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916,554 | Upon discovery, Owen presumed that "Gorgonops" and several other taxa he described from the Karoo Supergroup were cold-blooded reptiles, despite bearing teeth resembling those of carnivorous mammals. He proposed classifying all of them under the newly coined order Theriodontia (which he placed in the class Reptilia). H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3705573 | 916,072 |
1,269,720 | The WRZ and SHZ are associated with the "southern Washington Cascades conductor" (SWCC), a formation of enhanced electrical conductivity lying roughly between Riffe Lake and Mounts St. Helens, Adams, and Rainier, with a lobe extending north (outlined in yellow, right). This formation, up to 15 km thick, is largely buri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27651043 | 1,269,029 |
2,021,077 | Grainyhead-like genes are a family of highly conserved transcription factors that are functionally and structurally homologous across a large number of vertebrate and invertebrate species. For an estimated 100 million years or more, this genetic family has been evolving alongside life to fine tune the regulation of epi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63194019 | 2,019,914 |
2,126,756 | Founded in 1889 in South Carolina, Clemson University has committed to reducing greenhouse emissions by 20 percent on campus by the year 2020 from 2000 levels as part of their adopted sustainable energy policy in 2008. As part of their plan to further reduce gas emissions, Clemson has adopted a Sustainable Building Pol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33630916 | 2,125,535 |
118,834 | Collaborative problem solving is about people working together face-to-face or in online workspaces with a focus on solving real world problems. These groups are made up of members that share a common concern, a similar passion, and/or a commitment to their work. Members are willing to ask questions, wonder, and try to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1467948 | 118,787 |
1,450,181 | The years immediately following the American Civil War were a difficult time for the academy as it struggled to admit and reintegrate cadets from former Confederate states. The first cadets from Southern states were re-admitted in 1868, and 1870 saw the admission of the first African-American cadet, James Webster Smith... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20793344 | 1,449,365 |
1,111,813 | A "biopsy" is a small piece of tissue removed primarily for the purposes of surgical pathology analysis, most often in order to render a definitive diagnosis. Types of biopsies include "core biopsies", which are obtained through the use of large-bore needles, sometimes under the guidance of radiological techniques such... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9971598 | 1,111,247 |
2,070,831 | This experiment was designed to map the sources of X-ray emission in the sky in the 0.5 - 15-A region. The detector, mounted on the side of the spacecraft, was a large-area proportional counter mounted to point radially outward from the spin axis, which pointed continually toward the sun. The detector window was made o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57721944 | 2,069,640 |
1,056,542 | The single most important clinical advance over the past 15 years has been the application of BNCT to treat patients with recurrent tumors of the head and neck region who had failed all other therapy. These studies were first initiated by Kato et al. in Japan. and subsequently followed by several other Japanese groups ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32637211 | 1,055,994 |
1,208,064 | Not all isolated populations will show evidence of genetic drift. Genetic homogeneity can be attributed to one of two explanations, both of which indicate that natal philopatry is not absolute within a species. Firstly, a lack of divergence may be due to founder effects, which explains how individuals that start new po... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2988185 | 1,207,418 |
1,452,074 | "B. affinis" requires three different types of habitats (each for foraging, nesting, and hibernating) which are geographically close to one another, making this species particularly vulnerable to extinction. It requires a temperate climate, and can even withstand cold temperatures that most species of bumblebees cannot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40570605 | 1,451,257 |
1,276,219 | Before graduating from high school in June 1941, Ovshinsky worked as a teacher, tool maker and machinist in various local shops affiliated with the rubber industry. During the Second World War, he and his bride, Norma Rifkin, moved to Arizona, where Ovshinsky worked for a time in the tool room of a Goodyear plant in Li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2785878 | 1,275,526 |
700,106 | The exponential growth of the city during the industrial revolution of the 19th century, in addition to the efforts of the then President of Peru Manuel Pardo to improve the city's architecture and urban planning during the 1870s, forced the university to move to a new campus adjacent to the former Jesuit monastery whe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1070670 | 699,741 |
1,977,898 | The DASS engine is a pre-cooled combined cycle propulsion concept that can produce thrust over a wide range of vehicle flight Mach numbers (rest to hypersonic). Derivatives of the engine can be used for propulsion of an SSTO vehicle, long-range missiles, and hypersonic transport aircraft. The engine is being developed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43208165 | 1,976,760 |
