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201,995 | British chemist and physicist William Crookes is noted for his cathode ray studies, fundamental in the development of atomic physics. His researches on electrical discharges through a rarefied gas led him to observe the dark space around the cathode, now called the Crookes dark space. He demonstrated that cathode rays ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1416046 | 201,892 |
2,176,427 | Dr. Inagaki studied microbiology and molecular genetics at Kyushu University, Japan, where he obtained his BS, MS, and PhD. He completed his doctorate in 2000 in the lab of Dr. Seiya Ogata, and then joined JAMSTEC as a research scientist in the Deep-Sea Frontier Research Program. From 2005-2006, he was a guest scientis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54490509 | 2,175,183 |
1,681,636 | Katsuyo Thorton announced at the 2010 MS&T ICME Technical Committee meeting that NSF would be funding a "Summer School" on ICME at the University of Michigan starting in 2011. Northwestern began offering a Masters of Science Certificate in ICME in the fall of 2011. The first Integrated Computational Materials Engineeri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10035905 | 1,680,693 |
1,573,045 | Hillman stressed the importance of first-hand knowledge of the ecology of wild food plants: "...perhaps... for too many years, we in archaeology have imagined that we could somehow research events of considerable ecological complexity - such as those surrounding the inception of cultivation - without ever needing to co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14592443 | 1,572,156 |
964,245 | The procedures and methods of investigation in clinical neuropsychology have been directly influenced by localization and computational approaches to cognition. These techniques have made numerous contributions to the development of clinical practice. Embodied cognition broadens the scope of clinical practice by provid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33034640 | 963,736 |
448,229 | In short, total least squares does not have the property of units-invariance—i.e. it is not scale invariant. For a meaningful model we require this property to hold. A way forward is to realise that residuals (distances) measured in different units can be combined if multiplication is used instead of addition. Consider... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=971437 | 448,012 |
1,363,683 | A few studies have also focused on "Tyrannosaurus" complex feeding habits. "Tyrannosaurus", and most other theropods, probably primarily processed carcasses with lateral shakes of the head, like crocodilians. The head was not as maneuverable as the skulls of allosauroids, due to flat joints of the neck vertebrae. Eric ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42194964 | 1,362,927 |
870,511 | Digital signal processing capabilities were provided by the Burden Neuroscience 56001 DSP Card, originally developed by the Burden Neurological Institute as in-house hardware for use in conjunction with Archimedes systems but marketed by The Serial Port. This card was fitted as a single-width podule but, unusually, nee... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63145 | 870,051 |
875,035 | Early applications of matrix methods were applied to articulated frameworks with truss, beam and column elements; later and more advanced matrix methods, referred to as "finite element analysis", model an entire structure with one-, two-, and three-dimensional elements and can be used for articulated systems together w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=306543 | 874,573 |
289,744 | In 1863 Samuel Butler's essay "Darwin among the Machines" predicted the domination of humanity by intelligent machines, but Bostrom's suggestion of deliberate massacre of all humanity is the most extreme of such forecasts to date. One journalist wrote in a review that Bostrom's "nihilistic" speculations indicate he "ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=408292 | 289,587 |
987,022 | Hartnell taped a radio interview for "Northern View" on 17 December to promote the show's second serial. To increase the profile of the Daleks, the BBC sent two Dalek models—operated by Kevin Manser and Robert Jewell—to interact with the public at the Shepherd's Bush Market on 23 December. Hartnell recorded an appearan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34564137 | 986,507 |
25,932 | In August 2015, the 60th anniversary of the U-2 program, Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works revealed they were internally developing a successor to the U-2, referred to as the UQ-2 or RQ-X, combining features from both the manned U-2 and unmanned Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk and improving upon them. Disclosed details s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32310 | 25,923 |
