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254,128 | Bush's method of management at the OSRD was to direct overall policy, while delegating supervision of divisions to qualified colleagues and letting them do their jobs without interference. He attempted to interpret the mandate of the OSRD as narrowly as possible to avoid overtaxing his office and to prevent duplicating... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32767 | 253,995 |
599,945 | Surprisingly, gauge symmetry can give a deeper explanation for the existence of interactions, such as the electric and nuclear interactions. This arises from a type of gauge symmetry relating to the fact that all particles of a given type are experimentally indistinguishable from one another. Imagine that Alice and Bet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=291912 | 599,639 |
565,847 | Clinical course tends to be more severe than with Kawasaki disease. A child's condition can deteriorate rapidly, even in the presence of reassuring laboratory findings. Many children develop shock and heart failure. Most require paediatric intensive care. Supplemental oxygen is often needed, and mechanical ventilation ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63895130 | 565,557 |
246,725 | There are currently 27 fraternities in the Interfraternity Council, 14 sororities in the Panhellenic Council, 14 fraternities and sororities in the United Greek Association, and 10 fraternities and sororities in the National Panhellenic Council at Washington State University. There are 26 primarily residential fraterni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=228600 | 246,597 |
1,938,437 | The Schuman lab studies the properties of mRNAs and proteins (e.g. the transcriptomes and proteomes) distributed throughout the neuron. Her research has examined how stability in neuronal processes can be brought about by local cell biological processes, like protein synthesis, allowing synapses to respond rapidly and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58886407 | 1,937,327 |
1,285,428 | The origins of the Skylark can be traced back decisions made in the aftermath of the Second World War. Unlike some powers, the United Kingdom had not opted to immediately proceed with work on long-range rocketry; however, the Ministry of Supply did work on defensive guided weaponry, leading to the arrival of surface-to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1414851 | 1,284,729 |
1,222,428 | LiFePO is a 3.6 V lithium-ion battery cathode initially reported by John Goodenough and is structurally related to the mineral olivine and consists of a three dimensional lattice of an [FePO4] framework surrounding a lithium cation. The lithium cation sits in a one dimensional channel along the [010] axis of the crysta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42601555 | 1,221,769 |
1,458,287 | The Garnaut Climate Change Review notes many barriers to increased global biosequestration. "There must be changes in the accounting regimes for greenhouse gases. Investments are required in research, development and commercialisation of superior approaches to biosequestration. Adjustments are required in the regulatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24603722 | 1,457,467 |
1,154,781 | Pitt-Greensburg opened in September 1963, following a request of area school superintendents for a branch campus of the University of Pittsburgh. Pitt-Greensburg began as a two-year institution with instruction in nine areas of study, 15 faculty, 56 full-time, and 156 part-time students. The school was originally locat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3202822 | 1,154,171 |
521,695 | The x-axis of a Tanabe–Sugano diagram is expressed in terms of the ligand field splitting parameter, Δ, or "Dq" (for "differential of quanta"), divided by the Racah parameter B. The y-axis is in terms of energy, E, also scaled by B. Three Racah parameters exist, A, B, and C, which describe various aspects of interelect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5248484 | 521,423 |
487,348 | Work at Ball Research brought Widlar in contact with Jean Hoerni and Sheldon Roberts, the creators of radiation hardened transistors and co-founders of Fairchild Semiconductor. Widlar decided to move to a semiconductor manufacturing company, and in 1963 Jerry Sanders, a Fairchild Semiconductor salesman, provided him th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3483624 | 487,098 |
347,470 | Former St Andrews students active in politics and national intelligence include two Chiefs of MI6 Alex Younger and John Sawers, two deputy directors of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), George Kennedy Young and J. M. Bruce Lockhart, Secretary of State for Scotland Lord Forsyth (Forsyth is also former deputy chairm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=181348 | 347,289 |
524,613 | Richter was born in Overpeck, Ohio. Richter had German heritage: his great-grandfather was a Forty-Eighter, coming from Baden-Baden (today in Baden-Württemberg, Germany) in 1848 in the wake of the Revolutions of 1848 in the German states. Richter's parents Frederick William and Lillian Anna (Kinsinger) Richter, were di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=230732 | 524,341 |
1,881,267 | Vernon W. Hughes "et al." (1960) and Ronald Drever (1961) independently conducted similar spectroscopic experiments to test Mach's principle. However, they didn't use the Mössbauer effect but made magnetic resonance measurements of the nucleus of lithium-7, whose ground state possesses a spin of . The ground state is s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31892050 | 1,880,186 |
