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1,605,257 | The discipline of mineral economics examines the success and the implications associated with the mining industry and the impact the industry has on the economy socially and regarding the climate. Mineral economics is a continuing, evolving field which originally started after the Second World War and has continued to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4684202 | 1,604,353 |
155,630 | In 2002, the U.S. government enacted the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act. Whereas a fetus may be "viable" or not "viable" in utero, this law provides a legal definition for personal human life when not in utero. It defines "born alive" as "the complete expulsion or extraction from his or her mother of that member, at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1467229 | 155,560 |
1,005,626 | In terms of the proof, the two-dimensional case is properly viewed as a collection of three different results, one for each of the cases in which the Euler characteristic of is positive, zero, or negative. As demonstrated by , the negative case is handled by the maximum principle, while the zero case is handled by inte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=288291 | 1,005,107 |
87,595 | The first "pure" Bose–Einstein condensate was created by Eric Cornell, Carl Wieman, and co-workers at JILA on 5 June 1995. They cooled a dilute vapor of approximately two thousand rubidium-87 atoms to below 170 nK using a combination of laser cooling (a technique that won its inventors Steven Chu, Claude Cohen-Tannoudj... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4474 | 87,560 |
1,887,011 | Virtualization can solve some of these problems. Virtualization is a method by which the "guest" operating system runs on top of, while being separated from the "bare metal" hardware. This means that multiple "guest" operating systems can be run, solving the problem of single user applications not being able to be laun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27004596 | 1,885,929 |
1,086,472 | Wright strongly influenced Jay Lush, who was the most influential figure in introducing quantitative genetics into animal and plant breeding. From 1915 to 1925 Wright was employed by the Animal Husbandry Division of the U.S. Bureau of Animal Husbandry. His main project was to investigate the inbreeding that had occurre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1700593 | 1,085,914 |
851,730 | Over the course of the late Republic, formerly authoritative institutions lost their credibility and authority. For example, the Sullan reforms to the Senate strongly split the aristocratic class between those who stayed in the city and those who rose to high office abroad, further increasing class divides between Roma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12170961 | 851,277 |
400,163 | The keel for "Intrepid" was laid down on 1 December 1941 in Shipway 10 at the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Virginia, days before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the United States' entrance into World War II. She was launched on 26 April 1943, the fifth to be launched. She was sponsore... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=245903 | 399,964 |
1,577,380 | The victory at the Battle of Midway eliminated the Japanese threat against Hawaii. In November 1942, the 31st was deployed to Espiritu Santo in the South Pacific to fly long-distance bombing missions against Japanese forces in the Solomon Islands as part of the Mobile Force, Pacific. By January 1943, the 31st was flyin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15725980 | 1,576,491 |
1,657,748 | Alpher's dissertation in 1948 dealt with a subject that came to be known as Big Bang nucleosynthesis. Nucleosynthesis is the explanation of how more complex elements are created out of simple elements in the moments following the Big Bang. Right after the Big Bang, when the temperature was extremely high, if any nuclea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1273628 | 1,656,815 |
1,472,155 | Busemann discovered the benefits of the swept wing for aircraft at high speeds, presenting a paper on the topic at the Volta Conference in Rome in 1935. The paper concerned supersonic flow only. At the time of his proposal, flight much beyond 300 miles per hour had not been achieved and it was considered an academic cu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7897913 | 1,471,326 |
443,365 | Depending on the severity of the lesion, physicians may recommend either conservative treatment or surgery. The first step is simply to rest and modify daily activities that aggravate the symptoms. Patients may be prescribed anti-inflammatory drugs, Physical or Occupational therapy, splints for the elbow and wrists, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29406488 | 443,150 |
