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1,265,376 | The first post-eruption expedition was organized and conducted by on 12 February 1998, which conducted conductivity, temperature, depth, and optical casts to unusual results. In May, a dedicated bathymetric survey of the seamount showed topographical changes along the volcano's southern flank, which estimated the thick... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12730246 | 1,264,688 |
180,792 | A re-examination of the mummy of Ramesses II in the 1970s revealed the presence of fragments of tobacco leaves in its abdomen. This finding became a popular topic in fringe literature and the media and it was seen as proof of contact between Ancient Egypt and the New World. The investigator Maurice Bucaille noted that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=158687 | 180,698 |
774,726 | The earthquake triggered a tsunami which devastated several coastal towns in south-central Chile and damaged the port at Talcahuano. Tsunami warnings were issued in 53 countries, and the wave caused minor damage in the San Diego area of California and in the Tōhoku region of Japan, where damage to the fisheries busines... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26357457 | 774,310 |
16,393 | Building on Pólya's work, Imre Lakatos argued that mathematicians actually use contradiction, criticism, and revision as principles for improving their work. In like manner to science, where truth is sought, but certainty is not found, in "Proofs and Refutations", what Lakatos tried to establish was that no theorem of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26833 | 16,388 |
669,857 | Early recognition of this injury is crucial for survival. Infants who have experienced a difficult operative delivery or are suspected to have a SGH require ongoing monitoring including frequent vital signs (minimally every hour), and serial measurements of hematocrits and their occipital frontal circumference, which i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3818707 | 669,507 |
1,989,993 | HARDMAN III was Government-owned and consisted of a set of automated aids to assist analysts in conducting MANPRINT analyses. As PC DOS-based software, the HARDMAN III aids provided a means for estimating manpower, personnel, and training (MPT) constraints and requirements for new weapon systems very early in the acqui... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51636312 | 1,988,851 |
1,089,151 | Napoleon's men tried but failed to dig up and remove the statue of Younger Memnon to France during his 1798 expedition. During this attempt that the hole on the right of the torso (just above Ramesses's right nipple) is said to have been made. In 1815, following an idea mentioned to him by his friend Johann Ludwig Burc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66889361 | 1,088,592 |
472,409 | Small molecule semiconductors are often insoluble, necessitating deposition via vacuum sublimation. Devices based on conductive polymers can be prepared by solution processing methods. Both solution processing and vacuum based methods produce amorphous and polycrystalline films with variable degree of disorder. "Wet" c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22190 | 472,173 |
1,342,772 | After the work Marcus Raichle and coworkers, functional imaging took a large step forward with the development of oxygen-15 labelled water (HO, or H2O-15) imaging. H2O-15 emits positrons and creates images based on regional blood flow within the brain. Since active neurons recruit a robust blood supply, H2O-15 PET allo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=907554 | 1,342,036 |
1,674,148 | In chemistry, a transition metal pincer complex is a type of coordination complex with a pincer ligand. Pincer ligands are chelating agents that binds tightly to three adjacent coplanar sites in a meridional configuration. The inflexibility of the pincer-metal interaction confers high thermal stability to the resulting... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1740295 | 1,673,206 |
395,107 | In 1994, Judy Massare concluded that ichthyosaurs had been the fastest marine reptiles. Their length/depth ratio was between three and five, the optimal number to minimise water resistance or drag. Their smooth skin and streamlined bodies prevented excessive turbulence. Their hydrodynamic efficiency, the degree to whic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=314101 | 394,912 |
89,326 | In addition, objects traveling upwards (i.e. "out") or downwards (i.e. "in") are deflected to the west or east respectively. This effect is also the greatest near the equator. Since vertical movement is usually of limited extent and duration, the size of the effect is smaller and requires precise instruments to detect.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7783 | 89,289 |
1,122,282 | The effect was discovered by the Polish-Russian civil engineer Ivan Osipovich Yarkovsky (1844–1902), who worked in Russia on scientific problems in his spare time. Writing in a pamphlet around the year 1900, Yarkovsky noted that the daily heating of a rotating object in space would cause it to experience a force that, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47625 | 1,121,708 |
247,918 | As technology progressed the vertical partial circle was replaced with a full circle, and both vertical and horizontal circles were finely graduated. This was the "transit theodolite". This type of theodolite was developed from 18th century astronomical Transit instruments used to measure accurate star positions. The t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=248860 | 247,790 |