71,979 | A reviewer for "Next Generation" said it "manages to be as genuinely scary as a good horror film - no small achievement. There are a lot of things that work around games being this frightening ... In this case, however, the fine character work, creepy and well-executed sound effects, and just the right music in just th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1789064 | 71,952 |
1,006,923 | A general blotting procedure starts with extraction of total RNA from a homogenized tissue sample or from cells. Eukaryotic mRNA can then be isolated through the use of oligo (dT) cellulose chromatography to isolate only those RNAs with a poly(A) tail. RNA samples are then separated by gel electrophoresis. Since the ge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21930 | 1,006,404 |
2,138,910 | A provision of the original Civil Aviation Act allows designated airports to be required to provide facilities for consultation with affected parties, where local environmental concerns can be raised, and some 51 airports have been so designated. A 2000 consultation by the government re-iterated its policy that general... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14120583 | 2,137,680 |
318,093 | As expected, the track broke up at the point that the cars had to line up behind each other even when right near each other to avoid the strewn gravel- which if the cars got on top of, they would slip and slide (with nearly the same effect as driving on ice) and most likely crash at the tight and extremely demanding Fa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1140073 | 317,923 |
1,232,038 | To match the performance of the superheterodyne receiver, a number of the functions normally addressed by the IF stage must be accomplished at baseband. Since there is no high gain IF amplifier utilizing automatic gain control (AGC), the baseband output level may vary over a very wide range dependent on the received si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2986919 | 1,231,376 |
684,481 | Haig told Rawlinson to exploit success in the south. Fourth Army fought its way forward towards the second German line atop the Bazentin Ridge. At first light on 14 July, following a night approach march, a two-day preparatory bombardment of over 375,000 shells and a five-minute intensive hurricane bombardment, the lea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=889184 | 684,124 |
1,808,169 | The YES2 deployment took place Sept. 25, 2007. The mission objective was to deploy a 30 km long and 0.5 mm thin tether (made of Dyneema) in two controlled stages, in order to release a small, spherical, lightweight reentry capsule called Fotino into a predetermined trajectory to a landing area in Kazakhstan. The scient... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13274760 | 1,807,148 |
732,044 | At the , Rosberg took back the Drivers' Championship lead over Hamilton when he won his third consecutive race and eighth overall after fending off a late charge by Ricciardo in the closing laps. Hamilton, despite having brake temperature problems, was able to claim the final spot on the podium by keeping Räikkönen at ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49194160 | 731,657 |
1,159,308 | In October 1945, the Gen 75 Committee considered the issue of ministerial responsibility for atomic energy. The Cabinet Secretary, Sir Edward Bridges, and the Advisory Committee on Atomic Energy both recommended that it be placed within the Ministry of Supply. Developing atomic energy would require an enormous construc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52573493 | 1,158,693 |
1,721,306 | Taking a historical perspective, we can begin to describe the high rates of obesity seen among African Americans in the so-called "stroke belt" of the Southern U.S. The history of slavery in this region helps in part to explain food culture among African Americans, since high calorie and fat foods were essential to the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38762727 | 1,720,336 |
1,735,837 | The university opened on 28 October 1833 with 19 "scholars" and 18 "students" on the Bachelor of Arts course and 5 students on the theology licence course. The university was the first in England to introduce matriculation examinations, although these had been in use at the University of St Andrews and Marischal Colleg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26517318 | 1,734,860 |
343,319 | French-born Hércules Florence developed his own photographic technique in 1832 or 1833 in Brazil, with some help of pharmacist Joaquim Corrêa de Mello (1816–1877). Looking for another method to copy graphic designs he captured their images on paper treated with silver nitrate as contact prints or in a camera obscura de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2435889 | 343,138 |
852,748 | This describes the use in excavations of various types and sizes of machines from small backhoes to heavy duty earth-moving machinery. Machines are often used in what is called salvage or rescue archaeology in developer-led excavation when there are financial or time pressures. Using a mechanical excavator is the quick... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60697 | 852,294 |