2,115,821 | The activities done by the Society of Experimental Social Psychology involve numerous things. The annual conference is a big event that all active and associate members attend. The annual conference changes location each year, with venues located all over the world. The main conference and pre-conferences do not cost e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19026722 | 2,114,604 |
1,123,218 | Kellner and Campos originally found the jaws of "Thalassodromeus" similar to those of modern skimmersthree bird species in the genus "Rhynchops"with their sideways-compressed jaws, blade-like beak, and protruding lower jaw (resembling scissors in side view). They argued that "Thalassodromeus" would have fed in a simila... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5382243 | 1,122,644 |
17,747 | By both endowment size and material consolidated assets, Cambridge is the wealthiest university in Europe and among the wealthiest in the world. In the 2019 fiscal year, the central university, excluding colleges, had total income of £2.192 billion, £592.4 million of which was from research grants and contracts. The ce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25978572 | 17,741 |
1,666,473 | A mutation in the Kozak sequence in the 1st exon of the GRM3 gene was shown to change translation and transcription of cloned GRM3 gene constructs and was significantly associated with bipolar disorder with an odds ratio of 4.4. Subsequently, a marker in GRM3 was implicated in a large genome-wide association study of s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14474523 | 1,665,534 |
472,678 | In the severe form, symptoms include abdominal pain, profuse vomiting, lethargy, potentially diarrhea, and even shock. Additional symptoms could potentially include - but are not limited to - headache, pallor, lethargy, constipation, and abdominal swelling (distension). Laboratory studies might reveal hypoalbuminemia, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34509470 | 472,442 |
1,613,690 | A Sugarbeet harvester is an agricultural machine for harvesting sugar beet. It was invented by German farmer and agricultural engineer Otto Wilke in 1927. From 1936, series production then started first at Krupp, then later at Lanz (today John Deere). From 1945 the "Stoll Company" took over beet harvester production af... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54388362 | 1,612,785 |
887,837 | The origins of the Attacker can be traced back to a wartime fighter jet project performed on behalf of the Royal Air Force (RAF). Many of the design's key features and performance requirements were stipulated under Specification E.10/44 (the "E" standing for experimental) issued by the Air Ministry during 1944, which h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=678691 | 887,370 |
551,221 | High-altitude adaptation in humans is an instance of evolutionary modification in certain human populations, including those of Tibet in Asia, the Andes of the Americas, and Ethiopia in Africa, who have acquired the ability to survive at altitudes above 2,500 meters. This adaptation means irreversible, long-term physio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39127332 | 550,933 |
1,054,086 | When the line was extended to Slough in 1843, a one-needle, two-wire system was installed. Cooke also changed from running the cables in buried lead pipes to the less expensive and easier to maintain system of suspending uninsulated wires on poles from ceramic insulators, a system which he patented, and which rapidly b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19446492 | 1,053,539 |
2,041,350 | Katz completed his undergraduate and MSc degrees at Queen’s University, and received a PhD from the California Institute of Technology. He specialized in Accelerator Physics, RF Systems and, in later life, Chaos Theory. After working for Westinghouse Electric Company on radar equipment for aircraft, in Pittsburgh, in 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36173207 | 2,040,170 |
809,303 | Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disorder and hence the defects observed in diabetic wound healing are thought to be the result of altered protein and lipid metabolism and thereby abnormal granulation tissue formation. Increased glucose levels in the body end up in uncontrolled covalent bonding of aldose sugars to a pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43129588 | 808,873 |
706,570 | Azotobacter is a genus of usually motile, oval or spherical bacteria that form thick-walled cysts (and also has hard crust) and may produce large quantities of capsular slime. They are aerobic, free-living soil microbes that play an important role in the nitrogen cycle in nature, binding atmospheric nitrogen, which is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1560158 | 706,201 |
1,430,802 | Tbr2 inactivation has also been tied to deficiencies in cortical neurogenesis further suggesting the importance of the cascade in activating and maintaining neuron production. It has been found experimentally through knockout studies that mice lacking Eomesodermin/Tbr2 during early development have a reduced number of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33611862 | 1,429,998 |