1,863,902 | The AIDA diabetes simulator has been tested out in a pilot randomised controlled trial (RCT). The protocol used for the RCT was described "a priori" in the medical / diabetes literature. The study sought to assess whether diabetes educational teaching sessions using the AIDA simulator led to better outcomes than simila... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8121243 | 1,862,830 |
338,370 | The in the atmosphere transfers to the ocean by dissolving in the surface water as carbonate and bicarbonate ions; at the same time the carbonate ions in the water are returning to the air as . This exchange process brings from the atmosphere into the surface waters of the ocean, but the thus introduced takes a long ti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26197 | 338,190 |
338,279 | Preparation of the holotype began in the fall of 1900 shortly after it was collected by Riggs for the Field Museum. First the limb elements were processed. In the winter of 1904, the badly weathered vertebrae of the back and hip were prepared by James B. Abbott and C.T. Kline. As the preparation of each bone was finish... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20598015 | 338,099 |
528,222 | The first trade union was established in IISCO in 1944. Prof. Abdul Bari was associated with it in the earlier days. After Prof. Bari's death in 1947, Michael John led the trade union for some time. Gopeshwar, who later became national president of the Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC), operated at Burnpur a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4659165 | 527,948 |
2,249,040 | John Hull was born in 1761 at Poulton, Lancashire, the eldest son of John Hull (1725?-1768) who himself was an apothecary and surgeon. Hull was orphaned at quite an early age and at sixteen became apprenticed to a Mr Lancaster, a surgeon, man midwife and apothecary in Blackburn. It was here that he first began to atten... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48791056 | 2,247,768 |
222,963 | A central feature of logic is that it is topic-neutral. This means that it is concerned with the validity of arguments independent of the subject matter of these arguments. In this sense, regular sciences are concerned with correct reasoning within a specific area of inquiry, for example, concerning material bodies for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21368888 | 222,854 |
614,360 | Microbial mats may also be referred to as algal mats and bacterial mats. They are a type of biofilm that is large enough to see with the naked eye and robust enough to survive moderate physical stresses. These colonies of bacteria form on surfaces at many types of interface, for example between water and the sediment o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18229656 | 614,048 |
261,401 | In fulfilment of NATO's plans to halt a Soviet invasion of Western Europe using tactical nuclear weapons, the 3rd Air Force received its own nuclear weapons when the 20th Fighter Wing deployed to RAF Wethersfield in Essex on 1 June 1952, with Republic F-84F Thunderstreak fighters and Mark 7 nuclear bombs. It reequipped... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2095669 | 261,262 |
1,636,989 | The onset of the Great Depression brought almost a complete cessation of field investigations. However, after the 1934 Hawks Nest Tunnel disaster, in which many workers died of silicosis, the Office's prior studies were instrumental in state governments establishing hygienic standards for silica dust. Also, a study of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65213097 | 1,636,064 |
424,927 | The grandmother hypothesis is a hypothesis to explain the existence of menopause in human life history by identifying the adaptive value of extended kin networking. It builds on the previously postulated "mother hypothesis" which states that as mothers age, the costs of reproducing become greater, and energy devoted to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1580006 | 424,719 |
303,563 | The University of Oxford's Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM) has pointed to mounting evidence that "a good proportion of 'new' mild cases and people re-testing positives via RT-PCR after quarantine or discharge from hospital are not infectious, but are simply clearing harmless virus particles which their immune... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63204759 | 303,401 |
335,390 | Doctor of Musical Arts (referred to as D.M.A., DMA, D.Mus.A. or A.Mus.D.) degrees in double bass performance provide an opportunity for advanced study at the highest artistic and pedagogical level, requiring usually an additional 54+ credit hours beyond a master's degree (which is about 30+ credits beyond a bachelor's ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8816 | 335,212 |
628,499 | On 20 April 2007, the Environment and Resources Committee of the National People's Congress and the National Development and Reform Commission convened a conference on the occasion of the first anniversary of the "Renewable Energy Law". There were approximately 250 people who attended the conference from the Ministry o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13556279 | 628,164 |
1,030,373 | Together with John Nash and Sir John Soane, he became an official architect to the Office of Works in 1813 (an appointment he held until 1832) at a salary of £500 per annum, thereby reaching the height of the profession. In 1819 he was made surveyor of the Inner Temple. In 1819, he married Laura Freston, daughter of Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1484094 | 1,029,839 |
