came as part of a larger defence acquisition programme that saw the country, for political reasons, proceed with an order for the F-16. The $1.38 billion Mirage contract also consisted of wea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=381535 | 60,331 |
38,226 | Due to "H. pylori" role as a major cause of certain diseases (particularly cancers) and its consistently increasing antibiotic resistance, there is a clear need for new therapeutic strategies to prevent or remove the bacterium from colonizing humans. Much work has been done on developing viable vaccines aimed at provid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=199665 | 38,213 |
1,243,399 | Blake became the provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at Drexel University on August 1, 2015. He served as the chief academic officer of Drexel with responsibility for all academic functions, and the Office of the Provost oversees every academic program and supports academic and administrative offi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25576256 | 1,242,726 |
1,153,377 | In Brazil, field trials of fast growing GM eucalyptus are currently underway, they were set to conclude in 2015–2016 with commercialization to result. "FuturaGene", a biotechnology company owned by Suzano, a Brazilian pulp and paper company, has been leading this research. Stanley Hirsch, chief executive of FuturaGene ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41083964 | 1,152,767 |
65,423 | The major transhumanist organizations strongly condemn the coercion involved in such policies and reject the racist and classist assumptions on which they were based, along with the pseudoscientific notions that eugenic improvements could be accomplished in a practically meaningful time frame through selective human br... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30299 | 65,398 |
707,509 | In the early 1980s, a series of radio relays were built to connect the Enguri Dam with the Hudoni Dam, which was under construction. The relays were in remote territory with no reliable access to electricity, and thus were powered with a series of eight radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) manufactured in 1983... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67844064 | 707,140 |
1,187,524 | The cover for "The Miracle", rock band Queen's studio album, was created by Richard Gray on a Quantel Paintbox in 1989. It was used by six artists and designers, including David Hockney and Richard Hamilton, to create original artwork in the 1987 BBC series "Painting with Light". Quantel also placed a number of Paintbo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=287087 | 1,186,893 |
1,070,028 | After the Battle of the Falklands "Inflexible" was repaired and refitted at Gibraltar. She arrived at the Dardanelles on 24 January 1915 where she replaced "Indefatigable" as the flagship of the Mediterranean Fleet. She bombarded Turkish fortifications on 19 February, the start of the Battle of Gallipoli, to little eff... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=382984 | 1,069,474 |
156,492 | The original TR-85 was powered by the 830 horsepower 8VS-A2T2, 4 stroke, 8-cylinder, liquid-cooled, turbo charged direct injection diesel engine, and a six speed (four forward, two reverse) THM-5800 hydromechanic transmission (engaging under load, one power flow in straight run and two power flows in turns with planeta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3431677 | 156,420 |
653,714 | Members of this family spend their lives in freshwater rivers, lakes, or estuaries, and return to the ocean to spawn. All eels pass through several stages of development through their life cycle. Anguillid eels undergo morphological changes during these developmental stages that are associated with environmental condit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2349109 | 653,370 |
1,209,539 | Dr. Ambedkar Institute of Technology is managed by Panchajanya Vidya Peeta Welfare Trust. Dr. AIT is one of the pride educational Institute among the 25 institutions run by the Management. The Institute was established in the year 1980 by Late Sri M H Jayaprakash Narayan, Ex MLA and founder Managing Trustee of PVP Welf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3195125 | 1,208,892 |
1,416,039 | After Tani received his bachelor's degree from MIT, he worked at Hughes Aircraft Corporation in El Segundo, California as a design engineer in the Space and Communications group. In 1986, he returned to MIT and received his master's degree in mechanical engineering in 1988, specializing in human factors and group decis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=667918 | 1,415,242 |
344,361 | The university had its official beginnings when the Wisconsin Territorial Legislature in its 1838 session passed a law incorporating a "University of the Territory of Wisconsin", and a high-ranking Board of Visitors was appointed. However, this body (the predecessor of the U.W. board of regents) never actually accompli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23536538 | 344,180 |