1,352,694 | Electron-beam evaporation uses thermionics emission to create a stream of electrons that are accelerated by a high-voltage cathode and anode arrangement. Electrostatic and magnetic fields focus and direct the electrons to strike a target. The kinetic energy is transformed into thermal energy at or near the surface of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=758730 | 1,351,948 |
484,138 | In 1910, in one of their most significant finds, Brown's team uncovered several hind feet from a group of "Albertosaurus" in Dry Island Buffalo Jump Provincial Park. For years, the fossils were largely forgotten in the recesses of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. In the 1990s, Dr. Phil Currie, t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2059352 | 483,889 |
2,129,568 | Various bioinformatics tools can be used to analyze end-sequence profiling. Common ones include BreakDancer, PEMer, Variation Hunter, common LAW, GASV, and Spanner. ESP can be used to map structural variation at high-resolution in disease tissue. This technique is mainly used on tumor samples from different cancer type... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45458060 | 2,128,344 |
1,967,624 | The Block 5D-2 satellites are in circular or near-circular Sun-synchronous and near-polar orbits at altitudes of 833 km with inclinations of 98.8° and orbital periods of 102.0 minutes, each making 14.1 full orbits per day. The scan direction is from the left to the right with the active scene measurements lying ± 51.2 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=965734 | 1,966,494 |
319,632 | Different countries around the world maintain regulatory frameworks that are responsible for the management and use of radionuclides in different medical settings. For example, in the US, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have guidelines in place for hospitals to follow.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=347838 | 319,460 |
423,097 | The vast majority of baroque trumpet parts were written for a natural instrument pitched in C or D, although there were occasional exceptions. J. S. Bach, for example, calls for a trumpet in B in his Cantatas Nos. 5 and 90, trumpets in E in the first version of his Magnificat and, most famously, the solo trumpet in hig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1982094 | 422,890 |
1,512,281 | In the second edition of the World Grand Prix, the field of eight participants was stronger than the previous year. Along with the defending champion Branco Cikatic, Peter "The Dutch Lumberjack" Aerts, Satake, Andy Hug made his anticipated WGP debut. Many believed Hug was a heavy favorite to win it all considering he a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6633778 | 1,511,431 |
127,894 | As for heart failure, low cardiac output syndrome (LCOS) can occur up to 14% of CABG cases and is according to its severity, is treated with inotropes, IABP, optimization of pre- and afterload, or correction of blood gauzes and electrolytes. The aim is to keep a systolic blood pressure above 90mmHg and cardiac index (C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=195248 | 127,842 |
329,075 | Various features of the B-58 were considered to be record-breaking, according to Gunston and Gilchrist. The structure itself made up 13.8 per cent of the aircraft's gross weight, an exceptionally low figure for the era, while the wing was considered to be extremely thin as well. Several key features of the engine, incl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=458762 | 328,900 |
101,481 | There was little progress in US sonar from 1915 to 1940. In 1940, US sonars typically consisted of a magnetostrictive transducer and an array of nickel tubes connected to a 1-foot-diameter steel plate attached back-to-back to a Rochelle salt crystal in a spherical housing. This assembly penetrated the ship hull and was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29438 | 101,436 |
2,048,144 | In 2004, he has published a paper in Nature, showing that the urban heat island effect has not affected the historical temperature record. In this article, Parker shares his observations of the minimum temperature over 24 hours worldwide since 1950 that were expressed as anomalies. Also it includes his reasoning to why... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1198087 | 2,046,963 |
185,417 | The quest for recorded moving images, though, was a more complex challenge. In the 1890s, moving pictures of any kind (whether taken with visible light or with invisible radiation) were emerging technologies. Because the word "photography" (literally "recording/engraving with light") was long since established as conno... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=418974 | 185,320 |
1,155,859 | The converse of the separation of powers is the decision of the High Court in "Boilermakers' Case" in 1956, that Chapter III courts cannot be invested with anything "other than" judicial power. To some extent the rigour of the separation of powers doctrine was softened by the Court's subsequent acceptance that judges c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1098034 | 1,155,249 |