149,493 | Formula 1 returned to Japan for the first time in 10 years and the circus came for the first time to the twisty, very demanding Honda-owned Suzuka track near Nagoya having been at the very fast Fuji Speedway in 1977. An exciting World Championship showdown between Williams-Honda teammates Nelson Piquet and Nigel Mansel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1139093 | 149,425 |
1,930,111 | Basri graduated in physics at Stanford University in 1973, and received his Ph.D. in astrophysics at the University of Colorado in 1979. His thesis, under the supervision of Jeffrey Linsky, was on radiative transfer theory and stellar activity. It was partially based on observations by the International Ultraviolet Exp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33833023 | 1,929,004 |
476,030 | Justice was administered free of charge, by special officers appointed as judges and magistrates, but the king was supreme and the final arbiter in all civil and criminal cases. Mortgage, lease, trust property, loans, breach of contract were some common sources of civil litigation, while criminal offences included thef... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11673386 | 475,792 |
611,460 | A microarray is a multiplex lab-on-a-chip. Its purpose is to simultaneously detect the expression of thousands of genes from a sample (e.g. from a tissue). It is a two-dimensional array on a solid substrate—usually a glass slide or silicon thin-film cell—that assays (tests) large amounts of biological material using hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=167570 | 611,149 |
1,024,406 | The AN/MPQ-64 Sentinel is a three-dimensional radar used to alert and queue Short Range Air Defense (SHORAD) weapons to the locations of hostile targets approaching their front line forces. The Sentinel radar is deployed with forward area air defense units of the U.S. Army and USMC. The radar uses an X-band range-gated... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23200607 | 1,023,873 |
114,669 | Georgia Tech teams are variously known as the Yellow Jackets, the Ramblin' Wreck and the Engineers; but the official nickname is "Yellow Jackets". They compete as a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I level (Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) sub-level for football), primarily competin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28486339 | 114,624 |
278,660 | It is commonly accepted that the first mathematical reference to splines is the 1946 paper by Schoenberg, which is probably the first place that the word "spline" is used in connection with smooth, piecewise polynomial approximation. However, the ideas have their roots in the aircraft and shipbuilding industries. In th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=457680 | 278,510 |
1,573,202 | Symbolics ended up producing around 100 LM-2s, each of which sold for $70,000. Both companies developed second-generation products based on the CADR: the Symbolics 3600 and the LMI-LAMBDA (of which LMI managed to sell around 200). The 3600, which shipped a year late, expanded on the CADR by widening the machine word to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1084355 | 1,572,313 |
246,709 | Ernest O. Holland succeeded Enoch Bryan as President of the Washington State College in 1915. That same year, a close friend of his whom he shared a room with while studying at Columbia University, Henry Suzzallo, became the President of the University of Washington. Holland's early years as president and friendship wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=228600 | 246,581 |
694,104 | Bioelectric modulation has shown control over complex morphogenesis and remodeling, not merely setting individual cell identity. Moreover, a number of the key results in this field have shown that bioelectric circuits are non-local – regions of the body make decisions based on bioelectric events at a considerable dista... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55498066 | 693,741 |
887,879 | In early 2005, the World Health Organization (WHO) began investigating an outbreak of viral hemorrhagic fever in Angola, which was centered in the northeastern Uíge Province but also affected many other provinces. The Angolan government had to ask for international assistance, pointing out that there were only approxim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58743 | 887,411 |
681,249 | The first of the "flying" IAe 33 prototypes, (No. 02) built in 1950, completed its maiden flight on 27 June of that year, with Captain Edmundo Weiss at the controls. On the second flight, ex-Focke-Wulf test pilot Otto Behrens encountered severe lateral stability problems at speeds over and returned to the airfield as a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2616710 | 680,894 |
104,156 | In April 2012, BAE unveiled a potential version of the system mount, developed in collaboration with Rafael Advanced Defense Systems. It is visually distinctive from previous versions with its stealthy housing, which also protects the gun from weather and allows for easier access to internal components through large ac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1561727 | 104,111 |
1,810,822 | Other predators long known to have taken tawny owls have included their larger cousins, the Ural owls as well as common buzzards ("Buteo buteo"), red kites ("Milvus milvus") and peregrine falcons ("Falco peregrinus"). In addition, more reported raptorial predators have included the Bonelli's eagle ("Aquila fasciata"), ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68959881 | 1,809,789 |
1,585,743 | The art and science writer Peter Forbes notes that Thayer became obsessed by the "flattening effect" of countershading, and that far from being a scientist, he was "an artist whose idealist fervour, edged by deep insecurity, led him to regard his findings less as discovery than as revelation." Describing "Concealing-Co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37724748 | 1,584,852 |