655,005 | Halteres were first documented by William Derham in 1714. He discovered that flies were unable to remain airborne when their halteres were surgically removed, but otherwise behaved normally. This result was initially attributed to the haltere's ability to sense and maintain equilibrium. In 1917 v. Buddenbrock asserted ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46080 | 654,661 |
438,992 | The high regard with which scientific results are held in Western society has caused a number of political controversies over scientific subjects to arise. An alleged conflict thesis proposed in the 19th century between religion and science has been cited by some as representative of a struggle between tradition and su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=338705 | 438,778 |
1,065,912 | The ULTRASAT satellite (previously known as LIMSAT-UV) is a wide field (~1000 deg) transient explorer satellite mission. ULTRASAT is planned to have eight telescopes equipped with CCD cameras and reflective filters. It is set to have a sensitivity 10 times lower than GALEX but a field of view more than 1000 times large... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5827404 | 1,065,358 |
1,449,832 | An advantage of Wildberger's methods noted by Henle is that, because they involve only simple algebra, the proofs are both easy to follow and easy for a computer to verify. However, he suggests that the book's claims of greater simplicity in its overall theory rest on a false comparison in which quadrance and spread ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2696396 | 1,449,016 |
925,137 | A space logistics analysis conducted by PhD candidates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology revealed that the most optimistic of scenarios would require 15 Falcon Heavy launches that would cost approximately $4.5 billion. They concluded that the reliability of Environmental Control and Life Support systems (ECL... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36047287 | 924,651 |
1,150,895 | Certain cyanophages infect and burst "Prochlorococcus", the world's smallest and most abundant primary producers. Marine cyanophages of the family "Myoviridae" help regulate primary production mainly through infection of "Synechococcus" spp. The other two families, "Podoviridae" and "Siphoviridae", are usually found in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7354309 | 1,150,288 |
830,179 | The field of building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) has gained attention from the scientific community due to its potential to reduce pollution and materials and electricity costs, as well as to improve the aesthetics of a building. In recent years, scientists have looked at ways to incorporate DSSC’s in BIPV applica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1932063 | 829,732 |
1,220,397 | In the late 1980s South Korean Navy would began pursuing the acquisition of larger submarines to supersede their 150-ton Dolgorae midget submarines in better protecting critical shipping lanes from North Korean submarines. The Jang Bogo-class submarine was later developed in the 1990s based on the German Type 209 subma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66301957 | 1,219,743 |
2,015,502 | The Growth Arrest and DNA Damage inducible 45 (Gadd45) gene family plays a large role in the hippocampus. Gadd45 facilitates hippocampal long-term potentiation and enhances persisting memory for motor performance, aversive conditioning, and spatial navigation. Additionally, DNA methylation has been shown to be importan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41111089 | 2,014,342 |
525,700 | Other complaints were brought up by the 1st Bn Royal Anglians, who tested the UK/PRC354 radio system in July 2005. A number of problems have been reported, including RF burns received while transmitting data on some settings, comparatively heavy compared to equivalent Clansman radio sets, unergonomic wiring and user in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2493890 | 525,427 |
800,778 | The shifting nature of disabilities and its subjective characterization, makes it more difficult to computationally address. The lack of historical depth in defining disabilities, collecting its incidence and prevalence in questionnaires, and establishing recognition add to the controversy and ambiguity in its quantifi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55817338 | 800,351 |
1,541,618 | After returning to China in 1994 to set up Jubilee Biotechnology, this provided much of the initial capital used to set up the Beijing Genomics Institute with Yang Huanming, Liu Siqi and Yu Jun in 1999 in order to engage in research contributing to the Human Genome Project. After this work he was involved in the sequen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61389414 | 1,540,745 |
1,986,823 | Learners' ideas in science have been variously labelled as alternative conceptions, alternative conceptual frameworks, preconceptions, scientific misconceptions, naive theories etc. Although some scholars have attempted to distinguish between these terms, there is no consensual usage and often these terms are in effect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38607104 | 1,985,681 |