735,566 | Farzad Esmaieli, commander of Khatam-ol-Anbia Base told Iranian media that the development of this system started by the direct order of supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei when the first information about cancellation of S-300 contract was revealed and Iranian personnel were still being trained in Russia on it. He said ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34254041 | 735,179 |
1,551,503 | The first Berlin Observatory was sited in the Dorotheenstadt quarter. The Marstall Unter den Linden had been erected from 1687 to 1688 according to the plans of the architect Johann Arnold Nering, originally for 200 horses, and a second storey was added from 1695 to 1697 for the Academie der Mahler-, Bildhauer- und Arc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2512514 | 1,550,622 |
1,095,481 | On July 22, 1975 MITS signed a contract for the Altair BASIC with Bill Gates and Paul Allen. They received $3000 at signing and a royalty for each copy of BASIC sold; $30 for the 4K version, $35 for the 8K version and $60 for the expanded version. The contract had a cap of $180,000. MITS received an exclusive worldwide... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=643230 | 1,094,921 |
68,676 | A variety of technologies or proposed technologies take advantage of infrared emissions to cool buildings or other systems. The LWIR (8–15 μm) region is especially useful since some radiation at these wavelengths can escape into space through the atmosphere's infrared window. This is how passive daytime radiative cooli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15022 | 68,649 |
1,136,210 | At large extensions, the pressure inside a natural rubber balloon once again goes up. This is due to a number of physical effects that were ignored in the James/Guth theory: crystallization, imperfect flexibility of the molecular chains, steric hindrances and the like. As a result, if the two balloons are initially ver... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28012439 | 1,135,617 |
1,757,673 | Early steamships had simple engines with high coal consumption. They offered more reliable journey times than sailing ships, but at a high cost. The large amount of coal that had to be carried reduced space for cargo, so that many longer routes were economically unfeasible. A compound engine achieved much better fuel e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53127684 | 1,756,681 |
1,163,205 | To motivate the definition, consider the case of a reducible complex algebraic curve "X" consisting of two nonsingular components, formula_33 and formula_34, which transversally intersect at the points formula_35 and formula_36. Further, assume that the components are not compact, but can be compactified by adding the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10297305 | 1,162,588 |
1,510,877 | Péter Frankl (born 26 March 1953 in Kaposvár, Somogy County, Hungary) is a mathematician, street performer, columnist and educator, active in Japan. Frankl studied Mathematics at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest and submitted his PhD thesis while still an undergraduate. He holds PhD degree from University Paris Did... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2107748 | 1,510,027 |
1,279,808 | Only a few decades later, microswimmers aiming to become true microscale surgeons evolved from an intriguing science-fiction concept to a reality explored in many research laboratories around the world, as already highlighted by Metin Sitti in 2009. These active agents that can self-propel in a low Reynolds number envi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69133408 | 1,279,113 |
1,449,175 | Becker was aware of the advantages of a close relationship between the military and science in the development of future weapons technology. As early as 1924, he recommended the establishment of a central laboratory of chemistry and physics. But only when he was director of the Ballistics and Ammunition Department of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19162097 | 1,448,359 |
589,375 | Other ecogeographical rules include Bergmann's Rule, coined by Carl Bergmann in 1857, which states that homeotherms closer to the Equator tend to be smaller than their more northerly or southerly conspecifics. One of the proposed reasons for this cline is that larger animals have a relatively smaller surface area to vo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6781871 | 589,073 |
393,410 | Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" proposed natural selection as the main mechanism for development of species, but (like Lamarck) gave credence to the idea of heritable effects of use and disuse as a supplementary mechanism. Darwin subsequently set out his concept of pangenesis in the final chapter of his boo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=187588 | 393,215 |
