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1,438,546 | Resurrected in 1979 by American Tom Heinsheimer, the competition was held without official FAI sanction for four years. Ben Abruzzo and Maxie Anderson secured victory piloting Double Eagle III in 47 hours from California to Colorado. The following year, the winning team of Jerry Tepper and Corky Myers floated from the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=782772 | 1,437,736 |
1,705,193 | The Trump administration marginalized the role of science at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and oversaw the mass departure of career USDA scientists. In July 2019, two USDA agencies—the Economic Research Service (ERS) and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture—were directed to move from the USDA's he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65365100 | 1,704,237 |
762,739 | The field currently faces the challenge of creating a coherent conceptual framework, codified into a well-documented curriculum (or curricula) featuring widely accepted and consistent concepts and theoretical paradigms linked to quantitative and qualitative methods, exemplars of those research methods, and guidelines f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1508301 | 762,331 |
2,089,420 | The Ice Sheet Mass Balance Inter-comparison Exercise (IMBIE) is an international scientific collaboration attempting to improve estimates of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheet contribution to sea level rise and to publish data and analyses concerning these subjects. IMBIE was founded in 2011 and is a collaboration b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57686971 | 2,088,217 |
102,839 | Thermite can be used for quickly cutting or welding steel such as rail tracks, without requiring complex or heavy equipment. However, defects such as slag inclusions and voids (holes) are often present in such welded junctions, so great care is needed to operate the process successfully. The numerical analysis of therm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52381 | 102,794 |
26,448 | On 27 March 2020, SpaceX revealed the Dragon XL resupply spacecraft designed to carry pressurized and unpressurized cargo, experiments, and other supplies to NASA's planned Gateway under a NASA Gateway Logistics Services (GLS) contract. The equipment delivered by Dragon XL missions could include sample collection mater... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60758751 | 26,438 |
883,253 | There are multiple genetic lesions associated with rhabdomyosarcoma, but there has been little consistent data demonstrating an association between specific genetic abnormalities and outcome. However, alveolar and embryonal types of RMS can be distinguished cytogenetically, and identification of specific genetic lesion... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=549895 | 882,789 |
596,497 | "N. americanus" is primarily found in tropical and temperate areas. This parasite thrives in warmer climates because to hatch, the eggs require a moist, warm, and shaded environment. The thin, smooth shells of this species cause the eggs and juveniles to die in freezing temperatures or with soil desiccation. Therefore,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1368351 | 596,192 |
1,538,562 | They decided that a society should be created for the promotion of the science of entomology in its various branches and it should be called the Entomological Society of London. J. G. Children, F. W. Hope, J. F. Stephens, W. Yarrell and G. Rudd were elected to form a committee, with G. R. Gray as secretary. J. G. Child... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2943106 | 1,537,689 |
882,064 | Another common type of retroreflector consists of refracting optical elements with a reflective surface, arranged so that the focal surface of the refractive element coincides with the reflective surface, typically a transparent sphere and (optionally) a spherical mirror. In the paraxial approximation, this effect can ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59853 | 881,600 |
84,642 | Highly qualified instructors were an essential element of Top Gun's success. Mediocre instructors are unable to hold the attention of talented students. Top Gun instructors were knowledgeable fighter tacticians assigned to one or more specific fields of expertise, such as a particular weapon, threat, or tactic. Every i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=937756 | 84,608 |
128,990 | The damage done to the brain if PKU is untreated during the first months of life is not reversible. It is critical to control the diet of infants with PKU very carefully so that the brain has an opportunity to develop normally. Affected children who are detected at birth and treated are much less likely to develop neur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23251 | 128,938 |
