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695,560 | As laser science needed good theoretical foundations, and also because research into these soon proved very fruitful, interest in quantum optics rose. Following the work of Dirac in quantum field theory, George Sudarshan, Roy J. Glauber, and Leonard Mandel applied quantum theory to the electromagnetic field in the 1950... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2627738 | 695,196 |
2,012,707 | The Hoyas went 3–1 in their next four games, winning rematches with St. John's and at Providence, suffering an upset loss at Seton Hall, and defeating Villanova. The Hoyas had a balanced attack against the Red Storm, with Greg Whittington finishing with a team-high 12 points, Jason Clark, Otto Porter, and Markel Starks... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33673923 | 2,011,550 |
778,187 | The same individual geese on which we conducted these experiments, first aroused my interest in the process of domestication. They were F1 hybrids of wild Greylags and domestic geese and they showed surprising deviations from the normal social and sexual behaviour of the wild birds. I realised that an overpowering incr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17077 | 777,770 |
1,628,398 | Forestry research has long been conducted by governmental agencies responsible for management of federal and provincial forests in Canada (Crown lands) and federal and state forests in the United States. Because timber and pulp resources are harvested from multiple use regions of public forests in North America, re-see... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66931587 | 1,627,479 |
1,468,470 | Intellectual men of letters like the versatile Shen Kuo dabbled in subjects as diverse as mathematics, geography, geology, economics, engineering, medicine, art criticism, archaeology, military strategy, and diplomacy, among others. On a court mission to inspect a frontier region, Shen Kuo once made a raised-relief map... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10444102 | 1,467,646 |
1,098,247 | Experiments conducted by the Franklin Institute, Boston, in the 1830s had initially cast doubt on the practice of adding water as soon as the escape of steam through the device was noted. A steam boiler was fitted with a small observation window of glass and heated beyond its normal operating temperature with the water... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4652142 | 1,097,687 |
1,169,094 | Beginning with the landmark launch of Sputnik in 1957, the first man-made satellite, members of the aeronautical and military spheres realized that satellite-based positioning was technically feasible, perhaps likely. The United States Navy experimented with the technology in 1960, launching the Transit positioning sat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2410578 | 1,168,476 |
334,351 | The striking segmented pattern of the spine is established during embryogenesis when somites are rhythmically added to the posterior of the embryo. Somite formation begins around the third week when the embryo begins gastrulation and continues until all somites are formed. Their number varies between species: there are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33607453 | 334,173 |
51,141 | Dramatic declines in amphibian populations, including population crashes and mass localized extinction, have been noted since the late 1980s from locations all over the world, and amphibian declines are thus perceived to be one of the most critical threats to global biodiversity. In 2004, the International Union for Co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=621 | 51,121 |
43,118 | Dustin Hoffman was cast as Liebkind in the Mel Brooks film "The Producers" (1967), but before filming began Hoffman begged Brooks to let him go to audition for "The Graduate". When Dustin Hoffman auditioned for the role of Benjamin, he was just short of his 30th birthday at the time of filming. He was asked to perform ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29942 | 43,102 |
1,182,229 | Arriving at Barmouth on the evening of 23 August, Charles met up with a "reading party" of Cambridge friends for a time before he left on the morning of 29 August, to go back to Shrewsbury and on to partridge shooting with his Wedgwood relatives at Maer Hall. He was grieved to have received a message that Ramsay had di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2087722 | 1,181,604 |
701,848 | William Sharpe was born on June 16, 1934 in Boston, Massachusetts. As his father was in the National Guard, the family moved several times during World War II, until they finally settled in Riverside, California. Sharpe spent the rest of his childhood and teenage years in Riverside, graduating from Riverside Polytechni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=402435 | 701,483 |
526,555 | New and revised "phylogenetic" classification systems of the plant kingdom were produced by several botanists, including August Eichler. A massive 23 volume " was published by Adolf Engler & Karl Prantl over the period 1887 to 1915. Taxonomy based on gross morphology was now being supplemented by using characters revea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25007304 | 526,282 |
414,957 | Saxicolous crustose lichens play an important role in the weathering of rocks. Repeated contraction and expansion of thalli occurs in response to alternate periods of wetting and drying, resulting in the breakdown of rock fragments and removal of mineral grains from the rock surfaces. Crustose lichens also chemically w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43816379 | 414,754 |