1,627,050 | Homeostatic plasticity manages synaptic connections across the entire cell in an attempt to keep them at manageable connection levels. Hebbian methods tend to drive networks into either a maximized state or a minimized state of firing, thus limiting the potential activity and growth of the network. With homeostatic mec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5064345 | 1,626,132 |
10,015 | Meanwhile, there were two lines of research into nuclear reactor technology, with Harold Urey continuing research into heavy water at Columbia, while Arthur Compton brought the scientists working under his supervision from Columbia, California and Princeton University to join his team at the University of Chicago, wher... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19603 | 10,011 |
2,021,352 | Interdisciplinarity was a defining feature of the department that drew expertise from diverse intellectual and scientific sources. Its mission to conduct interdisciplinary and integrative developmental science to understand the growing person in a changing world was carried out in three interrelated core areas - Law an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69668821 | 2,020,189 |
797,565 | The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution employs a vehicle called the Sentry, which is designed to map the ocean floor at depths of six thousand meters. The vehicle is shaped to minimize water resistance during dives, and utilized acoustic communications systems to report the vehicles status while operating. Unmanned u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4778319 | 797,140 |
338,068 | In late 1969 Elliot Berman joined Exxon's task force which was looking for projects 30 years in the future and in April 1973 he founded Solar Power Corporation (SPC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Exxon at that time. The group had concluded that electrical power would be much more expensive by 2000, and felt that this i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2352910 | 337,888 |
980,612 | Progress during the war was rapid and of great importance, probably one of the decisive factors for the victory of the Allies. A key development was the magnetron in the UK, which allowed the creation of relatively small systems with sub-meter resolution. By the end of hostilities, Britain, Germany, the United States, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1280053 | 980,100 |
1,286,329 | Novaro et al. (2000) assessed the potential ecological extinction of guanacos ("Lama guanicoe") and lesser rheas ("Pterocnemia pennata") as a prey source for native omnivores and predators in the Argentine Patagonia. These native species are being replaced by introduced species such as the European rabbit, red deer, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11409359 | 1,285,628 |
306,225 | begins in 2029, and features Section 9, led by Chief Daisuke Aramaki and Major Motoko Kusanagi, as they investigate the Puppeteer, a cyber-criminal wanted for committing a large number of crimes by proxy through "ghost hacking" humans with cyberbrains. As the investigation continues, Section 9 discovers that the Puppet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3271673 | 306,061 |
417,319 | Reintroduction biology is a relatively young discipline and continues to be a work in progress. No strict and accepted definition of reintroduction success exists, but it has been proposed that the criteria widely used to assess the conservation status of endangered taxa, such as the IUCN Red List criteria, should be u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=477117 | 417,116 |
1,807,491 | PfSPZ vaccines are cryopreserved and stored in LNVP freezers below -150 °C and distributed using dry vapor cryoshippers that also maintain temperature below -150 °C. Cryoshippers are self-contained mobile storage units that have hold times of ~14 to 28 days or more depending on model and packaging and are highly suited... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43793051 | 1,806,472 |
892,741 | There are two nearly complete braincases known from "Kentrosaurus" though they exhibit some taphonomic distortion. The frontals and parietals are flat and broad, with the latter bearing two transversely concave ventral sides with a ridge running down the middle that divides them. The lateral surface of the frontals for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1005294 | 892,272 |
2,053,488 | Studies show that the causes of heart disease differ greatly between humans and chimpanzees. In this study, the scientists provided some new data and summarized existing reports on the subject. They also allow other primitives to have limited data, suggesting that they are more like chimpanzees in this respect. In gene... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60770250 | 2,052,306 |
1,178,117 | Franklin decided to study science because she went to school during a time when the teaching of history was censored. "I remember a real subversive pleasure," she told an interviewer many years later, "that there was no word of authority that could change either the laws of physics or the conduct of mathematics." In 19... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1094203 | 1,177,493 |
832,256 | In November 1961, Eva Hesse married fellow sculptor Tom Doyle. In August 1962, Eva Hesse and Tom Doyle participated in an Allan Kaprow Happening at the Art Students League of New York in Woodstock, New York. There Hesse made her first three-dimensional piece: a costume for the Happening. In 1963, Eva Hesse had a one-pe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2508428 | 831,807 |
