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2,164,738 | The core scientific activity of CNC is the study of the molecular basis of neurodegenerative processes common to ageing, neurodegenerative disorders, cerebral ischaemia and epilepsy. In parallel, the research groups explore mechanisms of neuroprotection and regeneration, which may be future candidates for the developme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15672247 | 2,163,501 |
305,220 | The early 1970s were a particularly stormy period for socialists, as capitalism had its first worldwide slump of 1973-4, suffered from rising oil prices, and a crisis in confidence. In southern Europe, for example, the Portuguese Carnation Revolution of 1974 threatened the existence of capitalism for a while due to the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47246185 | 305,057 |
1,790,807 | Due to the social and environmental conditions in northern Nigeria, the flexibility of both ecological management and economic activity are vital components of any strategy for agricultural and rural livelihood in the region. It is often contended that African farmers are unsuccessful at intensifying agriculture throug... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26203387 | 1,789,801 |
2,136,584 | The High Altitude Plasma Instrument (HAPI) consisted of an array of five electrostatic analyzers capable of making measurements of the phase-space distributions of electrons and positive ions in the energy/charge range from 5 eV to 32 keV as a function of pitch angle. This investigation provided data contributing to th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69341287 | 2,135,356 |
934,469 | Exciting new developments in biotechnology are now revolutionizing biology and biomedical research. Examples of these techniques are high-throughput sequencing, high-throughput quantitative PCR, intra-cellular imaging, in-situ hybridization of gene expression, three-dimensional imaging techniques like Light Sheet Fluor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1181008 | 933,977 |
1,110,189 | By the late 1920s the popularity of C melody saxophones had faded. Sales of all saxophones fell dramatically after the Wall Street Crash of 1929, and the C melody was one of several models (including the mezzo-soprano saxophone) which were dropped from production soon after. However, it is important to note that produc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2339175 | 1,109,624 |
1,872,722 | As the Nazi regime took on momentum and Austria was annexed to the Third Reich in the Anschluss (12 March 1938) Hilda returned to Vienna, in her role as Honorary Secretary, to use her expertise and connections, in generating documentations and placements and qualifications for Jewish people to aid their escape. ""Only ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56470178 | 1,871,645 |
1,942,533 | The battle of life now began in earnest; and having thus lost the advice and assistance of the first zoologists whom England has ever produced, Mr. Curtis (by the evidence of Mr. MacLeay and other friends) turned his attention to botanical drawing and engraving, which led to engagements with Dr. Sims, and introduced hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1618060 | 1,941,422 |
877,658 | Another country with an overpopulation problem is India. Medical advances in the past fifty years have lowered the death rate, resulting in large population density and overcrowding. This overcrowding is also due to the fact that poor families do not have access to birth control. Despite this lack of access, sterilizat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69688 | 877,196 |
1,155,523 | The basic idea behind Appleton's work is so simple that it is hard to understand at first how he devoted almost all of his scientific career to its study. However, in the last couple of paragraphs some of the complexities of the subject have been introduced. Like many other fields, it is one that grows in intricacy the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=396514 | 1,154,913 |
1,031,367 | In September 2013, DAPA said they would recommend buying the F-15SE. Ex-Air Force chiefs had insisted that a stealth plane should be chosen regardless of price. Officials did not want to lengthen the long-delayed project and expect that a radar that can detect stealth aircraft will be developed in a few years. On 24 Se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40890966 | 1,030,831 |
1,581,724 | Fierce controversies on the role of excess salt intake as a major cause of hypertension in humans were rampant in the second half of the twentieth century. The issue was clouded by citation of multiple factors possible and the role of the Salt Institute in Washington, an industry funded body. At the primate research ce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6869432 | 1,580,834 |