909,790 | The software life cycle is typically divided up into stages going from abstract descriptions of the problem to designs then to code and testing and finally to deployment. The earliest stages of this process are analysis and design. The distinction between analysis and design is often described as "what vs. how". In ana... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2613984 | 909,311 |
1,605,424 | Hot springs are also found at Taftan, especially at over altitude. An analysis of five springs in May 2012 indicated temperatures of and flow rates of . The waters are very acidic due to the formation of from magmatic gases, including the oxidation of . The hot waters around Taftan contain large quantities of boron, pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4652237 | 1,604,520 |
252,803 | The main "Hauptofen" combustion chamber of the 509B engine used for the B V6 and V18 occupied the same location as the A-series' engine did, with the lower "Marschofen" cruise chamber housed within the retractable tailwheel's appropriately widened ventral tail fairing. On 6 July 1944, the Me 163B V18 (VA+SP), like the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20486 | 252,670 |
217,789 | An inductively coupled plasma (ICP) for spectrometry is sustained in a torch that consists of three concentric tubes, usually made of quartz, although the inner tube (injector) can be sapphire if hydrofluoric acid is being used. The end of this torch is placed inside an induction coil supplied with a radio-frequency el... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49503 | 217,681 |
1,775,368 | Mereotopology begins in philosophy with theories articulated by A. N. Whitehead in several books and articles he published between 1916 and 1929, drawing in part on the mereogeometry of De Laguna (1922). The first to have proposed the idea of a point-free definition of the concept of topological space in mathematics wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1664427 | 1,774,371 |
2,241,218 | The first permanent settlement in the British Colony of Virginia was established at Jamestown in 1607 as a business venture funded by the Virginia Company of London and to replenish the British Crown Treasury. The role of the Protestant Church of England and its relationship to the monarchy government had been establis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20795001 | 2,239,947 |
2,158,669 | The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted much of the 2019/20 and 2020/21 seasons for the club. The third-term (April-July) of the 2019/20 season and second-term (January-March) of the 2020/2021 season saw the club unable to row due to restrictions in place from the UK Government and British Rowing. When restrictions were eased ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27266225 | 2,157,437 |
847,151 | A preon star is a proposed type of compact star made of preons, a group of . Preon stars would be expected to have huge densities, exceeding 10 kg/m. They may have greater densities than quark stars, and they would be smaller but heavier than white dwarfs and neutron stars. Preon stars could originate from supernova ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3352536 | 846,701 |
453,068 | Traditional manufacturing is defined as the act of converting raw materials into finished products by using manual or mechanized transformational techniques. The purpose of such activities is to add value to achieve targeted objectives, which do not preclude society's overall interests. In one report, the distinction b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18159068 | 452,847 |
1,367,550 | George Berkeley wrote his famous critique of this distinction in his book Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous. Berkeley maintained that the ideas created by sensations are all that people can know for sure. As a result, what is perceived as real consists only of ideas in the mind. The crux of Berkeley's argumen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7295638 | 1,366,794 |
2,008,050 | Under Boyd's purview, the Engineering Experiment Station was awarded many electronics-related contracts, to the extent that an Electronics Division was created in 1959; it focused on radar and communications. In 1955, Georgia Tech president Blake R. Van Leer appointed Boyd to Georgia Tech's Nuclear Science Committee. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26697426 | 2,006,898 |
1,221,376 | The parieto-frontal circuits are the basic compositions of the main elements of the cortical motor system. These circuits depend on the motor area to receive afferent information from the parietal areas. The input in one area is predominant, containing full amounts of information. The other input area is known as moder... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8511333 | 1,220,718 |