1,128,648 | Throughout the 1980s, Northeastern University made about 38 program and curriculum changes to improve the university. Between 1979 and 1981, Northeastern organized a blue-ribbon panel of educators and experts, including industry leaders from Bell Labs, University of California, Berkeley, Massachusetts Institute of Tech... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27792666 | 1,128,070 |
309,675 | U.S. athletes have appeared in every Summer Olympics of the modern era. The United States, represented by the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC), competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place in the summer of 2020, the Games were postponed to July 23 to August 8, 20... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2112059 | 309,508 |
803,931 | If choking on skill-based or co-ordination oriented tasks requires the pressure of the situation to cause the performer's increased conscious attention to his or her process of performance, then the reverse can also be true. A relatively unexplored area of scientific research is the concept of "rising to the occasion."... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21312313 | 803,502 |
612,846 | Minkowski in his earlier works in 1907 and 1908 followed Poincaré in representing space and time together in complex form (x,y,z,ict) emphasizing the formal similarity with Euclidean space. He noted that spacetime is in a certain sense a four-dimensional non-Euclidean manifold. Sommerfeld (1910) used Minkowski's comple... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1790788 | 612,535 |
745,235 | Two ideas about the homology of arms, hands and digits have existed in the past 130 years. First that digits are unique to tetrapods and second that antecedents were present in the fins of early sarcopterygian fish. Until recently it was believed that "genetic and fossil data support the hypothesis that digits are evol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37824359 | 744,841 |
822,941 | CCDE runs in parallel with the more established CCIE program, in some areas providing a higher skill-set than CCIE. Specifically, CCDE identifies network professionals who have expert network design skills. Network design translates business requirements into end-to-end network designs and a solutions approach to netwo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3696371 | 822,500 |
1,184,562 | On August 26, the expedition went to Tenerife with the aim of stocking up on wine and fresh supplies. While being in England, three sailors from the sloop "Mirny" got a sexually transmitted infection. However, Dr Galkin's prognosis was favorable; there were no sick people on "Vostok". In the Atlantic, a working rhythm ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40880361 | 1,183,935 |
2,037,912 | The 394th received a second Distinguished Unit Citation for action on 19 March 1945. The 367th Group's target was the headquarters of Field Marshal Kesselring, the German Commander-ln-Chief, West, at Ziegenburg near Bad Nauheim, Germany. The 394th would lead the attack at low level to achieve surprise, carrying a 1,000... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29476024 | 2,036,737 |
546,173 | Transcriptomics methods are highly parallel and require significant computation to produce meaningful data for both microarray and RNA-Seq experiments. Microarray data is recorded as high-resolution images, requiring feature detection and spectral analysis. Microarray raw image files are each about 750 MB in size, whil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54112223 | 545,887 |
1,587,283 | The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) attempted to de-recognize the college in the 2010–2011 academic year, after which the college management went to court seeking a stay on the order for a year. The college got the stay, and later also managed to get it extended for the academic year 2011–2012. Howeve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36213463 | 1,586,389 |
1,498,219 | Communal traits of social organization can be also found looking at the communal buildings. These buildings were built up by and for the "masoveros", the inhabitants of Mas Blanco. The storage of rainwater was possible thanks to the cistern ("aljibe"), built with a seven-meter vault, and allowed the watering of the liv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63796902 | 1,497,375 |
241,753 | The DOI system offers persistent, semantically interoperable resolution to related current data and is best suited to material that will be used in services outside the direct control of the issuing assigner (e.g., public citation or managing content of value). It uses a managed registry (providing social and technical... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=422994 | 241,627 |
1,694,742 | Colgate finally returned to the ice in 1958 and continued with new head coach Olav Kollevoll for two seasons before their first indoor ice rink was finished. The building was dedicated to the former coach as the J. Howard Starr Rink at the first game played on its surface in December 1959. With the stability of the pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28794663 | 1,693,791 |
1,227,257 | On the other side of the platform was the transmission "wedge", 250 feet in length with a total height of 240 feet. The wedge was constructed using steel I-beams. The entire structure was covered with a wire mesh similar to livestock fencing in order to create an enormous Faraday cage. A multistory building was constru... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32682509 | 1,226,596 |
1,109,826 | The best characterized form of dyskeratosis congenita is a result of one or more mutations in the long arm of the X chromosome in the gene DKC1. This results in the X-linked recessive form of the disease wherein the major protein affected is dyskerin. Of the five mutations described by Heiss and colleagues in "Nature G... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3076958 | 1,109,261 |