1,732,183 | The dating of Schwartz' invention of gunpowder, given by the Jesuit Athanasius Kircher as 1354, is also later than even the first usage of cannons in Europe. The chronological problem did not go unnoticed and in 1732, Hermann Boerhaave shifted the invention of gunpowder to Roger Bacon while Schwartz was relegated to th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61793153 | 1,731,207 |
2,101,566 | In 1872 Liversidge accepted the appointment of 'Reader in Geology and Assistant in the Laboratory' at the University of Sydney and began his duties there early in 1873. Liversidge became professor of geology and mineralogy in 1874, and in 1876 he published "The Minerals of New South Wales", being a reprint of a paper r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10146251 | 2,100,354 |
1,378,460 | The cells themselves most commonly take the shape of pleomorphic (able to assume different forms) rods (0.2-1.5 micrometers *, 1-5 micrometers) but they can also be coccoid, bifid, branched, or filamentous. The length of the cell can be as long as 20 micrometers. When grown on solid media the colonies formed can appear... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20158954 | 1,377,698 |
956,256 | Haldane worked part-time at the John Innes Horticultural Institution (later named John Innes Centre) at Merton Park in Surrey from 1927 to 1937. When Alfred Daniel Hall became the Director in 1926, one of his earliest tasks was to appoint as assistant director "a man of high quality in the study of genetics" who could ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62417 | 955,751 |
1,574,467 | SHEFEX I was the first experimental vehicle of the SHEFEX project and launched on Thursday, 27 October 2005 from the Andøya Rocket Range in Norway. Shefex I reached a height of about 200 km over the North Sea. Within 20 seconds, the vehicle re-entered Earth's atmosphere at almost seven times the speed of sound. The mea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37167420 | 1,573,578 |
2,020,329 | styles which better suit some students, some are text oriented, others are visual, kinesthetic, auditory, or a combination of two or more, developers of educational materials have adapted and made use of new media and technology. In 1989, there was a call for new curriculum in social studies, which was uniquely suited ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22030001 | 2,019,166 |
2,242,404 | The university is also engaged in significant scientific exploration projects. In 2004, as part of its responsibilities under the space grant program, it joined a consortium of universities and countries to build the Giant Magellan Telescope in Chile. Construction began in November 2015; on its completion—which is sche... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29927 | 2,241,133 |
1,621,937 | Together with Hermann Boerhaave, he edited the works of the physicians Andreas Vesalius and William Harvey. Albinus is known for his "Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani", an exquisitely illustrated volume, which was first published in Leiden in 1747, largely at his own expense. Albinus is thought to have spe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=499044 | 1,621,021 |
30,842 | In the dual-purpose vehicle mount, the M2HB proved extremely effective in U.S. service: the Browning's .50 caliber AP and API rounds could easily penetrate the engine block or fuel tanks of a German Bf 109 fighter attacking at low altitude, or perforate the hull plates and fuel tanks of a German half-track or light arm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=246727 | 30,832 |
698,680 | By 2019 methods in eDNA research had been expanded to be able to assess whole communities from a single sample. This process involves metabarcoding, which can be precisely defined as the use of general or universal polymerase chain reaction (PCR) primers on mixed DNA samples from any origin followed by high-throughput ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46925036 | 698,316 |
1,370,844 | While studying at Colombia, Leta Stetter Hollingworth became interested in the misconceptions about women that seemed to be a part of the zeitgeist. Thorndike agreed to supervise her dissertation on functional periodicity, which focused on the idea that women are psychologically impaired during menstruation. Thorndike ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14276414 | 1,370,088 |
1,465,304 | One of the biggest problems with measuring on single molecules is to establish reproducible electrical contact with only one molecule and doing so without shortcutting the electrodes. Because the current photolithographic technology is unable to produce electrode gaps small enough to contact both ends of the molecules ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36605 | 1,464,481 |
