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1,348,984 | Based on the extensive fossil record from the late Pleistocene, two morphotypes can be distinguished in "Paramylodon," a graceful variant and a robust variant. The morphotypes are not reflected in the general size of the skulls, but mainly concern their expression, for example in the width ratios. Also, differences can... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16886646 | 1,348,239 |
2,106,038 | Vacca studied mathematics and graduated from the University of Genoa in 1897 under the guidance of G. B. Negri. He was a politically active student and was banished for that from Genoa in 1897. He moved to Turin and became an assistant to Giuseppe Peano. In 1899 he studied, at Hanover, unpublished manuscripts of Gottfr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2452847 | 2,104,825 |
577,161 | The mechanical components in typical speaker drivers may change over time. Paper, a popular material in cone fabrication, absorbs moisture easily and unless treated may lose some structural rigidity over time. This may be reduced by coating with water-impregnable material such as various plastic resins. Cracks compromi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1311933 | 576,865 |
1,247,221 | By 1972, Halladay's building campaign, which followed on the heels of Gee's highly successful expansion of the physical plant, had invested $16 million in construction and resulted in numerous new buildings. Among these were the Administration/Business Administration Building (later named for President F. H. McDowell),... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49751816 | 1,246,546 |
535,203 | In November 2020, a report for the Inspector-General of the Australian Defence Force by Major General Paul Brereton, a New South Wales Court of Appeal judge, found credible information that 25 current or former members of the ADF were involved in, or accessories to, the murder of 39 Afghan prisoners and civilians, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1323516 | 534,924 |
993,348 | Lola Williamson, who practiced the TM-Sidhi program until 1981, wrote a book called "Transcendent in America: Hindu-Inspired Meditation Movements as New Religion". In the book, she cites two former professors who in the late 1980s "testified against the research practices conducted at the university". In the book, she ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=271937 | 992,831 |
1,563,801 | However, the graphic and interactive limitations of video games hindered their development and usefulness until the 1990s, when companies such as Nintendo and Sony began to produce three dimensional polygon graphics to produce the concept of "virtual reality." This improved more with the introduction of Wii systems wha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39338825 | 1,562,914 |
1,270,374 | Grunsfeld was selected by NASA in March 1992 as an astronaut candidate and reported to the Johnson Space Center in August 1992. He completed one year of training and qualified for flight selection as a mission specialist. Grunsfeld was initially detailed to the Astronaut Office Mission Development Branch and was assign... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=598981 | 1,269,683 |
603,258 | "Constellation" underwent repairs at Washington, D.C., in 1812–1813, and with the advent of the War of 1812 with the United Kingdom, commanded by Captain Charles Stewart, was dispatched to Hampton Roads, Virginia. In January 1813, shortly after arrival, the ship was effectively blockaded by a British squadron of line-o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=322055 | 602,948 |
967,415 | The modern lion is capable of, in large numbers, killing weakened adult and healthy subadult elephants, so similar sized "Homotherium" likely could have managed the same feat with juvenile mammoths. This is supported by isotopic analysis. But the idea that a cat, even one of very large size and possibly social, was abl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1223797 | 966,905 |
548,234 | Tell es-Safi/Gath is one of the largest pre-Classical sites in Israel, situated approximately halfway between Jerusalem and Ashkelon, on the border between coastal plain and the Judean foothills (Shephelah). The site was settled from prehistoric to modern times, and was of particular importance during the Bronze and Ir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=673123 | 547,946 |
674,125 | Illite is a group of closely related non-expanding clay minerals. Illite is a secondary mineral precipitate, and an example of a phyllosilicate, or layered alumino-silicate. Its structure is a 2:1 sandwich of silica tetrahedron (T) – alumina octahedron (O) – silica tetrahedron (T) layers. The space between this T-O-T s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2034220 | 673,773 |