700,697 | A more fundamental criticism is implied in theories of this type. The differences at the sensory and perceptual levels between agents require that some means of ensuring at least a partial correlation can be achieved that allows the updatings involved in communication to take place. The process in an informative statem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=613052 | 700,332 |
1,000,055 | Narlikar completed his school education from Central Hindu College (now Central Hindu Boys School). He received his BSc degree from Banaras Hindu University in 1957. He then began his studies at Cambridge University at Fitzwilliam College like his father, where he received a BA (Tripos) degree in mathematics in 1959 an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2251669 | 999,537 |
1,674,540 | "Ptilotus exaltatus" is a highly desirable Australian Native plant due to its abundant and colourful flowers, but its horticultural potential is limited by poor germination. The seed dispersal unit of the plant is a 2 x 1.5-millimetre nut enclosed by the perianth, which prevents germination. Removal of the perianth she... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23884530 | 1,673,598 |
1,522,748 | The X-Ray Timing Explorer (XTE) mission has the primary objective to study the temporal and broad-band spectral phenomena associated with stellar and galactic systems containing compact objects in the energy range 2--200 KeV, and in time scales from microseconds to years. The scientific instruments consists of two poin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=607233 | 1,521,887 |
1,450,185 | West Point first accepted women as cadets in 1976, when Congress authorized the admission of women to all of the federal service academies. Women comprise about 15 percent of entering plebes (freshmen); and they pursue the same academic and professional training as do their male classmates, except with different physic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20793344 | 1,449,368 |
532,363 | Unusually, cerebral palsy, including spastic cerebral palsy, is notable for a glaring overall research deficiency—the fact that it is one of the very few "major" groups of conditions on the planet in human beings for which medical science has not yet (as of 2011) collected wide-ranging empirical data on the development... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6115887 | 532,084 |
2,152,826 | Much of Hayman's work has been focused on developing integrated approaches to public health and environmental protection that could prevent infectious disease outbreaks which are a threat to global security. He has worked in teams that promote raising awareness of how human activities can effect dynamics within bat pop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70083782 | 2,151,595 |
694,102 | Recent experiments using ion channel opener/blocker drugs, as well as dominant ion channel misexpression, in a range of model species, has shown that bioelectricity, specifically, voltage gradients instruct not only stem cell behavior but also large-scale patterning. Patterning cues are often mediated by spatial gradie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55498066 | 693,739 |
1,629,347 | It was founded in 1790 by Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies, at the suggestion of some intellectuals of the time, including the then Sicilian viceroy Francesco d'Aquino, Prince of Caramanico to endow the Sicilian city with an element of prestige as an astronomical observatory. It was hard to find an expert astronomer who... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45526594 | 1,628,428 |
1,020,773 | Antibodies against alpha-synuclein have replaced antibodies against ubiquitin as the gold standard for immunostaining of Lewy bodies. The central panel in the figure to the right shows the major pathway for protein aggregation. Monomeric α-synuclein is natively unfolded in solution but can also bind to membranes in an ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=507325 | 1,020,244 |
1,668,797 | Low, of course failed to follow up this early promising work, due in part to his temperamental failings and also of course the outbreak of World War I later that year. "Nature" commented that the work was overblown in "Sensational paragraphs on seeing by wire". However, a US consular report from London by Deputy Consul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5778070 | 1,667,857 |
1,674,537 | Initial taxonomic classification of the "Ptilotus" genus was carried out by Gerhard Benl, a botanist based in Munich, Germany, in 1971. Benl's research documented all observed morphological variation by the physical description of new subspecies and varieties of the genus. Prior to 2007, a complete botanical key for th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23884530 | 1,673,595 |
823,854 | The L-alanine derivative β-methylamino-L-alanine (BMAA) has long been identified as a neurotoxin which was first associated with the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/parkinsonism–dementia complex (Lytico-bodig disease) in the Chamorro people of Guam. The widespread occurrence of BMAA can be attributed to cyanobacteria whi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1043263 | 823,411 |