497,111 | The Parastep's digital design allows a considerable reduction in rate of patient-fatigue by drastically reducing of stimulation pulse-width (100–140 microseconds) and pulse-rate (12–24 per sec.), to result, in walking times of 20–60 minutes and average walking distances of 450 meters per walk, for adequately trained th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=842532 | 496,854 |
1,178,413 | Site selection for replication origins is carried out by the Origin Recognition Complex (ORC), a six subunit complex (Orc1-6). During the G1 phase of the cell cycle, Cdc6 is recruited by ORC to form a launching pad for the loading of two head-to-head Mcm2-7 hexamers, also known as the pre-replication complex (pre-RC). ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12370450 | 1,177,789 |
901,597 | 1-Ethyl-3-(3-dimethylaminopropyl)carbodiimide (EDC, EDAC or EDCI) is a water-soluble carbodiimide usually handled as the hydrochloride. It is typically employed in the 4.0-6.0 pH range. It is generally used as a carboxyl activating agent for the coupling of primary amines to yield amide bonds. While other carbodiimides... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22516223 | 901,121 |
943,555 | One might also ask the question which role science fiction played in establishing the tenets and ethical implications of AI development: Isaac Asimov conceptualized his Three Laws of Robotics in the 1942 short story "Runaround", part of the short story collection "I, Robot"; Arthur C. Clarke's short "The Sentinel", on ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13659583 | 943,053 |
665,259 | Another statue created by Polykleitos is the "Doryphoros", also called the "Spear bearer". It is a typical Greek sculpture depicting the beauty of the male body. “Polykleitos sought to capture the ideal proportions of the human figure in his statues and developed a set of aesthetic principles governing these proportion... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=186948 | 664,912 |
135,617 | Frederick Taylor (1856–1915) is generally credited as being the father of the industrial engineering discipline. He earned a degree in mechanical engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology and earned several patents from his inventions. His books, "Shop Management" and "The Principles of Scientific Management", w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23535218 | 135,562 |
378,703 | As early in the history of biotechnology as 1990, there have been scientists opposed to attempts to modify the human germline using these new tools, and such concerns have continued as technology progressed. With the advent of new techniques like CRISPR, in March 2015 a group of scientists urged a worldwide moratorium ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12891 | 378,508 |
232,179 | In course of the early stages of Operation Barbarossa, Hoth's 3rd Panzer Group broke through the Soviet border defenses with relative ease. Beck consequently released Hoth from the 9th Army, allowing him to operate more freely. Guderian's 2nd Panzer Group and Hoth's 3rd Panzer Group proceeded to encircle Minsk as part ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=261665 | 232,060 |
863,223 | Halofantrine is a relatively new drug developed by the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in the 1960s. It is a phenanthrene methanol, chemically related to Quinine and acts acting as a blood schizonticide effective against all "Plasmodium" parasites. Its mechanism of action is similar to other anti-malarials. Cyto... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=186625 | 862,763 |
831,569 | Eagleman was born in New Mexico to Arthur and Cirel Egelman, a Jewish physician and biology teacher, respectively. Eagleman decided to change his name from Egelman after discovering alternative spellings in personal genealogy research. An early experience of falling from a roof raised his interest in understanding the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6058684 | 831,120 |
1,186,475 | In the wake of the 1993 controversy, "Counterpoint", a joint MIT-Wellesley student publication, asked MIT student Avik Roy to write a "retrospective chronicling the controversy surrounding Martin since his arrival as associate professor in 1973." According to Roy, he was asked to write the article because the staff fel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1290613 | 1,185,846 |
2,198,503 | <nowiki> </nowiki>Tundra ecosystems developed in the Northern Hemisphere toward the end of the Pliocene (3.6 ma), prior to this point the Arctic was predominantly covered with forests and shrublands which extended northward to the coastline of the Arctic Ocean. However, during the middle Pleistocene this vegetation pat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58657379 | 2,197,252 |
465,497 | Genes can be viewed as nodes in the network, with input being proteins such as transcription factors, and outputs being the level of gene expression. The value of the node depends on a function which depends on the value of its regulators in previous time steps (in the Boolean network described below these are Boolean ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=356382 | 465,267 |