1,561,419 | It is one of the main structural units of the university, which operates in accordance with the charter and organizes its activities on the basis of orders and orders of the rector, as well as the Academic Council of the university. In recent years, the training of scientific and pedagogical personnel at the highest le... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66858162 | 1,560,533 |
1,205,304 | The V-247 Vigilant is designed to weigh empty and carry of fuel, weapons, and sensors for a maximum gross weight of , roughly three times the maximum takeoff weight of the MQ-9. While the V-22 and V-280 use two engines located within the tiltrotor pylons, the V-247 will have a single engine housed in the fuselage gener... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51742817 | 1,204,659 |
1,248,582 | Mild scoliosis (less than 30 degrees deviation) has traditionally been treated through observation only. However, the progression of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis has been linked to rapid growth, suggesting that observation alone is inadequate as progression can rapidly occur during the pubertal growth spurt. Another... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51305509 | 1,247,906 |
1,970,196 | The TBM Council began as a biannual executive summit for CIOs sponsored by Apptio, which develops technology business management software as a service applications. In 2012, Apptio founded the TBM Council as a non-profit organization with a mission to identify and promote industry best practices for running technology ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42693945 | 1,969,062 |
1,619,409 | Human gastrodiscoidiasis is endemic in Assam, and to a lesser extent in the Philippines. The highest incidence so far recorded is among children in Kamrup district of Assam, where the prevalence was as high as 41%. First described from a native Assamese patient, it was initially believed to have a distribution restrict... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38751052 | 1,618,494 |
181,162 | The 19th-century English physiologist Sydney Ringer developed salt solutions containing the chlorides of sodium, potassium, calcium and magnesium suitable for maintaining the beating of an isolated animal heart outside the body. In 1885 Wilhelm Roux removed a section of the medullary plate of an embryonic chicken and m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1106830 | 181,068 |
1,592,541 | Due to the simple fabrication process, low production cost, and high efficiency, there is significant interest in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). Thus, improving DSSC efficiency has been the subject of a variety of research investigations because it has the potential to be manufactured economically enough to compet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17279558 | 1,591,644 |
562,155 | In February 1973, State Rocket Center Makayev began development of a new two-stage liquid-fueled ballistic missile R-29R (3M40, RSM-50, SS-N-18). Improvements in the R-29R over the original R-29 include MIRVed capability and upgraded inertial navigation system with satellite-assisted navigation, giving the new missile ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2413980 | 561,866 |
1,359,664 | When defending the ball (i.e. guarding the man with the basketball) away from the basket in basketball, players typically should use a version of the following technique: the defender stands and faces the opponent. He is positioned halfway between the ball and the basket and may be angled in one direction or another de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2046849 | 1,358,913 |
119,052 | At the end of Second World War, the "Luftwaffe"s most critical requirement was for interceptors as the Commonwealth and American air forces pounded German targets night and day. As the bombing effort grew, notably in early 1944, the Luftwaffe introduced a rocket-powered design, the Messerschmitt Me 163 "Komet", in the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=142759 | 119,004 |
267,201 | Although ca. 80% of living animals are ectotherms, the knowledge about telomere dynamics in these species is still limited to a few studies in reptiles, fish, and amphibians, whereas invertebrates telomeres have been virtually not explored. Ectotherms are significantly more likely than endotherms to have variation in s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54888 | 267,057 |
845,480 | Although it is now infrequent, individual aerial 1080 operations can still sometimes affect local bird populations if not carried out with sufficient care. In New Zealand, individuals from 19 species of native birds and 13 species of introduced birds have been found dead after aerial 1080 drops. Most of these recorded ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1190114 | 845,030 |
1,785,074 | For each of the three sciences, a working group was established headed by a full-time organiser, appointed for three years, and including a consultative committee of experts and six or seven team leaders, expert teachers on one-year appointments who headed local groups of half a dozen science teachers which would devel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48393333 | 1,784,070 |
2,739 | During 1952 Oppenheimer chaired the five-member State Department Panel of Consultants on Disarmament, which first urged that the United States postpone its planned first test of the hydrogen bomb and seek a thermonuclear test ban with the Soviet Union, on the grounds that avoiding a test might forestall the development... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39034 | 2,739 |