1,236,281 | When the sampling design is fully known (leading to some formula_32 probability of selection for some element from strata h), and the non-response is measurable (i.e.: we know that only formula_33 observations answered in strata h), then an exactly known inverse probability weight can be calculated for each element i f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26286630 | 1,235,617 |
1,234,319 | The discovery of numerous non-mitochondrial parkin substrates reinforces the importance parkin in neuronal homeostasis, beyond its role in mitochondrial regulation. Potent neuroprotective abilities of parkin in attenuating dopaminergic neurotoxicity, mitochondrial swelling and excitotoxicity were demonstrated in cell c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=931508 | 1,233,656 |
1,584,881 | On September 10, 1804, four members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition recorded in their journals a fossil discovery along the banks of the Missouri River in what is now Gregory County of south-central South Dakota. The find was a 45-foot-long articulated vertebral column with some ribs and teeth associated that was loc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37799115 | 1,583,991 |
250,692 | Additionally, MRI-guided high-intensity focused ultrasound is a nonsurgical treatment option for people with essential tremor who are medication refractory. MRI-guided high-intensity focused ultrasound does not achieve healing, but can improve the quality of life. While its long-term effects are not yet established, th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10528 | 250,559 |
417,907 | There remained the issue of cooperation between the Manhattan's Project's Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago and the Montreal Laboratory. At the Combined Policy Committee meeting on 17 February 1944, Chadwick pressed for resources to build a nuclear reactor at what is now known as the Chalk River Laboratories. Britain... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41957579 | 417,703 |
1,184,591 | On July 10, the sloops reached Fangatau, on July 12 they discovered Takume and Raroia, on July 14 – Taenga, on July 15 – Makemo and Katiu, on July 16 – Tahanea and Faaite, on July 17 – Fakarava, on July 18 – Niau. Locals were hostile almost everywhere; thus Bellingshausen actively used artillery and salutes from colour... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40880361 | 1,183,963 |
466,316 | Gilbert et al. originally coined the term "immune neglect" (or "immune bias") to describe a function of the psychological immune system. Immune neglect refers to forecasters' unawareness of their tendency to adapt to and cope with negative events. Unconsciously the body will identify a stressful event and try to cope w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2426547 | 466,083 |
2,140,596 | In 1889, Voelcker was requested, on the recommendation of Sir James Caird, by the Secretary of State for India to examine improvements in Indian agriculture. He then spent a full year travelling around India and producing a 450-page report of recommendations. Voelcker's travels and enquiries led to his noting that Indi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56364315 | 2,139,366 |
324,544 | Experiments exposing rats to various cerium compounds have found accumulation primarily in the lungs and liver. This resulted in various negative health outcomes associated with those organs. REEs have been added to feed in livestock to increase their body mass and increase milk production. They are most commonly used ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=145440 | 324,371 |
295,267 | News sources can also provide definitions of issues, thus determining the terms of future discussion and framing problems in particular ways. As McCombs and Valenzuela stated; "We don't need the media to alert us about inflation as routine purchases reveal its presence. But to learn about abstract economic topics such ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=473279 | 295,107 |
2,180,209 | Songbirds in particular provide a valuable animal model in which complex learned behavior is maintained over time despite the constant replacement of neurons in the relevant brain areas. Indeed, it has been proposed that adult neurogenesis in the hippocampus may play a central role in regulating the maintenance of long... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71895680 | 2,178,964 |
416,991 | At Yerkes, her research focused on stellar spectroscopy, emphasizing F and G type stars and high-velocity stars. Her work produced some of the most highly cited papers at that time, including, in 1950, three top-100 papers in a year with over 3,000 publications She was offered research positions at Wayne State Universi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4370870 | 416,788 |
1,739,318 | Analysis of potential molecules that could form the first hypercycles in nature prompted the idea of coupling an information carrier function with enzymatic properties. At the time of the hypercycle theory formulation, enzymatic properties were attributed only to proteins, while nucleic acids were recognized only as ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29491519 | 1,738,341 |
