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1,919,585 | In 1909, Wilhelm Kroll graduated from Luxembourg's Athenaeum High School, and in 1910, he registered at the faculty of metallurgy at the Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg in Berlin, graduating in 1914. He spent the next four years there to complete his doctoral thesis under the guidance of legendary professor K. A. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2567873 | 1,918,485 |
228,643 | The discovery of parity violation was a major contribution to particle physics and the development of the Standard Model. The discovery actually set the stage for the development of the model, as the model relied on the idea of symmetry of particles and forces and how particles can sometimes break that symmetry. The wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=252131 | 228,526 |
1,152,530 | However, certain economists argue that a non-market mechanism has developed to correct the problem of indefinable property rights, such that scientists are incentivized to produce knowledge in a socially responsible way. Economist Paula Stephen refers to this mechanism as a reward system based primarily on a concept th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34288348 | 1,151,920 |
454,952 | For "The Last of Us", the team had to create new engines to satisfy their needs. The artificial intelligence (AI) was created to coordinate with players on an intimate level, as opposed to the action elements from their previous projects; the addition of Ellie as AI was also a major contributor to the engine. The team ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45204814 | 454,730 |
120,079 | In the recent decade, sustainability—or ability to successfully sustain a company in a context of rapidly changing environmental, social, health, and economic circumstances—has emerged as crucial aspect of any strategy development. Research focusing on sustainability in commercial strategies has led to emergence of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=239450 | 120,030 |
1,011,258 | It was not until 1992 that the first aquaporin, 'aquaporin-1' (originally known as CHIP 28), was reported by Peter Agre, of Johns Hopkins University. In 1999, together with other research teams, Agre reported the first high-resolution images of the three-dimensional structure of an aquaporin, namely, aquaporin-1. Furth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=337315 | 1,010,737 |
2,013,274 | Liposomes are a common vehicle in drug delivery and specifically for the treatment of cancer. Liposomes contain a phospholipid bilayer. It is prevalent due to its ability to penetrate leaky vasculature and poor lymphatic drainage within tumors for enhanced permeability retention. These drug carriers can encapsulate hyd... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36264089 | 2,012,117 |
642,972 | One of the most important and most studied groups of biodegradable polymers are polyesters. Polyesters can be synthesized in a number of ways including direct condensation of alcohols and acids, ring opening polymerizations (ROP), and metal-catalyzed polymerization reactions. A great disadvantage of the step-wise polym... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14253816 | 642,633 |
409,053 | The engineers and suppliers of components were under pressure from Tupolev, Stalin, and the government to create an exact clone of the original B-29 to facilitate production. Tupolev had to overcome substantial resistance to use equipment that was not only already in production but also sometimes better than the Americ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=562289 | 408,852 |
352,344 | Heparin production experienced a break in the 1990s. Until then, heparin was mainly obtained from cattle tissue, which was a by-product of the meat industry, especially in North America. With the rapid spread of BSE, more and more manufacturers abandoned this source of supply. As a result, global heparin production bec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=238115 | 352,161 |
1,690,108 | Macrolide antibiotics, such as erythromycin, are an effective treatment for DPB when taken regularly over an extended period of time. Clarithromycin or roxithromycin are also commonly used. The successful results of macrolides in DPB and similar lung diseases stems from managing certain symptoms through immunomodulatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17337043 | 1,689,162 |
613,986 | Materials for 3D printing usually consist of alginate or fibrin polymers that have been integrated with cellular adhesion molecules, which support the physical attachment of cells. Such polymers are specifically designed to maintain structural stability and be receptive to cellular integration. The term "bio-ink" has b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3160379 | 613,674 |
1,683,932 | Two years later, researches on "Charcoal Vacua" with James Dewar led him to see the true dynamical explanation of the Crookes radiometer in the large mean free path of the molecule of the highly rarefied air. From 1879 to 1888, he engaged in difficult experimental investigations. These began with an inquiry into what c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=256322 | 1,682,989 |
1,950,181 | In 2009 OBIS was adopted as a project by International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) programme of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO and in 2011, with the cessation of funding for the Rutgers-based secretariat and portal from the Sloan Foundation, an offer of hosting by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64159451 | 1,949,060 |