415,534 | Xenoarchaeology is referred to as 'pseudoarcheology' by some circles of archaeologists and critics of the concept of 'ancient aliens'. The idea of xenoarchaeology has been popularized in non-academic television programs such as the History Channel series "Ancient Aliens," which uses a strategy known as 'fire-hosing' to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=896750 | 415,331 |
1,075,689 | Proponents of the new system believe it is a necessary step in advancing gymnastics, promoting difficult skills and increasing judging objectivity. Opponents feel that people outside the gymnastics community will not understand the scoring and will lose interest in the sport, and that, without emphasising artistry, the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1655074 | 1,075,135 |
1,160,267 | Carbon printing is based on the fact that gelatin, when sensitized to light by a dichromate, is hardened and made insoluble in water when exposed to ultraviolet light. Because of the comparative insensitivity of the material, sunlight or another strong source of UV light is normally used to minimize the required exposu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1986325 | 1,159,652 |
1,039,409 | In July 2002 Pathfinder-Plus carried commercial communications relay equipment developed by Skytower, Inc., a subsidiary of AeroVironment, in a test of using the aircraft as a broadcast platform. Skytower, in partnership with NASA and the Japan Ministry of Telecommunications, tested the concept of an "atmospheric satel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=673144 | 1,038,868 |
1,128,212 | In a paper published in 1931, Polyakov reported the effects of presence of different solvents (benzene, toluene and xylene) on the silica pore structure during drying a newly prepared silica. When HSO was used as the polymerization initiator (acidifying agent), a positive correlation was found between surface areas, e.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6497232 | 1,127,634 |
905,694 | The size of the oceanic methane clathrate reservoir is poorly known, and estimates of its size decreased by roughly an order of magnitude per decade since it was first recognized that clathrates could exist in the oceans during the 1960s and 1970s. The highest estimates (e.g. 3 m) were based on the assumption that full... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54137 | 905,218 |
1,186,303 | On March 24, 1964, a group of faculty held the nation's first "teach-in" to protest American policy in Southeast Asia. 2,500 students attended the event. A series of 1966 sit-ins by Voice, the campus political party of Students for a Democratic Society, prompted the administration to ban sit-ins, a move that, in turn, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2147828 | 1,185,674 |
352,740 | In the early 20th century, experiments by Ernest Rutherford established that atoms consisted of a diffuse cloud of negatively charged electrons surrounding a small, dense, positively charged nucleus. Given this experimental data, Rutherford naturally considered a planetary model of the atom, the Rutherford model of 191... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4831 | 352,557 |
1,999,859 | Major climate changes in Britain causing sea level changes in the last 2.58 million years, with mini Ice Ages, the ice sheets did not extend to Surrey but sand and gravel deposits swept towards the fledgling River Thames were spread in all lower parts. Gravel terraces at various heights on the valley sides are the remn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49188184 | 1,998,715 |
428,913 | Geobacillus stearothermophilus (previously Bacillus stearothermophilus) is a rod-shaped, Gram-positive bacterium and a member of the phylum Bacillota. The bacterium is a thermophile and is widely distributed in soil, hot springs, ocean sediment, and is a cause of spoilage in food products. It will grow within a tempera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8156765 | 428,703 |
1,133,602 | Around 6 million people moved to South Florida between 1940 and 1965. With a thousand people moving to Miami each week, urban development quadrupled. As the human population grew rapidly, the problem of exotic plant and animal species also grew. Many species of plants were brought into South Florida from Asia, Central ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17601646 | 1,133,009 |
624,953 | In 1831, Faraday (and independently Joseph Henry) discovered the reverse effect, the production of an electric potential or current through magnetism – known as electromagnetic induction; these two discoveries are the basis of the electric motor and the electric generator, respectively. In 1834, Carl Jacobi discovered ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56661172 | 624,620 |
1,674,300 | The cost of a cesarean section, the recommended mode of delivery for brain dead pregnant women, is roughly $4,500 for physicians' fees alone, according to the Healthcare Bluebook. Depending upon how many weeks a neonate is premature, he or she could spend anywhere between two and four months in the NICU. NICU costs gen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41907939 | 1,673,358 |