135,188 | The first indications of this phenomenon came from American professor Elias Loomis in the 1800s, when he proposed a powerful air current in the upper air blowing west to east across the United States as an explanation for the behaviour of major storms. After the 1883 eruption of the Krakatoa volcano, weather watchers t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16472 | 135,133 |
373,123 | UV–visible spectroscopy of microscopic samples is done by integrating an optical microscope with UV–visible optics, white light sources, a monochromator, and a sensitive detector such as a charge-coupled device (CCD) or photomultiplier tube (PMT). As only a single optical path is available, these are single beam instru... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71020 | 372,928 |
348,679 | During the early 1940s Axis engineers developed a sonic cannon that could cause fatal vibrations in its target body. A methane gas combustion chamber leading to two parabolic dishes pulse-detonated at roughly 44 Hz. This sound, magnified by the dish reflectors, caused vertigo and nausea at by vibrating the middle ear b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=453420 | 348,497 |
2,147,687 | This race had one of the closest finishes in championship distance racing. Coming off the turn, Ethiopian born Azerbaijani Hayle Ibrahimov held the curb and lead position. He held off all challenges to the position until reaching the final straightaway, when the crowd of trailers passed him. Spaniard Adel Mechaal was p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50886986 | 2,146,456 |
2,138,735 | In the years preceding Israel's establishment, few students were enrolled at the Faculty, and a graduating class of 12 students was considered a large cohort. During these years, the educational emphasis was on technical aspects of architecture, similar to the central European approach. Most of the study hours were dev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67908731 | 2,137,505 |
1,188,667 | The basic problem in morphological phylogenetics is the assembly of a matrix representing a mapping from each of the taxa being compared to representative measurements for each of the phenotypic characteristics being used as a classifier. The types of phenotypic data used to construct this matrix depend on the taxa bei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3986130 | 1,188,035 |
2,010,127 | The direct cause of the MSCs's improper function is still unknown. However, with recent studies with animal models (sheep), it is believed that other factors such as growth factors and mechanics pay a role in developing hematomas though their effect on gene expression. For example, there is hypoxia which is a state of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23620384 | 2,008,975 |
1,532,163 | The crew members of the Salyut 6 Space Station became the first men to carry out a systematic visual-instrumental observation of the earth. Their extended stay is what allowed the crew to pull off such an observation, as it takes two to three weeks for human eyesight to adapt to conditions in orbit. After several weeks... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=351422 | 1,531,296 |
906,907 | Statistical rating systems are unkind to Steinitz. "Warriors of the Mind" gives him a ranking of 47th, below several obscure Soviet grandmasters; Chessmetrics places him only 15th on its all-time list. Chessmetrics penalizes players who play infrequently; opportunities for competitive chess were infrequent in Steinitz'... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=167866 | 906,430 |
53,890 | In Chile, medical education begins after graduating high-school, in public or private universities, which select candidates based on a national entrance exams (former University Selection Test, now in transition to a new selection test). Public universities and private universities cost around US$8,000–12,000 a year. I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=428966 | 53,870 |
1,742,050 | The Eagles won their fourth consecutive victory and second road victory of the season the week after both BC and Maryland became bowl-eligible. It was an exciting back and forth affair, as Heisman candidate Andre Williams and the Eagles battled back every time the Terrapins pulled away. After Maryland took a 24–13 lead... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39228283 | 1,741,066 |
1,772,010 | As "Spirit" traveled with a dead wheel in December 2007, pulling the dead wheel behind, the wheel scraped off the upper layer of the Martian soil, uncovering a patch of ground that scientists say shows evidence of a past environment that would have been perfect for microbial life. It is similar to areas on Earth where ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32939362 | 1,771,013 |