245,700 | Once the astronauts returned to the vicinity of the LM and were again within view of the television camera, Shepard performed a stunt he had been planning for years in the event he reached the Moon, and which is probably what Apollo 14 is best remembered for. Shepard brought along a Wilson six iron golf club head, whic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1968 | 245,573 |
1,477,572 | Galaxy Zoo recruited volunteers to help with the largest galaxy census ever carried out. Opening the project to the general public saved the professional astronomers the task of studying all the galaxies themselves, resulting in classification of a large number of galaxies undertaken in a shorter time than what smaller... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12212921 | 1,476,740 |
767,435 | Adults prefer to lay eggs on open grown or stressed ash but readily lay eggs on healthy trees amongst other tree species. Ashes that grow in pure stands, whether naturally occurring or in landscaping, are more prone to attack than isolated trees or ones located in mixed forest stands. Ashes used in landscaping also ten... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1162925 | 767,023 |
2,004,502 | After returning from Leipzig with his doctorate, Whitney resumed working with Noyes in the laboratory. Whitney was intrigued by the competing theories of corrosion during his recent consulting assignment at a Boston hospital where rust plagued the water pipes. He designed an experiment to see whether carbonic acid, whi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6046838 | 2,003,353 |
1,211,516 | In May 2004, the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Hilmi Güler said "We will meet with the countries that produce these plants soon" and brought the issue of nuclear power plant back to the agenda. In his statement, Güler stated that the technical investigations on nuclear power plants are continuing and that ne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31197009 | 1,210,864 |
5,285 | Various claims have been made about the Dunning–Kruger effect's practical significance or why it matters. They often focus on how it causes the affected people to make decisions that lead to dire consequences for them or others. This is especially relevant for decisions that have long-term effects. For example, it can ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2288777 | 5,282 |
150,803 | Toxicity can be measured by its effects on the target (organism, organ, tissue or cell). Because individuals typically have different levels of response to the same dose of a toxic substance, a population-level measure of toxicity is often used which relates the probabilities of an outcome for a given individual in a p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=170567 | 150,735 |
1,381,012 | As with all psychological research and psychometric evaluation, statistics play a vital role but should by no means be the sole basis for decisions and conclusions reached. Reasoned judgment is of critical importance when evaluating items for DIF. For instance, depending on the statistical procedure used for DIF detect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9268401 | 1,380,249 |
1,559,782 | In 1999, Pitt Stadium, the long-time home of the Pitt Panthers, was razed. Reminiscent of its days playing in Exposition Park, the team moved downtown to Heinz Field in 2001. A 12,508–seat multipurpose arena, the Petersen Events Center, is home to the University's basketball teams and convocation ceremonies and also co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13999007 | 1,558,896 |
63,870 | Railguns are being examined for use as anti-aircraft weapons to intercept air threats, particularly anti-ship cruise missiles, in addition to land bombardment. A supersonic sea-skimming anti-ship missile can appear over the horizon 20 miles from a warship, leaving a very short reaction time for a ship to intercept it. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=218930 | 63,845 |
398,471 | Kansas football dates from 1890, and is one of the oldest continuous programs in the nation. They have played in the Orange Bowl three times: 1948, 1969, and 2008, as well as nine other bowl games. They are currently coached by Lance Leipold, who was hired in May 2021. From its inception in 1890 to 1929 the program saw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=163327 | 398,275 |
79,965 | A 2014 review in "Nature Reviews Cancer" found that "contrary to the claimed mechanism of redirecting the flow of "qi" through meridians, researchers usually find that it generally does not matter where the needles are inserted, how often (that is, no dose-response effect is observed), or even if needles are actually i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1537 | 79,932 |
2,099,317 | Arthur Keith grew up in Quincy, Massachusetts, where he attended public school until he was 12 years old. After preparatory school at Adams Academy, he matriculated in 1881 at Harvard University. He graduated there with bachelor's degree in 1885 and A.M. in 1887. He was a student of Nathaniel Shaler. In 1887 Keith star... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67381332 | 2,098,109 |
937,725 | Jessica Ulrika Meir (IPA: ; ; born ) is an American-Swedish NASA astronaut, marine biologist, and physiologist. She was previously an assistant professor of anesthesia at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, following postdoctoral research in comparative physiology at the University of Britis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33550544 | 937,225 |
