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2,029,617 | When Allis was 34, he founded a laboratory for biological research at his home, later called the Lake Laboratory or the Allis Lake Laboratory. Allis did not have any training in biology, but provided facilities for or employed several leading biologists. These included Charles Otis Whitman who was director of the labor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69644134 | 2,028,449 |
1,670,186 | The PCD came to power following the landslide victory in the 1920 election (when the PCD won 17 seats in addition to the People Party's 206). Take Ionescu was again brought to a cabinet position between 1920 and 1921, replacing Duiliu Zamfirescu as Foreign Minister in the Averescu cabinet. Argetoianu indicated that the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=738484 | 1,669,246 |
940,587 | "Catharanthus roseus" has been a cosmopolitan species since before the Industrial Revolution and the plant's use in folk remedies suggested general bioactivity for diabetes treatment, not cancer. In the mid-eighteenth century, botanist Judith Sumner recorded the arrival of "Catharanthus roseus" at London's Chelsea Phys... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1102398 | 940,086 |
1,791,579 | The assumption of molecular chaos is the key ingredient that allows proceeding from the BBGKY hierarchy to Boltzmann's equation, by reducing the 2-particle distribution function showing up in the collision term to a product of 1-particle distributions. This in turn leads to Boltzmann's H-theorem of 1872, which attempte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2960796 | 1,790,572 |
1,347,643 | The chief result of this expedition was the publication of "Denkmäler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien" ("Monuments from Egypt and Ethiopia"), a massive twelve volume "compendium" of nearly 900 plates of ancient Egyptian inscriptions, monuments and landscapes, as well as accompanying commentary and descriptions. These plans... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23289755 | 1,346,902 |
726,525 | Only one concrete connection links "A Deepness in the Sky" with "A Fire Upon the Deep": the character of Pham Nuwen, the "Programmer-at-Arms", who appears in both books. Hints occur about the "Zones of Thought" mentioned in "Fire". That novel posits that space around the Milky Way is divided into concentric layers call... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=714151 | 726,143 |
1,515,734 | The first discovery of methylation in a CpG island of a tumor suppressor gene in humans was that of the Retinoblastoma (Rb) gene in 1989. This was just a few years after the first oncogene mutation was discovered in a human primary tumor. The discovery of the methylation-associated inactivation of the Von Hippel-Lindau... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53844820 | 1,514,882 |
2,077,794 | When the planned conference became known to the public, it faced swift backlash and condemnation from civil rights activists, as well as from Peter Breggin, a prominent critic of psychiatry. Breggin's claim that the conference was racist had attracted the attention of the Congressional Black Caucus, which subsequently ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58042232 | 2,076,595 |
1,698,000 | Victor Moritz Goldschmidt, the father of modern geochemistry found that the behavior of an element in its environment could be predicted from its ionic potential and illustrated this with a diagram (plot of the bare ionic radius as a function of the ionic charge). For instance, the solubility of dissolved iron is highl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3964732 | 1,697,046 |
1,231,845 | The 2D XY model has also been studied in great detail using Monte Carlo simulations, for example with the Metropolis algorithm. These can be used to compute thermodynamic quantities like the system energy, specific heat, magnetization, etc., over a range of temperatures and time-scales. In the Monte Carlo simulation, e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=954006 | 1,231,183 |
1,914,657 | Dr. Mahadevan-Jansen has served as an reviewer for nearly two dozen journals over her career, including her role on the editorial board for the Journal of Biomedical Optics from 2007 to 2014. She started the Biomedical Vibrational Spectroscopy conference at SPIE's Photonics West BiOS conference in 2002, which has been ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61494548 | 1,913,558 |
1,521,152 | The opportunistic bacteria "Pseudomonas aeruginosa" also uses quorum sensing to coordinate the formation of biofilms, swarming motility, exopolysaccharide production, and cell aggregation. These bacteria can grow within a host without harming it, until they reach a certain concentration. Then they become aggressive, th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31009191 | 1,520,291 |
1,168,944 | Women tend to have poorer health outcomes than men for several reasons ranging from sustaining greater risk to diseases to experiencing higher mortality rates. In the Population Studies Center Research Report by Rachel Snow that compares the disability-adjusted life years (DALY) of both male and females, the global DAL... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38846583 | 1,168,326 |
2,174,886 | IESP organizes thematic-based conferences, workshops, seminars, lectures, and publications. It serves as a liaison between experts, decision-makers, and the public to promote a mutually, beneficial exchange of concerns and knowledge, and to provide scientifically sound recommendations for action. Its activities support... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40256935 | 2,173,644 |