75,993 | Around 1943 the USA began to use the technology on a large scale to make proximity fuzes for use in World War II. Such fuzes required an electronic circuit that could withstand being fired from a gun, and could be produced in quantity. The Centralab Division of Globe Union submitted a proposal which met the requirement... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65910 | 75,964 |
1,025,050 | Veterinary physicians were there to tend to livestock for agricultural purposes as well as combat purposes. The Roman cavalry was known for their use of horses in combat and scouting purposes. Because of the type of injuries that would have been commonly seen, surgery was a somewhat common occurrence. Tools such as sci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4921176 | 1,024,517 |
336,596 | HCM can be detected with an echocardiogram (ECHO) with 80%+ accuracy, which can be preceded by screening with an electrocardiogram (ECG) to test for heart abnormalities. Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR), considered the gold standard for determining the physical properties of the left ventricular wall, can serve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=606009 | 336,417 |
1,172,113 | The Monte Carlo method for radiation particle transport has its origins at LANL dates back to 1946. The creators of these methods were Drs. Stanislaw Ulam, John von Neumann, Robert Richtmyer, and Nicholas Metropolis. Monte Carlo for radiation transport was conceived by Stanislaw Ulam in 1946 while playing Solitaire whi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2479157 | 1,171,494 |
1,435,493 | Flying another fighter escort mission on 24 August in an attack south of London, Müncheberg claimed a victory over a Hurricane from No. 151 Squadron and another Hurricane on 31 August. This brought his total to 15 aerial victories, which increased to 16 the next day. On 13 September 1940, he was awarded the Knight's Cr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10701662 | 1,434,687 |
602,754 | Members of a relatively new virus family, the astroviridae, astroviruses are now recognised as a cause of gastroenteritis in children, whose immune systems are underdeveloped, and elderly adults, whose immune systems are generally somewhat compromised. Presence of viral particles in fecal matter and in epithelial intes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4388550 | 602,445 |
1,399,250 | The Ballistics Research Laboratory further expanded its capabilities and quickly rose to prominence during the timespan of World War II. Compared to its initial staff of 65 people with a $120,000 annual budget in 1940, BRL grew to have over 700 personnel with an annual budget of $1.6 million by 1945. It was responsible... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30865936 | 1,398,475 |
778,475 | Ecologists are attempting to understand the relationship between heterogeneity and maintaining biodiversity in aquatic ecosystems. Benthic algae has been used as an inherently good subject for studying short term changes and community responses to heterogeneous conditions in streams. Understanding the potential mechani... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=906890 | 778,058 |
140,193 | The information about the orbit can be used to predict how much energy (and angular momentum) would be radiated in the form of gravitational waves. As the binary system loses energy, the stars gradually draw closer to each other, and the orbital period decreases. The resulting trajectory of each star is an inspiral, a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8111079 | 140,136 |
957,918 | Another very important classical supporter of the teleological argument was Galen, whose compendious works were one of the major sources of medical knowledge until modern times, both in Europe and the medieval Islamic world. He was not a Stoic, but like them he looked back to the Socratics and was constantly engaged in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30731 | 957,412 |
238,352 | Haroutune Krikor Daghlian Jr., of Armenian-American descent, was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, on May 4, 1921, one of three children of Margaret Rose ("née" Currie) and Haroutune Krikor Daghlian. He had a sister, Helen, and a brother, Edward. Soon after his birth the family moved across state to the coastal town of N... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1041429 | 238,232 |
271,541 | However, this conclusion leads to the loss of unitarity. Banks, Susskind and Peskin argued that, in some cases, loss of unitarity also implies violation of energy–momentum conservation or locality, but this argument may possibly be evaded in systems with a large number of degrees of freedom. According to Roger Penrose,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=851008 | 271,393 |
505,588 | In today's most common computer-mediated form of counseling, a person e-mails or chats online with a therapist (online counseling). E-therapy may be particularly effective when conducted via video conferencing, as important cues such as facial expression and body language may be conveyed. At the same time, there are ne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2675164 | 505,325 |