774,190 | Gas flow proportional counters are used mainly for detection of longer wavelengths. Gas flows through it continuously. Where there are multiple detectors, the gas is passed through them in series, then led to waste. The gas is usually 90% argon, 10% methane ("P10"), although the argon may be replaced with neon or heliu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72048 | 773,774 |
252,798 | The performance of the Me 163 far exceeded that of contemporary piston engine fighters. At a speed of over the aircraft would take off, in a so-called "scharfer Start" ("sharp start", with "Start" being the German word for "take-off") from the ground, from its two-wheeled dolly. The aircraft would be kept at level flig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20486 | 252,665 |
897,095 | One of the biggest problems in modern medicine is the lack of donated organs for patients who have organ failure and require an organ transplant. This is particularly impressive for those who have had spinal cord injuries or renal or heart problems. Even though there are more of these patients every year, the availabil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26982208 | 896,623 |
2,134,434 | Both NIOSH and the US Army Aeromedical Research Laboratories funded research to investigate the classical conditioning that has been integral to the warned AHAAH model. In the warned mode, the middle ear muscles are assumed to be already contracted. In the unwarned mode, the middle ear muscles are contracted after a lo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57869905 | 2,133,209 |
1,116,218 | Given its rarity, there have been no systematic and controlled studies on the treatment of SMZL. Current recommendations for this include the following. Watchful waiting, which is the withholding of specific treatments while performing follow-up examinations every 3 to 6 months to detect disease progression. This cours... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21339698 | 1,115,646 |
773,764 | In the 1950s Botvinnik became interested in computers, at first mainly for playing computer chess but he later also co-authored reports on the possible use of artificial intelligence in managing the Soviet economy. Botvinnik's research on chess-playing programs concentrated on "selective searches", which used general c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=242416 | 773,348 |
2,013,940 | Avery's parents devotion to their daughters education led to both Avery and her older sister to attend Moorestown Friends School, a private school in Moorestown, New Jersey. At the time, Avery was not old enough to attend school, so her mother worked to have the rules changed. Avery was able to begin her education earl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8596148 | 2,012,781 |
1,646,105 | Things did improve for Churchill-Redman and the sales rose dramatically from £200,000 in 1946 to £1M by 1955. This was in part because of innovative product development at the Halifax site which ultimately produced the CR P5 and P6 profiling lathes: the conclusion of this development is described by Jeremy as being a r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30046818 | 1,645,176 |
195,978 | IgE, the IgE synthesis pathway, and the IgE-mediated allergic/inflammatory pathway are all important targets in intervening with the pathological processes of allergy, asthma, and other IgE-mediated diseases. The B lymphocyte differentiation and maturation pathway that eventually generate IgE-secreting plasma cells go ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=490670 | 195,878 |
1,805,592 | Initial planning for the Apollo Program included provisions for in-flight measurements of salient parameters of concern including physiological responses to exercise. However, the fire in the Apollo 204 spacecraft (also known as Apollo 1), fatal to astronauts Grissom, White, and Chaffee, resulted in NASA management ini... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39377992 | 1,804,577 |
10,166 | MIT has kept pace with and helped to advance the digital age. In addition to developing the predecessors to modern computing and networking technologies, students, staff, and faculty members at Project MAC, the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and the Tech Model Railroad Club wrote some of the earliest interactive c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18879 | 10,162 |
1,931,703 | The DARPA Quantum Network was built in stages. In the project's first year (year 1), BBN designed and built a full QKD system (Alice and Bob), with an attenuated laser source (~ 0.1 mean photon number) running through telecom fiber, phase-modulated via an actively stabilized Mach-Zender interferometer. BBN also impleme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61603586 | 1,930,595 |
7,196 | The first ISS component was launched in 1998, and the first long-term residents arrived on 2 November 2000 after being launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on 31 October 2000. The station has since been continuously occupied for , the longest continuous human presence in low Earth orbit, having surpassed the previous ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15043 | 7,193 |
1,216,105 | Early diagnosis of tumor malignancy is crucial for timely cancer treatment aimed at imparting desired clinical outcomes. The traditional fluorescence-based imaging is unfortunately faced with challenges such as low tissue penetration and background autofluorescence. Upconversion (UC)-based bioimaging can overcome these... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32253961 | 1,215,453 |