681,337 | Other significant painters of the first generation were the Panther Painter, the Anagyrus Painter, the Painter of the Dresden Lekanis and the Polos Painter. The last significant representative of the first generation of painters was Sophilos (580–570 BC), who is the first Attic vase painter known by name. In all, he si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1076046 | 680,982 |
244,187 | Several early German and French scholars compiled old works and conducted new research on birds. These included Guillaume Rondelet, who described his observations in the Mediterranean, and Pierre Belon, who described the fish and birds that he had seen in France and the Levant. Belon's "Book of Birds" (1555) is a folio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42967 | 244,060 |
540,843 | The area surrounding Mount Garibaldi has been inhabited by indigenous peoples for thousands of years. Their oral history includes a story of the mountain and a great flood. The non-indigenous name of the mountain was given by George Henry Richards in 1860 in honour of the Italian patriot and soldier Giuseppe Garibaldi.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=659719 | 540,563 |
1,146,637 | In 2009 it was discovered that the Northrop Grumman intercooler as fitted in the WR-21, on Type 45 destroyers, had a major design flaw, failing to operate in water temperatures beyond 30C. The intercooler of the first Type 45 destroyer, , failed in the mid-Atlantic in 2010 and had to be repaired in Canada, with further... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=577764 | 1,146,033 |
403,767 | On 16 November 2020, an SM-3 Block IIA successfully intercepted a simulated intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) target for the first time; the test was congressionally mandated and originally scheduled for May 2020 but was delayed due to COVID-19 restrictions. An ICBM-T2 threat-representative target was launched ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15787389 | 403,567 |
922,671 | Scaffolds may also be constructed from natural materials: in particular different derivatives of the extracellular matrix have been studied to evaluate their ability to support cell growth. Protein based materials – such as collagen, or fibrin, and polysaccharidic materials- like chitosan or glycosaminoglycans (GAGs), ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=307065 | 922,185 |
403,090 | Many of the displays from the original hall can still be viewed in the present expanded format. These include life-size dioramas of our human predecessors "Australopithecus afarensis", "Homo ergaster", Neanderthal, and Cro-Magnon, showing each species demonstrating the behaviors and capabilities that scientists believe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=399990 | 402,890 |
36,563 | About the time of the first landing in 1969, it was decided to use an existing Saturn V to launch the Skylab orbital laboratory pre-built on the ground, replacing the original plan to construct it in orbit from several Saturn IB launches; this eliminated Apollo 20. NASA's yearly budget also began to shrink in light of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1461 | 36,551 |
1,510,191 | By 2005, the core network used packet over SONET links at 10 Gbit/s. In 2009, ESnet received $62 million in American Research and Recovery Act (ARRA) funding from the Department of Energy Office (DOE)of Science to invest in its next-generation infrastructure to provide the necessary support for research discovery in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4382559 | 1,509,341 |
1,104,083 | A periodontal pocket is formed from a disease process; it is defined as the apical extension of the gingiva, resulting in detachment of the periodontal ligament (PDL). The PDL is a ligament that attaches the root of the tooth to the supporting alveolar bone. This ligament allows for occlusal force absorption. Plaque ac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23511207 | 1,103,520 |
1,882,386 | A deductive classifier is a type of artificial intelligence inference engine. It takes as input a set of declarations in a frame language about a domain such as medical research or molecular biology. For example, the names of classes, sub-classes, properties, and restrictions on allowable values. The classifier determi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43342432 | 1,881,305 |
1,116,811 | In a 2017 Master's thesis, paleontologist Nicole Marie Ridgwell described two coprolites (fossilized dung) from the Kaiparowits Formation which, due to their size, may have been produced by a member of one of three herbivorous dinosaur groups known from the formation: ceratopsians (including "Kosmoceratops"), hadrosaur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28916285 | 1,116,238 |
806,121 | On the other hand, like the inter-group distinctiveness theory argues, several studies have revealed that when second language learners feel their social identity is threatened due to patronizing behavior towards their ethnic group they are more likely to engage in divergence. In a study conducted by Zuengler (1982) am... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7649963 | 805,692 |