75,346 | Chopra won gold in the 2017 Asian Athletics Championships with a throw of 85.23 metres. He then went to London in August for the World Championships, but was eliminated before reaching the finals. On 24 August, Chopra suffered a significant groin injury in the finals of the Zurich Diamond League, sustaining the injury ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51150040 | 75,318 |
1,392,309 | The films used by GAMBIT were provided by Eastman Kodak, and evolved through a series of successively higher definition films, starting with Type 3404 with a resolving power of 50 to 100 line pairs per mm. Subsequent films used were Type 1414 high-definition film, SO-217 high-definition fine-grain film, and a series of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=615353 | 1,391,538 |
1,868,610 | The EIT wavelengths are of great interest to solar physicists because they are emitted by the very hot solar corona but not by the relatively cooler photosphere of the Sun; this reveals structures in the corona that would otherwise be obscured by the brightness of the Sun itself. EIT was originally conceived as a viewf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=903727 | 1,867,534 |
283,955 | Biofilms have been found to be involved in a wide variety of microbial infections in the body, by one estimate 80% of all infections. Infectious processes in which biofilms have been implicated include common problems such as bacterial vaginosis, urinary tract infections, catheter infections, middle-ear infections, for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43946 | 283,802 |
910,012 | The U.S. Marine Corps deployed its first RQ-21A Blackjack system to Afghanistan in late April 2014. One Blackjack system is composed of five air vehicles, two ground control systems, and launch and recovery support equipment. It supports intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) missions using multi-intellig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36619075 | 909,533 |
1,350,841 | Since the 1950s, a significant focus of cartography as an academic discipline has been the cartographic communication school of thought, seeking to improve design standards through increased scientific understanding of how maps are perceived and used, typically based on cognate disciplines such as psychology (especiall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64920852 | 1,350,095 |
217,376 | The term "herd immunity" was first used in 1894 by American veterinary scientist and then Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry of the US Department of Agriculture Daniel Elmer Salmon to describe the healthy vitality and resistance to disease of well-fed herds of hogs. In 1916 veterinary scientists inside the same Bur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=87175 | 217,268 |
1,674,541 | The principal use for the species is as a garden plant. The vibrant colours and strong stems provide a favourable aesthetic and their suitability in most Australian conditions means they are appropriate choices for gardens across the country. There is also interest in "Ptilotus exaltatus" in overseas horticultural indu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23884530 | 1,673,599 |
298,230 | In May 2006, "Air Force Magazine" published a letter by Doug Canning, a former pilot of the 347th Fighter Group who flew on Operation Vengeance (he escorted Lieutenant Holmes back to the Russell Islands). Canning, who was friends with both Lanphier and Barber, stated that Lanphier had written the official report, medal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4274699 | 298,070 |
2,190,884 | Sachs joined the faculty at Case Western Reserve University in 1957 and was made a full professor in 1966. He left Case Western Reserve to become the section chief of neurochemistry at The Roche Institute of Molecular Biology. Through his research, Sachs discovered the relationship between neurophysin, an intracellular... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43721551 | 2,189,635 |
1,796,493 | The loan program was authorized under section 136 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, which provided the program with $25 billion in loan authority, supported by a $7.5 billion appropriation to fund the credit subsidy, or the 30% risk profile expected for projects of this type. To qualify, automakers a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20181304 | 1,795,484 |
358,991 | Tragedy struck "Midway" on 20 June 1990. While conducting routine flight operations approximately northeast of Japan, the ship was badly damaged by two onboard explosions. These explosions led to a fire that raged more than ten hours. In addition to damage to the ship's hull, two crew members were killed and 9 others w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=402386 | 358,805 |