1,674,310 | St. Martin's Engineering college (UGC Autonomous) is promoted and managed under St. Martin's Children's Educational Society (SMCES) that was established in the year 1982. It was started with a school having student strength of 42. As of today, the society has wide spread into four branches from where more than 7,000 st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23990873 | 1,673,368 |
265,991 | In addition to the field geology training, Young and Duke also trained to use their EVA space suits, adapt to the reduced lunar gravity, collect samples, and drive the Lunar Roving Vehicle. The fact that they had been backups for Apollo 13, planned to be a landing mission, meant that they could spend about 40 percent o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1970 | 265,847 |
1,338,361 | Due to a strong human presence and impact, sustainable landscape architecture is more important now than it has ever been. Tools within the built environment, such as natural filters, climate control tactics and reconciliation ecology are recommended to sustain the planet. This requires a combination of both Eastern an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5285068 | 1,337,628 |
397,187 | Nearly all adult tunicates are suspension feeders (the larval form usually does not feed), capturing planktonic particles by filtering sea water through their bodies. Ascidians are typical in their digestive processes, but other tunicates have similar systems. Water is drawn into the body through the buccal siphon by t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=378598 | 396,991 |
841,141 | Prior to the cognitive revolution, behaviorism was the dominant trend in psychology in the United States. Behaviorists were interested in "learning," which was seen as "the novel association of stimuli with responses." Animal experiments played a significant role in behaviorist research, and prominent behaviorist J. B.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2210064 | 840,691 |
1,379,277 | Ancient Greek mathematicians are known to have solved specific instances of polynomial equations with the use of straightedge and compass constructions, which simultaneously gave a geometric proof of the solution's correctness. Once a construction was completed, the answer could be found by measuring the length of a ce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16266307 | 1,378,515 |
1,350,641 | Molecular mechanisms produce specialized metabolites in various ways. Biosynthetic Gene Clusters (BGCs) attract attention, since several metabolites are clinically valuable, anti-microbial, anti-fungal, anti-parasitic, anti-tumor and immunosuppressive agents produced by the modular action of multi-enzymatic, multi-doma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53970843 | 1,349,895 |
583,074 | In a typical undergraduate program for physics majors, required courses are in the sub-disciplines of physics, with additional required courses in mathematics. Because much of the insight of physics is described by differential equations relating matter, space, and time (for example Newton's law of motion and the Maxwe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33615960 | 582,775 |
1,907,858 | PT-DBCL is by far the most common form of testicular cancer in men >60 years of age. It usually develops in this age group (median age ~65 years old, range 10–96 years) and presents as a painless testicular mass or swelling in one testis or, in ~6% of cases, both testes: PT-DLBCL is the most common testicular cancer to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63040871 | 1,906,762 |
5,013 | The story was well praised. Nick Plessas of "Electronic Gaming Monthly" ("EGM") said the story's most memorable moments were the interactions between Kratos and Atreus. He also noted, "there is often some comic relief to be found when Kratos's curtness and Atreus' charming naivety collide." He felt the presence of Atre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50810460 | 5,010 |
1,718,251 | Treatment for femoral dysfunction comes in several ways depending on the symptoms of the patient. This includes dealing with the underlying causes, lifestyle remedies, medications, physical therapy and surgery. In order to relieve minor symptoms, patients are to deal with the underlying cause and make changes to their ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67272105 | 1,717,281 |
517,614 | Perhaps his most significant engineering failure, as noted by division chief Yuri Demyanko, was his insistence that hydrogen fuel was unsuitable for use as a rocket fuel. As a result, the Soviet space program was still discussing the use of hydrogen-fueled engines while the Americans were assembling the Saturn V launch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=957500 | 517,345 |
1,937,698 | James Mackenzie was born at Pictonhill in Scone, where his father was a farmer. He left school at Perth Academy aged 14 and was apprenticed to a chemist. In 1873 he was offered a partnership in the chemist's firm but turned it down in order to study medicine. After private tuition in Latin he passed his entrance examin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14892699 | 1,936,590 |
1,516,802 | Pedro Berrizbeitia (born in Caracas on December 11, 1959). He received his bachelor's degree in mathematics from Simón Bolívar University in 1981 and his doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1986. He is Professor of the Department of Pure Mathematics And Applied Sciences of the Simón Bolívar Univ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29302481 | 1,515,950 |
800,998 | As stated above, there are three different doctoral degrees for school psychology, PhD., Psy.D., and Ed.D. Career options for those with a PhD. may include being a school psychologist with a license at any level (preschool, primary, secondary or after), a professor for school psychology graduate students and/or screeni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=482388 | 800,570 |