838,303 | To predict if the production of mendelevium would be possible, the team made use of a rough calculation. The number of atoms that would be produced would be approximately equal to the product of the number of atoms of target material, the target's cross section, the ion beam intensity, and the time of bombardment; this... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18899 | 837,854 |
2,156,355 | This method is based on observing the average power in a certain amount of time which determines the temperature variations. This idea can be implemented with a fast run-time thermal simulation algorithm at architectural level. This method also presents a new way to compute the transient temperature changes based on th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37766195 | 2,155,124 |
1,717,312 | Jeremy Munday writes that although "unexpected effects will likely occur" with global PDRC implementation, that "these structures can be removed immediately if needed, unlike methods that involve dispersing particulate matter into the atmosphere, which can last for decades." Wang et al. state that stratospheric aerosol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71855084 | 1,716,343 |
383,650 | Next Generation Connecticut is a multi-faceted $1.5 billion plan to build the state's economic future through strategic investments in science, technology, engineering, and math disciplines (STEM). It passed the Connecticut General Assembly and was signed into law by Governor Dannel Malloy in June 2013. The funds will ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=239846 | 383,455 |
1,326,028 | The Engineering Experiment Station was renamed the Georgia Tech Research Institute in 1984. A separate organization originally called the Industrial Development Council, changed its name to the Georgia Tech Research Institute in February 1946, and finally to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation in 1984. There are lega... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4424567 | 1,325,301 |
2,039,414 | Adama Jammeh was the oldest competitor to represent The Gambia at the Olympic Games at age 23. He had not participated in any previous Summer Games. Jammeh qualified for the Games because his fastest time of 20.45 seconds, set at the 2016 African Championships in Athletics Men's 200 metres, was 0.05 seconds faster than... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50565971 | 2,038,235 |
1,201,427 | Iron was so durable that it became the preferred metal for tools and equipment until displaced by steel after 1860. Britain had iron ores but lacked a process to produce iron in quantity until in 1760 John Smeaton invented a blast furnace that could smelt iron both quickly and cheaply. His invention used an air-blast p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21992152 | 1,200,786 |
1,673,999 | The DCB6Ge tooltip motif, initially described at a Foresight Conference in 2002, was the first complete tooltip ever proposed for diamond mechanosynthesis and remains the only tooltip motif that has been successfully simulated for its intended function on a full 200-atom diamond surface. Although an early paper gives a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=312671 | 1,673,057 |
468,438 | Loevinger conceived of an ego-development system which closely resembles moral development, but is broader in scope and uses empirical methods of study. She created an objective test of mothers' attitudes to problems in family life, which Loevinger called the Family Problems Scale. Although this first test did not yiel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2929771 | 468,203 |
195,661 | The British were seriously handicapped in the American War of Independence by the need to ship all supplies across the Atlantic, since the Americans prevented most local purchases. The British found a solution after the war by creating the infrastructure and the experience needed to manage an empire. London reorganized... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2726726 | 195,561 |
298,200 | President Franklin D. Roosevelt may have authorized Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox to "get Yamamoto", but no official record of such an order exists and sources disagree whether he did so. Knox essentially let Admiral Chester W. Nimitz make the decision. Nimitz first consulted Admiral William F. Halsey Jr., Commander... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4274699 | 298,040 |
1,267,167 | Paciorek returned to the Houston organization in 1966, and split the season with the Batavia Trojans and Salisbury Astros, where he hit .193 in 77 combined games. The following year, he played for the Asheville Tourists and Cocoa Astros, had a .104 average in 32 games, and was released at season's end. He was given a s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5037679 | 1,266,477 |
1,212,243 | Genomic structural variation is the variation in structure of an organism's chromosome. It consists of many kinds of variation in the genome of one species, and usually includes microscopic and submicroscopic types, such as deletions, duplications, copy-number variants, insertions, inversions and translocations. Origin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29291510 | 1,211,591 |
125,350 | The flow of granules of material like sand down a plastic chute can transfer charge, which can be easily measured using a multimeter connected to metal foil lining the chute at intervals, and can be roughly proportional to particulate flow. Dust clouds of finely powdered substances can become combustible or explosive. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=200136 | 125,298 |
176,940 | G. Evelyn Hutchinson, a founder of niche research, commented "It is very likely from an ecological point of view that all species, or at least all common species, consist of populations adapted to more than one niche". He gave as examples sexual size dimorphism and mimicry. In many cases where the male is short-lived a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=498831 | 176,848 |