1,817,857 | Small numbers (e.g. 1 in 100,000) of circulating blood cells bearing the t(14:18)q32:q21) translocation are found in 50-67% of otherwise healthy individuals. The prevalence of this finding increases with age, tobacco smoking, pesticide exposure, and race (50-70% in Caucasians, 10-20% in Japanese individuals). Since mos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60899272 | 1,816,822 |
1,246,761 | The primary objectives of the mission were to deploy the Syncom IV-F5 military communications satellite (also known as Leasat 5), and to retrieve NASA's Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF), whose retrieval had been delayed for 4 years by scheduling changes and the "Challenger" disaster of 1986. Syncom IV-F5 (Leasat-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=421277 | 1,246,086 |
1,921,299 | The Space Test Program spacecraft P78-1 or Solwind was launched on February 24, 1979 and continued operating until September 13, 1985, when it was shot down in orbit during an Air Force ASM-135 ASAT test. The platform was of the Orbiting Solar Observatory (OSO) type, with a solar-oriented sail and a rotating wheel sect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25119101 | 1,920,196 |
956,275 | Haldane introduced the modern concept of abiogenesis in an eight-page article titled "The origin of life," in "The" "Rationalist Annual" in 1929, describing the primitive ocean as a "vast chemical laboratory" containing a mixture of inorganic compounds – like a "hot dilute soup" in which organic compounds could have fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62417 | 955,770 |
348,266 | Anton van Leeuwenhoek is another scientist who saw these cells soon after Hooke did. He made use of a microscope containing improved lenses that could magnify objects 270-fold. Under these microscopes, Leeuwenhoek found motile objects. In a letter to The Royal Society on October 9, 1676, he states that motility is a qu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=102858 | 348,084 |
1,232,357 | UHTCs all exhibit strong covalent bonding which gives them structural stability at high temperatures. Metal carbides are brittle due to the strong bonds that exist between carbon atoms. The largest class of carbides, including Hf, Zr, Ti and Ta carbides have high melting points due to covalent carbon networks although ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38050893 | 1,231,695 |
1,783,512 | Energy poverty is a persistent problem in Kenya, particularly in rural communities. Only 40 percent of Kenya's population has access to reliable electricity. Despite the government's effort to subsidize electricity connections, many households are located far from the national grid, where it would not be economically v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40150805 | 1,782,508 |
1,028,487 | The first medical record systems to employ EAV were the Regenstrief electronic medical record (the effort led by Clement MacDonald), William Stead and Ed Hammond's TMR (The Medical Record) system and the HELP Clinical Data Repository (CDR) created by Homer Warner's group at LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City, Utah. (The Rege... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5921339 | 1,027,953 |
2,026,688 | Norton-Griffiths ensured that tunnelling companies numbers 170 to 177 were ready for deployment in mid-February 1915. In the spring of that year, there was constant underground fighting in the Ypres Salient at Hooge, Hill 60, Railway Wood, Sanctuary Wood, St Eloi and The Bluff which required the deployment of new draft... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46550468 | 2,025,521 |
368,278 | The idea was first clearly expressed by 19th-century thinkers such as Wilhelm von Humboldt and Johann Gottfried Herder, who saw language as the expression of the spirit of a nation. Members of the early 20th-century school of American anthropology headed by Franz Boas and Edward Sapir also embraced forms of the idea to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26915 | 368,085 |
133,780 | The earliest state in Eritrea and northern Ethiopia, Dʿmt, dates from around the 8th and 7th centuries BC. D'mt traded through the Red Sea with Egypt and the Mediterranean, providing frankincense. By the 5th and 3rd centuries, D'mt had declined, and several successor states took its place. Later there was greater trade... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14099 | 133,727 |
306,626 | In order to extend the type's service, six ex-South African SA 330L were purchased by Britain in 2002. A programme to produce an extensive upgrade of the RAF's Pumas saw the first Puma HC Mk2 enter service in late 2012 and was completed by early 2014, enabling the Puma fleet to remain in operational service until 2025.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=493615 | 306,462 |
25,971 | Eisenhower authorized one more overflight, which was to be made no later than 1 May because the important Paris Summit of the Big Four Conference would begin on 16 May. The CIA chose for the mission—the 24th deep-penetration Soviet overflight—Operation GRAND SLAM, an ambitious flight plan for the first crossing of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32310 | 25,962 |