740,304 | Livermorium is projected to be the fourth member of the 7p series of chemical elements and the heaviest member of group 16 in the periodic table, below polonium. While it is the least theoretically studied of the 7p elements, its chemistry is expected to be quite similar to that of polonium. The group oxidation state o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62198 | 739,912 |
1,544,388 | Partly because of his poor health, he tended not to practise as a physician, his interests lying in the deeper problems of medical and physiological science. During the last two years of Honoré Mirabeau's life, Cabanis was intimately connected with him; Cabanis wrote the four papers on public education which were found... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=174292 | 1,543,514 |
774,235 | Americium-241 is the only synthetic isotope to have found its way into the household, where the most common type of smoke detector (the ionization-type) uses (americium-241 dioxide) as its source of ionizing radiation. This isotope is preferred over because it emits 5times more alpha particles and relatively little har... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48787726 | 773,819 |
2,228,534 | William McNab (1855 – 23 February 1923) was a pioneering railway engineer. He came to Canada as a youth and was educated at the McGill Model School and the Montreal Collegiate School. Upon graduating in 1870, he served in the Engineering Department of the Grand Trunk Railway as an indentured pupil. During this time, he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10578376 | 2,227,270 |
1,669,163 | The program started with approximately 50 students in 7 majors: Art, Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, Music Composition, Literature and Physics. The experimental program struck a chord with its students and faculty, and along with the powerful pushing of Mudrick as its provost, it secured its place at UCSB. The program... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=255782 | 1,668,223 |
1,421,799 | Several groups have successfully delivered CPP fused proteins "in vitro". TAT was able to deliver different proteins, such as horseradish peroxidase and RNase A across cell membrane into the cytoplasm in different cell lines "in vitro". The size range of proteins with effective delivery is from 30kDa to 120-150kDa. In ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9470331 | 1,420,998 |
888,166 | Invasion of the intestinal lining causes amoebic bloody diarrhea or amoebic colitis. If the parasite reaches the bloodstream it can spread through the body, most frequently ending up in the liver where it causes amoebic liver abscesses. Liver abscesses can occur without previous diarrhea. Cysts of "Entamoeba" can survi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=518489 | 887,698 |
1,159,318 | Uranium was the only known fuel for nuclear reactors, so securing an adequate supply was crucial to the British atomic energy programme. During the war, Britain took the lead in reopening the world's richest uranium mine, the Shinkolobwe mine in the Belgian Congo, which had been flooded and closed, as 30 per cent of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52573493 | 1,158,703 |
1,883,328 | The children of the atomic bomb survivors are studied to determine whether genetic effects might be apparent that could be related to parental A-bomb radiation exposure. An initial study of birth defects did not reveal any discernable effects. Subsequent studies on mortality and cancer incidence, chromosome abnormaliti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13332727 | 1,882,247 |
2,156,475 | During Cassini’s 292 orbits around Saturn (2004 to 2017) CDA measured several million dust impacts that characterize dust mostly in Saturn’s E ring. In this process CDA found that the E ring extends about twice as far from Saturn as optically observed. Measurements of variable dust charges depending on the magnetospher... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70105459 | 2,155,244 |
1,765,169 | In 1998, start-up biotechnology company BIA Separations of Ljubljana, Slovenia, came into being. The technology was originally developed by Tatiana Tennikova and Frantisek Svec during a collaboration between their respective institutes. The patent for these columns was acquired by BIA Separations and Ales Podgornik and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22131699 | 1,764,176 |
1,563,964 | It is unusual for the general water velocity in a system to be so high that impingement attack occurs throughout the whole of the copper pipework. More commonly, the velocity is just sufficiently low for satisfactory protective films to be formed and to remain in position on most of the system, with impingement damage ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8090966 | 1,563,077 |