1,311,848 | From an applied perspective, research in high-dimensional statistics was motivated by the realisation that advances in computing technology had dramatically increased the ability to collect and store data, and that traditional statistical techniques such as those described in the examples above were often ill-equipped ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19330658 | 1,311,129 |
488,938 | In 2007 the use of vagotomy to treat obesity was being studied. The vagus nerve provides efferent nervous signals out from the hunger and satiety centers of the hypothalamus, a region of the brain central to the regulation of food intake and energy expenditure. The circuit begins with an area of the hypothalamus, the a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5591966 | 488,687 |
367,478 | In 1927, the first mathematically complete quantum description of a simple chemical bond, i.e. that produced by one electron in the hydrogen molecular ion, H, was derived by the Danish physicist Øyvind Burrau. This work showed that the quantum approach to chemical bonds could be fundamentally and quantitatively correct... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5993 | 367,285 |
1,834,193 | Photonic crystal sensors use photonic crystals: nanostructures composed of periodic arrangements of dielectric materials that interact with light depending on their particular structure, reflecting lights of specific wavelengths at specific angles. Any change in the periodicity or refractive index of the structure can ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67527532 | 1,833,144 |
135,226 | Ieoh Ming Pei ( ; ; April 26, 1917 – May 16, 2019) was a Chinese-American architect. Raised in Shanghai, Pei drew inspiration at an early age from the garden villas at Suzhou, the traditional retreat of the scholar-gentry to which his family belonged. In 1935, he moved to the United States and enrolled in the Universit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15155 | 135,171 |
141,922 | A group at Brown University ported version 9 to the IBM RT PC, but problems with reading unaligned data on the RT forced an incompatible protocol change, leading to version 10 in late 1985. By 1986, outside organizations had begun asking for X. X10R2 was released in January 1986, then X10R3 in February 1986. Although M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34147 | 141,864 |
1,884,929 | In 2009 Priestley returned to the United States and joined the faculty at Princeton University. At Princeton, Priestley studies the nanoscale properties of materials, and how to tune these for novel device applications. He has continued to study the glass transition temperatures of polymers, with a focus on the control... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64628515 | 1,883,848 |
401,216 | General Emmons returned to the U.S. with details of the British night-fighter requirements, and in his report said that the design departments of the American aviation industry's firms could possibly produce such an aircraft. The Emmons Board developed basic requirements and specifications, handing them over towards th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=458868 | 401,017 |
1,914,744 | "Bordetella avium" has a worldwide distribution but is found at the highest density in the North Temperate Zone, between the arctic circle and the Tropic of Cancer where the climate is most conducive to transfer. Seasonality of outbreaks are most often recorded during the summer and fall months. Outbreaks have been rec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40064924 | 1,913,645 |
937,181 | Organized races on ice skates developed in the 19th century. Norwegian clubs hosted competitions from 1863, with races in Christiania drawing five-digit crowds. In 1884, the Norwegian Axel Paulsen was named Amateur Champion Skater of the World after winning competitions in the United States. Five years later, a sports ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28028 | 936,684 |
1,412,585 | Since 2007, conditions in Guiyu have changed little despite the efforts of the central government to crack down and enforce the long-standing e-waste import ban. However, because of the work of activist groups and increasing awareness of the situation, the local government has created steps to improve environmental con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22995310 | 1,411,790 |
163,162 | On 3 July, Barcelona announced that La Masia graduate Martín Montoya would join Italian side Internazionale on a season-long loan with an option for a second. On 6 July, Barcelona announced the signing of Turkey national team captain Arda Turan from Atlético Madrid for €34 million. The player will join on 1 January 201... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46735387 | 163,077 |
2,161,872 | Christie's early research focused on heterosynaptic plasticity in the hippocampal formation. During the course of this work, he discovered that prior synaptic activity could impact the capacity for synapses to subsequently show activity-dependent forms of plasticity, a phenomenon that he originally called "priming" but... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6841939 | 2,160,638 |
2,205,566 | This is the very first example of a ligated heterometallic Mackay-type cluster, which is an extremely complex crystal structure whose surface is composed of two-shell 20 equilateral triangles composed of 55 copper and aluminum atoms. This shape is also called an icosahedron. The 43 copper and 12 aluminum atoms form a s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59257416 | 2,204,309 |