869,599 | Special Operations Weathermen were U.S. Air Force meteorologists with unique training to operate in hostile or denied territory. They gathered, assessed, and interpreted weather and environmental intelligence from forward deployed locations, working primarily with Air Force and Army Special Operations Forces. SOWTs cou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5662029 | 869,139 |
1,275,768 | Thomas Allan was an early advocate of nationalisation in 1854. He believed a flat rate of one shilling (5p) for 20 words regardless of distance would encourage wider use of the telegraph, which would lead to more intensive usage of lines and provide the economic case for building new ones. According to Allen, this coul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60245762 | 1,275,075 |
18,037 | The DRF evaluation team, under the direction of Brigadier General Ronald W. Yates, ran from 1981 through 30 April 1983, during which the F-15E logged more than 200 flights, demonstrated takeoff weight of more than , and validated 16 different weapons-carrying configurations. McDonnell Douglas, to assist "71-0291" in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=495724 | 18,031 |
702,156 | In 1987, "Dragon Slayer IV: Drasle Family" ("Legacy of the Wizard") returned to the deeper action-RPG mechanics of "Xanadu" while maintaining the fully side-scrolling view of "Romancia". It also featured an open world and nonlinear gameplay similar to "Metroidvania" platform-adventures, making "Drasle Family" an early ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32408675 | 701,791 |
1,574,307 | Volmer, Manfred von Ardenne, director of his private laboratory "Forschungslaboratoriums für Elektronenphysik", Gustav Hertz, Nobel Laureate and director of Research Laboratory II at Siemens, and Peter Adolf Thiessen, ordinarius professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin and director of the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institut ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13550431 | 1,573,418 |
1,613,203 | In 2010, Laos petitioned the Mekong River Commission (MRC) to approve their proposal for 11 new dams. This move resulted from the government's intention to become the "battery of Southeast Asia", as Laos currently exports an estimated two-thirds of its hydropower. This goal can be attributed to the geographical region ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36416268 | 1,612,298 |
232,770 | Some of the first intracellular recordings in a nervous system were made in the late 1930s by Kenneth S. Cole and Howard J. Curtis. Swiss Rüdolf Albert von Kölliker and German Robert Remak were the first to identify and characterize the axonal initial segment. Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley also employed the squid gian... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8131 | 232,651 |
1,830,608 | During the Cambrian, the land masses now composing the United States were separate and located in the southern hemisphere. Trilobites are the most characteristic animal of the time, and are especially abundant in Utah. Ordovician America was still home to a wide variety of marine invertebrates. An important fauna was p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37799182 | 1,829,562 |
479,497 | Prior to Federation each of the Australian colonies had maintained their own military forces made up pre-dominantly of volunteers or militia, and the uniforms they adopted generally followed colour and design of the part-time British territorial forces, being mostly green and grey as opposed to the red of the British r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51440630 | 479,257 |
425,290 | The white fir trait of retaining lower limbs creates an escape route for medium-to-small forest birds (such as spotted owl) from larger flying predators and provides a drip zone around the roots for collecting moisture. The retained limbs can become a fuel ladder that allows flames to climb up to the canopy. Limbing-up... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1238783 | 425,082 |
1,671,183 | Without fighter escort and in the face of powerful opposition, the group completed an assault against aircraft factories in central Germany on 11 January 1944, earning a Distinguished Unit Citation (DUC) for the mission. The group participated in the Big Week intensive campaign against the German aircraft industry, 20–... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3116176 | 1,670,243 |
1,084,734 | After 1959, Perutz and his colleagues went on to determine the structure of oxy- and deoxy- haemoglobin at high resolution. As a result, in 1970, he was at last able to suggest how it works as a molecular machine: how it switches between its deoxygenated and its oxygenated states, in turn triggering the uptake of oxyge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38262 | 1,084,176 |
