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1,850,476 | Torquato has made fundamental contributions to our understanding of the randomness of condensed phases of matter through the identification of sensitive order metrics. He is one of the world's experts on packing problems, including pioneering the notion of the "maximally random jammed" state of particle packings, ident... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38397364 | 1,849,415 |
1,096,117 | A key paper by Tolman, Ritchie, and Kalish in 1946 demonstrated that rats learned the layout of a maze, which they explored freely without reinforcement. After some trials, a food item was placed to a certain point of the maze, and the rats learned to navigate to that point very quickly. However, Hull and his followers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=442101 | 1,095,557 |
1,935,046 | Eight seasons of excavations led by the Spitsbergen Mesozoic Research Group on the island of Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway from 2004 to 2012 recovered 29 ichthyosaur specimens from outcrops of the Slottsmøya Member lagerstätte, which belongs to the greater Agardhfjellet Formation. These outcrops likely date to the Volg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27649944 | 1,933,938 |
1,405,727 | CPOE systems can take years to install and configure. Despite ample evidence of the potential to reduce medication errors, adoption of this technology by doctors and hospitals in the United States has been slowed by resistance to changes in physician's practice patterns, costs and training time involved, and concern wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2021968 | 1,404,937 |
676,054 | SVD-S (6V3) – Attempts to reduce the length of the rifle for use by marines, mechanized infantry, and paratroopers began in 1978 by adding a folding buttstock and a separate pistol grip. Initially, preexisting stock designs were used (such as the one from the AKS-74), but ergonomic problems necessitated the design of a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=337494 | 675,701 |
293,331 | Excretion and sloppy feeding (the physical breakdown of food source) make up 80% and 20% of crustacean zooplankton-mediated DOM release respectively. In the same study, fecal pellet leaching was found to be an insignificant contributor. For protozoan grazers, DOM is released primarily through excretion and egestion and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50558 | 293,173 |
67,123 | The Laboratory turned to an alternative, albeit more technically difficult, design, an implosion-type nuclear weapon. In September 1943, mathematician John von Neumann had proposed a design in which a fissile core would be surrounded by two different high explosives that produced shock waves of different speeds. Altern... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60033 | 67,098 |
230,859 | While at medical school, Spielrein continued to assist Jung in the laboratory as she had done as an in-patient. She also attended his ward rounds and met him socially. The strong feelings she had developed towards him as his hospital patient continued during her first three years at medical school, and she developed a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2425513 | 230,741 |
262,772 | Weapons designed to cause temporary blindness, known as dazzlers, are used by military and sometimes law enforcement organizations. Incidents of pilots being exposed to lasers while flying have prompted aviation authorities to implement special procedures to deal with such hazards. Laser weapons capable of directly dam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4714516 | 262,633 |
622,576 | The intensity of the input signal can be obtained by counting (photon counting) the number of output pulses within a measurement time period. This is useful for applications such as low light imaging, PET scanning and fluorescence lifetime microscopy. However, while the avalanche recovery circuit is quenching the avala... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=972711 | 622,244 |
118,669 | The mathematical models used in classical electromagnetism, quantum electrodynamics (QED) and the Standard Model all view the electromagnetic vacuum as a linear system with no overall observable consequence. For example, in the case of the Casimir effect, Lamb shift, and so on these phenomena can be explained by altern... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=84400 | 118,623 |
1,568,962 | A diet that is rich in fruit and vegetables significantly reduces the risk of several diseases. Retinoids and vitamins A, C, and E are probably the most well-known and studied natural radioprotectors, but hormones (e.g., melatonin), glutathione, superoxide dismutase, and phytochemicals from plant extracts (including gr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39761773 | 1,568,075 |
82,389 | The creation of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) was authorized by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1958 for the purpose of forming and executing research and development projects to expand the frontiers of technology and science, and able to reach far beyond immediate military requirements. The two releva... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8957 | 82,355 |
830,375 | The principal architects of the new system, John Maynard Keynes and Harry Dexter White, created a plan which was endorsed by the 42 countries attending the 1944 Bretton Woods conference, formally known as the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference. The plan involved nations agreeing to a system of fixed but a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22024384 | 829,928 |