2,125,428 | As they had two years earlier, Minnesota opened as the underdog against ECAC champion Boston University and just like 1974 the Gophers were able to send the Terriers packing. In the championship game Minnesota met Michigan Tech for the third consecutive year, the only time in NCAA where the same two team made the final... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61244131 | 2,124,207 |
88,496 | After the failure of the predictions on the effects of the 1991 Kuwait oil fires that were made by the primary team of climatologists that advocate the hypothesis, over a decade passed without any new published papers on the topic. More recently, the same team of prominent modellers from the 1980s have begun again to p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22171 | 88,461 |
1,986,149 | The multidisciplinary character of EarthScope will create stronger network connections between geologists of all types and from around the country. Building an Earth model of this scale requires a complex community effort, and this model is likely to be the first EarthScope legacy. Researchers analyzing the data will l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3463982 | 1,985,008 |
338,409 | In 1947, scrolls were discovered in caves near the Dead Sea that proved to contain writing in Hebrew and Aramaic, most of which are thought to have been produced by the Essenes, a small Jewish sect. These scrolls are of great significance in the study of Biblical texts because many of them contain the earliest known ve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26197 | 338,229 |
93,521 | USMC sources documented the Harrier as holding an 85% aircraft availability record in the Iraq War; in just under a month of combat, the aircraft flew over 2,000 sorties. When used, the LITENING II targeting pod achieved greater than 75% kill effectiveness on targets. In a single sortie from USS "Bonhomme Richard", a w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18940560 | 93,480 |
159,109 | While N-18 flew successfully from the Cape on 21 March, N-21 suffered another second stage failure after having been delayed several weeks due to another episode of the first stage thrust chambers breaking off prior to launch. This was followed by a launch from VAFB on 27 April when Missile N-8 flew successfully. N-14 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=841594 | 159,027 |
576,417 | The disease was first reported in January 2007 in New York caves, although it was retrospectively detected in a photograph taken in early 2006. It spread to other New York caves and into Vermont, Massachusetts, and Connecticut by 2008. In early 2009, it was confirmed in New Hampshire, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15761556 | 576,123 |
1,353,129 | "Dictyostelium discoideum" is a widely used model for cooperation and the development of multicellularity. This species of amoeba are most commonly found in a haploid, single-celled state that feed independently and undergo asexual reproduction. However, when the scarcity of food sources cause individual cells to starv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5467149 | 1,352,382 |
1,163,417 | Operando spectroscopy is a class of methodology, rather than a specific spectroscopic technique such as FTIR or NMR. Operando spectroscopy is a logical technological progression in in situ studies. Catalyst scientists would ideally like to have a "motion picture" of each catalytic cycle, whereby the precise bond-making... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36929631 | 1,162,800 |
1,217,904 | Before Jaffe, Neubauer described a similar precipitation reaction by mixing creatinine with zinc chloride (ZnCl) and performing a Weyl's test—the addition of SNP to NaOH and then incubating with acetic acid (CHCOH) to develop a color change. Until Folin developed Jaffe's reaction into a clinical procedure, Neubauer's m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37425225 | 1,217,251 |
955,039 | Biogeography now incorporates many different fields including but not limited to physical geography, geology, botany and plant biology, zoology, general biology, and modelling. A biogeographer's main focus is on how the environment and humans affect the distribution of species as well as other manifestations of Life su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=99358 | 954,534 |
1,695,080 | In 2011, the first disease associated alleles of KIF1A were found to be related to Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia (HSP), a disorder characterized by abnormal gait and spasticity of lower limbs. With the usage of whole exome sequencing and homozygosity mapping, investigations discovered a causative mutation in KIF1A's mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31656267 | 1,694,129 |
1,765,741 | The various strains of "Planktothrix" can be characterized as planktic, benthic, or biphasic based on their lifestyles and at what depth in the water they are found. The various species can not only be differentiated by their preferred habitat type but also by their morphology and pigmentation. For example, the blue gr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27892617 | 1,764,748 |
484,916 | In 1942, Sperry began work at the Yerkes Laboratories of Primate Biology, then a part of Harvard University. There he focused on experiments involving the rearranging of motor and sensory nerves. He left in 1946 to become an assistant professor, and later associate professor, at the University of Chicago. In 1949, duri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=102958 | 484,667 |
414,912 | Bayesian epistemology is a formal approach to various topics in epistemology that has its roots in Thomas Bayes' work in the field of probability theory. One advantage of its formal method in contrast to traditional epistemology is that its concepts and theorems can be defined with a high degree of precision. It is bas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55503854 | 414,709 |