1,651,120 | “The Rise of the Merchant, Industrialist, and Capital Controller,” written by Richard Robbins in 2005, uses a hypothetical scenario of the reader as a “merchant adventurer” to detail economic world history starting in 1400. In 1400, China was arguably the most cosmopolitan and technologically complex society in the wor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17200325 | 1,650,188 |
1,722,738 | In the early 1980s, Wilson further disturbed and refined traditional anthropological thinking by his work with PhD students Rebecca Cann and Mark Stoneking on the so-called "Mitochondrial Eve" hypothesis. In his efforts to identify informative genetic markers for tracking human evolutionary history, he focused on mitoc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=874725 | 1,721,768 |
842,615 | Scottish inventor John Logie Baird in 1925 built some of the first prototype video systems, which employed the Nipkow disk. On March 25, 1925, Baird gave the first public demonstration of televised silhouette images in motion, at Selfridge's Department Store in London. Since human faces had inadequate contrast to show ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1361581 | 842,165 |
60,710 | The Baroque period (1580–1750) saw the relative standardization of common-practice tonality, as well as the increasing importance of musical instruments, which grew into ensembles of considerable size. Italy remained dominant, being the birthplace of opera, the soloist centered concerto genre, the organized sonata form... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6668778 | 60,685 |
424,594 | Cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) refers to the ability of the circulatory and respiratory systems to supply oxygen to skeletal muscles during sustained physical activity. Scientists and researchers use CRF to assess the functional capacity of the respiratory and cardiovascular systems. These functions include ventilatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3115848 | 424,387 |
941,534 | Glass container manufacture in the developed world is a mature market business. World demand for flat glass was approximately 52 million tonnes in 2009. The United States, Europe and China account for 75% of demand, with China's consumption having increased from 20% in the early 1990s to 50%. Glass container manufactur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14730177 | 941,032 |
1,154,803 | In 1914, the PTR President Emil Warburg discontinued the subdivision into a physical and a technical division and re-structured the PTR into divisions for optics, electricity and heat, with sub-divisions of a purely scientific and technical nature. Under Warburg's successor Walther Nernst, the Reichsanstalt für Maß und... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=336112 | 1,154,193 |
691,081 | Another example of the type as used in mobile communications is "spaced constant turn" in which one or more different linear windings are wound on a single former and spaced so as to provide an efficient balance between capacitance and inductance for the radiating element at a particular resonant frequency. Many exampl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=465078 | 690,718 |
1,491,372 | The complementary acts of confession and penance, originally highly ritualized acts undertaken only once in a lifetime and in public fora, developed in the early Middle Ages into a disciplinary system known as private (or 'secret') penance, in which the faithful were encouraged to confess their sins regularly and in se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30861806 | 1,490,533 |
790,649 | In the 1920s Max Valier, a student of rocket pioneer Hermann Oberth, co-founded the , VfR, or "Association of Space-Flight", with Johannes Winkler and Willy Ley. In parallel he was acting in collaboration with Fritz von Opel as one of the heads of Opel RAK, a private venture leading to the first manned rocket cars and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=647619 | 790,224 |
1,385,514 | POR deficiency is the newest form of congenital adrenal hyperplasia first described in 2004. The index patient was a newborn 46,XX Japanese girl with craniosynostosis, hypertelorism, mid-face hypoplasia, radiohumeral synostosis, arachnodactyly and disordered steroidogenesis. However, the clinical and biochemical charac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9736045 | 1,384,747 |
1,823,893 | Its best-known contribution was the discovery in 1988 of the first stable carbene, a (phosphino)(silyl)carbene, three years before Arduengo's report on a stable N-heterocyclic carbene. Guy Bertrand is at the origin of the chemistry of stable carbenes. Since then, he has made several revolutionary discoveries that have ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25315066 | 1,822,855 |
