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2,089,988 | The first incumbent, Jacob Bigelow, a physician and botanist, pursued a modernising agenda with moderate success, incorporating practical demonstrations into his lectures over the course of a decade-long tenure. In contrast, his autodidact successor, the inventor Daniel Treadwell, appears to have been a rather less fer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60677591 | 2,088,785 |
990,854 | Overall, assistive technology aims to allow disabled people to "participate more fully in all aspects of life (home, school, and community)" and increases their opportunities for "education, social interactions, and potential for meaningful employment". It creates greater independence and control for disabled individua... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=653 | 990,337 |
1,209,421 | Additional 1108 hardware instructions included double precision arithmetic, double-word load, store, and comparison instructions. The processor could have up to 16 input/output channels for peripherals. The 1108 CPU was, with the exception of the 128-word (200 octal) ICR (Integrated Control Register) stack, entirely im... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=201462 | 1,208,774 |
331,356 | Orally consumed retinoic acid (RA), as "all-trans"-tretinoin or 13-"cis"-isotretinoin has been shown to improve facial skin health by switching on genes and differentiating keratinocytes (immature skin cells) into mature epidermal cells. RA reduces the size and secretion of the sebaceous glands, and by doing so reduces... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54114 | 331,179 |
800,850 | One type of non-homologous based mechanism is the non-homologous end joining or micro-homology end joining mechanism. These mechanisms are also involved in repairing double stranded breaks but require no homology or limited micro-homology. When these strands are repaired, oftentimes there are small deletions or inserti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3248511 | 800,423 |
78,745 | In response to President Jimmy Carter's February 1977 directive to curtail arms proliferation by selling only reduced-capability weapons to foreign countries, General Dynamics developed a modified export-oriented version of the F-16A/B designed for use with the outdated General Electric J79 turbojet engine. Northrop co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18895385 | 78,712 |
2,034,880 | Fatema Hameed Gerashi was the youngest athlete of any event and of any nationality to compete at the 2000 Sydney Summer Olympics at the age of 12. She was also the first Olympic female athlete from a Gulf Arab nation. The IOC gave Gerashi a wild card and she was granted permission by her parents to compete in Sydney. S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3200073 | 2,033,707 |
641,060 | In 1845, Hooker applied for the Chair of Botany at the University of Edinburgh. This position included duties at the Royal Botanic Gardens of Scotland, and so the appointment was influenced by local politicians. An unusually protracted struggle ensued, resulting in the election of the locally born and bred botanist, Jo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=364723 | 640,721 |
833,012 | In 1504, Leonardo da Vinci continued his study of the human body with a wax cast of the human ventricle system. In 1536, Nicolo Massa described the effects of different diseases, such as syphilis on the nervous system. He also noticed that the ventricular cavities were filled with cerebrospinal fluid. In 1542, the term... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=374304 | 832,563 |
1,337,304 | Alice Lazzarini "et al" pinpointed a genetic component to PD in 1994. Years earlier, the neurology clinic at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS) had located a family of Italian origin that encompassed at least five generations of more than 400 individuals and at least 60 members with PD, and traced their ancesto... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31035387 | 1,336,573 |
1,870,168 | In 1999, Agbandje-McKenna joined the faculty at University of Florida within the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. She also became a faculty within the Genetics Institute at the University of Florida. In 2005, Agbandje-McKenna was promoted to associate professor, and in 2009, she became a full professor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64209369 | 1,869,091 |
1,902,895 | Just as much as Owen was concerned with the quantity of students at NGC, he was just as concerned with the quality of the student body. Elevating academic standards was a high priority of Owen. He saw a direct positive correlation between the caliber of the faculty and the quality of the students. In the first ten year... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38647111 | 1,901,803 |
751,831 | "Archelon" had a leathery carapace instead of the hard shell seen in sea turtles. The carapace may have featured a row of small ridges, each peaking at in height. It had an especially hooked beak and its jaws were adept at crushing, so it probably ate hard-shelled crustaceans, mollusks, and possibly even sponges, while... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=933173 | 751,429 |
1,531,134 | By the end of the 1990s, the creation of public scientific computing infrastructure became a major policy issue: "The lack of infrastructure to support release and reuse was acknowledged in some of the earliest policy reports on data sharing." The first wave of web-based scientific projects in the 1990s and the early 2... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31915311 | 1,530,268 |