390,475 | Following its June 2022 release, the GTX 1630 received negative reviews. A two-star review by Jarred Walton in "Tom's Hardware" criticised its price, especially considering that it was released 3 years after most of the 16 series, while only performing better than the GTX 1050. Walton wrote that "the only real contende... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60048558 | 390,280 |
2,187,078 | BC began the second half of the regular season with its second 2-vs-1 matchup. Just like the first time, the Eagles were unable to overcome the higher-seeded team and fell to MSU in the Great Lakes Invitational semifinal. Boston College retained its ranking after recovering with a win over #4 Michigan in the consolatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69909284 | 2,185,830 |
858,152 | Neuroscientific studies based on the instinctual, emotional action tendencies of non-human animals accompanied by the brains neurochemical and electrical changes are deemed to best monitor relative primary process emotional/affective states. Predictions based on the research conducted on animals is what leads analysis ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5160010 | 857,696 |
629,699 | For most belt ranks, and most Gracie schools, each stripe is awarded at the discretion of the instructor, without any specific curriculum or qualification requirements. However, with adult ranks, (particularly the lower colors of blue and purple), proficiency in a set series of techniques may be required prior to consi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50672496 | 629,361 |
1,914,997 | On 12 September 2014, a fire broke out on the construction site at approximately 8:30 pm. The construction of the building was about 70-per-cent complete at the time. Sixty firefighters from five crews attended the scene and gained control, with no injuries or damage to neighbouring buildings reported. An investigation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70324795 | 1,913,898 |
534,971 | The SETI Institute was incorporated as a 501(c)(3) California nonprofit organization in 1984 by Thomas Pierson (former CEO), and Dr. Jill Tarter. Financial and leadership support over the life of the SETI Institute has included Carl Sagan, Bernard Oliver, David Packard, William Hewlett, Gordon Moore, Paul Allen, Nathan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=617552 | 534,692 |
985,288 | PVD can be used as an application to make anisotropic glasses of low molecular weight for organic semiconductors. The parameter needed to allow the formation of this type of glass is molecular mobility and anisotropic structure at the free surface of the glass. The configuration of the polymer is important where it nee... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6086928 | 984,774 |
1,348,070 | One well-studied planktivore species is the gizzard shad ("Dorosoma cepedianum") which has a voracious appetite for various forms of plankton across its life cycle. Planktivores can be either obligate planktivores, meaning they can only feed on plankton, or facultative planktivores, which take plankton when available b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36726184 | 1,347,329 |
1,739,217 | Physically based animation is now common in movies and video games, and many techniques were pioneered during the development of early special effects scenes and game engines. "" famously used particle systems in the Genesis explosion scene to create the visual effect of a flaming shockwave engulfing a planet. Despite ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38539971 | 1,738,240 |
247,309 | In 2020 the university announced it was axing 450 staff in the institution's largest ever layoff of academic staff, despite a planned expenditure of $4.2 billion for capital works over the decade from 2020. Similarly, in semester two of 2021, the majority of teaching was once again moved to online delivery due to the o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=363594 | 247,181 |
247,582 | Steuben spent 11 years as court chamberlain to the prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen, a small German principality. In 1769, the Duchess of Wurttemburg, a niece of Frederick, named him to the chivalric Order of Fidelity, a meritorious award that conferred the title, , or 'free lord'; in 1771, his service to Hohenzollern-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=93561 | 247,454 |
392,504 | The formation of the corpus callosum begins with the first midline crossing of pioneer axons around week 12 in the prenatal development of the human, or day 15 in the embryogenesis of the mouse. Agenesis of the corpus callosum (ACC) is a rare congenital disorder that is one of the most common brain malformations observ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=270014 | 392,309 |
2,161,883 | Daniel Gerlich studied biology at the University of Freiburg in Germany. Following his graduation in 1998, he worked at German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and Ruprecht-Karls University Heidelberg, Germany, to obtain a PhD in 2002. That year, he started postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Jan Ellenberg at the E... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61293273 | 2,160,648 |