976,832 | In plants, ADH catalyses the same reaction as in yeast and bacteria to ensure that there is a constant supply of NAD. Maize has two versions of ADH - ADH1 and ADH2, "Arabidopsis thaliana" contains only one ADH gene. The structure of "Arabidopsis" ADH is 47%-conserved, relative to ADH from horse liver. Structurally and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=89198 | 976,321 |
249,682 | In "Stability with Growth: Macroeconomics, Liberalization and Development", Stiglitz, José Antonio Ocampo (United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, until 2007), Shari Spiegel (Managing Director, Initiative for Policy Dialogue IPD), Ricardo Ffrench-Davis (Main Adviser, Economic Commission ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63092 | 249,550 |
2,171,223 | In 1939 he moved to Sheffield University as senior lecturer in physical chemistry. This was interrupted by the Second World War (from 1942) he served as chemical advisor to Bomber Command and scientific advisor to the RAF. From 1942 he was professor and department head of chemistry at Glasgow University. At University ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57003736 | 2,169,985 |
51,592 | BAE Systems' first annual report identified Airbus, support services to militaries and integrated systems for air, land and naval applications as key areas of growth. It also stated the company's desire to both expand in the US and participate in further consolidation in Europe. BAE Systems described 2001 as an "import... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=200128 | 51,572 |
1,663,444 | During the 1918 flu pandemic, an estimated 20% of the world’s population became infected and 50 million of those infections proved to be fatal. In the United States, the average lifespan dropped by 12 years per person. The disease struck indiscriminately by class but was often fatal for those that were in their 20s and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47957160 | 1,662,509 |
2,136,583 | The Energetic Ion Composition Spectrometer (EICS) had high sensitivity and high resolution, and covered the energy range from 0 to 17 keV per unit charge and the mass range from less than 1 to greater than 150 u/Q. This investigation provided data used in investigating the strong coupling mechanism between the magnetos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69341287 | 2,135,355 |
852,801 | Typically a PACS consists of a multitude of devices. The first step in typical PACS systems is the modality. Modalities are typically computed tomography (CT), ultrasound, nuclear medicine, positron emission tomography (PET), and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Depending on the facility's workflow most modalities sen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63860 | 852,347 |
659,382 | Presently, one of the main results of econophysics comprises the explanation of the "fat tails" in the distribution of many kinds of financial data as a universal self-similar scaling property (i.e. scale invariant over many orders of magnitude in the data), arising from the tendency of individual market competitors, o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=664332 | 659,037 |
1,299 | The Kinect, a motion-sensing input device made by Microsoft and designed as a video game controller, first introduced in November 2010, was upgraded for the 2013 release of the Xbox One video game console. Kinect's capabilities were revealed in May 2013: an ultra-wide 1080p camera, function in the dark due to an infrar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19001 | 1,299 |
2,050,815 | At the meeting of the Illinois State Teachers' Association in December, 1857 held at Decatur, Illinois, a paper was read by Cyrus Thomas of Carbondale, Jackson County suggesting the formation of a State Natural History Society and suggesting the State Normal School as its headquarters and the place for its museum. In a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40124594 | 2,049,634 |
1,353,405 | In a study done by Gibbs, Zhang, Shumate, and Coulter (1998) it was found that endogenously released zinc blocked GABA responses within the TC system specifically by interrupting communication between the thalamus and the connected TRN. Computational neuroscientists are particularly interested in thalamocortical circui... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2483527 | 1,352,658 |
1,636,110 | On September 30, 2005, NASA and Google announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) at a national press conference to pursue R&D collaborations with Ames in the areas of: large-scale data management; massively distributed computing; Bio-Info-Nano Convergence; and R&D activities to encourage the entrepreneurial space i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18493301 | 1,635,185 |
1,287,324 | VMD has been developed under the aegis of principal investigator Klaus Schulten in the Theoretical and Computational Biophysics group at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. A precursor program, called VRChem, was developed in 1992 by Mike Krogh, William... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=633423 | 1,286,623 |
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