113,965 | Lie groups are of fundamental importance in modern physics: Noether's theorem links continuous symmetries to conserved quantities. Rotation, as well as translations in space and time, are basic symmetries of the laws of mechanics. They can, for instance, be used to construct simple models—imposing, say, axial symmetry ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19447 | 113,920 |
698,704 | Despite the long exposure to degradation under conditions during transport in the water column, and substantially lower concentration of organic matter on the seafloor, there is evidence that planktonic eDNA is preserved in marine sediments and contains exploitable ecological signal. Earlier studies have shown sedaDNA ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46925036 | 698,340 |
1,045,529 | The early 20th century inaugurated a period of systematic critical examination, and rejection of unilineal theories of cultural evolution. Cultural anthropologists such as Franz Boas, typically regarded as the leader of anthropology's rejection of classical social evolutionism, used sophisticated ethnography and more r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2267847 | 1,044,984 |
601,855 | Congress and industry both agreed that the Navy had deviated significantly from the normal process for developing a new aircraft. For nearly three years, companies developed their candidates with company funds based on assumptions about the Navy's requirements without any guidance from the service. The Navy did not iss... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39092723 | 601,546 |
742,467 | The Eldredge and Gould paper was presented at the Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America in 1971. The symposium focused its attention on how modern microevolutionary studies could revitalize various aspects of paleontology and macroevolution. Tom Schopf, who organized that year's meeting, assigned Gould th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24980 | 742,074 |
230,531 | Initially, most of the faculty and students at Lafayette wanted the U.S. to stay out of the conflict in Europe. When President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed the Pan-American Congress, saying that the US had a duty to protect Americans' science, culture, freedom and civilization, thirty-seven Lafayette faculty members... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=573763 | 230,413 |
60,041 | The Two Medicine Formation is typified by a warm semiarid climate. Its layers were deposed on the east coast of the Laramidia island continent (which consisted of western North America). The high cordillera in the west, combined with predominantly western winds, would have caused a rain shadow, limiting annual rainfall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1792493 | 60,016 |
856,276 | Without informing his family, Boelcke applied for a transfer to aviation duty. On 29 May 1914, he was accepted for pilot's training. On 2 June, he began a six-week course of instruction at the (Halberstadt Flying School). He passed his final pilot's exam on 15 August. His first assignment was training 50 neophyte pilot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=193002 | 855,821 |
4,412 | Armstrong met Janet Elizabeth Shearon, who was majoring in home economics, at a party hosted by Alpha Chi Omega. According to the couple, there was no real courtship, and neither could remember the exact circumstances of their engagement. They were married on January 28, 1956, at the Congregational Church in Wilmette, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21247 | 4,410 |
241,246 | The stability of nuclei quickly decreases with the increase in atomic number after curium, element 96, whose half-life is four orders of magnitude longer than that of any subsequent element. All isotopes with an atomic number above 101 undergo radioactive decay with half-lives of less than 30 hours. No elements with at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67611 | 241,126 |
1,953,706 | Gerhard Damköhler was born on 16 March 1908 in Klingenmunster in West Central Germany, the son of a physician. Following the usual primary and gymnasium education, he enrolled in the summer of 1926 at the University of Munich to study chemistry with A. Sommerfeld, graduating five years later summa cum laude with a doct... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40970876 | 1,952,585 |
1,113,988 | ST models include a non-contact optical sensing system, featuring continuous grayscale shutters for each key and optical window style shutters on each hammer. Optical sensors are also used for the damper, soft and sostenuto pedals. This sensor system allows the user to natively capture their own performance in standard... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17188506 | 1,113,422 |
615,722 | The most common fuel electrode material is a Ni doped YSZ. However, high steam partial pressures and low hydrogen partial pressures at the Ni-YSZ interface causes oxidation of the nickel which results in catalyst degradation. Perovskite-type lanthanum strontium manganese (LSM) is also commonly used as a cathode materia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20594810 | 615,408 |
1,083,136 | Z'EV and Einstürzende Neubauten made several percussion instruments out of trash. No Wave artist Glenn Branca began building 3rd bridge zithers with an additional movable bridge positioned on the just intoned knotted positions of the harmonic series. Hans Reichel (born 1949) is a German improvisational guitarist, luthi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6890038 | 1,082,579 |