687,468 | According to a June 2021 statement from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), cases of myocarditis and pericarditis had been reported in about 13 per million young people (mostly in males and mostly over the age of 16), in association with the mRNA vaccines. According to reports at the time, the re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68597435 | 687,110 |
60,314 | The second prototype, No. 02, made its 50-minute first flight in September 1978 at the controls of Maurourd. The aircraft was to test some of the avionics systems and the carriage of weapons. Due to a flame-out while on a landing approach, the aircraft was lost in May 1984. No. 03 made its first flight in April 1979; e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=381535 | 60,289 |
1,143,806 | Ideas from quantum physics have long inspired thinkers in areas such as politics, diplomacy, and international relations. The journalist Flora Lewis spoke of the "Quantum Mechanics of Politics" in 1975. In a 1997 lecture on "Diplomacy in the Information Age", former US Secretary of State George P. Shultz credits the ph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59133650 | 1,143,206 |
15,491 | Autism spectrum disorder, as it is known today, can be traced back to the late 1930s, when two separate psychiatrists – Leo Kanner of Johns Hopkins Hospital and Hans Asperger of the Vienna University Hospital – used the word "autism" to describe the patients they were studying in their own clinical research and practic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29113700 | 15,486 |
1,367,078 | Omega stations broadcast a continuous-wave signal in a specific time-slot. In order to maintain precise timing of the slots for stations distributed around the world, stations were equipped with synchronized atomic clocks. These clocks also ensured that their signals were sent out with the right frequency and phase; un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33739081 | 1,366,322 |
1,136,608 | By 1979 the 4 m was on the verge of being scrapped due to a ballooning budget, whilst the aperture had been reduced to . A panel known as the Tiger Team was convened to reduce the cost; a re-design cut the price-tag by 45%. Savings were primarily made by reducing the focal length of the telescope – which allowed the us... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=811339 | 1,136,015 |
1,229,529 | The mechanism of enzymatic catalysis by the BCKDC draws largely upon the elaborate structure of this large enzyme complex. This enzyme complex is composed of three catalytic components: alpha-ketoacid dehydrogenase (also referred to as the E component), dihydrolipoyl transacylase (E component), and dihydrolipoamide deh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3360546 | 1,228,867 |
144,979 | It refers to determining the opinions or sentiments expressed on different features or aspects of entities, e.g., of a cell phone, a digital camera, or a bank. A feature or aspect is an attribute or component of an entity, e.g., the screen of a cell phone, the service for a restaurant, or the picture quality of a camer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6435232 | 144,921 |
355,930 | Theorists such as Andy Clark suggest that interactions between humans and technology result in the creation of a cyborg system. In this model, "cyborg" is defined as a part-biological, part-mechanical system that results in the augmentation of the biological component and the creation of a more complex whole. Clark arg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20756967 | 355,747 |
1,967,668 | The men's individual all-around competition was one of eight events for male competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. The qualification and final rounds took place on July 20, 22 and 24th at the Georgia Dome. There were 111 competitors from 31 nations. Each nation could enter a team of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23982100 | 1,966,538 |
1,395,277 | Psychological behaviorism is set forth as an overarching theory, constructed of multiple theories in various areas. Staats considers it a unified theory. The areas are related, their principles consistent, and they are advanced consistently, composing levels from basic to increasingly advanced. Its most basic level cal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24006408 | 1,394,506 |
1,768,899 | Computational capacity has increased dramatically over the last two decades making possible the use of more sophisticated and computationally intensive methods in computer-assisted drug design. However, dealing with receptor flexibility in docking methodologies is still a thorny issue. The main reason behind this diffi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5702698 | 1,767,905 |
