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1,208,679 | The extreme complexity of most turbidite systems and beds has promoted the development of quantitative models of turbidity current behaviour inferred solely from their deposits. Small-scale laboratory experiments therefore offer one of the best means of studying their dynamics. Mathematical models can also provide sign... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1763424 | 1,208,033 |
1,553,113 | In a review of 264 women diagnosed with anogenital papillary hidradenomas, patients ranged in age from 25 to 82 years (median: 49 years); in 25 cases where the information was available, the tumors had been present for 2–120 months (median: 12 months) with 13 patients reporting their tumor's presence for less than 1 ye... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10375120 | 1,552,232 |
345,515 | In 1951, the Diesel-electric oil tanker "Auris", 12,290 deadweight tonnage (DWT) was used to obtain operating experience with a main propulsion gas turbine under service conditions at sea and so became the first ocean-going merchant ship to be powered by a gas turbine. Built by Hawthorn Leslie at Hebburn-on-Tyne, UK, i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58664 | 345,334 |
408,751 | Campylobacter (meaning "curved bacteria") is a genus of Gram-negative bacteria. "Campylobacter" typically appear comma- or s-shaped, and are motile. Some "Campylobacter" species can infect humans, sometimes causing campylobacteriosis, a diarrhoeal disease in humans. Campylobacteriosis is usually self-limiting and antim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63587 | 408,550 |
688,665 | In addition to repeating and producing speech, the ADS appears to have a role in monitoring the quality of the speech output. Neuroanatomical evidence suggests that the ADS is equipped with descending connections from the IFG to the pSTG that relay information about motor activity (i.e., corollary discharges) in the vo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1732213 | 688,304 |
215,316 | Over the winter of 1938–1939, Arnold transferred a group of experienced officers headed by Lt. Col. Carl A. Spaatz to his headquarters as an unofficial air staff to lay out a plan that would increase the Air Corps to 50,000 men by June 1941. The expansion program of the Air Corps was characterized by repeated upward re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23869026 | 215,208 |
1,863,381 | The goal of GEAR UP is to increase the number of these students who matriculate into in-state public universities. The grant operates on a six-year grant program. The grants are divided into two groups: state grants and partnership grants. State grants must include a plan to contact students prior to the prospective st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20641385 | 1,862,311 |
1,309,925 | The needs and beliefs of Banpo society created the prototype Chinese urban form. The springtime sacred procreation sites became, in time, the Holy Place called "bo" . Moreover, the connection between ancestors, earth, and fertility developed into a theory of "qi" energy and "fengshui" geomancy. The "Book of Burial" ela... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23945936 | 1,309,207 |
630,132 | One of these stations was to be located on the coast near Orford Ness, and Bawdsey Manor was selected to become the main centre for all radar research. To put a radar defence in place as quickly as possible, Watson-Watt and his team created devices using existing components, rather than creating new components for the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37206 | 629,794 |
1,830,573 | Scheibel also spent time working as a psychiatric consultant for Camarillo State Hospital, at which he encountered primarily patients diagnosed with schizophrenia. He was able to obtain brain tissue samples from people with schizophrenia that were about to be discarded from the hospital, and he then focused his researc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66282493 | 1,829,527 |
884,052 | Drugs function by binding to specific locations on target molecules and causing some desired change, such as disabling a target or causing a conformational change. Ideally, a drug should act very specifically, and bind only to its target without interfering with other biological functions. However, it is difficult to p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=413102 | 883,588 |
1,159,781 | In the Mozart "Piano Concerto No. 21" in 2015, according to Matt Palm of the "Orlando Sentinel", "Tao's energetic work blended seamlessly with his fellow musicians to create both elegance and exuberance." Scott Cantrell of "The Dallas Morning News" called Tao's Aaron Copland piano sonata "gripping ... finely timed and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33615494 | 1,159,166 |
1,864,208 | During his career Schwan did much to improve the emerging field of biomedical engineering, developed its first Ph.D. program, and produced more than 300 technical papers and gave countless lectures. He is best known for many biophysical studies related to electrical properties of cells and tissues, and on non-thermal m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12722607 | 1,863,136 |
452,186 | Spectroscopic studies of superflares allow their properties to be determined in more detail, in the hope of detecting the cause of the flares. The first studies were made using the high dispersion spectrograph on the Subaru telescope in Hawaii. Some 50 apparently solar-type stars, known from the Kepler observations to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24728109 | 451,967 |
346,903 | In 2010, German tabloid "Bild" reported that German Army experts had concerns that the helicopter was not yet ready for the transportation of combat troops. They stated that the seats were rated for only 110 kg (240 lb), not considered enough for a fully equipped soldier. Heavy infantry weapons could not be adequately ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=513911 | 346,722 |