1,683,170 | There is little doubt, however, that the community of cross-cultural researchers have been remiss in ignoring Galton's problem. Expert investigation of this question shows results that "strongly suggest that the extensive reporting of naïve chi-square independence tests using cross-cultural data sets over the past seve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6298644 | 1,682,227 |
411,304 | Traits are physical, behavioral or adhered human characteristics that have been derived from the way human beings normally distinguish their peers (e.g. height, gender, hair color). They are used to complement the identity information provided by the primary biometric identifiers. Although soft biometric characteristic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=290622 | 411,102 |
763,047 | Some 3,500 papers were received from countries including Canada, India, Israel, Japan, Mexico, Poland, Russia, and the United States, of which 1,700 were from students aged between 5 and 18. The winners were chosen on the basis of the quality and creativity of the work, the appropriateness of the name for a Martian rov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36694809 | 762,639 |
730,884 | The strictly scientific criticism of Davis's zombie project has focused on the claims about the chemical composition of the "zombie powder". Several samples of the powder were analyzed for TTX levels by experts in 1986. They reported that only "insignificant traces of tetrodotoxin [were found] in the samples of 'zombie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1508286 | 730,499 |
810,073 | While there were difficult years for the school after 1939, in the long run Cornish did much more than "tread water". With support from local arts organizations and a core of dedicated faculty and staff, the school ultimately "reinvented" itself many times, and in 1977 earned full accreditation as a degree granting col... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=205960 | 809,642 |
1,918,185 | Early on as an independent investigator, Mrksich developed and executed the concept of "dynamic substrates" for cell culture. Here, self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) present cell adhesive ligands with perfect control over density and orientation against a non-adhesive, inert background, such as ethylene glycol. These mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60816692 | 1,917,085 |
459,797 | formula_2 is a degree three field extension of formula_3, so the points of the Fano plane may be identified with formula_4. The symmetry group may be written formula_5. Similarly, formula_6. There is a relation between the underlying objects, formula_7 and formula_8 called the Cat's Cradle map. Color the seven lines of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=390404 | 459,572 |
114,128 | Former NASA astronaut Terry W. Virts, who was a pilot of STS-130 aboard and commander of the ISS on Expedition 43, wrote in an Op-ed on "Ars Technica" that the Gateway would "shackle human exploration, not enable it". He also said, "If we don't have the goal [of Gateway], we are putting the proverbial chicken before th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53648310 | 114,083 |
398,416 | Following the loss of "Challenger", in 1986 NASA was authorized to begin the procurement process for a replacement orbiter. A major refit of the prototype orbiter "Enterprise" was looked at and rejected on cost grounds, with instead the cache of structural spares that were produced as part of the construction of "Disco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28240 | 398,220 |
724,436 | Critics have doubted both the feasibility of self-replicating nanorobots and the feasibility of control if self-replicating nanorobots could be achieved: they cite the possibility of mutations removing any control and favoring reproduction of mutant pathogenic variations. Advocates address the first doubt by pointing o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19637 | 724,056 |
942,408 | One study followed 89 patients with PD who were treated with unilateral subthalamotomy. Sixty-eight patients were available for evaluations after 12 months, 36 after 24 months, and 25 after 36 months. The Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale motor scores improved significantly and levodopa daily doses were signific... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1874888 | 941,906 |
836,466 | In June 1908, the scientific journal "Nature" published a letter in which Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton, fellow of the Royal Society (UK), discussed how a fully electronic television system could be realized by using cathode ray tubes (or "Braun" tubes, after their inventor, Karl Braun) as both imaging and display de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=516757 | 836,017 |
1,931,734 | Clack is best known for her extensive body of work on early tetrapods, much of which redefined how paleontologists conceived of the evolution of limbs and other features associated with tetrapods' transition from other lobe-finned fishes. She began her career working primarily on the ear of early tetrapods and later ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=371584 | 1,930,626 |
1,304,456 | Neuroscience has led to a deeper understanding of the chemical imbalances present in a disordered brain. In turn, this has resulted in the creation of new treatments and medications to treat these disorders. When these new treatments are first being tested, the experiments prompt ethical questions. First, because the t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=703002 | 1,303,740 |
788,624 | In 1939, West Virginia State College became the first of six historically black colleges to be authorized by the Civil Aeronautics Authority to establish an aviation program. Benefiting from the presence of the Wertz Field airport adjacent to campus, the program prepared many African-American pilots for the U.S. Army A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1245250 | 788,200 |