122,263 | The "Kitab al-Manazir" (Book of Optics) describes several experimental observations that Alhazen made and how he used his results to explain certain optical phenomena using mechanical analogies. He conducted experiments with projectiles and concluded that only the impact of perpendicular projectiles on surfaces was for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1645 | 122,214 |
2,159,703 | MSE is designed to achieve its science objectives with the least impact possible on the Maunakea summit both during construction and when operating the resultant observatory. The project is an upgrade to the existing CFHT facility, and predominantly is a replacement of the telescope, dome and instrumentation within the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57637484 | 2,158,471 |
1,355,570 | Since 1989 Christy, along with Roy Spencer, has maintained an atmospheric temperature record derived from satellite microwave sounding unit measurements (see: satellite temperature record). This was once quite controversial: From the beginning of the satellite record in late 1978 into 1998 it showed a net global coolin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=880231 | 1,354,822 |
961,289 | Given that the turbine blades in a water turbine are constantly exposed to water and dynamic forces, they need to have high corrosion resistance and strength. The most common material used in overlays on carbon steel runners in water turbines are austenitic steel alloys that have 17% to 20% chromium to increase stabili... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34053 | 960,780 |
410,326 | A flow cytometer has five main components: a flow cell, a measuring system, a detector, an amplification system, and a computer for analysis of the signals. The flow cell has a liquid stream (sheath fluid), which carries and aligns the cells so that they pass single file through the light beam for sensing. The measurin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=501216 | 410,124 |
246,577 | The capacity to acquire and use language is a key aspect that distinguishes humans from other beings. Although it is difficult to pin down what aspects of language are uniquely human, there are a few design features that can be found in all known forms of human language, but that are missing from forms of animal commun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18614 | 246,450 |
299,090 | The HQ-9 was a contender in Turkey's T-LORAMIDS program, and it was reportedly selected as the winner in September 2013. The United States responded by blocking funds to integrate the Chinese system into NATO defenses. However, through 2013 there was no confirmation that the deal had been finalized. In February 2015, t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5341441 | 298,929 |
547,978 | The slow movement, in E major, is in time. In contrast with the preceding movement, it is a tranquil subject of Mozartian serenity written in ternary form. Ravel said of it, "That flowing phrase! How I worked over it bar by bar! It nearly killed me!" The first theme is presented by the piano, unaccompanied. Ravel said ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1315709 | 547,691 |
323 | In the transition elements, an inner shell is filling, but the size of the atom is still determined by the outer electrons. The increasing nuclear charge across the series and the increased number of inner electrons for shielding somewhat compensate each other, so the decrease in radius is smaller. The 4p and 5d atoms,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23053 | 323 |
736,890 | The potential perils of immersive technology have often been portrayed in science fiction and entertainment. Movies such as eXistenZ, The Matrix, and the short film "Play" by David Kaplan and Eric Zimmerman, raise questions about what may happen if we are unable to distinguish the physical world from the digital world.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10499965 | 736,502 |
1,386,253 | "The functions of the Florida Museum of Natural History, located at the University of Florida, are to make scientific investigations toward the sustained development of natural resources and a greater appreciation of human cultural heritage, including, but not limited to, biological surveys, ecological studies, environ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1143787 | 1,385,486 |
1,102,432 | The first modern example of polymer science is Henri Braconnot's work in the 1830s. Henri, along with Christian Schönbein and others, developed derivatives of the natural polymer cellulose, producing new, semi-synthetic materials, such as celluloid and cellulose acetate. The term "polymer" was coined in 1833 by Jöns Ja... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2372548 | 1,101,871 |
1,132,154 | Tests for inflammation (C-reactive protein and the erythrocyte sedimentation rate) are typically elevated, and abnormal liver enzymes may be seen. If the kidneys are involved, tests of kidney function (such as urea and creatinine) are elevated. The complete blood count may show particularly high numbers of a type of wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17620924 | 1,131,562 |
1,234,464 | The primary contributions to M-matrix theory has mainly come from mathematicians and economists. M-matrices are used in mathematics to establish bounds on eigenvalues and on the establishment of convergence criteria for iterative methods for the solution of large sparse systems of linear equations. M-matrices arise nat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7939066 | 1,233,801 |