443,179 | Sergeant missile development began January 1955. There were three basic steps planned: feasibility demonstration in 1955-1957, experimental development in 1958 and 1959, followed by final engineering in 1960 and 1961. The rocket motor was designed by JPL and built by Thiokol. Picatinny Arsenal was to supply the warhead... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1435851 | 442,964 |
1,479,874 | Although the first operational unit was delivered in May 1943, various bureaucratic problems led to it being delayed in being delivered to the front-line troops. The SCR-584 was first used in combat at Anzio in February 1944, where it played a key role in breaking up the Luftwaffe's concentrated air attacks on the conf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3972623 | 1,479,040 |
1,525,944 | In June 1995, Jack and Shirley Feldman filed a patent application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office claiming improvements they made to the Flic disk-binding notebook system. The Feldmans had an agreement with Israeli company Mapal, owner of the Flic brand but lost their distribution rights sometime in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13908457 | 1,525,081 |
15,442 | Ideally the diagnosis of ASD should be given by a team of clinicians (e.g. pediatricians, child psychiatrists, child neurologists) based on information provided from the affected individual, caregivers, other medical professionals and from direct observation. Evaluation of a child or adult for autism spectrum disorder ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29113700 | 15,437 |
707,871 | Through the final years of the 1st century AD, the legions remained the backbone of the Roman army, although the "auxilia" in fact outnumbered them by up to half as much again. Within the legions, the proportion of troops recruited from within Italy fell gradually after 70 AD. By the close of the 1st century, this prop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7948631 | 707,502 |
42,392 | In comparison to hard disk drives and similar electromechanical media which use moving parts, SSDs are typically more resistant to physical shock, run silently, and have higher input/output rates and lower latency. SSDs store data in semiconductor cells. cells can contain between 1 and 4 bits of data. SSD storage devic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7366298 | 42,377 |
1,602,876 | By modern definition, dynamic combinatorial chemistry is generally considered to be a method of facilitating the generation of new chemical species by the reversible linkage of simple building blocks, under thermodynamic control. This principle is known to select the most thermodynamically stable product from an equili... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24519232 | 1,601,975 |
235,500 | Lateral flow assays have played a critical role in COVID-19 testing as they have the benefit of delivering a result in 15–30 minutes. The systematic evaluation of lateral flow assays during the COVID-19 pandemic was initiated at Oxford University as part of a UK collaboration with Public Health England. A study that st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14352711 | 235,381 |
2,249,031 | Paul Weiss was born in Sagan in the German part of Silesia (now in Poland) into a wealthy Jewish industrialist family. In 1929–1933 he was educated at the University of Göttingen, where he became a pupil of Max Born, with a break for the academic year 1930–31, when he worked as a school teacher; he also studied in Pari... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50626122 | 2,247,759 |
75,714 | Regardless of hydroponic demand, coconut coir is a natural byproduct derived from coconut processes. The outer husk of a coconut consists of fibers which are commonly used to make a myriad of items ranging from floor mats to brushes. After the long fibers are used for those applications, the dust and short fibers are m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14133 | 75,686 |
1,920,941 | SEL was purchased by Gould Electronics in 1981 and was operated essentially unchanged as the Gould Computer Systems Division (CSD). The parent company was acquired by Nippon Mining in 1988, but as part of the U.S. government approval of the deal, Nippon Mining was required to divest the Gould divisions that did work fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6766283 | 1,919,838 |
948,051 | In spite of the historically few researchers studying limb regeneration, remarkable progress has been made recently in establishing the neotenous amphibian the axolotl ("Ambystoma mexicanum") as a model genetic organism. This progress has been facilitated by advances in genomics, bioinformatics, and somatic cell transg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=854081 | 947,547 |
250,734 | Farnsworth worked out the principle of the image dissector in the summer of 1921, not long before his 15th birthday, and demonstrated the first working version on September 7, 1927, having turned 21 the previous August. A farm boy, his inspiration for scanning an image as a series of lines came from the back-and-forth ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42890 | 250,601 |