788,133 | While GPUs and FPGAs perform far better than CPUs for AI-related tasks, a factor of up to 10 in efficiency may be gained with a more specific design, via an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC). These accelerators employ strategies such as optimized memory use and the use of lower precision arithmetic to acce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50827978 | 787,709 |
2,144,724 | The origins of the research station exist within the Great Barrier Reef Committee, which was established in 1922 by UQ's first Professor of Geology, Henry C. Richards and Sir Matthew Nathan, then Governor of Queensland. Nathan, Richards and a group of like minded academics and politicians from Australia and overseas, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50253124 | 2,143,493 |
421,337 | "Teredo navalis" is a very destructive pest of submerged timber. In the Baltic Sea, pine trees can become riddled with tunnels within 16 weeks of being in the water and oaks within 32 weeks, with whole trees in diameter being completely destroyed within a year. Ships' timbers are attacked, wrecks destroyed and sea defe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3712841 | 421,131 |
81,587 | The inspiration for Collins in his decision to become a NASA astronaut was the Mercury Atlas 6 flight of John Glenn on February 20, 1962, and the thought of being able to circle the Earth in 90 minutes. Collins applied for the second group of astronauts that year. To raise the numbers of Air Force pilots selected, the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=97666 | 81,554 |
312,352 | In the United States, the JNC8 (Eighth Joint National Committee on the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure) recommends thiazide-type diuretics to be one of the first-line drug treatments for hypertension, either as monotherapy or in combination with calcium channel blockers, ACE inhi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=633467 | 312,184 |
1,449,733 | The NCTM employed a consensus process that involved classroom teachers, mathematicians, and educational researchers. The resulting document sets forth a set of six principles (Equity, Curriculum, Teaching, Learning, Assessment, and Technology) that describe NCTM's recommended framework for mathematics programs, and ten... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1561666 | 1,448,917 |
1,236,612 | After completing his thesis in 1983, Südhof moved to UT Southwestern Medical Center for his postdoctoral training where he began researching in the department of molecular genetics under the supervision of Joseph L. Goldstein and Michael Stuart Brown. While a postdoctoral fellow, Südhof cloned the gene for the low-dens... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26871735 | 1,235,948 |
1,733,111 | Students with disabilities are provided distinct housing options to accommodate their needs. The university is known for being one of the first universities to provide accommodations for students with disabilities. Students with moderate to severe disabilities can opt to live in Nugent Hall, supported by the Beckwith R... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5839371 | 1,732,135 |
87,233 | In 1916, to accommodate the growth of steam power, the descriptions were changed to how the sea, not the sails, behaved and extended to land observations. Rotations to scale numbers were standardized only in 1923. George Simpson, CBE (later Sir George Simpson), director of the UK Meteorological Office, was responsible ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=155110 | 87,198 |
970,492 | Since this is an underwater sport, surface spectators may be unaware of just how physical underwater hockey is. Although it is a limited-contact sport, there is a significant risk of injury. Many injuries are typical sports injuries such as sprains, torn muscles and light scratches. More major injuries might include de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=488005 | 969,982 |
1,073,896 | After years of development, data diodes have evolved from being only a network appliance or device allowing raw data to travel only in one direction, used in guaranteeing information security or protection of critical digital systems, such as industrial control systems, from inbound cyber attacks, to combinations of ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7216005 | 1,073,342 |
1,511,740 | Zabdiel Boylston of Harvard University was the only doctor who positively responded to Mather, beginning America's first public campaign of inoculation. On 26 June 1721, Boylston first inoculated his six-year-old son Thomas, and then his 36-year-old slave and the slave's two-year-old son. To the doctor's relief, all su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61016641 | 1,510,890 |
1,646,828 | Reisz (1972) tentatively classified "Echinerpeton" as an ophiacodontid in its initial description, but later (1986) considered it an indeterminate "pelycosaur". Lee (1999) argued that the placement of "Echinerpeton" within Synapsida was not certain because it lacked any of the defining features or synapomorphies presen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22438096 | 1,645,897 |