175,199 | It remained to extend the wave considerations to any massive particles, and in the summer of 1923 a decisive breakthrough occurred. De Broglie outlined his ideas in a short note "Waves and quanta" (, presented at a meeting of the Paris Academy of Sciences on September 10, 1923), which marked the beginning of the creati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50165 | 175,108 |
726,480 | There are reports that functionally-related genes of "E. coli" are physically together in 3-D space within the chromosome even though they are far apart by genetic distance. Spatial proximity of functionally-related genes not only make the biological functions more compartmentalized and efficient but would also contrib... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=805665 | 726,098 |
1,322,150 | The college was merged to become the medical school of HKU in 1911, one of the university's first faculties. The establishment of the Queen Mary Hospital in 1937 brought the faculty a major clinical teaching and research base. However, the Japanese occupation in the city during the Second World War disrupted teaching a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38273030 | 1,321,424 |
1,479,803 | Complement component 4 (C4), in humans, is a protein involved in the intricate complement system, originating from the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) system. It serves a number of critical functions in immunity, tolerance, and autoimmunity with the other numerous components. Furthermore, it is a crucial factor in connec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9693587 | 1,478,969 |
1,791,749 | After a period holding the defensive position known as ‘the Birdcage’ around Salonika, XII Corps moved up-country in July 1916, taking over former French positions, but only part was involved in the fighting during the summer and autumn. XII Corps was selected to attack the Bulgarian positions west of Lake Doiran in Ap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18584584 | 1,790,742 |
71,625 | In 1951, the USAF asked Convair to build a prototype of an all-jet variant of the B-36. Convair complied by replacing the wings on a B-36F with swept wings, from which were suspended eight Pratt & Whitney XJ57-P-3 jet engines. The result was the B-36G, later renamed the Convair YB-60. The YB-60 was deemed inferior to B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=385077 | 71,598 |
1,145,597 | The Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution was founded at the MBL in 1997 and is currently directed by David Mark Welch. By comparing diverse genomes, scientists at the center are elucidating the evolutionary relationships of biological systems, and describing genes and genomes of bio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=391313 | 1,144,996 |
512,556 | Herbert Boyer was born in 1936 in Derry, Pennsylvania. He received his bachelor's degree in biology and chemistry from Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, in 1958. He married his wife Grace the following year. He received his PhD at the University of Pittsburgh in 1963 and participated as an activist in the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=428053 | 512,290 |
2,055,130 | In 2009, researchers developed siRNAs capable of targeting both polo-like kinase 1(PLK1) and kinesin spindle protein(KSP). Both proteins are important to the cell-cycle of tumor cells, PLK1 involved with phosphorylation of a variety of proteins and KSP integral to chromosome segregation during mitosis. Specifically, bi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27557852 | 2,053,947 |
1,087,440 | At the meiotic metaphase I, the cytoskeleton puts the bivalents under tension by pulling each homolog in opposite direction (contrary to mitotic division where the forces are exerted on each chromatid). The anchorage of the cytoskeleton to the chromosomes takes place at the centromere thanks to a protein complex called... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6371716 | 1,086,881 |
1,683,699 | However, advances in information technology, the development of a globalised 24-hour economy through the three leading world cities New York, London and Tokyo and their smaller counterparts have profoundly influenced the world’s urban systems. Currently, there is more than 300 metropolitan regions that house more than ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48914891 | 1,682,756 |
1,184,554 | The instruments and guides the expeditions brought were of varying quality. Bellingshausen noted that after the death of astronomer Nevil Maskelyne, the maritime almanac lost precision, finding no less than 108 errors in the 1819 volume. The chronometers recommended by Joseph Banks, who promoted the interests of John A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40880361 | 1,183,927 |
359,312 | In 1935, Hans von Ohain started work on a similar design to Whittle's in Germany, both compressor and turbine being radial, on opposite sides of the same disc, initially unaware of Whittle's work. Von Ohain's first device was strictly experimental and could run only under external power, but he was able to demonstrate ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15944 | 359,125 |
166,979 | In the period between the two World Wars, the Royal Danish Navy (as well as the rest of the Danish military forces) had low priority for the politicians, especially between 1929 and 1942 under Thorvald Stauning. During the first year of the German occupation (1940–1945), the navy assisted the occupying German forces wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=201834 | 166,892 |