665,685 | To ease the impact on employment in the UK aircraft industry from the cancellation of home-grown programs, the aircraft had a high British content. The main modification was the replacement of the General Electric J79 by the British-made Rolls-Royce Spey powerplant. These engines (RB 168-25R Spey Mk 202/203s) were more... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13567676 | 665,338 |
1,880,693 | Renner's research interests focus on the phylogenetics, mating system evolution, and biogeography of flowering plants, in both temperate and tropical regions. Renner's early research was on the phylogeny and reproductive biology of plants. She has also worked on dioecy and sex chromosomes in plants. The use of genetic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43831341 | 1,879,612 |
108,677 | Pauling then proposed that deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) was a triple helix; his model contained several basic mistakes, including a proposal of neutral phosphate groups, an idea that conflicted with the acidity of DNA. Sir Lawrence Bragg had been disappointed that Pauling had won the race to find the alpha helix structu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37342 | 108,632 |
372,376 | In reality, neither the U.S. Army nor U.S. Navy was in shape for war in terms of manpower, size, military hardware or experience. The Navy had fine ships but Wilson had been using them to threaten Mexico, and the fleet's readiness had suffered. The crews of the "Texas" and the "New York", the two newest and largest bat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25604889 | 372,181 |
495,917 | People who are to undergo DHCA surgery are placed on cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB), a procedure that uses an external heart-lung machine that can artificially replace the function of the heart and lungs. A portion of the circulating blood supply is removed and stored for later replacement, with the remaining blood dilut... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6891706 | 495,661 |
2,126,622 | The squadron assembled at its combat station, RAF Great Ashfield, England, and began participating in the strategic bombing campaign against Germany, flying its first combat mission on 17 July 1943. The unit carried out attacks on industrial targets, including communications centers as well as air bases in Belgium, Fra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25923571 | 2,125,401 |
18,748 | The M855A1 was put to the test at the 2012 National Rifle Association's National High-Power Rifle Championship at Camp Perry, Ohio in August 2012. The shooter for the Army was Rob Harbison, a contractor supporting small caliber ammunition capability development at Fort Benning Georgia. This was a special event for the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35022 | 18,740 |
278,418 | Pol η (eta), Pol ι (iota), and Pol κ (kappa), are Family Y DNA polymerases involved in the DNA repair by translation synthesis and encoded by genes POLH, POLI, and POLK respectively. Members of Family Y have five common motifs to aid in binding the substrate and primer terminus and they all include the typical right ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=235926 | 278,268 |
641,008 | In an attempt to overcome the subjective weakness of Cattell's (1966) scree test, presented two families of non-graphical solutions. The first method, coined the optimal coordinate (OC), attempts to determine the location of the scree by measuring the gradients associated with eigenvalues and their preceding coordinate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24688832 | 640,669 |
790,528 | In 2018, as part of a trade war between the U.S. and China, US President Trump imposed tariffs on imported solar cells. The push for tariffs to protect American manufacturing and jobs in the solar power industry began in April 2017, when a bankrupt Georgia-based solar cell maker filed a trade complaint that a flood of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15497918 | 790,103 |
1,614,664 | After it moved to Algeria as the first Marauder unit in that theater, arriving with just 15 aircraft and losing group commander Col. Alvord Rutherford over France en route, the 319th entered combat for the first time on 28 November, bombing and strafing warehouses, docks, and railroad yards at Sfax in Tunisia. From the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23827448 | 1,613,758 |
379,822 | Even as far back as WWII it was possible to incorporate a "ship counter" function in mine fuzes. This might set the mine to ignore the first two ships passing over it (which could be minesweepers deliberately trying to trigger mines) but detonate when the third ship passes overhead, which could be a high-value target s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22102 | 379,627 |
916,260 | "The zone of optimal functioning theory" looks at each type each athlete and what level of arousal they need to perform best. This suggests that each athlete requires their own level of stress and arousal to feel motivated and perform well. This theory is specific but difficult to quantify. One proposed model for optim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25688228 | 915,778 |
122,254 | His work on catoptrics in Book V of the Book of Optics contains a discussion of what is now known as Alhazen's problem, first formulated by Ptolemy in 150 AD. It comprises drawing lines from two points in the plane of a circle meeting at a point on the circumference and making equal angles with the normal at that point... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1645 | 122,205 |