470,851 | Apalutamide has been found to be well tolerated in clinical trials, with the most common side effects reported when added to surgical or medical castration including fatigue, nausea, abdominal pain, and diarrhea. Other side effects have included rash, falls and bone fractures, and hypothyroidism, as well as seizures (i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47734223 | 470,615 |
2,127,700 | DSM is the basis for many other types of modelling; examples include integrated assessment models, system dynamics models, population balance models, and dynamic material flow accounting (MFA) models. The latter are an important manner in which the material and technological detail of MFA is enhanced. DSM of materials ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42831319 | 2,126,479 |
306,314 | The names of many famous sculptors are known from the Late Classical period (400–323 BC), including Timotheos, Praxiteles, Leochares and Skopas, but their works are known mainly from Roman copies. Little architectural sculpture of the period remains intact. The Temple of Asclepius at Epidauros had sculpture by Timotheo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52684 | 306,150 |
1,727,692 | An unintended consequence of new technology is its use among those least likely to benefit. A disturbing trend has been noted in men with newly diagnosed prostate cancer treated with robotic surgery and newer forms of radiotherapy (IMRT). A 2013 study reported that the use of advanced treatment technologies had increas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31548306 | 1,726,718 |
468,275 | The expansion of these shrubs can also have strong effects on other important ecological dynamics, such as the albedo effect. These shrubs change the winter surface of the tundra from undisturbed, uniform snow to mixed surface with protruding branches disrupting the snow cover, this type of snow cover has a lower albed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13294262 | 468,040 |
626,342 | The Central nervous system was difficult to study during Golgi's time because the cells were hard to identify. The available tissue staining techniques were useless for studying nervous tissue. While working as chief medical officer at the Hospital of the Chronically Ill, he experimented with metal impregnation of nerv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53382 | 626,009 |
1,668,249 | Fowler and coworkers have come up with a scheme that mobilizes the 1-aza-Cope rearrangement as a synthetically useful route. Fowler and coworkers recognized that because the barrier for the reaction lies in the nitrogen's thermodynamic preference to stay as an imine, stabilizing the nitrogen could have a thermodynamica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43256469 | 1,667,310 |
45,849 | The presidency of Thomas E. Walsh (1881–1893) focused on improving Notre Dame's scholastic reputation and standards. At the time, many students came to Notre Dame only for its business courses and did not graduate. Walsh started a "Belles Lettres" program and invited many notable lay intellectuals like writer Maurice F... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=146269 | 45,831 |
870,488 | State Machine, founded by former hardware designers from Computer Concepts and Watford Electronics, announced a range of colour card peripherals, starting with the G8 and G8+ in late 1992, followed by the G8 Professional, these cards being demonstrated at the BBC Acorn User show in 1992, as was the Computer Concepts Co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63145 | 870,028 |
193,064 | Brachiopods (), phylum Brachiopoda, are a phylum of trochozoan animals that have hard "valves" (shells) on the upper and lower surfaces, unlike the left and right arrangement in bivalve molluscs. Brachiopod valves are hinged at the rear end, while the front can be opened for feeding or closed for protection. Two major ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19827372 | 192,964 |
1,822,618 | The US Department of Energy created Clean Cities to, "advance the energy, economic, and environmental security of the United States by supporting local initiatives to adopt practices that reduce the use of petroleum in the transportation sector". Clean Cities performs these duties through a network of more than 80 offi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30832113 | 1,821,580 |
985,081 | By May 1970, having recently collaborated with "genuine R&B heavy-weights" such as Doris Troy and Preston, as well as participating in the "blue-eyed soul" Delaney & Bonnie European tour, along with Eric Clapton, the previous December, Harrison was well placed to record "What Is Life", Leng observes. With Phil Spector ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5008445 | 984,567 |
118,097 | Employees working at electrical equipment and installations can always be assumed to be exposed to electromagnetic fields. The exposure of office workers to fields generated by computers, monitors, etc. is negligible owing to the low field strengths. However, industrial installations for induction hardening and melting... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9735 | 118,052 |
2,003,325 | Oganesson, the heaviest element on the periodic table, has only recently been synthesized. Owing to its short half-life, its chemical properties have not yet been investigated. Due to the significant relativistic destabilisation of the 7p orbitals, it is expected to be significantly reactive and behave more similarly t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68175797 | 2,002,177 |