980,454 | Today, the use of the genitive case is relatively rare in spoken language – speakers sometimes substitute the dative case for the genitive in conversation. But the genitive case remains almost obligatory in written communication, public speeches and anything that is not explicitly colloquial, and it is still an importa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=234538 | 979,942 |
125,020 | The calibre and weight of guns could only increase so far. The larger the gun, the slower it would be to load, the greater the stresses on the ship's hull, and the less the stability of the ship. The size of the gun peaked in the 1880s, with some of the heaviest calibres of gun ever used at sea. carried two 16.25-inch ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=251489 | 124,968 |
721,985 | In the September 2002 edition of its company news magazine, Boeing published an article highlighting the Pelican and revealing more of its final specifications, including a , a wing area of over , a payload of of cargo, an increased flight service ceiling of or more in altitude, and a range for a smaller payload of , d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1879209 | 721,605 |
694,438 | Girls perform better in school than boys do in the majority of Western nations. Due to their poorer grades, boys have a decreased probability of getting admitted into further education, which may ultimately limit their chances of success in the job market. A study conducted by Organization for Economic Co-operation and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16973246 | 694,075 |
906,736 | In 2019, Purdue was seeded 3rd in the South Region of the 2019 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, after another strong season. In the first round, they eliminated a 26–8 Old Dominion team that was coming off a Conference USA championship, winning 61–48. In the second round, they handily defeated #6 seed Villa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8204961 | 906,259 |
946,763 | The "Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy" entry on scientific realism, written by Richard Boyd, indicates that the modern concept owes its origin in part to Percy Williams Bridgman, who felt that the expression of scientific concepts was often abstract and unclear. Inspired by Ernst Mach, in 1914 Bridgman attempted to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65692 | 946,260 |
1,772,314 | Phonemic restoration is one of several phenomena demonstrating that prior, existing knowledge in the brain provides it with tools to attempt a guess at missing information, something in principle similar to an optical illusion. It is believed that humans and other vertebrates have evolved the ability to complete acoust... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37691878 | 1,771,317 |
303,811 | Operation El Dorado Canyon, the United States' response to the 1986 Berlin discotheque bombing, employed lessons learned from the Bekaa Valley campaign, including extensive planning and practice runs. In contrast to the Israeli mission though the goal of El Dorado Canyon was not the destruction of Libya's IADS itself b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=573491 | 303,649 |
1,587,137 | T-cell/histiocyte-rich large B-cell lymphoma most commonly afflicts middle-aged (i.e. 49–57 years old) individuals but has been diagnosed in persons aged 4 to 92 years. The disease has a male predominance ranging between 1.7:1 to 3:1 in different studies. In a review of 36 reported pediatric cases, the male to female r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62948115 | 1,586,243 |
592,277 | A significant amount of medical literature attests that TCCC is the most viable and reliable methodology to prepare for and manage casualties on the modern battlefield. Most battlefield casualties died of their injuries before ever reaching a surgeon. As most pre-medical treatment facility (pre-MTF) deaths are nonsurvi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49783135 | 591,973 |
919,514 | It is estimated that HIV-1 entered the human population in Africa in the early 1900s; however symptomatic infections were not reported until the 1980s. The HIV-1 epidemic is therefore far too young to be the source of positive selection that drove the frequency of CCR5 Δ32 from zero to 10% in 2000 years. Stephens, et a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1604312 | 919,028 |
398,521 | Emissions are affected by a variety of factors, such as temperature, which determines rates of volatilization and growth, and sunlight, which determines rates of biosynthesis. Emission occurs almost exclusively from the leaves, the stomata in particular. VOCs emitted by terrestrial forests are often oxidized by hydroxy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1014518 | 398,325 |
789,956 | In 1909, English units were also made legal within the Empire of Japan. Following World War I, the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce established a Committee for Weights and Measures and Industrial Standards, part of whose remit was to investigate which of Japan's three legal systems should be adopted. Upon its advic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2985420 | 789,531 |
1,162,225 | In the 1930s, gradual technical progress in the leading air nations led to advances particularly in photogrammetry and cartography, but failed to be translated into a capable operational reconnaissance capability. The various parties went into the new war with mostly the same cameras and procedures they had used when e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38534810 | 1,161,608 |