1,468,814 | The faculty of the school continued to make significant contributions to scientific research and public health. This included further work by Austin Bradford Hill, who postulated the Bradford Hill criteria in 1965 to determine causality. The criteria have since been widely used in public health research. LSHTM also sta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=531365 | 1,467,990 |
258,300 | For a solid crystalline ionic compound the enthalpy change in forming the solid from gaseous ions is termed the lattice energy. The experimental value for the lattice energy can be determined using the Born–Haber cycle. It can also be calculated (predicted) using the Born–Landé equation as the sum of the electrostatic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14951 | 258,166 |
2,094,180 | Avery remained in the position until 1928, making him the longest-serving chancellor in school history. Midway through his tenure, the United States entered The Great War, and Avery was asked to join the U.S. Chemical Warfare Service; William G. Hastings served as acting chancellor while Avery was in Washington, D.C. L... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70529288 | 2,092,972 |
2,012,883 | Aside from studies involved r(CUG) repeats, other complex RNA structures have also been targeted. Pearson and coworkers discovered that a cationic porphyrin (TMPyP4) bound a G-quadruplex r(GC) and inhibited the binding of proteins to r(GC). Work by Disney and Petrucelli rationally identified small molecules that can ta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56731305 | 2,011,726 |
1,787,714 | Experimental and theoretical work on the perovskite/post-perovskite phase transition continues, while many important features of this phase transition remain ill-constrained. For example, the Clapeyron slope (characterized by the Clausius–Clapeyron relation) describing the increase in the pressure of the phase transiti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2191091 | 1,786,709 |
500,001 | The institution was founded in 1971 as Minnesota Metropolitan State College with a mission to educate non-traditional students from the Twin Cities metropolitan area whose needs were not served by other existing institutions like the University of Minnesota. David E. Sweet was appointed the university's first president... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=238558 | 499,744 |
449,384 | There are several other methods for inferring phylogenies based on discrete character data, including maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference. Each offers potential advantages and disadvantages. In practice, these methods tend to favor trees that are very similar to the most parsimonious tree(s) for the same dataset;... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1130020 | 449,166 |
1,001,698 | Many Greek and Roman authors wrote about these scripts, and many were aware that the Egyptians had two or three writing systems, but none whose works survived into later times fully understood how the scripts worked. Diodorus Siculus, in the first centuryBC, explicitly described hieroglyphs as an ideographic script, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6184367 | 1,001,180 |
1,128,208 | Fast and cost-effective molecularly imprinted polymer technique has applications in many fields of chemistry, biology and engineering, particularly as an affinity material for sensors, detection of chemical, antimicrobial, and dye, residues in food, adsorbents for solid phase extraction, binding assays, artificial anti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6497232 | 1,127,630 |
350,902 | The world market for synthetic retinol is primarily for animal feed, leaving approximately 13% for a combination of food, prescription medication and dietary supplement use. The first industrialized synthesis of retinol was achieved by the company Hoffmann-La Roche in 1947. In the following decades, eight other compani... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54115 | 350,719 |
1,472,897 | Oral contraceptives for the purpose of regaining menses and improving BMD is not suggested as a first-line treatment due to their role in the suppression of ovarian function in women who were eumenorrheic prior to treatment and because these drugs may mask the return of spontaneous menstruation while loss of bone mass ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15738568 | 1,472,066 |
283,671 | The health of the humans who may participate in a colonization venture would be subject to increased physical, mental and emotional risks. NASA learned that – without gravity – bones lose minerals, causing osteoporosis. Bone density may decrease by 1% per month, which may lead to a greater risk of osteoporosis-related ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29248 | 283,518 |