27,678 | During the first decade or so of the public Internet, the immense changes it would eventually enable in the 2000s were still nascent. In terms of providing context for this period, mobile cellular devices ("smartphones" and other cellular devices) which today provide near-universal access, were used for business and no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13692 | 27,668 |
966,378 | It was estimated that the unit cost of each missile would be less than $5 million (equivalent to $ million in ), making them much cheaper than a Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bomber. Operating costs would also be low, as keeping them in readiness would be cheaper than a submarine or bomber, and comparable with a missile s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57684 | 965,868 |
1,778,029 | Nano-FTIR was first described in 2005 in a patent by Ocelic and Hillenbrand as Fourier transform spectroscopy of tip-scattered light with an asymmetric spectrometer (i.e. the tip/sample placed inside one of the interferometer arms). The first realization of s-SNOM with FTIR was demonstrated in 2006 in the laboratory of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52973193 | 1,777,027 |
1,451,472 | The evolution of interactome complexity is delineated in a study published in "Nature". In this study it is first noted that the boundaries between prokaryotes, unicellular eukaryotes and multicellular eukaryotes are accompanied by orders-of-magnitude reductions in effective population size, with concurrent amplificati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1075046 | 1,450,655 |
482,689 | Cajun/zydeco, country, R&B, rock, and their fusion into "swamp pop", were influences in LeDoux's childhood. In high school, he was a disc jockey at the local radio station, KEUN, and the rhythm guitarist of two bands: the Deadbeats and the Countdowns. Although he remained an avid music fan in later life, he did not act... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4275189 | 482,445 |
1,739,018 | Information in FlyBase originates from a variety of sources ranging from large-scale genome projects to the primary research literature. These data types include mutant phenotypes; molecular characterization of mutant alleles; and other deviations, cytological maps, wild-type expression patterns, anatomical images, tra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8758178 | 1,738,041 |
190,437 | The large sums of money being made and spent caused an upsurge in crime and illicit activity in towns along the pipeline route. This was exacerbated by the fact that police officers and state troopers resigned in large groups to become pipeline security guards at wages far in excess of those available in public-sector ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=197732 | 190,340 |
1,772,725 | Also in 1895, William A. Hemphill, former Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia and at the time, business manager of the Atlanta Constitution, organized the Cotton States and International Exposition, described as an attempt to promote the American South to the world and showcase products and new technologies, as well as to encour... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33737968 | 1,771,728 |
1,977,471 | The Minutewomen got a new head coach in 2012–13 when Bill Wright took over for Chris Cobb, who had taken a coaching job in NCAA Division III with Williams College. Wright inherited a strong team that already included the aforementioned stars, along with key freshmen Ally Perdios and Jess Greenwood, and Penn State trans... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54095645 | 1,976,333 |
1,237,175 | Ferranti followed up on the ULA Designer with the Silicon Design System product based on the VAX-11/730 with 1 MB of RAM, 120 MB Winchester disk, and utilising a high-resolution display driven by a graphics unit with 500 KB of its own memory for "high speed windowing, painting, and editing capabilities". The software i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=592816 | 1,236,511 |
1,497,105 | Many of these women were in the World Championship race and the world record run before it. They had a year to think about and prepare their way to beat Dibaba. The final started off in a walk for these athletes, the first lap in 1:16.57. Dibaba went almost to the back of the pack, with the last chaser in her previous ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45151369 | 1,496,262 |
368,359 | While the mechanisms of genetic predisposition remain unclear, a few genetic factors have been found to increase susceptibility to autoimmune reactions in RHD. The dominant contributors are a component of MHC class II molecules, found on lymphocytes and antigen-presenting cells, specifically the DR and DQ alleles on hu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=412735 | 368,166 |
1,133,589 | Environmental protection became a national priority in the 1970s. "Time" magazine declared it the Issue of the Year in January 1971, reporting that it was rated as Americans' "most serious problem confronting their community—well ahead of crime, drugs and poor schools". When South Florida experienced a severe drought f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17601646 | 1,132,996 |
622,126 | After returning to the patrol area with the wolf pack, she made an unsuccessful attack on a transport on 3 November. The following day, "Sailfish" damaged the Japanese destroyer Harukaze and Japanese landing ship T-111 (890 tons) in Luzon Strait in position 20°08'N, 121°43'E but was slightly damaged herself by a bomb f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=422293 | 621,794 |