920,134 | The total duration of the CIE can be estimated in several ways. The iconic sediment interval for examining and dating the PETM is a core recovered in 1987 by the Ocean Drilling Program at Hole 690B at Maud Rise in the South Atlantic Ocean. At this location, the PETM CIE, from start to end, spans about 2 m. Long-term ag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=387369 | 919,648 |
1,446,388 | The Barnes maze is a tool used in psychological laboratory experiments to measure spatial learning and memory. The test was first developed by Dr. Carol Barnes in 1979. The test subjects are usually rodents such as mice or lab rats, which either serve as a control or may have some genetic variable or deficiency present... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3653501 | 1,445,572 |
8,162 | In Germany after World War I, psychology held institutional power through the military, which was subsequently expanded along with the rest of the military during Nazi Germany. Under the direction of Hermann Göring's cousin Matthias Göring, the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute was renamed the Göring Institute. Freudian ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22921 | 8,159 |
1,935,909 | In neurophysiology, several mathematical models of the action potential have been developed, which fall into two basic types. The first type seeks to model the experimental data quantitatively, i.e., to reproduce the measurements of current and voltage exactly. The renowned Hodgkin–Huxley model of the axon from the "Lo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17033211 | 1,934,801 |
484,389 | After studying physiology and histology at Stanford, Stevens enrolled in Bryn Mawr College to pursue her Ph.D. in cytology. She focused her doctoral studies on topics such as regeneration in primitive multicellular organisms, the structure of single celled organisms, the development of sperm and eggs, germ cells of ins... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1664375 | 484,140 |
75,128 | When Schubert died he had around 100 opus numbers published, mainly songs, chamber music and smaller piano compositions. Publication of smaller pieces continued (including opus numbers up to 173 in the 1860s, 50 instalments with songs published by Diabelli and dozens of first publications Peters), but the manuscripts o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44888 | 75,100 |
1,596,771 | To provide the anoxic environment needed by nitrogenase, "Cyanothece" boosts its respiration as night begins by using its glycogen stores while turning off photosynthesis. In addition, the organisms produce peroxidases and catalases which help scavenge any oxygen left in the cell. The circadian rhythm ensures that this... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46182688 | 1,595,872 |
22,630 | A CH-47F Block 2 is planned to be introduced after 2020. The Block 2 aims for a payload of with and high and hot hover performance, eventually increased up to , to carry the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle; maximum takeoff weight would be raised to . It features the composite-based Advanced Chinook Rotor Blade (derived fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38005 | 22,621 |
818,983 | In 2020 Itiel E. Dror and Nicholas Scurich looked at the validity of ballistic forensic experts when attempting to make an identification of a shell or bullet. They found that while some experts would come to the conclusion that the bullets were a definite match, another expert looking at the same evidence would determ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50103453 | 818,543 |
547,525 | If the rise and fall times of the modulation pulses are zero, (e.g. the pulse edges are infinitely sharp), then the sidebands will be as shown in the spectral diagrams above. The bandwidth consumed by this transmission can be huge and the total power transmitted is distributed over many hundreds of spectral lines. This... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9129297 | 547,238 |
1,418,278 | Interested in the mechanism by which LPS activates mammalian immune cells, Beutler used TNF production as a phenotypic endpoint to identify the LPS receptor. Identification of the receptor hinged on the positional cloning of the mammalian "Lps" locus, which had been known since the 1960s as a key genetic determinant of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14448923 | 1,417,479 |
1,384,580 | Taylor was born in the town of Walthamstow, England, to parents James Taylor, a metallurgical chemist, and Lily Agnes, née Griffiths. Within a year after his birth, the family had moved to Serbia where his father was manager of a copper mine. Three years later, they returned to Britain when his father became director o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19351743 | 1,383,813 |
977,850 | Comparing players from different generations using PER presents several problems, this is primarily due to the rule changes and the changes in statistical data collected from different eras (although many other factors could be taken into consideration, even down to the increased sample size as the NBA grew through inc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1702209 | 977,339 |
2,084,053 | 29th HAG had handed its batteries over to 99th HAG on the evening of the Messines attack; now 41st Siege Bty left and went for rest at Vieux-Berquin. Between 2 and 4 July the sections broke camp and moved to join 23rd HAG at Woesten near Ypres, under XIV Corps. XIV Corps formed part of Fifth Army, which was preparing f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69464934 | 2,082,853 |
1,231,935 | In Chinese literature, the oldest reference to a map comes from the year 227 BCE, when the assassin Jing Ke was to present a map to Ying Zheng 嬴政, King of Qin (ruling later as Qin Shi Huang, r. 221–210 BCE) on behalf of Crown Prince Dan of Yan. Instead of presenting the map, he pulled out a dagger from his scroll, yet ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21620577 | 1,231,273 |