2,094,080 | Following the Great Fire, Newcourt drew up a plan for the rebuilding of the City of London. He proposed laying the city out on a grid system, which would have divided it into 64 equal portions. Four adjoining divisions would have been left open to form a large central square, surrounded by houses after the pattern of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38491842 | 2,092,873 |
1,856,731 | Stephan W. Koch studied physics at the University of Frankfurt, obtained his doctorate 1979 about the theory of electron–hole droplet nucleation in strongly excited semiconductors under the supervision of Hartmut Haug. During 1981–83, he was a postdoctoral fellow and visiting scientist at the IBM Research, San Jose/Cal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39446309 | 1,855,663 |
169,943 | As with any V8, the block was relatively light for the displacement supported. The cooling jacket reaches down to the bottom dead center, which is unusually low. American engineers at the time believed this would improve the piston cooling. The bottom of the block formed the parting line for the main bearing caps. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1146087 | 169,853 |
1,946,048 | Sherrington's contributions to theoretical physics are in the areas of condensed matter physics, statistical physics and complex systems, particularly focusing on glassy systems, neural networks and optimization problems. Perhaps his best known contribution is the 1975 invention, with Scott Kirkpatrick, of the Sherring... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60588974 | 1,944,936 |
705,072 | The M-62 was not ready by the time the first prototype was complete, so it was fitted with a 750 hp (560 kW) M-25V engine when it made its maiden flight in August 1938. The first prototype failed factory testing due to numerous defects, but this did not stop production, with the aircraft entering production concurrentl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3223658 | 704,704 |
1,045,969 | The genetics of branchio-oto-renal syndrome indicate it is inherited in an autosomal dominant manner with variable clinical manifestations affecting branchial, renal, and auditory development. The varying clinical expression of the disease between different families suggests that multiple loci may be involved. In 1992,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7847500 | 1,045,424 |
2,168,183 | He was director of the Doctoral Program in Chemistry at the EPFL for the period 1999–2000. During the period 2011–2014, he was Dean of Bachelor & Master Studies at EPFL and has supervised a comprehensive teaching reform, with the definition of new curricula starting September 2013. These changes included the introducti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53234040 | 2,166,946 |
2,074,921 | Members of the SOX family of transcription factors are characterized by the presence of a DNA-binding high mobility group (HMG) domain, homologous to the HMG box of sex-determining region Y (SRY). Forming a subgroup of the HMG domain superfamily, SOX proteins have been implicated in cell fate decisions in a diverse ran... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15354559 | 2,073,724 |
1,237,621 | The Space Systems Division, and later Space and Missile Systems Organization, also provided support to a number of experimental satellites, predominantly the Lincoln Experimental Satellite series, which would often piggyback on military launch missions. SAMSO also contracted Hughes Aircraft Company for the TACSAT commu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66185637 | 1,236,956 |
1,396,132 | Hörmander mostly remained at Lund University as a professor after 1968 but made several visits to the United States during the two next decades. He visited the Courant Institute in 1970, and also the Institute for Advanced Study in 1971 and during the academic year, 1977–1978 when a special year in microlocal analysis ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=500958 | 1,395,361 |
206,402 | Applied science focuses on the development of technology and techniques. In contrast, basic science develops scientific knowledge and predictions, principally in natural sciences but also in other empirical sciences, which are used as the scientific foundation for applied science. Basic science develops and establishes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30863191 | 206,296 |
155,571 | The university has an extensive student life program, with over 300 student organizations; club and recreational sports programs; nationally ranked living-learning communities and freshmen experience programs; student media organizations and publications; and Greek organizations. Bowling Green State University was reco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=275181 | 155,501 |
665,520 | Although the "Declaration of Independence" does contain references to the Creator, the God of Nature, Divine Providence, and the Supreme Judge of the World, the Founding Fathers were not exclusively theistic. Some professed personal concepts of deism, as was characteristic of other European Enlightenment thinkers, such... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22943476 | 665,173 |
575,299 | Lists of the research institutes, industrial sites, and policy makers along with statements from prominent physicists were provided in five comprehensive works that had been published during the early years of the gravity control propulsion research. Aviation Studies (International) Limited, London, published a detaile... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19256144 | 575,005 |
130,376 | The wing of the A310 was redesigned, possessing a reduced span and wing area, and incorporating simpler single-slotted Fowler flaps designed by British Aerospace shortly following its decision to join the Airbus consortium. Other changes to the wing included the elimination of the outer ailerons, which were occasionall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=162896 | 130,324 |