155,662 | In a preliminary draft during the early planning stages of the animated series, staff suggested the existence of two ancient prehistoric civilizations that appeared on Earth before humans, both of whom were equipped with advanced technologies. The Evangelions in the original scenario would have been created by the firs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=577372 | 155,591 |
433,017 | Russell and Burch writing six decades ago could not have anticipated some of the technologies that have emerged today. One of these technologies, 3D cell cultures, also known as organoids or mini-organs, have replaced animal models for some types of research. In recent years, scientists have produced organoids that can... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40251468 | 432,804 |
2,059,482 | Bob White is also a Fellow of St Edmund's College, Cambridge, prior to which he was a student and Research Fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. A Fellow of the Geological Society, and a member of the American Geophysical Union and several other professional bodies; he serves on numerous of their committees. He leads ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10189113 | 2,058,296 |
481,475 | In 2022, the faculty offers nine [[bachelor]]'s (BA, BSc) and eight [[master]]'s (MA, MSc) [[degree]]s. [[Student]]s can choose from a wide range of [[higher education]] [[course]]s - [[technical]] [[higher]] [[education]], [[television]] [[programme]] [[production]] - and further [[education course]]s, while the [[Bre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2519422 | 481,231 |
750,704 | In 1949, Dart recommended splitting a presumed-female facial fragment from Makapansgat, South Africa, (MLD 2) into a new species as ""A. prometheus"". In 1954, he referred another presumed-female specimen from Makapansgat (a jawbone fragment). However, in 1953, South African palaeontologist John Talbot Robinson believe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1627000 | 750,306 |
552,291 | Zinc is somewhat less dense than iron and has a hexagonal crystal structure. The metal is hard and brittle at most temperatures but becomes malleable between . Above , the metal becomes brittle again and can be pulverized by beating. Zinc is a fair conductor of electricity. For a metal, zinc has relatively low melting ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=487510 | 552,002 |
359,071 | Antioxidant polymer stabilizers are widely used to prevent the degradation of polymers such as rubbers, plastics and adhesives that causes a loss of strength and flexibility in these materials. Polymers containing double bonds in their main chains, such as natural rubber and polybutadiene, are especially susceptible to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3277 | 358,885 |
826,977 | DNA and other macromolecules determine an organism's life cycle: birth, growth, maturity, decline, and death. Nutrition is necessary but not sufficient to account for growth in size, as genetics is the governing factor. At some point, virtually all organisms normally decline and die even while remaining in environments... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7815174 | 826,533 |
911,585 | The broad history of health informatics has been captured in the book "UK Health Computing: Recollections and reflections", Hayes G, Barnett D (Eds.), BCS (May 2008) by those active in the field, predominantly members of BCS Health and its constituent groups. The book describes the path taken as 'early development of h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=351581 | 911,106 |
728,204 | Tavistock broke new ground in other ways, by meshing general medicine and psychiatry with Freudian and Jungian psychology and the social sciences to help the British army face various human resource problems. This gave rise to a field of scholarly research and professional intervention loosely known as psychosociology,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2819542 | 727,820 |
399,222 | The European Union and the European Space Agency agreed in March 2002 to fund the project, pending a review in 2003 (which was completed on 26 May 2003). The starting cost for the period ending in 2005 is estimated at €1.1 billion. The required satellites (the planned number is 30) were to be launched between 2011 and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13009 | 399,024 |
1,220,410 | Samsung Aerospace (SSA) would become the second Korean company involved in the aerospace industry. SSA was originally specialized in manufacturing aircraft engines. This contrasted Korean Air who focused on aircraft assembly and maintenance. Both would become strong rivals who monopolized their own respective fields. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66301957 | 1,219,756 |
1,132,656 | James Lovelock argued that the Viking mission would have done better to examine the Martian atmosphere than look at the soil. He theorised that all life tends to expel waste gases into the atmosphere, and as such it would be possible to theorise the existence of life on a planet by detecting an atmosphere that was not ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1072959 | 1,132,064 |
1,377,908 | McMullen was involved in the purchase of one further professional team with the Colorado Rockies. The Rockies were intended to move out of Colorado before McMullen bought the team, but a flurry of sales complicated things. Arthur Imperatore Sr. had bought the team in 1978 and planned to move them to East Rutherford, Ne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6891489 | 1,377,146 |