685,468 | Additionally, the source monitoring problem contributes to the recollection and memory errors of flashbulb memories. Over time, new information is encountered and this post-significant event information from other sources may replace or added to the part of information already stored in memory. Repeated rehearsal of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=250199 | 685,111 |
2,048,374 | The team began in 1999 when University of Kentucky sophomore, Bianca McCartt, approached then Assistant Professor Lyndon Scott Stephens to serve as founding advisor. Together, McCartt and Stephens envisioned a student led organization that focused on solar-based renewable energy. The first UK solar car was originally n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19953022 | 2,047,193 |
694,117 | Currently, biocomputers exist with various functional capabilities that include operations of "binary " logic and mathematical calculations. Tom Knight of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory first suggested a biochemical computing scheme in which protein concentrations are used as binary signals that ultimately ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10203313 | 693,754 |
545,487 | The proximity fuze had been pioneered by Alan Butement. The idea was that if a shell could explode when it was near an enemy aircraft, a near miss would be nearly as effective as a direct hit. The technical problem was to miniaturise a radar set, and make it sturdy enough to be fired from a gun barrel. The second probl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=352564 | 545,201 |
1,573,047 | The plant remains from Abu Hureyra, Syria, remain central to any research into the beginnings of farming in southwest Asia. The eight metres of occupation debris spanning about 4000 years of human occupation spans the period during which cultivation of wild cereals and when their domestication is thought to have occurr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14592443 | 1,572,158 |
11,892 | Another example of integrating the IoT is Living Lab which integrates and combines research and innovation processes, establishing within a public-private-people-partnership. There are currently 320 Living Labs that use the IoT to collaborate and share knowledge between stakeholders to co-create innovative and technolo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12057519 | 11,887 |
1,609,915 | The electronic age of EHDI may have begun during the next decade. The Quality, Research, and Public Health (QRPH) Planning and Technical Committees of Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise published a series of EHDI technical documents. These profiles promote the automated collection and communication exchange of EHDI ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32101377 | 1,609,010 |
1,524,013 | He received a B.S. degree in physics at Seoul National University in 1990, and joined the physics department at University of California, Berkeley where he began to study atomic physics in the lab of Raymond Jeanloz in Berkeley's geophysics department. He worked on a project to place nitrogen and carbon under very high... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36647140 | 1,523,152 |
1,782,681 | When the Seventh-day Adventist movement was formally organized in 1863 during the height of the American Civil War, military conscription was one of the first major challenges to be addressed by the fledgling denomination. Even before 1863, Adventist beliefs about combatancy generally fell into one of three opinion gro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9672275 | 1,781,677 |
327,800 | Scientific readers were already aware of arguments that species changed through processes that were subject to laws of nature, but the transmutational ideas of Lamarck and the vague "law of development" of "Vestiges" had not found scientific favour. Darwin presented natural selection as a scientifically testable mechan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29932 | 327,626 |
102,172 | Leaf drop or abscission involves complex physiological signals and changes within plants. When leafout is completed (marked by the transition from bright green spring leaves to dark green summer ones) the chlorophyll level in the leaves remains stable until cool temperatures arrive in autumn. When autumn arrives and th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66722 | 102,127 |
2,108,754 | From 1953-1956, Duluth Denfeld high school graduate John Patrick would lead the UMD golf team to three MIAC team titles and one runner-up finish. Individually, he tied for low score at the 1954 MIAC championship (losing medalist honors in a playoff), another runner-up finish in 1955 and third place in 1956. In addition... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50172482 | 2,107,540 |
1,578,895 | The 1980s and 1990s saw researchers struggling to harness the developing technology to ease the problems inherent in gathering and interpreting large amounts of complex data. Hughes (1987) modified the method of Sanderson and Way so that the hand-notated data could be processed on a mainframe computer. Eventually, the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2883565 | 1,578,005 |
1,900,324 | During his graduate degree, Kane had the title of research assistant at the Space Telescope Science Institute in 1996. After graduating, Kane joined the University of St. Andrews in 2001 as a postdoctoral research fellow, he collaborated with a team of scientists that discovered the coldest, smallest known exoplanet (O... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50947346 | 1,899,236 |