333,577 | Historically, FPGAs have been slower, less energy efficient and generally achieved less functionality than their fixed ASIC counterparts. A study from 2006 showed that designs implemented on FPGAs need on average 40 times as much area, draw 12 times as much dynamic power, and run at one third the speed of corresponding... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10969 | 333,399 |
2,062,408 | Events covered a wide variety of scientific topics, and combined talks, demonstrations, video presentations and panel discussions. A number of events addressed "big questions". For example, a roster of scientists including physicist William Phillips, philosopher Patricia Churchland, neuroscientist Antonio Damasio, phil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16997576 | 2,061,218 |
44,232 | In August 2021, to reduce unequal distribution between rich and poor countries, the WHO called for a moratorium on a booster dose at least until the end of September. However, in August, the United States government announced plans to offer booster doses eight months after the initial course to the general population, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63319438 | 44,215 |
2,094,351 | BIND offers several “features” that many other proteomics databases do not include. The authors of this program have created an extension to traditional IUPAC nomenclature to help describe post-translational modifications that occur to amino acids. These modifications include: acetylation, formylation, methylation, pal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9774017 | 2,093,143 |
588,761 | DPV operation requires greater situational awareness than simply swimming, as some changes can happen much faster. Operating a DPV requires simultaneous depth control, buoyancy adjustment, monitoring of breathing gas, and navigation. Buoyancy control is vital for diver safety: The DPV has the capacity to dynamically co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=595882 | 588,459 |
1,194,830 | One reason why Calcutta University could not develop a research programme in science earlier than 1914 was partly because of a great handicap inherent in its constitution and partly because of the paucity of funds needed for the development of such an institute at the post-graduation level. Till the end of 19th century... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62858858 | 1,194,190 |
1,729,758 | Atwater was born in Johnsburg, New York, the son of William Warren Atwater, a Methodist Episcopal minister, temperance advocate, and librarian of Yale Law School and Eliza (Barnes) Atwater. He grew up in, and spent much of his life in New England. He opted not to fight in the American Civil War, instead pursuing his un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10465237 | 1,728,784 |
2,091,453 | Every 15mins after 3 complete Total and SW 250x256 arrays of the Earth disk are taken a synthetic LW result is obtained from the mean difference between the two. Such ERB results are then combined with a resolution enhancement and cloud retrievals using the Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager (SEVIRI) also on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=376702 | 2,090,249 |
2,134,719 | Wilson left Aspatria in the summer of 1893 having gained a scholarship to the value of £80 at the Royal College of Science, South Kensington where he studied agriculture and agricultural chemistry but also studied mathematics privately. Between the years 1896 and 1898 he taught at a school in Towcester, Northamptonshir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37303150 | 2,133,494 |
2,059,393 | Campbell was born in Southsea, Hampshire on 15 June 1912. As a young boy, he was influenced by his father, an army officer, birds-nester and egg-collector, who later became the British Army's Inspector of Physical Training. After education at Winchester College, he studied at the University of Edinburgh, obtaining a BS... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23521385 | 2,058,207 |
1,770,021 | The game changed greatly over the course of production, but parts that remained consistent include the augmented counterterrorist protagonist JC Denton. The anti-terrorism organization UNATCO was originally TLC, the Terrorist Limitation Coalition. Ally Tracer Tong was more of a "mercenary" than a "kindly anarchist", wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43210943 | 1,769,026 |
1,942,528 | His father having died before the son had reached his fourth year, his training developed upon his mother, whose love of flowers had no doubt a great influence in the developing of that love of nature which he very early manifested. It is related that his notice, as a child, having been attracted by the large hairy cat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1618060 | 1,941,417 |
1,940,686 | Sir Henry Savile, the Warden of Merton College, Oxford, and Provost of Eton College, was deeply saddened by what the 20th-century mathematician Ida Busbridge has described as "the wretched state of mathematical studies in England", and so founded professorships in geometry and astronomy at the University of Oxford in 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3358868 | 1,939,575 |