29,677 | The development of quantum mechanics, and the apparent contradictory implications in regard to what is "real" had profound philosophical implications, including what scientific observations truly mean. In contrast to Albert Einstein and Louis de Broglie, who were realists who believed that particles had an objectively ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33130 | 29,667 |
1,735,793 | Amazonis has become the primary focus of modern research efforts both because of its geological composition and because of its relative youth compared to other Martian regions, which are often hundreds of millions of years older. Hartman writes that the plain closely resembles Iceland's surface, with its "strange cobwe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3592415 | 1,734,816 |
30,687 | It is best known as the cause of infectious mononucleosis ("mono" or "glandular fever"). It is also associated with various non-malignant, premalignant, and malignant Epstein–Barr virus-associated lymphoproliferative diseases such as Burkitt lymphoma, hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis, and Hodgkin's lymphoma; non-lymp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=214550 | 30,677 |
50,716 | In the 1840s and 1850s, there were attempts to overcome this problem by means of various patent valve gears with a separate, variable cutoff expansion valve riding on the back of the main slide valve; the latter usually had fixed or limited cutoff. The combined setup gave a fair approximation of the ideal events, at th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27692 | 50,696 |
593,112 | In 1957 Emiliani moved to the University of Miami to have access to core-drilling ships and equipment, and began to drill in the Caribbean and collect core data. A further important advance came in 1967, when Nicholas Shackleton suggested that the fluctuations over time in the marine isotope ratios that had become evid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2289787 | 592,808 |
1,411,333 | This deficit in activation also results in a decrease in activity of 5-HT1A receptors in the raphe nucleus. This serves to increase global serotonin levels, as 5-HT1A serves as an autoreceptor. The 5-HT1B receptor, also acting as an autoreceptor, specifically within the striatum, but also parts of basal ganglia then wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15943293 | 1,410,540 |
914,225 | The Hydrogen Storage Materials research field is vast, having tens of thousands of published papers. According to Papers in the 2000 to 2015 period collected from Web of Science and processed in VantagePoint bibliometric software, a scientometric review of research in hydrogen storage materials was constituted. Accordi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5382986 | 913,746 |
2,024,596 | In comparative genomics, the importance of scale cannot be underestimated. As gene orthology delineation requires specific expertise and considerable computational resources, scale is something that individual non-specialist research groups cannot accomplish on their own. This challenging task is achieved by OrthoDB, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31367370 | 2,023,432 |
317,546 | Translation of mRNA into structural virions occurs using the host ribosomes. Gene expression begins when MPV releases viral proteins and enzymatic factors that disable the cell. Mature virions are infectious, however, they will stay inside the cell, until they are transported from the factories to the Golgi/endosomal c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39680623 | 317,376 |
1,922,674 | Billed as the world's first full sized luxury electric car for people of vision, the target for the first year of production was 2,500 vehicles. The first production run of six vehicles was handled by Creative Industries of Detroit. Robert R. Aronson, who had developed a fast charge battery in the '60s, said that it ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18298017 | 1,921,571 |
941,342 | Fossil metatherians are distinguished from eutherians by the form of their teeth: metatherians possess four pairs of molar teeth in each jaw, whereas eutherian mammals (including true placentals) never have more than three pairs. Using this criterion, the earliest known metatherian was formerly considered to be "Sinode... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217417 | 940,840 |
1,411,924 | In November 1968, a European Space Conference held in Bonn decided on a proposal to merge the ELDO with the ESRO, forming a pan-European space authority by early 1970; known as the European Space Agency (ESA), this organisation would not be formed until 1975. Britain was lukewarm to the idea and did not believe that Eu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=82373 | 1,411,129 |
535,175 | The Malayan Emergency was declared on 18 June 1948, after three estate managers were murdered by members of the Malayan Communist Party (MCP). Australian involvement began in June 1950, when in response to a British request, six Lincolns from No. 1 Squadron and a flight of Dakotas from No. 38 Squadron arrived in Singap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1323516 | 534,896 |
399,650 | Since moulds have been expensive to manufacture, they were usually only used in mass production where thousands of parts were being produced. Typical moulds are constructed from hardened steel, pre-hardened steel, aluminium, and/or beryllium-copper alloy. The choice of material to build a mould from is primarily one of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=325831 | 399,451 |