949,060 | Before the RISC philosophy became prominent, many computer architects tried to bridge the so-called semantic gap, i.e., to design instruction sets that directly support high-level programming constructs such as procedure calls, loop control, and complex addressing modes, allowing data structure and array accesses to be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7622 | 948,556 |
1,405,726 | CPOE presents several possible dangers by introducing new types of errors. Automation causes a false sense of security, a misconception that when technology suggests a course of action, errors are avoided. These factors contributed to an "increased" mortality rate in the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh's Pediatric IC... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2021968 | 1,404,936 |
151,828 | British Motor Corporation was also an early adopter of interconnected suspension. A system dubbed "Hydrolastic" was introduced in 1962 on Morris 1100, and went on to be used on a variety of BMC models. "Hydrolastic" was developed by suspension engineer Alex Moulton, and used rubber cones as the springing medium (these ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=426955 | 151,760 |
250,714 | In 1923, the family moved to Provo, Utah, and Farnsworth attended Brigham Young High School that fall. His father died of pneumonia in January 1924 at age 58, and Farnsworth assumed responsibility for sustaining the family while finishing high school. After graduating BYHS in June 1924, he applied to the United States ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42890 | 250,581 |
312,579 | In January 1953, a linguist working for the American Bible Society, James A. Lauriault/Loriot, needed to find answers to some fundamental errors in translating Quechua, in the Cuzco area of Peru. Following Harris's 1952 publications, he worked over the meaning and placement of each word in a collection of Quechua legen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=989128 | 312,411 |
1,561,841 | Halichondrin B is a polyether macrolide originally isolated from the marine sponge "Halichondria okadai" by Hirata and Uemura in 1986. In the same report, these authors also reported the exquisite anticancer activity of halichondrin B against murine cancer cells both in culture and in "in vivo" studies. Halichondrin B ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23544519 | 1,560,954 |
1,570,711 | In another lengthy letter, published by the author as a pamphlet after it appeared in the "Standard," Professor Benjamin Hedrick, an honors graduate of the university, said that there was "little doubt" that he was the professor attacked. He quoted Thomas Jefferson as saying that "Nothing is more certainly written in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17181536 | 1,569,823 |
207,238 | Boston Scientific was formed years ago, on June 29, 1979, in Watertown, Massachusetts, as a holding company for the medical products company, Medi-Tech, Inc., and to position the company for growth in interventional medicine. Medi-Tech was the brainchild of Itzhak Bentov, a Czech-born emigre to Israel and then to the U... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1313984 | 207,131 |
168,914 | MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are genomically encoded non-coding RNAs that help regulate gene expression, particularly during development. The phenomenon of RNAi, broadly defined, includes the endogenously induced gene silencing effects of miRNAs as well as silencing triggered by foreign dsRNA. Mature miRNAs are structurally simi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29188721 | 168,824 |
1,312,733 | Sustainable development requires the promotion of environmental management and a constant search for new technologies to treat vast quantities of wastes generated by increasing anthropogenic activities. Biotreatment, the processing of wastes using living organisms, is an environmentally friendly, relatively simple and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13475684 | 1,312,013 |
1,559,188 | The second concept that was discussed at the conference concerned connections of humans and places. A new language of conservation will be supported if there are abundant opportunities for meaningful interactions with the natural world in both urban and rural settings. Unfortunately, as biodiversity is lost, every gene... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14768005 | 1,558,302 |
723,272 | While studying the works of the contemporaneous climatologist Julius von Hann, Milanković noticed a significant issue, which became one of the major objects of his scientific research: a mystery ice age. The idea of possible astronomically-related climate changes was first considered by astronomers (John Herschel, 1792... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=150014 | 722,892 |
1,063,366 | Medical psychologists and some psychopharmacologists are trained and equipped to modify physical disease states and the actual cytoarchitecture and functioning of the central nervous and related systems using psychological and pharmacological techniques (when allowed by statute), and to provide prevention for the progr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20357 | 1,062,812 |