1,725,943 | The DPG office headed by the Chief Executive Bernhard Nunner is located in the (physics conference centre in Bad Honnef), in the neighbourhood of the university and federal city of Bonn. The is not only a meeting place and discussion forum of outstanding significance for physics in Germany but also an international bra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2961275 | 1,724,972 |
2,168,583 | The late 1950s saw important developments in how the federal government could play an increasing role in supporting interdisciplinary, collaborative research at academic institutions. The successful launch of the Russian space satellite Sputnik on October 4, 1957 had a profound impact on how scientific and technologica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30862721 | 2,167,346 |
2,004,514 | One day, some of the apprentice lab boys walked into Whitney's office and complained about feeling unwell. They had been working near high-frequency equipment all day. Whitney took this with skepticism, but allowed the boys to go home early for the day. The next day he had Dr. Glen Smith from the nearby hospital conspi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6046838 | 2,003,365 |
2,203,409 | Additionally, toxoplasmosis, a disease caused by "Toxoplasma gondii "is prevalent in organic pastured systems for swine. Although commonly occurring in uncooked meat, toxoplasmosis has been also found in outdoor livestock systems, where controlled, indoor swine environments have been dramatically reduced. A large degre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41194738 | 2,202,155 |
458,334 | Stories in the series frequently emphasize the internal struggles, passions, and tragedies of the characters, and the main plot often recedes into the background as the focus shifts to their personal lives. Other aspects explored are the relationships between characters, which range from love to rivalry. Other recurrin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50576117 | 458,110 |
1,698,351 | The most important component for CAS is the development of an accurate model of the patient. This can be conducted through a number of medical imaging technologies including CT, MRI, x-rays, ultrasound plus many more. For the generation of this model, the anatomical region to be operated has to be scanned and uploaded ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15945619 | 1,697,397 |
1,231,487 | Transferring the signal to the medulla requires that neurotransmitter be released from the vesicles in the type I cells, and as with many other neural cells, this is triggered by an influx of calcium into the cell after membrane depolarization. The process of identifying signal transduction in interoceptors such as the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9044842 | 1,230,825 |
238,742 | Epidural analgesia is considered a safer and more effective method of relieving pain in labor as compared to intravenous or oral analgesia. In a 2018 Cochrane review of studies which compared epidural analgesia with oral opiates, some advantages of epidural analgesia included better efficacy, fewer instances of naloxon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=985885 | 238,622 |
440,226 | In 1793, French ambassador Edmond Charles Genêt (known as "Citizen Genêt") arrived in the United States. He systematically mobilized pro-French sentiment and encouraged Americans to support France's war against Britain and Spain. Genêt funded local Democratic-Republican Societies that attacked Federalists. He hoped for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16829738 | 440,012 |
750,744 | On August 8, 2011, a report, based on NASA studies with meteorites found on Earth, was published suggesting building blocks of RNA (adenine, guanine, and related organic molecules) may have been formed in outer space. In 2017, research using a numerical model suggested that a RNA world may have emerged in warm ponds on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25765 | 750,346 |
764,141 | By developing specific and controllable bioorthogonal reactions, scientists have opened up the possibility of hitting particular targets in complex cell lysates. Recently, scientists have adapted click chemistry for use in live cells, for example using small molecule probes that find and attach to their targets by clic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1850601 | 763,731 |
1,434,847 | Shortly after the launch of the Einstein Observatory, the CfA's Steven Weinberg won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on electroweak unification. The following decade saw the start of the landmark CfA Redshift Survey (the first attempt to map the large scale structure of the Universe), as well as the release... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1505128 | 1,434,041 |
945,856 | In university rankings published in 2007 and 2008 by German magazines and periodicals ("Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, Focus", etc.) the University of Freiburg has established itself as one of Germany's top universities. The faculties for law, medicine, economics, history, English studies, German studies, biology, dentistry, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=298971 | 945,353 |
65,403 | Another critique is aimed mainly at "algeny" (a portmanteau of "alchemy" and "genetics"), which Jeremy Rifkin defined as "the upgrading of existing organisms and the design of wholly new ones with the intent of 'perfecting' their performance". It emphasizes the issue of biocomplexity and the unpredictability of attempt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30299 | 65,378 |
2,073,013 | His basic research centers around the development of quantitative High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy, aided by computer-controlled microscope operation and image simulation, which enables direct determination of atomic structure in defective materials. His research also involves using electron-microscopy-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10342677 | 2,071,822 |