682,768 | Luria's other books written or co-authored during the 1960s included: "Higher Brain and Mental Processes" (1963), "The Neuropsychological Analysis of Problem Solving" (1966, with L. S. Tzvetkova; English translation in 1990), "Psychophysiology of the Frontal Lobes" (first published in 1973), and "Memory Disorders in Pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=389738 | 682,412 |
324,853 | The phenomenon was again noted in 1938 by the physicist Frank Benford, who tested it on data from 20 different domains and was credited for it. His data set included the surface areas of 335 rivers, the sizes of 3259 US populations, 104 physical constants, 1800 molecular weights, 5000 entries from a mathematical handbo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36782 | 324,680 |
697,365 | In 1979 Dong Zhiming named a new species of the megalosaurid "Chilantaisaurus", "C. zheziangensis", based on specimen ZhM V.001. This specimen was recovered in 1972 from the Tangshang Formation and consists of a partial tibia and partial right pes (foot) largely lacking metatarsals. Dong referred it to the genus mainly... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1846673 | 697,001 |
12,469 | In between earning these two degrees, Asimov spent three years during World War II working as a civilian chemist at the Philadelphia Navy Yard's Naval Air Experimental Station, living in the Walnut Hill section of West Philadelphia from 1942 to 1945. In September 1945, he was drafted into the post-war U.S. Army; if he ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14573 | 12,464 |
1,098,700 | Bateson's work published before 1900 systematically studied the structural variation displayed by living organisms and the light this might shed on the mechanism of biological evolution, and was strongly influenced by both Charles Darwin's approach to the collection of comprehensive examples, and Francis Galton's quant... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=647967 | 1,098,140 |
650,426 | In 1978, Steven G. Vandenberg and Allan R. Kuse developed the Mental Rotations Test (MRT) to assess mental rotation abilities that was based on Shepard and Metzler's (1971) original study. The Mental Rotations Test was constructed using India ink drawings. Each stimulus was a two-dimensional image of a three-dimensiona... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4155247 | 650,085 |
1,816,319 | Two flat parts are brought together under pressure with one fixed in place and the other vibrating back-and-forth parallel to the joint. Frictional heat is then generated till the polymers are softened or melted. Once the desired temperature is met, the vibration motion stops, the polymer solidifies and a weld joint is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57216564 | 1,815,285 |
126,026 | II Morrow shifted focus from marine business to development of package process automation technology for UPS such as vehicle management systems, automated high speed package sorting systems, as well as delivery and tracking systems. In 1999, II Morrow was renamed to UPS Aviation Technologies, and re-focused towards mod... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1118198 | 125,974 |
1,214,508 | In July and August 2018, the French "TRANSECT" cruise was conducted on "L'Atalante" utilizing the ROV "VICTOR" to collect a variety of measurements and samples. The following month, American cruise AT42-01, nicknamed "Return to the Lost City", was undertaken to revisit the vent field after many years, featuring many me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1570869 | 1,213,856 |
612,005 | Several self-propelled anti-aircraft combinations were tested in the 1930s, with Citroën-Kegresse or Berliet chassis, but none was mass-produced. The 13.2 mm Hotchkiss was used on the Belgian T15 and the French AMR 35 light tanks as well as on the White-Laffly AMD 80 armoured car and on fortifications. The Free French ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11375759 | 611,694 |
1,911,576 | Date: January 2010: Researchers developed a novel method of inducing self-pumping in a membraneless fuel cell. Using formic acid as a fuel and sulfuric acid as an oxidant, CO is produced in the reaction in the form of bubbles. The bubbles nucleate and coalesce on the anode. A check valve at the supply end prevents any ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29102401 | 1,910,477 |
887,624 | Gordon Clark and his followers treat the truth of the Scriptures as the axiom of their system. Like all axioms, this axiom is considered to be self-evident truth, not to be proven, but used for proof. Theologians and philosophers strongly influenced by Dr. Clark include Francis Schaeffer, Carl F. H. Henry, Ronald Nash,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=703994 | 887,157 |
1,358,098 | To meet these challenges, the UN published "Managing Infrastructure Assets for Sustainable Development: A handbook for local and national governments". The Handbook offers a flexible step-by-step diagnostic methodology with advice, exercises and examples easily accessible to practitioners and decision-makers in local a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29332110 | 1,357,348 |