1,307,931 | The CarTel project (2005-2010) of Hari Balakrishnan and Sam Madden introduced the idea of using sensors attached to mobile assets such as vehicles and user’s phones to measure the environment in a scalable way, helping to create the field of mobile sensing. These ideas have had significant academic and commercial succe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26591381 | 1,307,215 |
1,862,915 | The monomer has an aromatic fluorene core -CH- with two aliphatic "n"-octyl -CH tails attached to the central carbon. Polydioctylfluorene (PFO) can be found in liquid-crystalline, glassy, amorphous, semi-crystalline or β-chain formation. This variety is on account of the intermolecular forces that PFO can participate i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17600071 | 1,861,846 |
1,232,153 | Glass micropipettes are filled with an ionic solution to make them conductive; a silver-silver chloride (Ag-AgCl) electrode is dipped into the filling solution as an electrical terminal. Ideally, the ionic solutions should have ions similar to ionic species around the electrode; the concentration inside the electrode a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3581220 | 1,231,491 |
986,157 | Evolutionary biologist George C. Williams and evolutionary medicine researcher Randolph M. Nesse cite evolutionary psychologists John Tooby and Leda Cosmides as referring to the emotions as "Darwinian algorithms of the mind", while social psychologist David Buss has argued that the sex-specialized differences in the em... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2452832 | 985,642 |
124,923 | By 1872, the Gothic Revival was mature enough in the United Kingdom that Charles Locke Eastlake, an influential professor of design, could produce "A History of the Gothic Revival". Kenneth Clark's, "The Gothic Revival. An Essay", followed in 1928, in which he described the Revival as "the most widespread and influenti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=311821 | 124,871 |
67,901 | Rhabdomyolysis may cause kidney failure by several mechanisms. The most important is the accumulation of myoglobin in the kidney tubules. Normally, the blood protein haptoglobin binds circulating myoglobin and other heme-containing substances, but in rhabdomyolysis the quantity of myoglobin exceeds the binding capacity... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=236354 | 67,875 |
774,046 | A 2012 paper studied the DNA sequence of around 6,500 Americans of European and African descent and confirmed earlier work indicating that the majority of changes to a single letter in the sequence (single nucleotide variants) were accumulated within the last 5,000-10,000 years. Almost three quarters arose in the last ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54472601 | 773,630 |
1,359,445 | Young Officer training was cut short to allow the officers to be dispatched to units. No basic training was now done at Chatham since the officers were trained at the RE OCTU and the men were to be trained in the training battalions. Specialist, instructor and higher trade continued at Chatham but from June 1940 traini... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3125065 | 1,358,694 |
2,032,730 | The initial virtual colony count study measured the activity of all six human alpha defensins concurrently on the same 96-well plate: HNP1, HNP2, HNP3, HNP4, HD5, and HD6. Subsequently, mutated forms of some of those six defensins were studied by VCC. A conserved glycine in a beta bulge in HNP2 was replaced with a seri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38532142 | 2,031,558 |
1,088,995 | Anthropogenic sources of N generally reach upland forests through deposition. A potential concern of increased N deposition due to human activities is altered nutrient cycling in forest ecosystems. Numerous studies have demonstrated both positive and negative impacts of atmospheric N deposition on forest productivity a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11632817 | 1,088,436 |
485,129 | Universal Time is a time scale based on the Earth's rotation, which is somewhat irregular over short periods (days up to a century), thus any time based on it cannot have an accuracy better than 1 in 10. However, a larger, more consistent effect has been observed over many centuries: Earth's rate of rotation is inexora... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8727 | 484,880 |
26,016 | Taiwanese and American authorities reached an agreement in 1958 to create the 35th Squadron, nicknamed the Black Cat Squadron, composed of two U-2Cs in Taoyuan Air Base in northern Taiwan, at an isolated part of the air base. To create misdirection typical of the time, the unit was created under the cover of high altit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32310 | 26,007 |
1,571,726 | However, as stated in recent CALPHAD papers and meetings, such a Dinsdale/SGTE database will likely need to be corrected over time despite the utility in keeping a common base. In this case, most published assessments will likely have to be revised, similarly to rebuilding a house due to a severely broken foundation. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53713224 | 1,570,838 |