1,731,772 | Concussions in England's professional rugby union are the most common injury received. Concussion can occur where an individual experiences an impact to the head, and commonly occurs in high-contact sporting activities, including American football, boxing, MMA and the rugby codes. It can also occur in recreational acti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47677251 | 1,730,796 |
1,548,607 | German universities were traditionally strongholds of the "völkisch" movement, and the university town of Tübingen was a center of "völkisch" activities. The Social Democratic police president of Württemberg, Hermann Schützinger, who visited Tübingen in 1926 complained the city was very much dominated by the "völkisch"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65256855 | 1,547,726 |
377,658 | Under coaches Floyd (1995–98) and Larry Eustachy (1998–2003), Iowa State achieved even greater success. Floyd took the Cyclones to the Sweet Sixteen in 1997 and Eustachy led ISU to two consecutive Big 12 regular season conference titles in 1999-2000 and 2000–01, plus the conference tournament title in 2000. Seeded No. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14875 | 377,463 |
1,794,472 | The vehicle was long, including its gun, and by 1973 weighed . It was high and wide. With a crew of four – commander, loader, gunner, driver – the vehicle's primary armament consisted of a single 100 mm (4 in) smoothbore gun, with a single 12.7 mm (0.5 in) machine gun and two 7.62 mm (0.3 in) machine guns as secondary ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42415533 | 1,793,463 |
660 | The aircraft can use six external weapons stations for missions that do not require stealth. The wingtip pylons each can carry an AIM-9X or AIM-132 ASRAAM and are canted outwards to reduce their radar cross-section. Additionally, each wing has a inboard station and a middle station, or for F-35B. The external wing stat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11812 | 660 |
1,382,201 | The commercialization of "multiangle" systems began in 1977 when Science Spectrum, Inc. patented a flow-through capillary system for a customized bioassay system developed for the USFDA. The first commercial MALS instrument incorporating 8 discrete detectors was delivered to S.C. Johnson and Son, by Wyatt Technology Co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23959374 | 1,381,438 |
1,451,180 | The school offered the first 4-year degree (B.S.) in the field of industrial and labor relations. Originally, students had ninety-seven of the required 120 hours prescribed for them. The first two years consisted of many social science classes such as American history and government, sociology, psychology, economics, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=568930 | 1,450,363 |
823,026 | Science journalist Bob McDonald discussed Chang'e 5 in comparison to the Soviet Luna programme, which involved Luna 15, Luna 16 and Luna 24 being sent to the Moon. Luna 15 attempted to grab a sample of lunar soil and return it to Earth before the American Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36190269 | 822,585 |
889,902 | The period of the Restoration led to a reconsideration of the organisation within the Studium, but not to the complete revocation of the Napoleonic experience. In 1826, lessons on Egyptology were introduced at the University of Pisa. This was a first in Europe and the world in general, leading to the renowned French-Tu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=453158 | 889,433 |
312,921 | A critical response by Nick Matzke said that Huxley was a public, longstanding abolitionist who wrote "the most complete demonstration of the specific diversity of the types of mankind will nowise constrain science to spread her ægis over their [slaveholders'] atrocities" and "the North is justified in any expenditure ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30038 | 312,753 |
763,515 | Ciliary defects can lead to a number of human diseases. Defects in cilia adversely affect many critical signaling pathways essential to embryonic development and to adult physiology, and thus offer a plausible hypothesis for the often multi-symptom nature of diverse ciliopathies. Known ciliopathies include primary cili... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43118 | 763,106 |
1,011,302 | Early tests of general relativity were hampered by the lack of viable competitors to the theory: it was not clear what sorts of tests would distinguish it from its competitors. General relativity was the only known relativistic theory of gravity compatible with special relativity and observations. Moreover, it is an ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1784313 | 1,010,781 |
453,453 | Stable conditions, such as during a clear and calm night, will cause pollutants to become trapped near ground level. Drizzle occurs within a moist air mass when it is stable. Air within a stable layer is not turbulent. Conditions associated with a marine layer, a stable atmosphere common on the west side of continents ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15376172 | 453,232 |
1,524,737 | Professor Miller studies the neural basis of executive brain functions. Executive functions are the ability to carry out goal-directed behavior using complex mental processes and cognitive abilities. This includes working memory, attention, decision-making and learning. His lab has had made discoveries about the neural... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19628311 | 1,523,876 |
1,407,125 | In 2002, deCODE acquired a Chicago-based medicinal chemistry company in order to discover compounds based on its genetics discoveries and so to begin to develop its own pipeline of new drugs. Over the next few years the company initiated and completed several early-stage clinical trials for potential new treatments for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1494572 | 1,406,335 |