82,682 | On 11 December 2014, Hagel accepted the Navy's recommendation to base the 20 SSCs on more powerful versions of both existing LCS designs. The SSC shall have an improved 3D air defense radar, air defense decoys, better electronic warfare system, over-the-horizon anti-ship missiles, multi-function towed array sonar, torp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=460005 | 82,648 |
1,982,892 | Lowe had a key role in establishing this station that since 1972 has been measuring CO in the atmosphere and has the longest continuous record of atmospheric CO in the Southern Hemisphere.His part in setting up the station began when he met Keeling – the inventor of the upward-climbing chart of atmospheric CO known as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65653530 | 1,981,753 |
48,897 | "Tomahawk Block II" variants were all tested during January 1981 to October 1983. Deployed in 1984, some of the improvements included: an improved booster rocket, cruise missile radar altimeter, and navigation through the Digital Scene Matching Area Corellator (DSMAC). DSMAC was a highly accurate rudimentary AI which a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31238 | 48,877 |
63,818 | In 1980, the Ballistic Research Laboratory (later consolidated to form the U.S. Army Research Laboratory) began a long-term program of theoretical and experimental research on railguns. The work was conducted predominantly at the Aberdeen Proving Ground, and much of the early research drew inspiration from the railgun ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=218930 | 63,793 |
2,112,804 | After completing her PhD, Herr became a staff member in the Biosystems Research Group at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, California from 2002 to 2007, where she worked on protein analysis in complex biological media such as saliva and serum. She joined the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64535674 | 2,111,589 |
1,900,114 | Not all of Seyfarth's buildings have survived. One house at 67th and Yale was demolished in the late 1960s to make way for the construction of Kennedy–King College. The parking lot for the 6th District (Gresham) police station, built in 1997, occupies the spot where Dr. F.S. Tufts had built a store and offices (at 7754... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24940492 | 1,899,026 |
1,603,986 | The use of 3D cell cultures in microfluidic devices has led to a field of study called organ-on-a-chip. The first report of these types of microfluidic cultures was used to study the toxicity of naphthalene metabolites on the liver and lung (Viravaidya et al.). These devices can grow a stripped-down version of an organ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50311973 | 1,603,085 |
710,246 | The State Council of the People's Republic of China in 1995 issued the "Decision on Accelerating S&T Development" which described planned Science & Technology development for the coming decades. It described S&T as the chief productive force and affecting economic development, social progress, national strength, and li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=277914 | 709,875 |
981,844 | As a response to global warming and increasing greenhouse gas emissions, countries around the world have been gradually implementing different policies to tackle ZEB. Between 2008 and 2013, researchers from Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Republic of Korea, New Zealand... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4211531 | 981,332 |
1,749,529 | Black Shank is a polycyclic soil borne disease, with the possibility of multiple disease cycles per growing season occurring from May to October. There are important structures this pathogen uses in its disease cycle. Chlamydospores are produced asexually and serve as long lived resting structures, surviving from four ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11069076 | 1,748,543 |
668,999 | Due to its involvement in cancer development, inhibition of beta-catenin continues to receive significant attention. But the targeting of the binding site on its armadillo domain is not the simplest task, due to its extensive and relatively flat surface. However, for an efficient inhibition, binding to smaller "hotspot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5602902 | 668,649 |
1,701,270 | Following the introduction of the Anabolic Steroid Control Act, labeling products derived from plant extracts with the help of chemical symbols of organic substances found in these plants or creating names for these substances which referred to prohibited AAS became a popular marketing practice employed by American man... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=458544 | 1,700,316 |
1,557,902 | Ever since Pearl proposed the rate of living theory of aging, numerous studies have demonstrated its validity in poikilotherms. In mammals, however, satisfactory experimental demonstration is still lacking because an externally imposed increase of basal metabolic rate of these animals (e.g. by placement in the cold) is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31631838 | 1,557,017 |