336,409 | The first confirmed instance in which an animal fell ill with the disease occurred in 1986 in the United Kingdom, and lab tests the following year indicated the presence of BSE; by November 1987, the British Ministry of Agriculture accepted it had a new disease on its hands. Subsequently, 177 people (as of June 2014) c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19344418 | 336,231 |
1,314,889 | Following the company convention of naming its piston aero engines after birds of prey, started by managing director, Claude Johnson, in 1915 with the Eagle, Hawk and Falcon engines, Rolls-Royce named the engine the "Peregrine" after the peregrine falcon. The engine was produced in right- and left-hand tractor variants... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2143229 | 1,314,168 |
454,140 | After the death of Jayasthitimalla, his sons divided the kingdom and ruled collegially, until Jayajyotirmalla, the last surviving son, ruled on his own from 1408 to 1428. His son, Yakshamalla (reigned ca. 1428–82), represented the high point of the Mallas as rulers of a united Nepal. Under his rule, a military raid was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3597488 | 453,919 |
440,212 | To pay for the military buildup of the Quasi-War, Adams and his Federalist allies enacted the Direct Tax of 1798. Direct taxation by the federal government was widely unpopular, and the government's revenue under Washington had mostly come from excise taxes and tariffs. Though Washington had maintained a balanced budge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16829738 | 439,998 |
1,128,281 | Rheinmetall was given a contract in 1943 to adapt the 50 mm 5 cm "KwK" 39 tank gun, from the Panzer III tank, for aerial use in the twin-engined Messerschmitt Me 410 "Hornisse" bomber destroyer. They were installed as "Umrüst-Bausätze" ("factory modification") 4 in the Me 410 A-1/U4, and, experimentally, in two Messers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14885253 | 1,127,703 |
400,365 | In the late 1990s through 2000, industry promoters, and research companies such as KMI, and RHK predicted massive increases in demand for communications bandwidth due to increased use of the Internet, and commercialization of various bandwidth-intensive consumer services, such as video on demand. Internet protocol data... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7309377 | 400,166 |
660,875 | This is the place to return to one of the grand exploits of economic apologetics. It will be remembered that if through the introduction of new, or the extension of old, machinery, a portion of variable capital is transformed into constant, the economic apologist interprets this operation which fixes capital and by tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8937649 | 660,530 |
2,038,735 | In 1936–1941 – published by the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. The journal created the column "On the Front of Historical Science", which published the decisions of the All–Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union on historical e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68425126 | 2,037,558 |
963,138 | Campylobacteriosis is an infectious disease caused by bacteria of the genus "Campylobacter". In most people who become ill with campylobacteriosis, symptoms develop within two to five days of exposure to the organism and illness typically lasts seven days following onset. Infection with "C. jejuni" usually results in e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=571816 | 962,629 |
1,169,798 | Many of the key figures of the Scottish Enlightenment were university professors, who developed their ideas in university lectures. They included Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746), who held the Chair of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow from 1729 to 1746, whose ideas were developed by his protégés David Hume (1711–76... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18943753 | 1,169,179 |
1,224,176 | Wieman was born in Corvallis, Oregon to N. Orr Wieman and Alison Marjorie Fry in the United States and graduated from Corvallis High School. His paternal grandfather Henry Nelson Wieman was a religious philosopher of German descent and his mother had white Anglo-Saxon Protestant family background. Wieman earned his B.S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=242243 | 1,223,516 |
1,711,220 | Klaipėda University was formally founded on January 1, 1991, by a decree of the Seimas (the Lithuanian parliament). The new university incorporated existing institutions of higher education in the city. At its inception, it comprised 3,000 students and three faculties (Humanities and Natural Sciences, Marine Engineerin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7789431 | 1,710,257 |
1,433,142 | "L. alcon" Schiff. (= areas Esp., "euphemus" Godt.) (83 a). Large, the male above deep blue, but without brilliant gloss. The female black-brown, dusted with dark blue in the basal area. The dark violet-grey underside has numerous ocelli. "L. alcon" is easily distinguished from the following species ("coeligena", "euph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3580482 | 1,432,338 |
785,785 | Traditionally a heliodon was used to simulate the altitude and azimuth of the sun shining on a model building at any time of any day of the year. In modern times, computer programs can model this phenomenon and integrate local climate data (including site impacts such as overshadowing and physical obstructions) to pred... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67029 | 785,362 |