961,759 | The ability to view and characterize different neural cells including microglia began in 1880 when Nissl staining was developed by Franz Nissl. Franz Nissl and William Ford Robertson first described microglial cells during their histology experiments. The cell staining techniques in the 1880s showed that microglia are ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1552187 | 961,250 |
5,276 | David Dunning and Justin Kruger published the initial study in 1999 under the title "Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments". It examines the performance and self-assessment of undergraduate students of introductory courses in psychology in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2288777 | 5,273 |
241,878 | Salam had a prolific research career in theoretical and high-energy physics. Salam had worked on theory of the neutrino – an elusive particle that was first postulated by Wolfgang Pauli in the 1930s. Salam introduced chiral symmetry in the theory of neutrinos. The introduction of chiral symmetry played crucial role in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=304427 | 241,752 |
82,654 | Californian congressman Duncan D. Hunter wrote that the purchase of 55 LCS units was made at the cost of 10 fewer amphibious vessels. Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps, General Joseph Dunford said in 2011 that the LCS is one of the platforms under consideration to help close the gap in amphibious shipping. In Au... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=460005 | 82,620 |
1,467,766 | BAFF is a 285-amino acid long peptide glycoprotein which undergoes glycosylation at residue 124. It is expressed as a membrane-bound type II transmembrane protein on various cell types including monocytes, dendritic cells and bone marrow stromal cells. The transmembrane form can be cleaved from the membrane, generating... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10805442 | 1,466,943 |
15,724 | The theory of computation concerns abstract models of computation and general classes of problems that can be solved using them. The fields of cryptography and computer security involve studying the means for secure communication and for preventing security vulnerabilities. Computer graphics and computational geometry ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5323 | 15,719 |
1,156,908 | Nanotechnology is impacting the field of consumer goods, several products that incorporate nanomaterials are already in a variety of items; many of which people do not even realize contain nanoparticles, products with novel functions ranging from easy-to-clean to scratch-resistant. Examples of that car bumpers are made... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7067473 | 1,156,297 |
1,814,504 | The operational concept of EBF is to build a near-net-shape metal part directly from a computer-aided design (CAD) file. Current computer-aided machining practices start with a CAD model and use a post-processor to write the machining instructions (G-code) defining the cutting tool paths needed to make the part. EBF us... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23608428 | 1,813,470 |
745,426 | In 1870, Rudolf Clausius delivered the lecture "On a Mechanical Theorem Applicable to Heat" to the Association for Natural and Medical Sciences of the Lower Rhine, following a 20-year study of thermodynamics. The lecture stated that the mean vis viva of the system is equal to its virial, or that the average kinetic ene... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32664 | 745,032 |
1,130,797 | Although individuals between cycles are generally healthy and symptoms tend to improve in adulthood, it is advised avoiding activities prone to injuries, to have regular oral and dental care, and BCG vaccine to be avoided. It is advised monitoring white blood cells several times a year. The treatment following the symp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2317059 | 1,130,208 |
118,720 | Following the resignation of Mell in 1910 former Clemson Tigers football coach Walter Riggs became president of Clemson from 1910 to 1924. The Holtzendorff Hall, originally the Holzendorff YMCA, was built in 1914 designed by Rudolph E. Lee of the first graduating class of Clemson in 1896. In 1915 Riggs Field was dedica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=147456 | 118,673 |
634,454 | TASC sought a judicial review of the East Suffolk Council's decision to grant planning permission in September 2019 for preparatory works on the site, which would involve the felling of 229 trees as well as the demolition of buildings on the Sizewell B site. The group claimed that the decision was unlawful and that pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64508802 | 634,116 |
1,007,492 | Until the 1970s, the design of towns and cities took little account of the needs of people with disabilities. At that time, disabled people began to form movements demanding recognition of their potential contribution if social obstacles were removed. Disabled people challenged the 'medical model' of disability which s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50345 | 1,006,972 |
2,110,158 | PGH differs from common PGD methods such as fluorescence "in situ" hybridization (FISH) and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for two primary reasons. First, rather than focusing on the genetic makeup of an embryo PGH compares the genome of affected and unaffected members of previous generations. This examination of gene... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5630419 | 2,108,944 |