1,322,651 | Drilling Waste Land Farm Example: In 1995, HS Resources, an oil and gas company operating in Colorado, obtained a permit for a noncommercial land farm to treat and recycle the company's nonhazardous oil field wastes, including drilling muds. At the land farm, wastes mixed with soil contaminated with hydrocarbons from o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5124364 | 1,321,925 |
1,497,784 | The mechanism of action of the cytostatic effects of EMP is complex and only partially understood. EMP is considered to mainly be a mitotic inhibitor, inhibiting mechanisms involved in the mitosis phase of the cell cycle. Specifically, it binds to microtubule-associated proteins and/or to tubulin and produces depolymer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4498159 | 1,496,941 |
26,492 | In September 1941, the United States Army Air Forces' plans for war against Germany and Japan proposed basing the B-29 in Egypt for operations against Germany, as British airbases were likely to be overcrowded. Air Force planning throughout 1942 and early 1943 continued to have the B-29 deployed initially against Germa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53179 | 26,482 |
2,167,247 | As a Professor and Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Lengyel and his research team began to investigate the role of the fallopian tube in ovarian cancer as the cells more closely resemble those in the fallopian tube rather than the ovary. They described a new treatment using stroma which could pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66691443 | 2,166,010 |
2,705 | In 1936, Oppenheimer became involved with Jean Tatlock, the daughter of a Berkeley literature professor and a student at Stanford University School of Medicine. The two had similar political views; she wrote for the "Western Worker", a Communist Party newspaper. In 1939, after a tempestuous relationship, Tatlock broke ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39034 | 2,705 |
2,079,336 | Perhaps the best-developed evolution of the IDEF model beyond Toyota was at Boeing. Their project life-cycle process has grown into a rigorous software system that links people, tasks, tools, materials, and the environmental impact of any newly planned project, before any building is allowed to begin. Routinely, more t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20341886 | 2,078,137 |
540,642 | Since the end of the GDR the University of Greifswald has undergone major construction efforts. Between 1991 and 2007, more than 417 million euros were spent on the careful renovation of historic buildings, as well as on the construction of new sites. For instance, 19th century lecture hall ("auditorium maximum") has b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=614579 | 540,362 |
2,037,247 | In 1823, he produced a proposed layout for the gardens on the Kemp Town estate, a high-class speculative residential development being built east of Brighton by Thomas Read Kemp. This scheme was not implemented, and Read Kemp decided to put iron railings round the open space instead. Five years later, though, Phillips'... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36818458 | 2,036,072 |
1,576,754 | The origins of the NB program are obscure, but design work began during the winter of 1941–42 with the OKB designation of aircraft T. The NB was a high-winged, twin-engined, twin tail monoplane of mixed construction. The fuselage was built of 'shpon', molded birch plywood, thick and was reinforced with a welded steel t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25125104 | 1,575,865 |
1,831,206 | Two Air Commando H-19 pilots received the Silver Star and Distinguished Flying Crosses from an attempted rescue mission described in their citations as "the deepest helicopter penetration of the Korean War". Taking off from Cho-do Island in the early morning hours, Captain Frank J. Westerman and Lieutenant Robert Sulli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18495171 | 1,830,159 |
594,418 | [What is needed] is the scientific approach, the adventurous and yet critical temper of science, the search for truth and new knowledge, the refusal to accept anything without testing and trial, the capacity to change previous conclusions in the face of new evidence, the reliance on observed fact and not on pre-conceiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13433031 | 594,113 |
91,084 | From the late 15th century onward, factorials became the subject of study by western mathematicians. In a 1494 treatise, Italian mathematician Luca Pacioli calculated factorials up to 11!, in connection with a problem of dining table arrangements. Christopher Clavius discussed factorials in a 1603 commentary on the wor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10606 | 91,044 |
691,113 | Joshua Lederberg was the leading exception in emphasizing, as he had for years, the potential benefits. At Asilomar, in an atmosphere favoring control and regulation, he circulated a paper countering the pessimism and fears of misuses with the benefits conferred by successful use. He described "an early chance for a te... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6012335 | 690,750 |
914,525 | In 1953, the first experimental examples were found of rotational bands in nuclei, with their energy levels following the same J(J+1) pattern of energies as in rotating molecules. Quantum mechanically, it is impossible to have a collective rotation of a sphere, so this implied that the shape of these nuclei was nonsphe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50609 | 914,046 |