52,170 | Social policies concerning the care of children were the driving force in Bowlby's development of attachment theory. The difficulty lies in applying attachment concepts to policy and practice. In 2008 C.H. Zeanah and colleagues stated, "Supporting early child-parent relationships is an increasingly prominent goal of me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=884589 | 52,150 |
1,286,957 | For every overlapping window of 7 consecutive residues it computes the set of displacement direction unit vectors between adjacent C-alpha residues. All-against-all local motifs are compared based on the URMS score. These values becomes the pair alignment score entries for dynamic programming which produces a seed pair... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=474908 | 1,286,256 |
2,082,003 | In 1969, HEL launched HELBAT I, which took place at Fort Hood with battalions of M109 self-propelled 155mm howitzers from the 1st Armored Division. Although the first HELBAT was limited to the study of surprise predicted fire, it revealed that the biggest source of error, about 50 percent of the total system error, was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70607475 | 2,080,803 |
163,225 | Because the threshold of acceptable aesthetic criteria for human drinking water is 500 mg/L, there is no general concern for odor, taste, and color at a level much lower than is required for harm. A number of studies have been conducted and indicate various species' reactions range from intolerance to outright toxicity... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5726339 | 163,140 |
1,017,863 | The Ralliart concept in sedan form only, was a further development of the VR-X and the most powerful Magna ever designed to leverage off Mitsubishi's World Rally Championship exploits. In fact, its overall styling was based on the legendary Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution range, in particular the front bumper bar (void of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=903910 | 1,017,339 |
520,977 | The number of officers commissioned through OTS fluctuates considerably as their numbers are largely influenced by the number of graduating cadets through the USAF Academy and AFROTC, as well as being the first place the Air Force cuts when they have a surplus of cadets through the other two sources. Given this reality... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1430584 | 520,706 |
537,939 | On June 14, 2021, CNN reported that the Taishan Nuclear Power Plant had a suspected leak, based on a report by Framatome communicated to the United States on June 8, which read, in part, "The situation is an imminent radiological threat to the site and to the public and Framatome urgently requests permission to transfe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29863182 | 537,660 |
1,561,049 | Analysis and observation of collections objects when considering treatment and restoration occurs at all steps of the conservation process. Metal objects such as iron and steel share properties such as strength, conduction of heat and electricity, structure and more. It is important to understand the properties before ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35472207 | 1,560,163 |
1,445,290 | To explain the sustainability challenge, the metaphor of a funnel is used. The walls closing in represent the many (systematic and often exponentially increasing) trends impacting upon, and degrading, the system e.g.; decreasing number and quality of natural resources and ecosystems, the stricter laws and regulations, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1304248 | 1,444,474 |
785,814 | The history of computer animation began as early as the 1940s and 1950s, when people began to experiment with computer graphics – most notably by John Whitney. It was only by the early 1960s when digital computers had become widely established, that new avenues for innovative computer graphics blossomed. Initially, use... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30797574 | 785,391 |
1,575,322 | The use of highly compressed straw bales as insulation, though uncommon, is gaining popularity in experimental building projects for the high R-value and low cost of a thick wall made of straw. "Research by Joe McCabe at the Univ. of Arizona found R-value for both wheat and rice bales was about R-2.4 (RSI-0.42) per inc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8855042 | 1,574,433 |
1,938,895 | First formulated in 1925 by American dermatologist William H. Goeckerman (1884–1954), Goeckerman therapy continues to be used due to its efficacy and safety profile. Individual institutions have modified the Goeckerman regimen and developed their own protocols. Standard therapy includes use of 2–4% crude coal tar in a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33619589 | 1,937,785 |
282,200 | In the United Kingdom, optometrists have to complete a 4 year undergraduate honours degree followed by a minimum of a one-year "pre-registration period", (internship), where they complete clinical practice under the supervision of a qualified and experienced practitioner. During this year the pre-registration candidate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=181226 | 282,047 |
172,168 | The relevant events begin with the sequencing of myeloma protein light chains, which are found in abundance in the urine of individuals with multiple myeloma. Biochemical experiments revealed that these so-called Bence Jones proteins consisted of 2 discrete domains –one that varied from one molecule to the next (the V ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28857 | 172,077 |