1,636,696 | Through his study of factors that control the onset of flowering, a quintessential adaptive trait, Weigel became interested in more general questions of evolution. Apart from work on genetic variation in environment-dependent developmental processes, his group is known for the generation of extensive genomic resources,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27237858 | 1,635,771 |
842,962 | Gefitinib is well endured by humans, and treatment resulted in a symptom improvement rate of 43% (with 95% confidence in a 33%–53% interval) for patients that received 250 mg of Gefitinib and 35% (with 95% confidence in a 26%–45% interval) for those that received 500 mg. In the trial, epidermal growth factor receptor s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51903 | 842,512 |
124,370 | Variant of the R-36MUTTKh with multiple warheads. It was probably designed to attack and destroy ICBMs and other hardened targets in the US. Its increasing accuracy made it possible to reduce the yield of the warheads and allowed an increase in the number of warheads from 8 to 10. According to some Western estimates, e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1068559 | 124,319 |
261,305 | Polyphenols are a large, diverse group of compounds, making it difficult to determine their biological effects. They are not considered nutrients, as they are not used for growth, survival or reproduction, nor do they provide dietary energy. Therefore, they do not have recommended daily intake levels, as exist for Vita... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=362892 | 261,168 |
1,447,101 | Ranger 3 was the first of the Block II Ranger designs. The basic vehicle was 3.1 m high and consisted of a lunar capsule covered with a balsa wood impact-limiter, 650 mm in diameter, a mono-propellant mid-course motor, a retrorocket with a thrust of 5080 pounds force (22.6 kN), and a gold- and chrome-plated hexagonal b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=82403 | 1,446,285 |
1,217,897 | Max Jaffe was a distinguished 19th-century German biochemist, pathologist, pharmacologist, and professor. He was born on July 25, 1841, in what was formerly Grünberg, Silesia and is now Zielona Góra, Poland. While attending medical school at the University of Berlin, he studied under Ludwig Traube and Wilhelm Kühne. Af... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37425225 | 1,217,244 |
1,479,717 | Most fossils of "Wiwaxia" are disorganized armor plates and spines, but, after examining dozens of them, Conway Morris reconstructed them as slug-like animals covered in rows of overlapping armor plates, with two rows of longer spines projecting upwards. Since 1990, there has been an intense debate about whether "Wiwax... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22547077 | 1,478,883 |
1,021,296 | Some studies attempt to go deeper into the preindustrial past. In 2018, one such paper suggested that the last 150 years of AMOC showed exceptional weakness when compared to the previous 1500 years, and it indicated a discrepancy in the modeled timing of AMOC decline after the Little Ice Age. In February 2021, a study ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5097491 | 1,020,767 |
934,531 | Starting in the 1960s new solid-state devices capable of delaying the transmitter signal in a controlled way were introduced. That led to the first practical large-scale passive electronically scanned array, or simply phased array radar. PESAs took a signal from a single source, split it into hundreds of paths, selecti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5760411 | 934,039 |
895,691 | Another challenge to the hypothesis involves the paucity of non-technological evidence of a kind we would expect to find transmitted from east to west; cave paintings of a kind associated with the Cave of Altamira in Spain, for example, are without close parallel in the New World. In response, Bradley and Stanford cont... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8413101 | 895,220 |
897,788 | With a diameter of up to , and a height reaching , "Prototaxites" fossils are remnants of by far the largest organism discovered from the period of its existence. Viewed from afar, the fossils take the form of tree-trunks, spreading slightly near their base in a fashion that suggests a connection to unpreserved root-li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10857884 | 897,314 |
1,517,500 | A microbial biosensor based on carbon nanotube (CNT) modified electrodes was developed. Pseudomonas putida DSM 50026 cells were used as the biological component and the measurement was based on the respiratory activity of the cells estimated from electrochemical measurements. The cells were immobilized on carbon nanotu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22444556 | 1,516,648 |
2,105,990 | Five Mid-American Conference teams opened up their season on November 13, the first Friday after the 2009–10 NCAA Division I men's basketball season began. Miami first played the Tigers of Towson University in their home court in Maryland. While the RedHawks were able to build to a 42–37 lead at halftime, Towson would ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24903336 | 2,104,777 |
1,803,573 | Developed for use with English-speaking patients aged 16 to 89 years, WTAR is a “hold” test, a type of neuropsychological test that relies on abilities thought to be unaffected by cognitive decline associated with neurological damage. In the design of WTAR, the demographic prediction tables were co-normed with the wide... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37966045 | 1,802,559 |