1,250,832 | Montgomery was educated at Plymouth College. He obtained a 1st Class BSc degree in 1984 in neuropharmacology and cardiorespiratory physiology, before qualifying as a medical doctor in July 1987 from the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, University of London. He was awarded the prize as most outstanding student during ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20863054 | 1,250,156 |
455,618 | Recently, highly precise astrometry of extragalactic objects using both Very Long Baseline Interferometry and the "Gaia" space observatory have successfully measured this small effect. The first VLBI measurement of the apparent motion, over a period of 20 years, of 555 extragalactic objects towards the center of our ga... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2703 | 455,396 |
1,661,645 | Landfill gas can be converted to high-Btu gas by reducing its carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and oxygen content. The high-Btu gas can be piped into existing natural gas pipelines or in the form of CNG (compressed natural gas) or LNG (liquid natural gas). CNG and LNG can be used on site to power hauling trucks or equipment o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25249780 | 1,660,710 |
1,099,081 | Although India still has low average incomes per person, the country is now the third largest emitter of greenhouse gas emissions after China and the USA. The central government has pledged to reduce the emission intensity of Gross Domestic Product by 20-25%, relative to 2005 levels, by 2020. India has also made major ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15988807 | 1,098,521 |
116,208 | Some prototype RTGs, first built in 1958 by the US Atomic Energy Commission, have used polonium-210. This isotope provides phenomenal power density (pure Po emits 140 W/g) because of its high decay rate, but has limited use because of its very short half-life of 138 days. A half-gram sample of Po reaches temperatures o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=211485 | 116,163 |
155,677 | , or Production Model, is the first Evangelion specimen researched and designed for eventual mass production and actual combat. Although the conception and construction of the machine takes place in Japan, the assembly and activation experiments, as well as the training of its pilot, the Second Child Asuka Langley Sory... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=577372 | 155,606 |
1,528,106 | OGCMs have many important applications: dynamical coupling with the atmosphere, sea ice, and land run-off that in reality jointly determine the oceanic boundary fluxes; transpire of biogeochemical materials; interpretation of the paleoclimate record;climate prediction for both natural variability and anthropogenic chaf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41244624 | 1,527,242 |
895,879 | Environmental psychology was not fully recognized as its own field until the late 1960s when scientists began to question the tie between human behavior and our natural and built environments. Since its conception, the field has been committed to the development of a discipline that is both value oriented and problem o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1639997 | 895,408 |
983,905 | Humboldt State Normal School was established as a teacher's college on June 16, 1913, by then-California Governor, Hiram Johnson. It was named after the famous German scientist Alexander von Humboldt. The cities of Arcata and Eureka (and to a lesser extent Fortuna) competed with one another to host the new campus. Arca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=197004 | 983,391 |
237,763 | The aurochs was widespread across Eurasia, North Africa, and the Indian subcontinent during the Pleistocene, but only the European aurochs ("Bos primigenius primigenius") survived into historical times. This species is heavily featured in European cave paintings, such as Lascaux and Chauvet cave in France, and was stil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39379960 | 237,644 |
54,358 | Large, heavily protected underground factories were constructed – as with the partly-buried Weingut I complex for Jumo 004 jet engine production – to take up production of the Me 262, safe from bomb attacks. A disused mine complex under the Walpersberg mountain was adapted for the production of complete aircraft. These... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20488 | 54,338 |
495,003 | The extract of the liana Banisteriopsis caapi has been used by the tribes of the Amazon as an entheogen and was described as a hallucinogen in the middle of the 19th century. In early 20th century, European pharmacists identified harmine as the active substance. This discovery stimulated the interest to further investi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=608186 | 494,747 |
2,057,950 | The long Trans-Iranian Railway from Bandar Shah on the Caspian Sea to Bandar Shahpur on the Persian Gulf was opened during the reign of Reza Shah Pahlavi in 1939. The railroad was built with rail weighing 67 pounds per yard (33 kg/m) and required more than 3000 bridges. There were 126 tunnels in the Zagros mountains. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38693593 | 2,056,765 |
791,843 | Study has proceeded more slowly in three-dimensional than in two-dimensional photonic crystals. This is because of more difficult fabrication. Three-dimensional photonic crystal fabrication had no inheritable semiconductor industry techniques to draw on. Attempts have been made, however, to adapt some of the same techn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=355377 | 791,418 |