1,776,347 | On September 8, 2017, Taubman College opened the new A. Alfred Taubman Wing which provides an additional 36,000 square feet to the original 72,000 square foot facility, and the project includes a renovation of the existing college facilities. Architecture and urban planning education increasingly calls on spaces for gr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4552645 | 1,775,348 |
440,759 | On 1 June 1894, at a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Oxford University, Lodge gave a memorial lecture on the work of Hertz (recently deceased) and the German physicist's proof of the existence of electromagnetic waves 6 years earlier. Lodge set up a demonstration on the quasi optica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=348879 | 440,544 |
2,008,272 | Inglis had close contacts with industry and was able to establish a professorship in aeronautical engineering and links with a nearby Air Ministry experimental flight station. He was also successful in arranging with the War Office for Royal Engineers officers to study the Engineering Tripos at the university. The univ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16975609 | 2,007,120 |
313,891 | The first step towards specialist fighter-only aviation units within the German military was the establishment of the so-called "Kampfeinsitzer Kommando" (single-seat battle unit, abbreviated as "KEK") formations by Inspektor-Major Friedrich Stempel in February 1916. These were based around Eindeckers and other new fig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=768600 | 313,722 |
55,631 | The USAF regard stealth as extremely important for the F-X, while the US Navy emphasize the F/A-XX should not be so focused on survivability as to sacrifice speed and payload. Unlike the previous F-22 and F-35 development programs that depended on new technologies that drove up cost and delayed introduction, the Air Fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23636690 | 55,608 |
35,407 | The interpreted AD 275 fragment of the oath contains a prohibition of abortion that is in contradiction to original Hippocratic text "On the Nature of the Child", which contains a description of an abortion, without any implication that it was morally wrong, and descriptions of abortifacient medications are numerous in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37992 | 35,395 |
465,496 | The nodes of this network can represent genes, proteins, mRNAs, protein/protein complexes or cellular processes. Nodes that are depicted as lying along vertical lines are associated with the cell/environment interfaces, while the others are free-floating and can diffuse. Edges between nodes represent interactions betwe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=356382 | 465,266 |
401,547 | In 1999, RPI gained attention when it was one of the first universities to implement a mandatory laptop computer program. This was also the year of the arrival of Shirley Ann Jackson, a former chairperson of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission under U.S. President Bill Clinton, as the eighteenth president of RPI. She ins... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=194026 | 401,348 |
283,523 | Some criticisms of evolutionary psychology point at contradictions between different aspects of adaptive scenarios posited by evolutionary psychology. One example is the evolutionary psychology model of extended social groups selecting for modern human brains, a contradiction being that the synaptic function of modern ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9703 | 283,370 |
2,163,047 | In 1975 Archbishop Stylianos, on arrival in Australia, focused on establishing a tertiary theological college. In January 1981, at the Fourth Clergy-Laity Congress held in Sydney, Archbishop Stylianos requested and gained support for the beginning of a theological college. The following year, during the official visit ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19769661 | 2,161,811 |
1,900,106 | Other wealthy clients exported Seyfarth's talents when they built houses outside the Chicago area. Norman W. Harris (of Chicago's Harris Bank), whose intown residence was also in Winnetka, raised Arabian horses at Kemah Farm in Williams Bay, Wisconsin where his family lived in a "white cottage ..., one of the charming,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24940492 | 1,899,018 |
1,381,047 | In DESI, there is a high-velocity pneumatically assisted electrospray jet that is continually directed towards the probe surface. The jet forms a micrometer-size thin solvent film on the sample where it can be desorbed. The sample can be dislodged by the incoming spray jet allowing for particles to come off in an eject... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13281848 | 1,380,284 |