49,124 | A new volume for the Fantastic Four was released in August 2018, written by Dan Slott, as part of Marvel's Fresh Start event. The first issue of the new series was met with strong sales, and a positive critical reaction. When the Future Foundation is threatened by the Griever at the End of All Things, Mister Fantastic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11664 | 49,104 |
597,763 | Snow cover is an extremely important storage component in the water balance, especially seasonal snowpacks in mountainous areas of the world. Though limited in extent, seasonal snowpacks in the Earth’s mountain ranges account for the major source of the runoff for stream flow and groundwater recharge over wide areas of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47527 | 597,458 |
932,986 | In cars with double wishbone suspensions, camber angle may be fixed or adjustable, but in MacPherson strut suspensions, it is normally fixed. The elimination of an available camber adjustment may reduce maintenance requirements, but if the car is lowered by use of shortened springs, the camber angle will change. Excess... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=234685 | 932,494 |
758,654 | From 1910 to 1940, high schools grew in number and size, reaching out to a broader clientele. In 1910, for example, 9% of Americans had a high school diploma; in 1935, the rate was 40%. By 1940, the number had increased to 50%. This phenomenon was uniquely American; no other nation attempted such widespread coverage. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9083795 | 758,248 |
792,714 | In 1960, specifications for barrier-free design were published. It was a compendium of over 11 years of disability ergonomic research. In 1961, the specifications became the first Barrier Free Design standard called the American National Standard, A1171.1 was published. It was the first standard to present the criteria... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1158081 | 792,289 |
870,456 | Given the platform's presence in education, various educational word processing and publishing applications were available. Longman Logotron supplied a "cost-effective introduction to DTP" in the form of FirstPage, retailing at £49 plus VAT with "unlimited" educational site licences costing up to £190. Targeting machin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63145 | 869,996 |
1,092,914 | The Molecular Kink Paradigm proceeds from the intuitive notion that molecular chains that make up a natural rubber (polyisoprene) network are constrained by surrounding chains to remain within a ‘tube’. Elastic forces produced in a chain, as a result of some applied strain, are propagated along the chain contour within... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7623862 | 1,092,354 |
67,806 | Syria is a state party to the NPT since 1969 and has a limited civil nuclear program. Before the advent of the Syrian Civil War it was known to operate only one small Chinese-built research reactor, SRR-1. Despite being a proponent of a Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone in the Middle East the country was accused of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22107 | 67,780 |
808,284 | Air pressure, with normal partial pressures of oxygen (21%), carbon dioxide and nitrogen (78%), is a basic requirement of any space habitat. Basically, most space habitat designs concepts envision large, thin-walled pressure vessels. The required oxygen could be obtained from lunar rock. Nitrogen is most easily availab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=140282 | 807,854 |
1,296,364 | Limitations in the ability of humans to vigilantly monitor video surveillance live footage led to the demand for artificial intelligence that could better serve the task. Humans watching a single video monitor for more than twenty minutes lose 95% of their ability to maintain attention sufficient to discern significant... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48653319 | 1,295,653 |
377,018 | Classified within the arthropods, isopods have a chitinous exoskeleton and jointed limbs. Isopods are typically flattened dorsoventrally (broader than they are deep), although many species deviate from this rule, particularly parasitic forms, and those living in the deep sea or in ground water habitats. Their colour ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=724161 | 376,823 |
803,816 | Why have metazoan replication origins diverged from the DNA sequence-specific recognition paradigm that determines replication start sites in prokaryotes and budding yeast? Observations that metazoan origins often co-localize with promoter regions in "Drosophila" and mammalian cells and that replication-transcription c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=619137 | 803,387 |
576,836 | In parallel to these developments, a similar approach was designed for a linear particle accelerator or Linac. Installation of the first 4 MeV clinical linear accelerator began in June 1952 in the Medical Research Council (MRC) Radiotherapeutic Research Unit at the Hammersmith Hospital, London. The system was handed ov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1172094 | 576,540 |
399,511 | In late 2008, an all-new seven-speed longitudinal S tronic version of the DSG transaxle went into series production (Volkswagen Group internal code: DL501, parts code prefix: 0B5). Initially, from early 2009, it is only used in certain Audi cars, and only with longitudinally mounted engines. Like the original six-speed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1549949 | 399,313 |