565,966 | An atmospheric diving suit is a small one-man articulated submersible of roughly anthropomorphic form, with limb joints which allow articulation under external pressure while maintaining an internal pressure of one atmosphere. Breathing gas supply could be surface supplied by umbilical, but would then have to be exhaus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62138749 | 565,676 |
132,880 | In February 1937, Lieutenant Benjamin S. Kelsey, Project Officer for Fighters at the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC), and Captain Gordon P. Saville, fighter tactics instructor at the Air Corps Tactical School, issued a specification for a new fighter via Circular Proposal X-609. It was a request for a single-engin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=458867 | 132,827 |
792,432 | Limitations have been strongly felt in protein structure refinement. The major underlying challenge is the huge conformation space of polymeric molecules, which grows beyond current computational feasibility when containing more than ~20 monomers. Participants in "Critical Assessment of protein Structure Prediction" (C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2916615 | 792,007 |
1,304,458 | In late 2013 U.S. President Barack Obama made recommendations to the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues as part of his $100 million Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative. This Spring discussion resumed in a recent interview and article sponsored by Agen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=703002 | 1,303,742 |
343,236 | Breakfast began at 7 a.m. Astronauts usually stood to eat, as sitting in microgravity also strained their abdominal muscles. They reported that their food although greatly improved from Apollo was bland and repetitive, and weightlessness caused utensils, food containers, and bits of food to float away; also, gas in the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29441 | 343,055 |
331,115 | On 26 December 2021, Shenzhou 13 crew Zhai Zhigang and Ye Guangfu conducted the second spacewalk to install a panoramic camera, which will be used for space station monitoring and robotic arm observation. They also practiced various movements with the help of "Chinarm" controlled by the monitoring astronaut Wang Yaping... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2481401 | 330,938 |
630,431 | Not all methods of opening the zona pellucida have the same success rate because the well-being of the embryo and/or blastomere may be impacted by the procedure used for the biopsy. Zona drilling with acid Tyrode's solution (ZD) was looked at in comparison to partial zona dissection (PZD) to determine which technique w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=562180 | 630,093 |
1,815,261 | Around 1996, when the project had conditional funding but no final approval, several critics, including academics and University District residents opposed the proposed building plan, arguing that UW was breaking its agreement with the city over how the UW campus should be developed, that it would remove one of the few... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34948681 | 1,814,227 |
2,187,736 | The German-South African Year of Science brought together scientists from both countries under the slogan "Enhancing Science Partnerships for Innovation and Sustainable Development" to focus on seven thematic fields: climate change, bioeconomy, urbanization, health innovation, astronomy, social sciences & humanities, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40565294 | 2,186,488 |
653,715 | Eels in the family "Anguillidae" are known to be primarily solitary in nature; they are not known to communicate socially or actively school, however large masses of elvers can be found as a result of synchronicity in response to environmental conditions. These eels are known as generalists and opportunistic feeders; m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2349109 | 653,371 |
325,978 | Chest-wall defects are usually evident in cases of injury to the chest wall, such as stab or bullet wounds ("open pneumothorax"). In secondary spontaneous pneumothoraces, vulnerabilities in the lung tissue are caused by a variety of disease processes, particularly by rupturing of bullae (large air-containing lesions) i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=286359 | 325,805 |
1,167,495 | Conflicts with the placement of solar plants require researching the population density of nearby towns and/or urban areas, as the solar plants and solar fields will cause visual disruptions and potential emission of pollutants. Areas that allow for easy access to the solar panels for repair, the clearing of overgrown ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32793086 | 1,166,877 |
1,992,413 | In a series of joint papers with Kenneth Wolpin, published between 1994 and 2010, Keane developed a major line of research on dynamic life-cycle models of career (i.e., school and work) choices. This line of research is notable both for the methodological contributions on how to estimate these types of models, and for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41233307 | 1,991,270 |
2,216,003 | The invariant decomposition finds its roots in a statement made by Marcel Riesz about bivectors:Can any bivector formula_9 be decomposed into the direct sum of mutually orthogonal simple bivectors?Mathematically, this would mean that for a given bivector formula_9 in an formula_67 dimensional geometric algebra, it shou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69262097 | 2,214,743 |
68,445 | Mearsheimer's second book, "Liddell Hart and the Weight of History" (1988), reassesses the intellectual legacies of the 20th-century British military theorist B. H. Liddell Hart. While acknowledging that his own research had "profited greatly from his stimulating writings" and that Liddell Hart's works should still be ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=980934 | 68,419 |