124,371 | This newer, more accurate version placed in converted silos allowed the R-36M family to remain the bulwark of the SRF’s hard-target-kill capability. The R-36M2 carries 10 MIRVs, each having a nearly twice the yield of the R-36MUTTKh warheads according to Western estimates (approximately 750 kt to 1 Mt), though Russian ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1068559 | 124,320 |
1,953,568 | Prevention is the most effective method of managing "M. coffeicola". Risk factors for this pathogen include: prolonged (24–72 hours) humid environment, poor soil nutrition, and plant stress caused by increased planting density, herbicide injury, weeds, drought, and over irrigation. To manage humidity a farmer can prune... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11127586 | 1,952,447 |
1,768,032 | Using McDonald (2002, pp. 12–33), the following specific set of attractors have been proposed by Senges (2007) to directly influence the knowledge entrepreneurship ability (figure 1.6): Environmental awareness describes with what practices and with what intensity the organization gathers information about its external ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16012616 | 1,767,038 |
368,174 | Since the late 1970s, the use of CFCs has been heavily regulated because of their destructive effects on the ozone layer. After the development of his electron capture detector, James Lovelock was the first to detect the widespread presence of CFCs in the air, finding a mole fraction of 60 ppt of CFC-11 over Ireland. I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54910 | 367,981 |
185,779 | Self-medication by consumers is defined as "the taking of medicines on one's own initiative or on another person's suggestion, who is not a certified medical professional", and it has been identified as one of the primary reasons for the evolution of antimicrobial resistance. In an effort to manage their own illness, p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1914 | 185,682 |
1,099,908 | A similar thing happens with the depiction of blood, and real historical events; many things have to be readjusted to fit the country's tolerance and taste in order not to hurt sensibilities. This is probably one of the reasons why so many games take place in imaginary worlds. This customization effort draws on the kno... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8735708 | 1,099,348 |
773,948 | Different sources present different accounts of the history of the Ju 390 V2. Kössler and Ott (1993) stated that the Ju 390 V2 was completed during June 1944, with flight tests beginning in late September 1944. The second prototype (Ju 390 V2) was configured for a maritime reconnaissance role, and its fuselage had been... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=482682 | 773,532 |
660,320 | IAA is listed in its MSDS as mutagenic to mammalian somatic cells, and possibly carcinogenic based on animal data. It may cause adverse reproductive effects (fetotoxicity) and birth defects based on animal data. No human data as of 2008. It is listed as a potential skin, eye, and respiratory irritant, and users are war... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2027822 | 659,975 |
155,668 | In the world of "Neon Genesis Evangelion", Evangelion, or Evas, multifunction machines represent the most advanced battle tools built by mankind. They are costly weapons that are designed to fight and destroy Angels. Their development, conducted in secret by the special agency Nerv, began after a catastrophe known as S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=577372 | 155,597 |
1,516,807 | Marcel Roche (Caracas, August 15, 1920 – Miami, May 3, 2003) was a physician, researcher and scientific leader. Graduated in medicine at Johns Hopkins Medical School, in Baltimore in 1946, he specialized in endocrinology and nuclear medicine. Before returning to Venezuela in 1951, he carried out biomedical research for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29302481 | 1,515,955 |
1,311,156 | Though "BioShock Infinite" shares the same name with the other two games, Levine has stated that this is a new direction, and was coy to answer if they shared the same universe. Levine referred to the term "BioShock" not as a specific location or setting, but a concept conjoined by two ideas: the exploration of a fanta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38977195 | 1,310,438 |
1,547,920 | In "Sperm Wars," Baker asserted the human cuckolding rate to be at 10% and that women frequently cheat to secure better genes for their offspring. This figure was later debunked, because studies which rely on a data set consisting of men who have requested paternity tests are strongly sample biased toward those who hav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31130837 | 1,547,042 |
1,807,912 | Webber's tenure as director of the CES lasted, with a few interruptions, from 1913 until his retirement in 1929. A few important achievements of the CES during his directorship were: Walter P. Kelly's development of drainage techniques for reclaiming thousands of acres of California land made unproductive by salt accum... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12600727 | 1,806,892 |