674,813 | The pumping engine for use in mines was a great success. In 1782 the firm sought to modify Watt's invention so that the engine had a rotary motion, making it suitable for use in mills and factories. On a 1781 visit to Wales Boulton had seen a powerful copper-rolling mill driven by water, and when told it was often inop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=250764 | 674,460 |
1,754,503 | Tin(II) selenide may be soon used in energy harvesting. Tin(II) selenide has demonstrated the ability to convert waste heat into electrical energy. SnSe has exhibited the highest thermoelectric material efficiency, measured by the unitless ZT parameter, of any known material (~2.62 at 923 K along the b axis and ~2.3 al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5302107 | 1,753,513 |
2,048,373 | Green campaigned for a new code of practice in the British Standards framework for the design of ship-to-shore walkways. This followed the September 1994 Prins Filip ferry disaster in which a walkway linking the ferry to the Port of Ramsgate had collapsed during passenger embarkation killing six people and seriously in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58133798 | 2,047,192 |
2,111,470 | ISSP followed its contemporary developments, in its first 20 years focusing on issues like the Cold War, nuclear proliferation, European security, crisis management, low intensity conflict and intelligence. Shortly after the end of the Cold War, in 1991, the ISSP in cooperation with Columbia University's International ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42183140 | 2,110,255 |
1,573,123 | Patch-seq can be done in any model system including cell culture for neurons. Neurons for culture may be collected from neuronal tissue then disassociated or made from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC), neurons that have been grown out of human stem cell lines. Cell culture preparation is the easiest to apply patch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66692692 | 1,572,234 |
1,955,160 | Peter Philip Edwards FRSC FRS (born 1949, Liverpool) is British Professor of Inorganic Chemistry and former Head of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford. Edwards is the recipient of the Corday-Morgan Medal (1985), the Tilden Lectureship (1993–94) and Liversidge ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21436139 | 1,954,038 |
1,023,513 | Most sintering furnaces contain three zones with three different properties that help to carry out the six steps above. The first zone, commonly coined the burn-off or purge stage, is designed to combust air, burn any contaminants such as lubricant or binders, and slowly raise the temperature of the compact materials. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=495768 | 1,022,980 |
601,856 | By December 2013, the UCLASS concept aircraft had shifted around significantly. Original requirements that were for a relatively simple ISR platform, were changed to a "heavy-end" ISR and strike aircraft with growth for weapons and sensors. It was planned to weigh , about the size of the F-14 Tomcat and much larger tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39092723 | 601,547 |
1,094,320 | About 8,000 students (winter semester 2011/12) in currently 26 B.A. and M.A. programmes make the Faculty of Arts and Humanities HHU's largest unit. It offers the prestigious M.A. in European Studies, a unique one-year English-taught course especially designed for exceptional graduates from universities in Israel, Pales... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1020838 | 1,093,760 |
1,133,439 | Current literature suggests women have higher level of social cognition. A 2012 review published in the journal "Neuropsychologia" found that women are better at recognizing facial effects, expression processing and emotions in general. Men were only better at recognizing specific behaviour which includes anger, aggres... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49026556 | 1,132,846 |
1,841,423 | In the context of conservation biology, genomic technologies such as the production of large-scale sequencing data sets via DNA sequencing can be used to highlight the relevant aspects of the biology of wildlife species for which management actions may be required. This may involve the estimation of recent demographic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62084317 | 1,840,371 |
1,908,792 | In a case study by the Harvard Business school, a diverse group of talented individuals came together at Music Games International, a small start-up company looking to release an innovative “music puzzle” game that would serve as educational software for children and as a music entertainment product. In the team, there... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44480752 | 1,907,694 |
495,748 | Radio is the dominant information tool to reach wide audiences in isolated, mountainous regions. The US military has deployed RIABs throughout Afghanistan in order to communicate with the residents. Due to a 70 percent illiteracy rate and lack of education in Afghanistan, radio is a vital communications tool used to br... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35596153 | 495,492 |
341,204 | Vacuum tubes used as switches made electronic computing possible for the first time, but the cost and relatively short mean time to failure of tubes were limiting factors. "The common wisdom was that valves—which, like light bulbs, contained a hot glowing filament—could never be used satisfactorily in large numbers, fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32496 | 341,023 |