269,031 | Wundt recognized about 20 "fundamental dynamic motives in cultural development". Motives frequently quoted in cultural development are: division of labour, ensoulment, salvation, happiness, production and imitation, child-raising, artistic drive, welfare, arts and magic, adornment, guilt, punishment, atonement, self-ed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34128 | 268,885 |
1,342,904 | The most important private building in the city is the Villa of Dionysus. In 1982, archaeologists started exploring the area east of the main road. They found a long-stretched building in the south-western part of which were shops and a bathing establishment. The bathroom could not only be entered from the street but h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54781348 | 1,342,168 |
182,048 | Tuning was used in Hertz's original experiments and practical application of tuning showed up in the early to mid 1890s in wireless systems not specifically designed for radio communication. Nikola Tesla's March 1893 lecture demonstrating the wireless transmission of power for lighting (mainly by what he thought was gr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=491851 | 181,952 |
349,341 | Erich Mendelsohn, (who disliked the term Expressionism for his work) began his career designing churches, silos, and factories which were highly imaginative, but, for lack of resources, were never built. In 1920, he finally was able to construct one of his works in the city of Potsdam; an observatory and research cente... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=315927 | 349,159 |
1,176,011 | The Dutch famine of 1944 or the "Hunger Winter" during World War II serves as an epidemiological study that is used to examine the effects of maternal under-nutrition during different gestational stages. The famine was a period (roughly five to six months) of extreme food shortage in the west of the Netherlands. The fa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29243665 | 1,175,389 |
1,106,996 | Obika et al. were the first to chemically synthesize LNA in 1997, independently followed by Jesper Wengel's group in 1998. This became possible after Zamecnick and Stephenson laid the groundwork on the possibility of oligonucleotides being great agents for controlling gene expression in 1978. To date, two different app... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=508492 | 1,106,432 |
367,117 | Only about one in one million of the intermediaries decay along the third pathway, making its products comparatively rare when compared to the other paths. This result is consistent with the predictions of the Bohr model. If one watt (6.242 × 10 MeV/s) of nuclear power were produced from ~2.2575 × 10 deuteron fusion in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7463 | 366,925 |
939,333 | The surrounding region suffered massive devastation. USGS scientist David Powars, one of the impact crater's discoverers, described the immediate aftermath: "Within minutes, millions of tons of water, sediment, and shattered rock were cast high into the atmosphere for hundreds of miles along the East Coast." An enormou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=411414 | 938,832 |
572,945 | WM is affected to a greater extent by stress than Long-term memory. Stress has been shown to both improve and impair WM. In a study by Duncko "et al.", the positive effect of stress manifested itself as a decreased reaction time in participants, while the negative effect of stress causes more false alarms and mistakes ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31110904 | 572,651 |
213,718 | "Archaeopteris" forests were soon supplemented by arborescent lycopods, in the form of Lepidodendrales, which exceeded 50m in height and 2m across at the base. These arborescent lycopods rose to dominate Late Devonian and Carboniferous forests that gave rise to coal deposits. Lepidodendrales differ from modern trees in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11008314 | 213,610 |
1,661,195 | A significant fraction of the energy generated by a nuclear reactor is lost in the form of extremely penetrating antineutrinos, with a signature revealing the kind of reactions inside. Thus, antineutrino detectors are being studied to locate and monitor them at a distance. Initially held back by a lack of spectrum data... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13784530 | 1,660,261 |
829,332 | Dirichlet had a good reputation with students for the clarity of his explanations and enjoyed teaching, especially as his University lectures tended to be on the more advanced topics in which he was doing research: number theory (he was the first German professor to give lectures on number theory), analysis and mathema... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=240002 | 828,886 |
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