469,452 | The molecular structures of modern agrochemicals are much more complex than in older products, but lower than of their pharma counterparts. The average molecular weight of the top 10 is 330, as compared with 477 for the top 10. In comparison to reagents used in pharmaceutical fine chemical syntheses, hazardous chemical... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3694845 | 469,216 |
1,484,337 | Use of biomaterials is an engineering approach to SCI treatment that can be combined with stem cell transplantation. They can help deliver cells to the injured area and create an environment that fosters their growth. The general hypothesis behind engineered biomaterials is that bridging the lesion site using a growth ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48644210 | 1,483,500 |
805,939 | The best jet fighters at the end of the war easily outflew any of the leading aircraft of 1939, such as the Spitfire Mark I. The early war bombers that caused such carnage would almost all have been shot down in 1945, many by radar-aimed, proximity fuse-detonated anti-aircraft fire, just as the 1941 "invincible fighter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=326225 | 805,510 |
402,175 | In 2014, the group's paper was critically reviewed in the journal "Evolution & Development" by University of Pennsylvania philosopher professor Michael Weisberg, who tended to support Gould's original accusations, concluding that "there is prima facie evidence of a racial bias in Morton's measurements". Weisberg conclu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27875 | 401,976 |
971,201 | This summary makes an implicit assumption: superconductive properties can be treated by mean-field theory. It also fails to mention that in addition to the superconductive gap, there is a second gap, the pseudogap. The cuprate layers are insulating, and the superconductors are doped with interlayer impurities to make t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=101336 | 970,691 |
469,464 | The fine chemical industry has undergone several boom and bust phases during its almost 30 years of existence. The biggest boom took place in the late 1990s, when high-dosage, high volume anti-AIDS drugs and COX-2 inhibitors gave a big boost to custom manufacturing. After the end of the "irrational exuberance" in 2000,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3694845 | 469,228 |
1,926,975 | On 11 April, the Japanese Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) temporarily raised the disaster at Fukushima Daiichi to Level 7 on the INES scale, by considering the whole event and not considering each reactor as an individual event (each rated between 3 and 5). This would make Fukushima the second Level 7 "majo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38378316 | 1,925,871 |
1,757,030 | Dioxins (most notably the polychlorinated dibenzodioxins) are chemicals that are produced when chlorinated products are burned, such as polyvinyl chloride (PVC). This occurs when chlorinated products are used in certain manufacturing industries. Dioxins are also added to the air when gasoline and diesel fuels break dow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13704917 | 1,756,039 |
1,506,248 | Among some of the barriers for governance, we see a well-known puzzle: the Collingridge dilemma, holding that early in the innovation process — when interventions and course corrections might still prove easy and cheap — the full consequences of the technology and hence the need for change might not be fully apparent. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1175103 | 1,505,402 |
750,702 | "A. africanus" was the first evidence that humans evolved in Africa, as Charles Darwin had postulated in his 1871 "The Descent of Man". However, Dart's claim of the Taung child as the transitional stage between apes and humans was at odds with the-then popular model of human evolution which held that large brain size a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1627000 | 750,304 |
1,015,644 | Three different types of data "massaging" are identified in the DOT&E report: moving failures from one category to another, less important one; ignoring repetitive failures, thus inflating numbers of failure-free hours; and improper scoring of reliability. Maintenance problems were determined to be so severe that the F... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54719700 | 1,015,121 |
1,977,019 | During the 1700s fossils collected from a salt lick called Big Bone Lick inspired interest in local fossils. The quality and importance of Big Bone Lick as a fossil site rivals that of the similarly aged Rancho La Brea tar pits. Fossils from Big Bone Lick would come to be studied by major figures in early America like ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37798921 | 1,975,881 |
988,069 | During the inter-war period, Udet was known primarily for his work as a stunt pilot and for playboy-like behavior. He flew for movies and for airshows (e.g. picking a cloth from the ground with his wingtip, flying under low bridges and completing loops only several meters from the ground). One stunt only Udet performed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=370934 | 987,553 |
1,785,073 | In 1957, the Science Masters Association (later amalgamated with the Association of Women Science Teachers as The Association for Science Education) established a Science Teaching Subcommittee, later the Science and Education Subcommittee, led by its chairman, Henry Boulind, a physicist who had attended a UNESCO confer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48393333 | 1,784,069 |
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