773,962 | Depending on the course of infection, other severe manifestations develop. Approximately 1 to 5% of those infected develop inflammation of the brain and brain covering or brain abscess; 14 to 28% develop pyelonephritis, kidney abscess or prostatic abscesses; 0 to 30% develop neck or salivary gland abscesses; 10 to 33% ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=471444 | 773,546 |
1,480,635 | Following college, Lindeman worked as an educator in a variety of settings with young people and adults including the Chicago YMCA and 4-H clubs, served on various commissions, filled the capacity of advisory editor, and was Chair of the American Civil Liberties Union Commission of Academic Freedom. He began on a 'sub-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4677042 | 1,479,801 |
1,458,415 | The dramatic increase in smartphone usage in the twenty-first century triggered the emergence of thousands of stand-alone health- and medical-related software apps, many falling into a gray or borderline area in terms of regulation. While software embedded into a medical device was being addressed, medical software sep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=467919 | 1,457,595 |
1,156,637 | The crew split into shifts after reaching orbit, with Gardner, Parker, and Parise comprising the Red Team; the Blue Team consisted of Hoffman, Durrance, and Lounge. Commander Brand was unassigned to either team and helped coordinate mission activities. The telescopes were powered up and raised from their stowed positio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=497746 | 1,156,027 |
207,340 | In the meantime, a gasoline-powered motor home was built by Lombard for Holman Harry (Flannery) Linn of Old Town, Maine to pull the equipment wagon of his dog & pony show, resembling a trolley car only with wheels in front and Lombard crawlers in rear. Linn had experimented with gasoline and steam-powered vehicles and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=125371 | 207,233 |
1,741,608 | The bulk analysis of oil, which yields a complicated mixture of organic compounds, obscures much of the valuable information. Switching to compound-specific study greatly expanded our understanding of hydrogen isotopes of oil. Analyzing deuterium content at the compound level avoids problems from differences in exchang... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50525886 | 1,740,624 |
1,945,812 | The Roche Institute of Molecular Biology was created on July 14, 1967 when John Burns, then the vice president of research at Hoffman-La Roche, persuaded biochemist Sidney Udenfriend to leave the National Institutes of Health and help him create a basic science institute at the Hoffman-La Roche, Nutley, New Jersey faci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26484790 | 1,944,700 |
1,198,125 | Others disagree on theoretical grounds and state that while they would not be suitable for stockpiling or being emplaced on a missile for long periods of time, dependably high non-fizzle level yields can be achieved, arguing that it would be "relatively easy" for a well funded entity with access to fusion boosting trit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11563568 | 1,197,484 |
850,190 | Manual simulations have probably been in use in some form since mankind first went to war. Chess can be regarded as a form of military simulation (although its precise origins are debated). In more recent times, the forerunner of modern simulations was the Prussian game "Kriegsspiel", which appeared around 1811 and is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10280894 | 849,738 |
1,993,591 | Usha Goswami has received numerous awards and has served on several different committees over the years. Early in her career she was awarded the British Psychology Society Spearman Medal (for early career research excellence), the Norman Geschwind-Rodin Prize (a Swedish award for research excellence in the field of dys... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43527201 | 1,992,448 |
282,658 | In 1964, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson publicly referenced his Great Society initiative for the first time on the College Green, giving the university exposure across America and internationally. On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard was ordered to open fire on students demonstrating against the Vietnam War at Ken... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=483329 | 282,505 |
1,902,889 | North Georgia College regained its senior status in 1947. An estimated 210 of the 710 students attending the school in that year were veterans of WWII benefiting from the G.I. Bill. During the 1950s the manufacturing sector became dominant over agriculture in Georgia's economy. Taking advantage of the state's new-found... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38647111 | 1,901,798 |
1,495,923 | A three-day-long "literary and scientific convention" held in City Hall in 1830 and attended by over 100 delegates debated the terms of a plan for a university modeled on the University of London, which had been founded in 1826. The trustees of the new institution sought funding from the city and state, but were turned... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11141122 | 1,495,081 |