331,295 | Some trilobites showed a marked transition in morphology at one particular instar, which has been called "trilobite metamorphosis". Radical change in morphology is linked to the loss or gain of distinctive features that mark a change in mode of life. A change in lifestyle during development has significance in terms of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61990 | 331,118 |
545,478 | Ernest Rutherford accepted Cockcroft as a research student at the Cavendish Laboratory on the recommendation of Miles Walker and the director of research at Metropolitan Vickers. Cockcroft enrolled as a PhD student in 1924, with a Foundation Scholarship of St John's College, and a State Scholarship. Under Rutherford's ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=352564 | 545,192 |
934,679 | Music rarely remains stable in contexts of social change -- "culture contact" causes music to be altered to whatever new culture it has come in contact with. In this way, minority communities can internalize the outside world through music—a kind of sense-making. They become able to deal with and control a foreign worl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=80077 | 934,185 |
45,156 | Ordinary quantum field theories, which form the basis of modern elementary particle physics, are defined in flat Minkowski space, which is an excellent approximation when it comes to describing the behavior of microscopic particles in weak gravitational fields like those found on Earth. In order to describe situations ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12024 | 45,139 |
60,816 | During the initial 747-8 marketing phase, Boeing also proposed creating a revenue-generating "SkyLoft" passenger facility in the crown space above the cabin. This facility would include "SkySuites", small individual compartments with sliding doors or curtains, featuring beds, seating, and entertainment or business equi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3166708 | 60,791 |
1,056,366 | After the flight of Vostok 1, Sergei Korolev took a short vacation in Crimea where he began working out the flight plan for the next mission. There were considerable arguments over the duration of the mission as flight doctors argued for no more than three orbits. The flight of Korabl-Sputnik 2 nine months earlier had ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=192926 | 1,055,818 |
2,116,562 | By 16 September 1694, Dummer reported to the Admiralty, "Our docks here are finished and we purpose to take in the cleaning the mouth of the basin from the dam that stands before it, which will be done in a few days; a more particular account I will give you hereafter". His "Account of the Generall Progress and Advance... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24510735 | 2,115,345 |
1,989,861 | In the "Discworld" story the wizards learn that, once again, the history of Roundworld has changed, resulting in humans failing to leave Earth before the extinction event shown in the earlier books. They discover that the difference from established history was that Charles Darwin wrote a book called "Theology of Speci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1101696 | 1,988,719 |
395,817 | In "extensive exit polling" of "An Inconvenient Truth" in "conservative suburban markets like Plano and Irvine (Orange County), as well as Dallas and Long Island", 92 percent rated "Truth" highly and 87 percent of the respondents said they'd recommend the film to a friend. University of Washington professor Michele Pof... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4097799 | 395,622 |
1,961,863 | Crawford received a first-class honours degree in English language and literature in 1994 before completing his PhD at The University of Birmingham in 1999. His thesis on the novelist William Golding was funded by the British Academy. Crawford joined The University of Nottingham in 2001 and led the development of a new... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31175406 | 1,960,736 |
1,401,147 | Gustaf Wickman dedicated himself to a task of a different nature, he built the entire city of Kiruna within three decades in an uninhabited wilderness. Although the city of Kiruna caused many problems for the indigenous Sami people, disrupting reindeer herding routes and polluting the area. After a rich source of iron ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6579985 | 1,400,360 |
1,636,994 | The outbreak of World War II caused a shift away from field investigations towards direct services to the U.S. Army Ordnance Department and state agencies. During this period, productivity was of paramount concern, and worker health was considered important to the nation's productive capacity. Industrial workers were c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65213097 | 1,636,069 |
1,057,395 | The test was carried out at Harvard University's Jefferson laboratory. A solid sample containing iron (Fe) emitting gamma rays was placed in the center of a loudspeaker cone which was placed near the roof of the building. Another sample containing Fe was placed in the basement. The distance between this source and abso... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2229944 | 1,056,846 |
1,620,621 | Richard Jenkins is a year old engineer from Lymington, UK. He is known for engineering and sailing wind-driven vessels on land, ice, and water. In 1999, he founded the Windjet Project while studying mechanical engineering at Imperial College. Since then he has designed, built, and tested four separate speed record craf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22164306 | 1,619,706 |
118,660 | Both Einstein's theory of special and general relativity state that light should pass freely through a vacuum without being altered, a principle known as Lorentz invariance. Yet, in theory, large nonlinear self-interaction of light due to quantum fluctuations should lead to this principle being measurably violated if t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=84400 | 118,614 |