369,797 | Carl Linnaeus in 1753 regarded the Brassicaceae as a natural group, naming them "Klass" Tetradynamia. Alfred Barton Rendle placed the family in the order Rhoedales, while George Bentham and Joseph Dalton Hooker in their system published from 1862–1883, assigned it to their cohort Parietales (now the class Violales). Fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3794 | 369,603 |
790,724 | Some animal phyla have gone through major brain enlargement through evolution (e.g. vertebrates and cephalopods both contain many lineages in which brains have grown through evolution) but most animal groups are composed only of species with extremely small brains. Some scientists argue that this difference is due to v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17682224 | 790,299 |
1,717,738 | tolerable burden if compared to the US, today's global superpower, which spent 3.8% of its GDP on defence in 2006 (18% of the federal budget). But the comparison is misleading. Due to modern technology, a modern economy is far more productive per capita than the Roman economy: on one estimate, the average American in 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16058452 | 1,716,769 |
232,181 | In mid-July 1941, the 3rd Panzer Group was subordinated to Army Group North to shore up the flanks and attempted to seize Velikie Luki. This was part of a larger operation aimed at seizing Leningrad. Hoth's forces were driven back on 20 July when Red Army forces broke through the German lines, prompting criticism from ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=261665 | 232,062 |
1,779,310 | The US needed data to overcome the tropical littoral challenges in the SCS, so the entire experiment was funded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) but lead by the Academia to camouflage the strategic intent. ASIAEX was only the beginning, and the US government routinely undertook acoustic data collection post that b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60878831 | 1,778,307 |
1,458,562 | His current research interests include the physics of the early Universe, the nature of physical complexity, and questions related to the origin of life on Earth and elsewhere in the Universe. He has contributed seminal ideas in the interface between particle physics and cosmology, in particular on the dynamics of phas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2406519 | 1,457,742 |
748,302 | Modern plant breeding, whether classical or through genetic engineering, comes with issues of concern, particularly with regard to food crops. The question of whether breeding can have a negative effect on nutritional value is central in this respect. Although relatively little direct research in this area has been don... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30876044 | 747,904 |
328,787 | Whereas the older "depth scales" tried to infer the level of "hypnotic trance" from supposed observable signs such as spontaneous amnesia, most subsequent scales have measured the degree of observed or self-evaluated "responsiveness" to specific suggestion tests such as direct suggestions of arm rigidity (catalepsy). T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14417 | 328,613 |
1,819,865 | In 1964, he moved to The University of Chicago, where he has worked on atomic and ionic collision processes, photoionization, the nature of correlation of valence electrons in atoms, and, more recently, on atomic and molecular clusters, and on protein dynamics. He became interested in energy and its efficient use first... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=660207 | 1,818,830 |
2,215,753 | The Falcons returned after the winter break with a much more concerted defensive effort and ran a winning streak to 6 games. After dropping a weekend to Canisius in mid-January, Air Force won 9 of their next 11 games. The extended period of success allowed the Falcons to regain a spot in the polls and gave them a chanc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70000301 | 2,214,493 |
1,039,614 | In general, expression profiling studies report those genes that showed statistically significant differences under changed experimental conditions. This is typically a small fraction of the genome for several reasons. First, different cells and tissues express a subset of genes as a direct consequence of cellular diff... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4007073 | 1,039,073 |
612,812 | Some scientists and philosophers of science were critical of Newton's definitions of absolute space and time. Ernst Mach (1883) argued that absolute time and space are essentially metaphysical concepts and thus scientifically meaningless, and suggested that only relative motion between material bodies is a useful conce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1790788 | 612,501 |
224,609 | Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences is based on studies not only of normal children and adults, but also of gifted individuals (including so-called "savants"), of persons who have suffered brain damage, of experts and virtuosos, and of individuals from diverse cultures. Gardner breaks intelligence down in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=168191 | 224,495 |
1,902,111 | Hagenau et al. (2007) provide a primer on physioeconomics. They review the literature on the use of physiological measures in economic research, with a focus on how these measures can be used to understand group decision making and negotiation. They conclude that physiological measures can be a valuable tool for unders... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28442132 | 1,901,021 |
691,884 | This makes possible, for example, the use of a lithium metal anode in a practical device, without the intrinsic limitations of a liquid electrolyte thanks to the property of lithium dendrite suppression in the presence of a solid-state electrolyte membrane. The utilization of a high capacity anode and low reduction pot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64345812 | 691,521 |