1,211,629 | Between the two US certifying entities NAR and Tripoli, there is reciprocity of certification. For example, a Level 2 certified NAR member can be recognized by Tripoli as a Level 2 as both certifying entities are simply enforcing the same NFPA (National Fire Protection Act) and FAA/CFR regulations. Achieving dual certi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1770333 | 1,210,977 |
522,742 | The history of bionics goes as far back in time as ancient Egypt. A prosthetic toe made out of wood and leather was found on the foot of a mummy. The time period of the mummy corpse was estimated to be from around the fifteenth century B.C. Bionics can also be witnessed in ancient Greece and Rome. Prosthetic legs and a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1006293 | 522,470 |
1,973,296 | "Thermoplasma volcanium" exhibits extremophile characteristics through its lack of a cell wall to sustain proper functioning at high temperatures and high acidity levels. "Thermoplasma volcanium’s" anaerobic metabolism is capable of utilizing sulfur respiration, which can be used commercially by coal mining or petroleu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40484685 | 1,972,161 |
273,572 | The black-footed ferret is an example of a species that benefits from strong reproductive science. A captive-breeding program was initiated in 1987, capturing 18 living individuals and using artificial insemination. This is one of the first examples of assisted reproduction contributing to conservation of an endangered... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=234031 | 273,424 |
1,128,202 | Over the recent years, interest in the technique of molecular imprinting has increased rapidly, both in the academic community and in the industry. Consequently, significant progress has been made in developing polymerization methods that produce adequate MIP formats with rather good binding properties expecting an enh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6497232 | 1,127,624 |
1,723,975 | The method by which perfusion to an organ measured by CT is still a relatively new concept, although the first dynamic imaging studies of cerebral perfusion were reported on in 1979 by E. Ralph Heinz et al. from the Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, itself citing a reference on a presentation on "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16434531 | 1,723,005 |
998,022 | En route to join the invasion fleet for the invasion of Iwo Jima in the Bonin Islands, "Tennessee" stopped in Pearl Harbor and Saipan before joining the bombardment force, now under the command of Rear Admiral William Blandy. The ships reached Iwo Jima early on 16 February and dispersed around the island to their desig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=196975 | 997,504 |
709,019 | Targeting an early-to-mid-2020 launch, "Nauka"'s Proton-M launch vehicle was assembled and shipped to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in February. However, "Nauka" needed another fuel tank valve replacement, along with further tests necessitated by an expiring warranty following years of delays. The testing – which could only ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=977414 | 708,650 |
1,674,306 | Keeping a medically declared 'brain dead' woman on life support to sustain a potentially viable fetus is a topic of considerable debate and controversy. Such circumstances involve considerable moral, ethical, biological and legal issues. There is heavy discourse between biomedical and legal experts regarding whether a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41907939 | 1,673,364 |
1,573,118 | Patch-seq is a specialized form of the patch clamp recording technique, the gold standard of single cell electrophysiological studies for its millisecond resolution of cellular electrophysiology, its ability to detect currents of specific ions, and perhaps most importantly for its ability to form a voltage clamp on the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66692692 | 1,572,229 |
1,650,783 | Like the birds, the study of mammals was largely driven by hunters and for a while it was largely restricted to trophy hunting. It was perhaps when R. C. Wroughton, a forest officer who began a concerted study of the small mammals of India through the network of members of the Bombay Natural History Society, that mamma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1186505 | 1,649,851 |
524,362 | There are three groups of methods for correlating and predicting LCSTs. The first group proposes models that are based on a solid theoretical background using liquid–liquid or vapor–liquid experimental data. These methods require experimental data to adjust the unknown parameters, resulting in limited predictive abilit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18166009 | 524,090 |
435,382 | One of the oldest and best-known coils still in operation is the "GPO-1" at Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles. It was originally one of a pair of coils built in 1910 by Earle L. Ovington, a friend of Tesla and manufacturer of high voltage electrotherapy apparatus. For a number of years Ovington displayed them at the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56714254 | 435,168 |