2,187,389 | The motto of the German-Egyptian Year of Science and Technology was 'Linking Scientific Masterminds'. It was jointly launched by the Research Ministers of both countries on 15 January 2007 in Cairo. Its aim was to bring together scientists, initiate joint research projects and launch bilateral research projects that wo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40565294 | 2,186,141 |
1,886,299 | Thomas and Nell Lafferre Hall is the main building of the MU College of Engineering, with F. Robert and Patricia Naka Hall and Engineering Building North providing additional classroom, laboratory and office space. Lafferre Hall has been named for College of Engineering alumnus Thomas Lafferre and his wife, Nell, since... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35931597 | 1,885,217 |
989,465 | As the aircraft fuselage and control surfaces will also add drag and possibly some lift, it is fair to consider the L/D of the aircraft as a whole. As it turns out, the glide ratio, which is the ratio of an (unpowered) aircraft's forward motion to its descent, is (when flown at constant speed) numerically equal to the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=293639 | 988,948 |
2,189,129 | "Aspergillus alabamensis" is able to cause aspergillosis, although this species is rarely differentiated from the morphologically similar "A. terreus" because morphological studies are routinely used to identify and distinguish different clinical Aspergilli. The adoption of DNA sequence-based analysis of critical genes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52734204 | 2,187,880 |
600,345 | Previously nanocapsules containing herbicides have been reported to effectively penetrate through cuticles and tissues, allowing the slow and constant release of the active substances. Likewise, other literature describes that nano-encapsulated slow release of fertilizers has also become a trend to save fertilizer cons... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2154572 | 600,039 |
512,532 | Saturday's afternoon one hour qualifying session saw each driver limited to twelve laps, with the starting order decided by their fastest laps. During this session, the 107% rule was in effect, which necessitated each driver set a time within 107 per cent of the quickest lap to qualify for the race. The session was hel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1123405 | 512,266 |
133,306 | Modern geology, like modern chemistry, gradually evolved during the 18th and early 19th centuries. Benoît de Maillet and the Comte de Buffon saw the Earth as much older than the 6,000 years envisioned by biblical scholars. Jean-Étienne Guettard and Nicolas Desmarest hiked central France and recorded their observations ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14400 | 133,253 |
1,399,401 | Rolls-Royce began developing a lightweight military Wankel Diesel engine for the MoD in 1964. Fritz Feller was the leading engineer of the project. Soon, it became obvious that a regular Wankel engine would not be suitable for the high compression ratio needed for compression ignition, which led to the idea of using an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59593680 | 1,398,626 |
360,819 | All armies soon deployed AA guns often based on their smaller field pieces, notably the French 75 mm and Russian 76.2 mm, typically simply propped up on some sort of embankment to get the muzzle pointed skyward. The British Army adopted the 13-pounder quickly producing new mountings suitable for AA use, the 13-pdr QF 6... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=146640 | 360,631 |
77,761 | The principle of relativity, which states that physical laws have the same form in each inertial reference frame, dates back to Galileo, and was incorporated into Newtonian physics. However, in the late 19th century, the existence of electromagnetic waves led some physicists to suggest that the universe was filled with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26962 | 77,732 |
167,561 | Because the results of calculations based on Teller's concept were discouraging, many scientists believed it could not lead to a successful weapon, while others had moral and economic grounds for not proceeding. Consequently, several senior people of the Manhattan Project opposed development, including Bethe and Oppenh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41531 | 167,474 |
1,980,679 | His work with the New York City Municipal Board of Health led to a number of important sanitary reforms in the city. When he began his services on the Board of Health in 1866, 53 out of every 100 deaths in the city were children under the age of 5. He implemented major reforms to improve infant nutrition, including sto... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12611495 | 1,979,541 |
1,002,446 | Gammaproteobacteria are widely distributed and abundant in various ecosystems such as soil, freshwater lakes and rivers, oceans and salt lakes. For example, Gammaproteobacteria constitute about 6–20% (average of 14%) of bacterioplankton in different oceans; plus, current researches have revealed their worldwide propaga... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9090953 | 1,001,928 |
1,517,475 | One of the leading groups in academy for creating ion-trap MMS is Prof. Graham Cooks with his associate Professor Zheng Ouyang at Purdue University. They have built a series of mini mass spectrometer based on quadrupole ion trap called Mini 10, Mini 11, Mini 12. The group used Mini 10 mass spectrometer weighing 10 kg t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45249739 | 1,516,623 |
1,165,980 | Bowlby was influenced by the beginnings of the object relations school of psychoanalysis and in particular, Melanie Klein, although he profoundly disagreed with the psychoanalytic belief then prevalent that saw infants' responses as relating to their internal fantasy life rather than to real life events. As Bowlby bega... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18756845 | 1,165,363 |