1,623,284 | Emulation has been researched in a diverse range of species, including humans. The methodology most often applied is the so-called ghost-condition – put forward by Cecilia Heyes and colleagues in 1994. Ghost condition demonstrations do not involve any information on body movements. Instead, the parts of the apparatus m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19356049 | 1,622,368 |
19,645 | While many recent studies have concluded that psilocybin can cause mystical-type experiences having substantial and sustained personal meaning and spiritual significance, not all the medical community agree. Paul R. McHugh, formerly director of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Johns Hopkins, respo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38468 | 19,637 |
326,301 | Despite these similarities, there are a number of important differences from medieval Europe. One obvious difference is that the Zhou ruled from walled cities rather than castles. Another was China's distinct class system, which lacked an organized clergy but saw Shang-descent yeomen become masters of ritual and ceremo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43464 | 326,127 |
1,010,732 | MicroProse UK graphics artists John Reitze and Martin Smillie provided what MicroProse described as "popular 'manga' look and feel" visuals. Julian Gollop credited Reitze with "a distinctive comic book style" and Smillie with "very detailed environment graphics". John Broomhall composed the music while Andrew Parton ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=668164 | 1,010,211 |
460,301 | Shortly after the end of World War II a new concept of turbojet fighters would emerge. The F-84 Thunderjet which Kartveli had already developed in 1944, was going into serial production in 1946. Soon he would also add the swept-wing variant Republic F-84F Thunderstreak. A total of 10,000 of these new generation aircraf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=442516 | 460,075 |
1,487,011 | Understanding genetic and phenotypic divergence across populations of varying species is important in elucidating ecological and evolutionary differences among populations. One such study where genetic structure among human individuals is investigated is by Relethford and Brennan, (1982) where pedigree and marriage dat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24629030 | 1,486,173 |
612,551 | Fire behavior is different in every ecosystem and the organisms in those ecosystems have adapted accordingly. One sweeping generality is that in all ecosystems, fire creates a mosaic of different habitat patches, with areas ranging from those having just been burned to those that have been untouched by fire for many ye... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1924100 | 612,240 |
985,486 | Bivalve shellfish recycle nutrients that enter waterways from human and agricultural sources. Nutrient bioextraction is "an environmental management strategy by which nutrients are removed from an aquatic ecosystem through the harvest of enhanced biological production, including the aquaculture of suspension-feeding sh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=377720 | 984,972 |
1,428,116 | At the same time that Brown was campaigning against alternating current a New York state bill replacing hanging with electrocution was signed into law (June 4, 1888) and set to go into effect on January 1, 1889. A Buffalo, New York dentist named Alfred P. Southwick had been developing a method using a device similar to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=301985 | 1,427,312 |
1,097,998 | From the perspective of evolutionary psychology the experiences and behaviors associated with love can be investigated in terms of how they have been shaped by human evolution. For example, it has been suggested that human language has been selected during evolution as a type of "mating signal" that allows potential ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4318932 | 1,097,438 |
1,500,039 | Although other reflectivity techniques (in particular optical reflectivity, x-ray reflectometry) operate using the same general principles, neutron measurements are advantageous in a few significant ways. Most notably, since the technique probes nuclear contrast, rather than electron density, it is more sensitive for m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6093957 | 1,499,194 |
337,039 | Su-30MKI aerodynamic configuration is a longitudinal triplane with relaxed stability. The canard increases the aircraft lift ability and deflects automatically to allow high angle of attack (AoA) flights allowing it to perform Pugachev's Cobra. The integral aerodynamic configuration combined with thrust vectoring resul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3793034 | 336,860 |
954,165 | Another example, the potentiometric biosensor, (potential produced at zero current) gives a logarithmic response with a high dynamic range. Such biosensors are often made by screen printing the electrode patterns on a plastic substrate, coated with a conducting polymer and then some protein (enzyme or antibody) is atta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=480700 | 953,660 |
279,685 | Nevertheless, Goddard had some influence on European rocketry pioneers like Hermann Oberth and his student Max Valier, at least as proponent of the idea of space rocketry and source of inspiration, although each side developed their technology and its scientific basis independently. In Europe the rocketeers were mainly... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=210597 | 279,535 |
516,511 | DRDO is working on a slew of directed energy weapons (DEWs). LASTEC has identified DEWs, along with space security, cyber-security and hypersonic vehicles as focus areas in the next 15 years. The aim is to develop laser-based weapons, deployed on airborne as well as seaborne platforms, which can intercept missiles soon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70364617 | 516,242 |