960,116 | In 2005, tigecycline, the first member of a new subgroup of tetracyclines named glycylcyclines, was introduced to treat infections that are resistant to other antimicrobials. Although it is structurally related to minocycline, alterations to the molecule resulted in its expanded spectrum of activity and decreased susce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3917234 | 959,607 |
305,153 | Just before his death in 1895, Engels argued that there was now a "single generally recognised, crystal clear theory of Marx" and a "single great international army of socialists". Despite its illegality due to the Anti-Socialist Laws of 1878, the Social Democratic Party of Germany's use of the limited universal male s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47246185 | 304,991 |
1,608,661 | The best year in Mercyhurst history came in 2009–10. In that season, the Lakers started the season with a record of 19 wins, 1 loss and 3 ties (Conference Record, 6–0–1). They were the top ranked team in the USA TODAY/USA Hockey Magazine poll for 14 consecutive weeks and were the unanimous choice with all 19 first-plac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24112361 | 1,607,756 |
1,667,894 | FreeSurfer is a brain imaging software package originally developed by Bruce Fischl, Anders Dale, Martin Sereno, and Doug Greve. Development and maintenance of FreeSurfer is now the primary responsibility of the Laboratory for Computational Neuroimaging at the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging. FreeSu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4479709 | 1,666,955 |
745,953 | Brahe, a Danish noble, was an essential astronomer in this period. He came on the astronomical scene with the publication of "De nova stella", in which he disproved conventional wisdom on the supernova SN 1572 (As bright as Venus at its peak, SN 1572 later became invisible to the naked eye, disproving the Aristotelian ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14021 | 745,559 |
455,349 | Cadets applying for rated slots, such as Pilot, RPA Pilot (MQ-9 Reaper), Navigator / Combat Systems Officer (CSO), and Air Battle Manager (ABM), will have the opportunity to apply no later than towards the end of the first semester of their second-to-last year (generally, the 1st semester of the academic junior year). ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1240787 | 455,127 |
2,136,082 | Little was born in Newry, the son of Archibald Little and his wife Mary, daughter of Richard Coulter. He was educated first at The Academy, Cookstown, Co. Tyrone and afterwards at The Royal School, Armagh. On leaving school, he became apprenticed to John Cohan, physician to the Armagh Fever Hospital and was also a pupi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31876610 | 2,134,855 |
146,764 | In the United States the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) noted in 1920 that air-cooled radials could offer an increase in power-to-weight ratio and reliability; by 1921 the U.S. Navy had announced it would only order aircraft fitted with air-cooled radials and other naval air arms followed suit. Char... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=146924 | 146,706 |
2,144,881 | He has stressed the importance of understanding the role of sea ice in keeping carbon dioxide in the ocean rather than the atmosphere and the implications if human activity causes more warming, leading to the melting of the ice and subsequent rise in sea levels, which geological records of melting ice sheets that at th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69498152 | 2,143,650 |
1,215,992 | The thrifty gene hypothesis, or Gianfranco's hypothesis is an attempt by geneticist James V. Neel to explain why certain populations and subpopulations in the modern day are prone to diabetes mellitus type 2. He proposed the hypothesis in 1962 to resolve a fundamental problem: diabetes is clearly a very harmful medical... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6687077 | 1,215,340 |
519,066 | The cost of breathing gas containing a high fraction of helium is a significant part of the cost of deep diving operations, and can be reduced by recovering the breathing gas for recycling. A reclaim helmet is provided with a return line in the diver's umbilical, and exhaled gas is discharged to this hose through a rec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=460952 | 518,797 |
1,124,467 | Pickover is author of hundreds of technical papers in diverse fields, ranging from the creative visualizations of fossil seashells, genetic sequences, cardiac and speech sounds, and virtual caverns and lava lamps, to fractal and mathematically based studies. He also has published articles in the areas of skepticism (e.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=268170 | 1,123,893 |
840,866 | Armen Alchian and Harold Demsetz's analysis of team production extends and clarifies earlier work by Coase. Thus according to them the firm emerges because extra output is provided by team production, but the success of this depends on being able to manage the team so that metering problems (it is costly to measure the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1337683 | 840,416 |