1,177,066 | SWITCH is a power system model, focused on renewables integration. It can identify which generator and transmission projects to build in order to satisfy electricity demand at the lowest cost over a several-year period while also reducing emissions. SWITCH utilizes multi-stage stochastic linear optimization with the ob... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38803848 | 1,176,443 |
993,292 | In mid-1943, a new La-5 was captured by the Germans after making a forced landing at a German airfield. The aircraft was assessed by "Luftwaffe" test pilot Hans-Werner Lerche. Lerche noted that the La-5FN excelled at altitudes below 3,000 m (9,843 ft) but suffered from short range and flight time of only 40 minutes at ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=530494 | 992,775 |
1,045,052 | After more fossil material was found, including bones, excavation of the bone-bearing layer commenced in April 1999, conducted by a local association of private fossil collectors. Although the quarry operator was cooperative, excavation was complicated by the near-vertical orientation of the layers that limited access,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5468113 | 1,044,508 |
1,004,304 | The next World Championship took place in 2010 in the Czech Republic. Many people waited for another match between United States and Russia in playoffs. Both teams won all their group matches but then Russia suffered shocking defeat to Belarus in the quarterfinals (53–70). The defending champions, Australia also surpri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5779563 | 1,003,786 |
101,092 | The player starts out with a silent pseudo-protagonist in the form of an anthropomorphous biomechanical combat unit called 'Warframe' possessing supernatural agility and special abilities, a selection of basic weapons (primary, secondary and melee) and a space ship called 'Orbiter'. The player's primary goal from this ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38333096 | 101,047 |
1,757,335 | In 1938, development began for a new light tank for the Japanese Army. While the Type 95 Ha-Go had performed well against the National Revolutionary Army of the China in the Second Sino-Japanese War and successfully engaged United States M3 Stuart light tanks on the Bataan Peninsula in December 1941, it was quickly gro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7715513 | 1,756,344 |
472,199 | BioWare produced "Neverwinter Nights" (2002) for Atari, the first CRPG to fuse the third-edition "Dungeons & Dragons" rules with a 3D display in which the user could vary the viewing angle and distance. New game content could be generated using the Aurora toolset supplied as part of the game release, and players could ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32408640 | 471,963 |
1,968,321 | Non-profit work on water accessibility without government support is currently occurring, in Northern Peru, in the Talara region. EcoSwell identified a need for sustainable organizing and environmental and economic stability. Their bottom-up approach to community mobilization focuses on "the needs of the base of the py... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10611984 | 1,967,188 |
2,084,068 | The expected German offensive (Operation Michael) opened at 04.30 on 21 March, and all the battery areas came under gas and HE shelling. Morning mist assisted the attackers and made visual signalling impossible, while telephone lines were cut by shellfire. However, in the absence of orders the batteries began firing on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69464934 | 2,082,868 |
1,932,827 | At the present day cyclostome bryozoans are exclusively marine and stenohaline, with most species living subtidally on the continental shelf. UK government-sponsored scientific reports in connection with renewable energy in 2014 uncovered the first recordings of Escharoides bishop and the non-native Fenestrulina delici... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3907067 | 1,931,719 |
1,405,537 | Bertozzi has developed numerous novel mathematical theories throughout her career. While a Dickson Instructor at Univ. of Chicago, she developed the mathematical theory of thin film equations, fourth order degenerate parabolic equations that are used to describe lubrication theory for coating flows. She has also worked... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37498758 | 1,404,747 |
293,444 | The "cavity" magnetron was a radical improvement introduced by John Randall and Harry Boot at the University of Birmingham, England in 1940. Their first working example produced hundreds of watts at 10 cm wavelength, an unprecedented achievement. Within weeks, engineers at GEC had improved this to well over a kilowatt,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20861 | 293,286 |
1,740,836 | "P. hermaphrodita" is unsegmented, vermiform, bilateral symmetrical pseudocoelomate. The body dimensions and structure of "P. hermaphrodita" is comparable to "C. elegans"' with a body length 1.3 - 1.7mm long and an estimated circumference of 0.180mm. The primary structures are the Rhabditida-specific mouth, the pharynx... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29906722 | 1,739,855 |
1,161,556 | Held since 1973, this event is for rowers 27 years of age or over. Men and women compete in age categories ranging from "A" (27 to 35) to "K" (85 and older). The largest annual international regatta, in 2013 it attracted approximately 3500 competitors who competed in 440 races over four days. There are also events for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=400154 | 1,160,940 |
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