2,089,700 | Due to student agitations, university reform and a new university law Ernst Fiala left the TU Berlin in 1970 and changed to Volkswagen Group in Wolfsburg. There, he took over the central research department and since March 1972 temporary supervision of the research and development department. In 1973 he was appointed V... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60080450 | 2,088,497 |
498,642 | Ron Lake started work on GML in the fall of 1998, following earlier work on XML encodings for radio broadcasting. Lake presented his early ideas to an OGC meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, in February 1999, under the title xGML. This introduced the idea of a GeoDOM, and the notion of Geographic Styling Language (GSL) based ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=203653 | 498,385 |
1,093,657 | Diplodocids also had long, whip-like tails, which were thick at the base and tapered off to be very thin at the end. Computer simulations have shown that the diplodocids could have easily snapped their tails, like a bullwhip. This could generate a sonic boom in excess of 200 decibels, and may have been used in mating d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1137870 | 1,093,097 |
1,404,793 | Donabedian received the degree of BA in 1940 and MD in 1944 and subsequently worked at the English Mission Hospital in Jerusalem, making a brief trip to England. As local war broke out over the partition of Palestine in 1948, he moved to the American University of Beirut where he occupied a number of teaching positions... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33517932 | 1,404,003 |
627,325 | In December 1991, Pakistani palaeontologist Mohammad Arif and Dutch–American palaeontologist Hans Thewissen were jointly funded by Howard University and the Geological Survey of Pakistan to recover land mammal fossils in the Kala Chitta Hills of Punjab, Pakistan. On 3 January 1992, they recovered a small, thick rib fra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=893602 | 626,992 |
780,036 | Between 1919 and 1927, Queen Elizabeth underwent numerous modifications, including the enlargement of the foremast top. Rangefinders were installed on the gun turrets "B" and "X" as well as high angle rangefinders at the forward wheelhouse. Another high angle range finder was installed at the forward conning tower. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=485634 | 779,619 |
229,876 | Although earlier microprocessors were commonly used in mass-produced devices such as calculators, cash registers, computer terminals, industrial robots, and other applications, the 8080 saw greater success in a wider set of applications, and is largely credited with starting the microcomputer industry. Several factors ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15062 | 229,759 |
1,272,932 | Although the TWI program funding for application of the programs in the USA by the government ended in 1945, the US government did fund the introduction to the war-torn nations of Europe and Asia. Several private groups continued to provide TWI in the US and abroad. Channing Dooley, Walter Dietz, Mike Kane and Bill Con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3746815 | 1,272,241 |
275,721 | As the formula shows, the COP of a heat pump system can be improved by reducing the temperature gap formula_26 minus formula_27 at which the system works. For a heating system this would mean two things: 1) reducing the output temperature to around which requires piped floor, wall or ceiling heating, or oversized water... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=542054 | 275,571 |
1,594,521 | Datta, born on 2 February 1944, secured a PhD from Calcutta University for his doctoral work done at Bose Institute. He later followed it up by obtaining the degree of Doctor of Science (DSc) from Calcutta University. His doctoral work at Bose Institute was facilitated by a fellowship from the Government of India from ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48434015 | 1,593,624 |
1,810,471 | The suspects who knowingly vandalised campus property have consistently claimed the work was done for the art. The five individuals responsible, who have been later identified as arts alumni, were Joane Cardinal-Schubert, Tony Acosta, Robin Laurence, Catherine McAvity, and Rita McKeough. Cardinal-Schubert has stated th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51387853 | 1,809,448 |
1,356,724 | Notable alumni of Senior House include Janos Pasztor (Nuclear Engineering, 1979), former Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations; John Brusger (Chemistry, 1978) founder of Newbury Comics; Lawrence Summers (Economics, 1975), former president of Harvard University and former Secretary of the Treasury during the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7341483 | 1,355,974 |
533,064 | Cells in many ways can be seen as their own form of naturally occurring wetware, similar to the concept that the human brain is the preexisting model system for complex wetware. In his book "Wetware: A Computer in Every Living Cell" (2009) Dennis Bray explains his theory that cells, which are the most basic form of lif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2530148 | 532,785 |
493,670 | In fact Usmanova et al. 2008 suggested that short-interspersed nuclear elements can serve as direct signals in chromatin rearrangement and structure. The paper examined the global distribution of SINEs in mouse and human chromosomes and determined that this distribution was very similar to genomic distributions of gene... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49982814 | 493,415 |
2,102,474 | Harris was born in 1947. He received his PhD from Cornell University in 1970, where his dissertation was entitled "A Model for Adaptive Problem Solving Applied to Natural Language Acquisition". It focused on the process of how a robot might learn a language's vocabulary and grammar from exploring a room receiving comme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61086319 | 2,101,262 |