558,588 | Living airborne microorganisms may end up concretizing aerial dispersion by colonizing their new habitat, provided that they survive their journey from emission to deposition. Bacterial survival is indeed naturally impaired during atmospheric transport, but a fraction remains viable. At high altitude, the peculiar envi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1676889 | 558,299 |
656,917 | Tange argued that the normal urban pattern of a radial centripetal transportation system was a relic of the Middle Ages and would not handle the strain placed upon it by the world's mega cities, which he qualified as those with populations greater than 10 million. Rather than building up a city from a civic centre, Tan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53427 | 656,573 |
388,331 | Infected "Schistosoma" individuals release eggs into water via their fecal material or urine. After larvae hatch from these eggs, the larvae infect a very specific type of freshwater snail. For example, in "S. haematobium" and "S. intercalatum" it is snails of the genus "Bulinus", in "S. mansoni" it is "Biomphalaria", ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=191304 | 388,136 |
1,512,606 | Waterside access is the condition of waterways in the location, which determines the expected depth, berth quantities, vessel accessibility, and effort required for the development. The access channel is a waterway that linking the basins of a port to the open sea. The importance of the location of access channels is t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52343411 | 1,511,755 |
2,119,740 | With war imminent, on 30 August 1939, he wrote to Admiral Lawrence volunteering his services as an experienced sailor and successful manager and was commissioned within 18 days. His days at sea came to an abrupt end when he was spotted in his glasses on board ship, and reassigned to research efforts. With the onset of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22740309 | 2,118,521 |
730,203 | In 1667 Nicholas Steno wrote a paper about a shark head he had dissected. He compared the teeth of the shark with the common fossil objects known as "tongue stones" or "glossopetrae". He concluded that the fossils must have been shark teeth. Steno then took an interest in the question of fossils, and to address some of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7991116 | 729,818 |
975,801 | It is a dopant in some types of glass in lasers and other optoelectronic devices. Europium oxide (EuO) is widely used as a red phosphor in television sets and fluorescent lamps, and as an activator for yttrium-based phosphors. Color TV screens contain between 0.5 and 1 g of europium oxide. Whereas trivalent europium gi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9477 | 975,290 |
587,695 | During the 2nd half of the 4th century BC, mythological themes disappeared from the repertoire of Etruscan painters. They were replaced by female heads and scenes of up to two figures. Instead of figural depictions, ornaments and floral motifs covered the vessel bodies. Large figural compositions, like that on a "krate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1457406 | 587,393 |
1,740,986 | Where two electrons collide to form two W bosons and the majoron J. The U(1) symmetry is assumed to be global so that the majoron is not "eaten up" by the gauge boson and spontaneously broken. Majorons were originally formulated in four dimensions by Y. Chikashige, R. N. Mohapatra and R. D. Peccei to understand neutrin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=628198 | 1,740,004 |
747,680 | The property of parallel lines converging in the distance, at infinity, allows us to reconstruct the relative distance of two parts of an object, or of landscape features. An example would be standing on a straight road, looking down the road, and noticing the road narrows as it goes off in the distance. Visual percept... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=302794 | 747,284 |
1,725,095 | Various physical and physiological forces like light intensity, humidity, temperature, wind speeds etc. are thought to have influenced evolution of leaf shape and size. It is observed that high trees rarely have large leaves, owing to the obstruction they generate for winds. This obstruction can eventually lead to the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13571938 | 1,724,124 |
1,760,356 | On his first jump, Bob Beamon landed near the far end of the sand pit but the optical device which had been installed to measure jump distances was not designed to measure a jump of such length. This forced the officials to bring a tape measure to gauge the jump manually, which added to the feat's aura. After several m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20224888 | 1,759,363 |
1,988,125 | On the fourth day of the Games, Timmers competed in two events with 90 minutes in between. In the 100 m freestyle, he won the seventh heat, which included two-time Olympic champion Yannick Agnel of France. Swimming in lane eight, he blasted a new Belgian record of 48.54 to pick up a matching sixth seed with Cayman Isla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36645978 | 1,986,983 |
2,000,576 | Common practice is for artefacts to be transported to Pakistan where they are sold to tourists and other interested buyers. Despite Pakistan’s 1975 Antiquities Act, prohibiting the commercial trade of objects that are over 75 years old, transactions still take place. From Pakistan, treasures can be exported all over th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24812878 | 1,999,431 |
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