791,042 | Excessive quantities of GCA can also be hazardous to health, tobacco smoke, most barbiturates, and some carbamates are known to actually stimulate GCA production. Increased GCA activity results in a decrease of the concentration and metabolic half-life of glucuronic acid substrates, causing the plasma levels of glucuro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2355673 | 790,617 |
5,560 | In 2017, a team led by researchers from the University of Tuebingen and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena tested the maternal DNA (mitochondrial) of 90 mummies from Abusir el-Meleq in northern Egypt (near Cairo), which was the first reliable data using high-throughput DNA sequencing meth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=874 | 5,557 |
1,042,750 | Large, systematic reviews have shown that stress urinary incontinence (SUI) can be treated with high success using PFPT. The treatment of overactive bladder syndrome, a more complex disorder characterized by a larger range of symptoms, as well as fecal incontinence with PFPT has shown more modest success. A pelvic floo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67239573 | 1,042,207 |
511,654 | Reducing the length of the channel by substituting straight cuts for a winding course is the only way in which the effective fall can be increased. This involves some loss of capacity in the channel as a whole, and in the case of a large river with a considerable flow it is very difficult to maintain a straight cut owi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3966984 | 511,388 |
363,759 | In November 2012, the SEC and regulators from Australia, Brazil, the European Union, Hong Kong, Japan, Ontario, Quebec, Singapore, and Switzerland met to discuss reforming the OTC derivatives market, as had been agreed by leaders at the 2009 G-20 Pittsburgh summit in September 2009. In December 2012, they released a jo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9135 | 363,569 |
564,898 | Both realistic and fictional simulations appear in "Universe Sandbox", with each area of outer space being placed by default or according to the player's preference. Real simulations include the Solar System, which includes the eight planets, five minor planets, 160+ moons, and hundreds of asteroids; and predictions of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25883570 | 564,608 |
842,904 | Prior to the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic, the global economy was growing at a slower rate than in previous years notwithstanding improvements in labour productivity and unemployment. The pandemic has quickly and greatly disrupted it, pushing the world into a recession. The extraordinary shock to the world's labour ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64524928 | 842,454 |
1,627,154 | While the average body weight of "Adapis" is estimated to be about 2.0 kg, the genus is represented by an extremely wide range of body size across species compared to other adapiform genera. "A. parisiensis" appears to have been a medium-sized (compared to the large-bodied "A. magnus" with an estimated body mass of 8.4... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22877357 | 1,626,236 |
622,453 | A member of the second generation of Russian aircraft designers, and best known for fighter designs, Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev always retained a light aircraft design section. In May 1945, Yakovlev initiated design of the Yak-18 two-seat primary trainer. He designed it to replace the earlier Yakovlev UT-2 and Yako... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1493291 | 622,121 |
827,155 | At the University of Virginia, Topol authored his baccalaureate thesis in 1975 entitled “Prospects for Genetic Therapy in Man” and received a Bachelor of Arts degree With Highest Distinction. During his fellowship at Johns Hopkins, he was involved with the first patient who was administered tissue plasminogen activator... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16635437 | 826,711 |
1,059,017 | In the earliest years of Yogo sapphire mining, before Yogo sapphires achieved their own reputation, Oriental sapphires were sold in Montana with claims they were Yogo sapphires, while in Europe, Yogo sapphires were sold as Oriental sapphires. However, Yogo sapphires became notable in their own right. Paulding Farnham (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33521256 | 1,058,467 |
1,032,114 | Nick Wirth's Team Simtek debuted in Formula 1 in 1994. Simtek was primarily a design office that had already developed several Formula 1 racing cars as commissioned work since 1991, of which only the 1992 version as the Andrea Moda S921 actually appeared in racing. A revised model was to be used by Team Bravo España in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68931039 | 1,031,578 |
1,990,392 | The aim of the first workshop was to bring together individuals, both researchers and users, with an interest in the application of 3-dimensional radiation dosimetry techniques in the treatment of cancer, with a mix of presentations from basic science to clinical applications. This has remained an objective for all of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44906473 | 1,989,249 |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.