1,142,839 | n-3 DPA (i.e. 7"Z",10"Z",13"Z",16"Z",19"Z"-docosahexaenoic acid)-derived resolvins are recently identified SPM. In the model system used to identify them, human platelets pretreated with aspirin to form acetylated COX2 or the statin, atorvastatin, to form S-ntrosylated and thereby modify this enzyme's activity metaboli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50704695 | 1,142,242 |
863,845 | In the first edition of "Principles", the first volume briefly set out Lyell's concept of a steady state with no real progression of fossils. The sole exception was the advent of humanity, with no great physical distinction from animals, but with absolutely unique intellectual and moral qualities. The second volume dis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7472 | 863,385 |
75,766 | Soon after, following a similar protocol to Kolmer, Brodie proceeded with self experimentation upon himself and his co-workers at the NYC Health Department laboratory. Brodie's progress was eagerly covered by popular press as the public hoped for a successful vaccine to become available. Such reporting did not make men... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=192198 | 75,738 |
646,793 | By 1810, Slater held part ownership in three factories in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. In 1823, he bought a mill in Connecticut. He also built factories to make the textile manufacturing machinery used by many of the region's mills and formed a partnership with his brother-in-law to produce iron for use in machinery... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=362607 | 646,453 |
1,738,275 | A major phased enhancement programme to provide high-integrity packet switched data, including mobile X.25 packet access, international interfacing and the development of equipment for use in armoured vehicles commenced in 1984 and was completed in 1992. BAE Systems was the appointed design authority for supporting the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18312776 | 1,737,298 |
274,450 | Following the awarding of the contract, a preliminary design review was carried out in September 1972, followed by a critical design review in September 1976 after which the engine's design was set and construction of the first set of flight-capable engines began. A final review of all the Space Shuttle's components, i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=680000 | 274,302 |
1,811,076 | O'Connor has also led a successful conservation project at the Abydos site. King Khasekhemwy of the Second Dynasty was the last early Egyptian king to have been buried at Abydos, and his funerary monument, Shunet el-Zebib, is the last standing monument of its kind in the area. With walls reaching 12 metres tall in some... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4659471 | 1,810,043 |
144,573 | In 2011, "The Lancet" published a study by the UK-based "PACE trial management group", which reported success with graded exercise therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome; a follow-up study was published in "Lancet Psychiatry" in 2015. The studies attracted criticism from some patients an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=463899 | 144,515 |
533,068 | Cognitive biology evaluates cognition as a basic biological function. W. Tecumseh Fitch, a professor of cognitive biology at the University of Vienna, is a leading theorist on ideas of cellular intentionality. The idea is that not only do whole organisms have a sense of "aboutness" of intentionality, but that single ce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2530148 | 532,789 |
379,242 | Outside the United States, mifepristone is marketed and distributed by Exelgyn Laboratories under the tradename Mifegyne. It was approved for use in France in 1988 (initial marketing in 1989), the United Kingdom in 1991, Sweden in 1992, then Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, Luxembourg, the Netherlan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=181415 | 379,047 |
1,280,820 | The medical establishment controlling the London teaching hospitals, including the Royal College of Surgeons, was restricted to Anglicans and dominated by the aristocracy who saw perfect animal design as proof of a natural theology supporting their ideas of God-given rank and privilege. Since the 1820s large numbers of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1632764 | 1,280,125 |
1,690,407 | Originally, CRREL cold-room facilities used trichloroethylene (TCE) as a refrigerant. At the time there were few known environmental hazards attributed to TCE. Subsequently, TCE has been identified as a carcinogen. In 1970, an industrial accident resulted in a spill of approximately 3,000 gallons of TCE. In 1978, TCE w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3571931 | 1,689,461 |
738,809 | Simply due to the high number of microorganisms in MBRs, the pollutants uptake rate can be increased. This leads to better degradation in a given time span or to smaller required reactor volumes. In comparison to the conventional activated sludge process (ASP) which typically achieves 95 percent, COD removal can be inc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16743975 | 738,418 |
1,344,626 | Due to growing concerns surrounding global warming and climate change, as well as the rise of technological improvements, architectural bionics became primarily focused on more efficient ways to achieve modern sustainability. An example of the modern architectural bionic movement includes the "30 St Mary Axe" (2003), w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10582830 | 1,343,888 |
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