1,797,853 | De Moivre's law first appeared in his 1725 "Annuities upon Lives", the earliest known example of an actuarial textbook. Despite the name now given to it, de Moivre himself did not consider his law (he called it a "hypothesis") to be a true description of the pattern of human mortality. Instead, he introduced it as a us... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30389604 | 1,796,844 |
195,386 | Inability to secure the airway, with subsequent failure of oxygenation and ventilation is a life-threatening complication which if not immediately corrected leads to decreased oxygen content, brain damage, cardiovascular collapse, and death. When performed improperly, the associated complications (e.g., unrecognized es... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=146396 | 195,286 |
890,543 | However, there are many non-human entities, plenty of which are intelligent, and many of which can apprehend, memorise, compare and even approximately add numerical quantities. Several animals have also passed the mirror test of self-consciousness. But a few surprising examples of mathematical abstraction notwithstandi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2148329 | 890,074 |
2,158,364 | Badu-Tawiah was appointed assistant professor at the Ohio State University in 2014. His research considers new mass spectrometry techniques for the detection of disease. Mass spectrometry offers several advantages over macrofluidic platforms, as they remain stable. To achieve this he makes use of cleavable ionic probes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64795899 | 2,157,132 |
751,186 | William Bland sent designs for his "Atmotic Airship" to the Great Exhibition held in London in 1851, where a model was displayed. This was an elongated balloon with a steam engine driving twin propellers suspended underneath. Alphonse Pénaud developed coaxial rotor model helicopter toys in 1870, also powered by rubber ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7661871 | 750,788 |
1,247,809 | Vancleavea is a genus of extinct, armoured, non-archosaurian archosauriforms from the Late Triassic of western North America. The type and only known species is V. campi, named by Robert Long & Phillip A Murry in 1995. At that time, the genus was only known from fragmentary bones including osteoderms and vertebrae. How... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25282954 | 1,247,133 |
548,236 | A UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2001, Masada is the site of ancient palaces and fortifications in the Southern District (Israel) on top of an isolated rock plateau, or large mesa, on the eastern edge of the Judean Desert overlooking the Dead Sea. According to Josephus, a 1st-century Jewish-Roman historian, Herod the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=673123 | 547,948 |
731,779 | Of note is the function of renal artery stenosis in the causation of high blood pressure: Normally perfused kidneys produce a proportionate amount of a substance called renin. Stenosis of the renal arteries causes hypoperfusion (decreased blood flow) of the juxtaglomerular apparatus, resulting in exaggerated secretion ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1255502 | 731,393 |
1,322,087 | A big advantage of using silicon is that the circuits can be tuned actively using integrated thermal microheaters or p-i-n modulators, after the devices have been fabricated. The other big benefit of silicon is its compatibility with CMOS technology, which allows leveraging the mature fabrication infrastructure of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49512158 | 1,321,361 |
1,344,740 | The lotus flower has been known as a symbol of purity in some Asian cultures. The lotus leaves (Nelumbo nucifera) are water-repellent and poorly adhesive which keep them free from contamination or pollution even being immersed in dirty water. This ability, called self-cleaning, shields the plant from dirt and pathogens... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53941569 | 1,344,002 |
551,575 | Po-Shen Loh (born June 18, 1982) is an American professor of mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University and the national coach of the United States' International Math Olympiad team. Under his coaching, the team won the competition in 2015, 2016, 2018, and 2019—their first victories since 1994. He had previously won a s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56127111 | 551,287 |
292,367 | The first scholar to give Peirce his considered professional attention was Royce's student Morris Raphael Cohen, the editor of an anthology of Peirce's writings entitled "Chance, Love, and Logic" (1923), and the author of the first bibliography of Peirce's scattered writings. John Dewey studied under Peirce at Johns Ho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6117 | 292,209 |
447,343 | Zinc-finger nickases (ZFNickases) are created by inactivating the catalytic activity of one ZFN monomer in the ZFN dimer required for double-strand cleavage. ZFNickases demonstrate strand-specific nicking activity "in vitro" and thus provide for highly specific single-strand breaks in DNA. These SSBs undergo the same c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6476735 | 447,126 |