1,066,046 | One of the main goals of biorefineries is to contribute to a more sustainable industry by the conservation of resources and by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants. Nevertheless, other environmental impacts may be associated to the production of biobased products; as land use change, eutrophication of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1637397 | 1,065,492 |
1,010,090 | In November 2004, the CDC reported an increasing number of "A. baumannii" bloodstream infections in patients at military medical facilities in which service members injured in the Iraq/Kuwait region during Operation Iraqi Freedom and in Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom were treated. Most of these were mult... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=618883 | 1,009,569 |
981,075 | Social anthropology is distinguished from subjects such as economics or political science by its holistic range and the attention it gives to the comparative diversity of societies and cultures across the world, and the capacity this gives the discipline to re-examine Euro-American assumptions. It is differentiated fro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33661613 | 980,563 |
1,324,429 | Recent studies have treated UPS by targeting the immune system with pembrolizumab. Pembrolizumab is a manufactured IG4 therapeutic monoclonal antibody that binds to and inhibits stimulation of the PD-1 receptors expressed on the surface of activated T-cells. This inhibition blocks the PD-L1 and PL-L2 ligands located on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5868922 | 1,323,702 |
1,571,624 | Molluscans uses it for grasping substratum, catching prey and for locomotory accessory. The best studied acetabular activity is that of octopus. Octopus arms contains 200-300 independently controlled suckers that can grasp small objects and produce high adhesion forces on virtually any non-porous surface. This precise ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39612993 | 1,570,736 |
1,164,439 | On 25 June 1959, the Defence Research Policy Committee approved funds for OR.339, at which point Hawker Siddeley's management directed that a re-submission be made. Accordingly, Camm produced a modified P.1129 proposal, which drew on improvements featured on a competing design by Avro. By Summer 1958, the major assembl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26733365 | 1,163,822 |
765,364 | There is no cure available for asbestosis. Oxygen therapy at home is often necessary to relieve the shortness of breath and correct underlying low blood oxygen levels. Supportive treatment of symptoms includes respiratory physiotherapy to remove secretions from the lungs by postural drainage, chest percussion, and vibr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=424015 | 764,954 |
525,338 | One solution to this problem, one that most computer vendors had already moved to, was to use integrated circuits (ICs) instead of individual components. Each IC included a selection of components from a module pre-wired into a circuit by the automated construction process. If an IC did not work, another one would be t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1231405 | 525,066 |
1,166,809 | Hemoglobin C (HbC) is an abnormal hemoglobin with substitution of a lysine residue for glutamic acid residue of the β-globin chain, at exactly the same β-6 position as the HbS mutation. The "C" designation for HbC is from the name of the city where it was discovered—Christchurch, New Zealand. People who have this disea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24973826 | 1,166,191 |
1,471,928 | Space Shuttle "Discovery" began its trip, known as the rollout, to LC-39A at 23:58 EST on 2 March 2010. The complete shuttle stack and mobile launcher platform were secured to the LC-39A structure at 6:49 EST on 3 March 2010. The trek took 6 hours 51 minutes to complete. The rollout was delayed 24 hours by the threat o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6002628 | 1,471,099 |
712,719 | The theory was developed in the 1950s and is used to answer questions about topics such as organism size, age of maturation, number of offspring, life span, and many others. In order to study these topics, life history strategies must be identified, and then models are constructed to study their effects. Finally, predi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3880495 | 712,347 |
1,427,853 | In December 1961, he wrote up a paper on its solution and another paper on Latin squares and sent them to Institute of Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The reply letter came in February 1963, in which they did not directly comment on the papers but suggested that he check them himself and send them to jo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58616210 | 1,427,049 |
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