1,260,089 | The Savage Impulse straight-pull rifle introduced in early 2021 features a similar locking mechanism as the SR 30. Besides differences in the applied control mechanisms a major technical difference between the locking mechanisms of the Heym SR 30 and Savage Impulse rifles is that the 6 'hexlock' hardened steel locking ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61196047 | 1,259,402 |
759,587 | In oncology, the Warburg effect () is the observation that most cancer cells produce energy predominantly not through the 'usual' citric acid cycle and oxidative phosphorylation in the mitochondria as observed in normal cells, but through a less efficient process of 'aerobic glycolysis' consisting of high level of gluc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1759159 | 759,181 |
451,316 | While the Institute started its journey primarily to address issues related to water pollution, later entries in to air and land made it encompass all the major domains of environment. Over the years the major activities of the Institute in these domains included master plan for the treatment and disposal of sewage in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16085921 | 451,097 |
1,847,094 | "Acmella nana" was discovered from limestone hills in Borneo. Knowing that limestone and snail shells are both composed of calcium carbonate, the research team led by two Dutch biologists Jaap J. Vermeulen and Menno Schilthuizen, and a Malaysian biologist Thor-Seng Liew collected soil and litter and dirt from the cliff... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48493924 | 1,846,037 |
934,355 | Given that it is older than the United States and one of just a handful of colleges for men, Hampden–Sydney College has a distinctive culture that values tradition. When they arrive on campus, freshmen are issued a copy of "To Manner Born, To Manners Bred: A Hip-pocket Guide to Etiquette for the Hampden–Sydney Man", wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1046291 | 933,863 |
1,779,298 | 21st century India is emerging as a maritime nation with a significant strategic push for maritime capability and capacity building. There has been a shift from a continental outlook to maritime power, and involvement in regional and global geostrategic and geopolitical formulations. The growing recognition of the Indo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60878831 | 1,778,296 |
1,624,397 | Clinical trials and post-market safety data indicate that the most common adverse side effect of Aldurazyme is allergic reaction. In order to prevent allergic reaction and respiratory distress, the packet insert of Aldurazyme suggests that patients be administered antihistamines before infusion. Allergic reaction occur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6056756 | 1,623,481 |
1,301,725 | All nurses working in a birthing center have an important role in assessing the newborn immediately after birth. The assessment of the neonate's appearance (colour), pulse (heart rate), grimace (in response to unpleasant stimuli such as bulb suctioning the pharynx), activity (muscle tone and/or movement), and respirato... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10985068 | 1,301,011 |
701,901 | On January 15, 2008, the environmental advocacy group Center for Biological Diversity petitioned the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to end a policy that waives detailed federal Endangered Species Act reviews for new mining permits. Under current policy, as long as a given MTR mining operation complies wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1685995 | 701,536 |
2,106,153 | Rutherford completed his secondary education at Perth Academy in 1924 and then, with the aid of a bursary, he went to the University of St Andrews, where he received his B.Sc. in 1927 and his M.A. in 1928 in mathematics. Upon the advice of Herbert Turnbull, Rutherford did his graduate work at the University of Amsterda... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41979802 | 2,104,940 |
299,781 | Brown's team made full use of the earlier small-rover studies, and commercially available components were incorporated wherever possible. The selection of wheels was of great importance, and almost nothing was known at that time about the lunar surface. The Marshall Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL) was responsible for p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18238 | 299,620 |
1,184,913 | Yaghi is the recipient of the American Chemical Society Chemistry of Materials Award (2009), Izatt-Christensen International Award (2009), the Royal Society of Chemistry Centenary Prize (2010), as well as China Nano Award (2013). In 2015 he was awarded both the King Faisal International Prize in Chemistry and the Musta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17344326 | 1,184,285 |
721 | Hawking was born in Oxford into a family of physicians. In October 1959, at the age of 17, he began his university education at University College, Oxford, where he received a first-class BA degree in physics. In October 1962, he began his graduate work at Trinity Hall at the University of Cambridge where, in March 196... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19376148 | 721 |
1,963,399 | A primary purpose of IUPHAR is providing global free access to a major, on-line repository of characterization data for receptors, ion channels, enzyme target classes and drugs through the Committee on Receptor Nomenclature and Drug Classification (NC-IUPHAR), established in 1987. The Guide to Pharmacology established ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6494001 | 1,962,271 |
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