1,536,095 | In addition to this, peptide amphiphiles can be used to form more sophisticated architectures which can be tuned on demand. In recent years, two discoveries have yielded bioactive materials with more advanced structures and potential applications. In one study, a thermal treatment of peptide amphiphile solutions led to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28333458 | 1,535,227 |
167,611 | Ferrari was the great favorite with a 3-litre version of his well tested powerful sports car V12 design, but the new cars were very heavy, probably in an excess of self-confidence. An enlarged V6 held some promise but Surtees left mid-season after a dispute with team manager Eugenio Dragoni at the 24 Hours of Le Mans s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=640098 | 167,524 |
1,099,574 | More recently, the European Commission, on behalf of its 27 member states, is also making greater use of green finance, especially green bond (see green bonds section) to finance part of NextGenerationEU. The aim of this initiative is to relaunch the economy following COVID-19 pandemic and aims to improve the European ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65789694 | 1,099,014 |
1,170,021 | The enriched environment argument is based on evidence that rats raised in complex environments perform better on maze tasks and have 20–25% more synaptic connections than those raised in austere environments. However, these enriched environments were in laboratory cages, and did not come close to replicating the inten... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25935238 | 1,169,402 |
79,953 | Scientific investigation has not found any histological or physiological evidence for traditional Chinese concepts such as "qi", meridians, and acupuncture points, and many modern practitioners no longer support the existence of life force energy ("qi") or meridians, which was a major part of early belief systems. Acup... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1537 | 79,920 |
2,176,540 | The research that appeared to spark an onslaught of modified applications was a gel permeation chromatography technique of fixing poly(isopropyl acrylate) (PIPA) strands to glass beads and separating a mixture of dextrans, which was developed by Gewehr et al. They found that between the temperatures of 25–32 °C, the el... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37850414 | 2,175,296 |
804,626 | Painting roof materials in white or pale colors to reflect solar radiation, known as 'cool roof' technology, is encouraged by legislation in some areas (notably California). This technique is limited in its ultimate effectiveness by the constrained surface area available for treatment. This technique can give between 0... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20694764 | 804,197 |
201,971 | Vladimir Markovnikov born in 1838, was a Russian Scientist who proceeded most of his work at Kazan University in Russia. In his time at the University he studied in a laboratory better known as "The Cradle of Russian Organic Chemistry". Butlerov was his teacher in his time at Kazan more or less a mentor in where he inh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1416046 | 201,868 |
1,079,590 | In 1876, Abbe was offered a partnership by Zeiss and began to share in the considerable profits. Although the first theoretical derivations of were published by others, it is fair to say that Abbe was the first to reach this conclusion experimentally. In 1878, he built the first homogenous immersion system for the micr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=524981 | 1,079,035 |
928,630 | After the dissolution of the Society amid catastrophic hyperinflation in 1921, Webern obtained work as director not only of the , but also, from 1922 until the dissolution of these institutions after the failed February Uprising, of the mixed-voice amateur and the through his relationship with DJ Bach, Director of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65676 | 928,141 |
499,180 | The holotype (specimen used as the basis for the taxon) is the only known example of this genus and species, and was the first dinosaur ever found in Antarctica. It consists of three isolated teeth, part of the lower jaw with another tooth "in situ", some other skull fragments, vertebrae (neck, back, hips and tail), so... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4583327 | 498,923 |
354,285 | A replication of Dunbar's analysis on updated complementary datasets using different comparative phylogenetic methods yielded wildly different numbers. Bayesian and generalized least-squares phylogenetic methods generated approximations of average group sizes between 69–109 and 16–42, respectively. However, enormous 95... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2678638 | 354,102 |
1,701,426 | In 1996–97, the governance of the college was changed. Before the change, two bodies regulated college under Articles of Association and a Scheme of Management: a College Council of 12 teachers and 12 students elected by members of college, and a College Corporation of 16 members self-appointed. Council directed educat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14165953 | 1,700,471 |
332,157 | The Coyote V8, first produced in 2010 for the 2011 model year, was an evolutionary (rather than revolutionary) development of Ford's Modular V8. Ford engineers needed to design a V8, specifically for the Mustang GT, that would compete with the GM 6.2L LS3 used in the new Chevrolet Camaro, and the new Chrysler 6.4L Hemi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=867439 | 331,980 |
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