1,559,777 | When the United States entered World War I in 1917, by law of Congress, all male college students were subject to military training. In the spring of 1918, Pitt began training students for war-related industrial work. The United States Army built seven frame barracks for housing 1,000 men, a 2,000 seat mess hall, an ad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13999007 | 1,558,891 |
327,770 | Chapter IX deals with the fact that the geological record appears to show forms of life suddenly arising, without the innumerable transitional fossils expected from gradual changes. Darwin borrowed Charles Lyell's argument in "Principles of Geology" that the record is extremely imperfect as fossilisation is a very rare... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29932 | 327,596 |
1,622,286 | "GeroScience" covers topics like chronic low-grade inflammation, cellular senescence, macromolecular damage, oxidative-nitrative stress, maladaptation to cellular and molecular stresses, impaired stem cell function and regeneration, alterations in proteostasis, epigenetic dysregulation, impaired mitochondrial function ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27436527 | 1,621,370 |
275,387 | With this information, along with other intelligence reports available to them, FEAF confirmed that the Korean People's Army had, indeed, launched a full-scale invasion of South Korea. FEAF's first priority, however, was to evacuate United States citizens. On the morning of 26 June, the nearby Norwegian freighter "Rein... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=671473 | 275,239 |
2,032,130 | This MLD technique utilizes the crystalline nature of semiconductors and its self-limiting surface reaction properties to form highly uniform, self-assembled, covalently bonded dopant-containing monolayers followed by a subsequent annealing step for the incorporation and diffusion of dopants. The monolayer formation re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28559987 | 2,030,960 |
1,744,896 | The Latitudinal Gradient is a common term in describing the change of a certain variable with respect to global latitudes. Due to the tilt of the Earth as well as the distance from the sun, this latitudinal gradient is often proportional to the global temperature gradient, both on water and land. The temperature gradie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2242682 | 1,743,912 |
357,136 | On 23 August 1911, the Navy officers on flight duty at Hammondsport, New York, and Dayton, Ohio, were ordered to report for duty at the Engineering Experiment Station, Naval Academy, "in connection with the test of gasoline motors and other experimental work in the development of aviation, including instruction at the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59766 | 356,950 |
1,550,857 | This is a public health-oriented approach to preventive medicine and public health which predicts that shifting the population distribution of a risk factor prevents more burden of disease than targeting people at high risk. Rose introduced this principle to accommodate for members of the community who were at of low r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18695602 | 1,549,976 |
1,594,782 | After his return from Europe in the fall of 1826, Fisher's mature career began. He opened a studio on Washington Street in Boston where he is said to have been the first landscapist to hang out a professional sign in Boston. His friend, the landscapist Thomas Doughty had his studio a few blocks away. In 1827, he was el... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2680181 | 1,593,884 |
1,817,024 | In 1938, Gerald Seligman, Tom Hughes, and Max Perutz visited the Jungfraujoch to take temperature readings; their goal was to study the transition of snow into firn and then into ice with increasing depth. They dug shafts as deep as 20 m by hand, and also bored holes with augers of two different designs, including one ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56017314 | 1,815,990 |
1,184,595 | "Vostok" and "Mirny" anchored in the Matavai Bay, at the same place where the ship of Samuel Wallis had anchored. Russian ships got visited by hundreds of people, however, from all these new contacts, the most useful was New England native Williams, who began to serve as Lazarev's interpreter. They also found an interp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40880361 | 1,183,967 |
139,777 | Twelve companies bid to build the Mercury spacecraft on a $20 million ($ adjusted for inflation) contract. In January 1959, McDonnell Aircraft Corporation was chosen to be prime contractor for the spacecraft. Two weeks earlier, North American Aviation, based in Los Angeles, was awarded a contract for Little Joe, a smal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19812 | 139,720 |
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