1,780,573 | On Selection Sunday, Gonzaga received a one seed in the 2013 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament for the first time in school history and was set to play Southern on March 21 at EnergySolutions Arena in Salt Lake City, Utah. The Jaguars previously played against the Bulldogs in an opening game for the 2010–11 s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36171940 | 1,779,569 |
94,391 | The abundances of the noble gases in the universe decrease as their atomic numbers increase. Helium is the most common element in the universe after hydrogen, with a mass fraction of about 24%. Most of the helium in the universe was formed during Big Bang nucleosynthesis, but the amount of helium is steadily increasing... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21140 | 94,350 |
472,172 | The "Wizardry" series was created for the Apple II at roughly the same time, in 1981. "Wizardry" featured a 3D, first-person view, an intuitive interface, party-based combat, and pre-constructed levels that encouraged players to draw their own maps. It allowed players to import characters from previous games, albeit wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32408640 | 471,936 |
1,484,234 | Tyr-Recombinases are reversible, while the Ser-Integrase is unidirectional. Of note is the way reversible Flp (a Tyr recombinase) integration/resolution is modulated by 48 bp (in place of 34 bp minimal) "FRT" versions: the extra 13 bp arm serves as a Flp "landing path" contributing to the formation of the synaptic comp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4385154 | 1,483,397 |
1,293,078 | Kernel Flow is a wearable time-domain functional near-infrared spectroscopy (TD-fNIRS) system which Kernel started demoing in spring 2021. fNIRs uses infrared light to measure changes in the oxygenation of blood, which is a proxy for neural activity. Kernel Flow is capable of achieving a 200 Hz sampling rate which is m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53691837 | 1,292,367 |
518,690 | The utricle contains mechanoreceptors called hair cells that distinguish between degrees of tilting of the head, thanks to their apical stereocilia set-up. These are covered by otoliths which, due to gravity, pull on the stereocilia and tilt them. Depending on whether the tilt is in the direction of the kinocilium or n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=534487 | 518,421 |
257,251 | Within the virtual galaxy, the player can explore some 400 billion star systems complete with planets and moons that rotate and orbit in real time, reflecting dynamic day-night cycles. Around 150,000 of the game's star systems are taken from real astronomical data, while a few partially fictional planetary systems, whi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1895977 | 257,117 |
185,874 | Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic debilitating demyelinating disease of the central nervous system, caused by an autoimmune attack resulting in the progressive loss of myelin sheath on neuronal axons. The resultant decrease in the speed of signal transduction leads to a loss of functionality that includes both cogni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4464817 | 185,777 |
1,500,596 | The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology has its origins in a 1983 meeting in which chancellor John E. Cribbet, Theodore L. Brown, Mort Weir, Lewis Barron and Ned Goldwasser strategized about approaching private sources to fund new large-scale science projects and centers on the University of Illinois ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1268483 | 1,499,751 |
1,881,411 | CO gases are only one of the most common gases to enter the atmosphere and circulate within several natural cycles essential to the preservation of life on a daily basis; however, there are a plethora of other harmful emissions that can be produced by industrial activity. These gaseous molecules negatively affect the p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59393212 | 1,880,330 |
899,548 | Among the most prominent New College graduates are William Dudley, former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Ambassador Nancy McEldowney, National Security Advisor to Vice President Harris; University of Pennsylvania law professor and vice provost Anita L. Allen, named to the Presidential Commission for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=415907 | 899,073 |
259,199 | The first F-101A was delivered on 2 May 1957 to the 27th Strategic Fighter Wing, which transferred to TAC in July that year, replacing their F-84F Thunderstreak. The F-101A was powered by two Pratt & Whitney J57-P-13 turbojets, allowing good acceleration, climb-performance, ease in penetrating the sound barrier in leve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=222857 | 259,065 |
1,346,215 | The successful test of an atomic bomb represented an extraordinary scientific and technological achievement. Britain became the world's third nuclear power, reaffirming its status as a great power, but hopes that the United States would be sufficiently impressed to restore the Special Relationship were soon dashed. On ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52018264 | 1,345,474 |
148,656 | "Spacewar!" was extremely popular in the small programming community in the 1960s and was widely recreated on other minicomputer and mainframe computers of the time before migrating to early microcomputer systems in the 1970s. Just as it was during development, the game was public domain and the code was available to a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5482854 | 148,595 |
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