485,518 | A high LPC score suggests that the leader has a "human relations orientation", while a low LPC score indicates a "task orientation". Fiedler assumes that everybody's least preferred coworker in fact is on average about equally unpleasant. But people who are indeed relationship motivated, tend to describe their least pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=399470 | 485,269 |
1,009,808 | One continued argument for technological determinism is centered on the stirrup and its impact on the creation of feudalism in Europe in the late 8th century/early 9th century. Lynn White is credited with first drawing this parallel between feudalism and the stirrup in his book "Medieval Technology and Social Change", ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40626873 | 1,009,287 |
2,139,941 | A lot of research funded by the European Commission is being devoted to hydrometallurgical processes for the partitioning and transmutation of trivalent actinides (An). These research programs have first led to multicycle processes, secondly to the development of simplified and innovative processes. The hydrometallurgi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64345861 | 2,138,711 |
323,439 | Ionizing radiation has many practical uses in medicine, research, and construction, but presents a health hazard if used improperly. Exposure to radiation causes damage to living tissue; high doses result in Acute radiation syndrome (ARS), with skin burns, hair loss, internal organ failure, and death, while any dose ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25856 | 323,267 |
1,133,612 | As part of the Water Resources Development Act of 1992, Congress authorized an evaluation of the effectiveness of the Central and Southern Florida Flood Control Project. A report known as the "Restudy", written by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the South Florida Water Management District, was submitted to Congres... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17601646 | 1,133,019 |
474,730 | Yonath focuses on the mechanisms underlying protein biosynthesis, by ribosomal crystallography, a research line she pioneered over twenty years ago despite considerable skepticism of the international scientific community. Ribosomes translate RNA into protein and because they have slightly different structures in micro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38502761 | 474,494 |
1,702,494 | The first debate was effectively suspended in 1934 when Ruth Benedict published "Patterns of Culture", which has continuously been in print. Although this book is well known for popularizing the Boasian principle of cultural relativism, among anthropologists it constituted both an important summary of the discoveries o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41831802 | 1,701,539 |
1,801,509 | One of the new technologies developed for the mission were high-tech "rulers", capable of making measurements in increments a fraction of the width of a hydrogen atom. In addition, the rulers were developed to work as a network. The mission team also created "shock absorbers" to alleviate the effects of tiny vibrations... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=570274 | 1,800,500 |
341,397 | In 1969, Fuller began the Otisco Project, named after its location in Otisco, New York. The project developed and demonstrated concrete spray with mesh-covered wireforms for producing large-scale, load-bearing spanning structures built on-site, without the use of pouring molds, other adjacent surfaces or hoisting. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4031 | 341,216 |
694,468 | A 2014 meta-analysis of sex differences in scholastic achievement published in the journal of "Psychological Bulletin" found females outperformed males in teacher-assigned school marks throughout elementary, junior/middle, high school and at both undergraduate and graduate university level. The meta-analysis done by re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16973246 | 694,105 |
742,536 | While the method of chemical characterization of a daughter was successful for flerovium and livermorium, and the simpler structure of even–even nuclei made confirmation of oganesson ("Z" = 118) straightforward, there have been difficulties in establishing the congruence of decay chains from isotopes with odd protons, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=77473 | 742,143 |
1,508,611 | In its "2050 Strategy", Kazakhstan gives itself 15 years to evolve into a knowledge economy. New sectors are to be created during each five-year plan. The first of these, covering the years 2010−2014, focused on developing industrial capacity in car manufacturing, aircraft engineering and the production of locomotives,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54181703 | 1,507,763 |
404,039 | While penetration testing concentrates on attacking software and computer systems from the start – scanning ports, examining known defects in protocols and applications running on the system, and patch installations, for example – ethical hacking may include other things. A full-blown ethical hack might include emailin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=907240 | 403,839 |
1,556,956 | The creation of resources such as books which includes mathematical literature, museums, magazines, which can be enjoyed by the public, and which vary according to the historical moment, especially to approach fashions, cultures and to have a greater impact and scope. Education can play a fundamental role in the develo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2069923 | 1,556,071 |
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