883,257 | Rhabdomyosarcoma is often difficult to diagnose due to its similarities to other cancers and varying levels of differentiation. It is loosely classified as one of the small-blue-round-cell tumors due to its appearance on an H&E stain. Other cancers that share this classification include neuroblastoma, Ewing sarcoma, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=549895 | 882,793 |
2,107,305 | In 1952, Field Station No. 1 was reorganized to form the White Sands Signal Corps Agency, a class II activity under the command of the Chief Signal Officer. In 1954, the group expanded to form three teams, one at Yuma Proving Ground, one Dugway Proving Ground, and one at the Canal Zone in Panama. The organization was m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69460238 | 2,106,092 |
590,532 | During the mid 1930s, some political leaders observed that both the Empire of Japan and Nazi Germany had the appearance of having been making strides towards a heavy preparedness for war, which in turn led to several other countries commencing their own preparations in response. However, in the case of Australia, the n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3943778 | 590,230 |
148,606 | The third and fourth prototypes, which used an "M" for "Muster" (model) number instead of "V" for "Versuchs" (experimental) number, as the He 162 M3 and M4, after being fitted with the strengthened wings, flew in mid-January 1945. These versions also included – as possibly the pioneering example of their use on a produ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=153227 | 148,545 |
1,122,009 | Development of LEED began in 1993, spearheaded by Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) senior scientist Robert K. Watson. JD Polk, co-founder of Solar Cells Inc (First Solar), also contributed to the guidelines set forth in the initial formation, as did long time solar advocate Lawton Chiles the Governor of Florida... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4565779 | 1,121,435 |
452,954 | In 2012, Allain and colleagues assigned "Ichthyovenator" to the Spinosauridae; more precisely to the subfamily Baryonychinae in a basal position as the sister taxon of a clade formed by "Baryonyx" and "Suchomimus". In Allain's 2014 abstract, he found "Ichthyovenator" instead as belonging to the Spinosaurinae, due to th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35587737 | 452,733 |
61,553 | During these decades use of electrical engineering increased dramatically. In 1882, Thomas Edison switched on the world's first large-scale electric power network that provided 110 volts — direct current (DC) — to 59 customers on Manhattan Island in New York City. In 1884, Sir Charles Parsons invented the steam turbine... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9531 | 61,528 |
175,330 | The B-35 was the brainchild of Jack Northrop, who made the flying wing the focus of his work during the 1930s. In 1941 before the USA entered World War II, Northrop and Consolidated Vultee Corporation had been commissioned to develop a large wing-only, long-range bomber designated XB-35 and XB-36. Northrop advocated a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=566031 | 175,238 |
228,024 | For the 500th anniversary of the university's foundation, a monument to Copernicus was placed in the quadrangle of the "Collegium Maius"; this statue is now to be found in the direct vicinity of the "Collegium Novum", outside the "Collegium Witkowskiego", to where it was moved in 1953. Nevertheless, it was in the Grzeg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38078 | 227,907 |
1,228,731 | The first human clinical trial was unsuccessful. Banting was insufficiently qualified to participate and felt sidelined. By the winter of 1922, he was certain that all Macleod's colleagues were conspiring against him. Collip threatened to leave because of the strained atmosphere, but the encouragement of others who saw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16164 | 1,228,069 |
716,694 | "Bacillus coagulans" has been added by the EFSA to their Qualified Presumption of Safety list and has been approved for veterinary purposes as GRAS by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Center for Veterinary Medicine, as well as by the European Union, and is listed by AAFCO for use as a direct-fed microbial in liv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2154601 | 716,317 |
515,887 | While run-based option offenses, including the wishbone, are now used only by a small number of NCAA Division I programs—mainly the service academies and programs influenced by Paul Johnson such as Georgia Tech—wishbone principles still influence college football to this day. The original architects of the pass-oriente... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1947159 | 515,618 |
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