1,447,463 | Currently, reverse osmosis and vacuum-evaporation technologies are used to concentrate juices and other food liquids. In commercial operations, juice is normally concentrated by evaporation. Since 1962, the Thermally Accelerated Short Time Evaporator (TASTE) has been widely used. TASTE evaporators are efficient, sanita... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25087021 | 1,446,647 |
1,585,187 | The physical and chemical state of a surface or object have direct impact on the emissivity, reflectance and refractance of electromagnetic radiation. Sensors on remote sensing instruments capture radiation, which can be translated back to deduce the physio-chemical properties of the surface. Water content, temperature... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67696353 | 1,584,296 |
1,297,359 | As the sport grew in the 1960s and 1970s, each nation devised its own set of rules and regulations. The need for more clearly defined and consistent rules for international competitions led to the formation of an ARDF working group by the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) in the late 1970s. The first ARDF event ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3058028 | 1,296,648 |
737,408 | CTA1 is then free to bind with a human partner protein called ADP-ribosylation factor 6 (Arf6); binding to Arf6 drives a change in the shape of CTA1 which exposes its active site and enables its catalytic activity. The CTA1 fragment catalyses ADP-ribosylation of the Gs alpha subunit (Gα) proteins using NAD. The ADP-rib... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5499945 | 737,019 |
2,081,936 | In order to enable new ways to interactively explore the VEP's massive volume datasets, Michael Doyle created the zMap system, using the Visible Human Project image data for the first prototype. In 2011, Doyle collaborated with Steven Landers, Maurice Pescitelli, and others to use zMap to create an interactive tool tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70238111 | 2,080,736 |
32,819 | The use of low doses of quetiapine for insomnia, while common, is not recommended; there is little evidence of benefit and concerns regarding adverse effects. A 2022 network meta-analysis of 154 double-blind, randomized controlled trials of drug therapies vs. placebo for insomnia in adults found that quetiapine did not... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=185384 | 32,807 |
1,049,304 | Sales of amber were alleged to help fund the Kachin conflict by various news organisations in 2019. Interest in this discussion rose in March 2020 after the highly publicised description of "Oculudentavis," which made the cover of "Nature". On April 21, 2020, the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) published a let... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48679019 | 1,048,758 |
1,471,585 | "I'm really fortunate to be given the crew members that I have on this mission. It's myself and six others. We do swap one of our crew members with the expedition crew member on board. So Greg goes up, Greg stays on station and Garrett comes home. But the crew that was assigned to me—I'm really fortunate to have some r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6002579 | 1,470,757 |
1,343,659 | Microdialysis is a minimally-invasive sampling technique that is used for continuous measurement of free, unbound analyte concentrations in the extracellular fluid of virtually any tissue. Analytes may include endogenous molecules (e.g. neurotransmitter, hormones, glucose, etc.) to assess their biochemical functions in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2279144 | 1,342,923 |
637,095 | Molluscs have such diverse shapes that many textbooks base their descriptions of molluscan anatomy on a generalized or "hypothetical ancestral mollusc". This generalized mollusc is unsegmented and bilaterally symmetrical with an underside consisting of a single muscular foot. Beyond that it has three further key featur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15182882 | 636,756 |
1,932,282 | Humans have strongly altered nighttime lighting. This light pollution has had serious impacts on species that rely on visual cues for navigation. One recent study of rodent communities showed that brighter nights led to community-level changes in foraging behavior; while less predator-susceptible species foraged heavil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10013549 | 1,931,174 |
1,557,197 | In April 2019, Prendergast gave a wide-ranging interview to the music magazine Hot Press. He was involved in several controversies, most notably over branding and "Take Back Trinity", a student movement to resist commercialisation within the university. He was often accused of being out of touch with student and staff ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=769190 | 1,556,312 |
1,616,820 | G P Thomson (son of J J Thomson) replaced Callender in 1932, and worked in part on nuclear physics and atomic weaponry. He was followed P. M. S. Blackett as head in around 1953, with the construction of the new Physics building starting at about the same time. Blackett refocused efforts from low-energy physics to high-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38233237 | 1,615,909 |
680,349 | Many of the Proteaceae have specialised proteoid roots, masses of lateral roots and hairs forming a radial absorptive surface, produced in the leaf litter layer during seasonal growth, and usually shrivelling at the end of the growth season. They are an adaptation to growth in poor, phosphorus-deficient soils, greatly ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5713772 | 679,995 |
689,484 | The ability of plants to develop and thrive is dependent on conditions such as microgravity and cosmic radiation in space. China has been experimenting with this theory by sending seeds into space, testing to see if space flights will cause genetic mutations. Since 1987, China has cultivated 66 mutant varieties from sp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31552410 | 689,122 |
1,713,560 | It was not until the last quarter of the 19th century that any real advance was made in the study of economic entomology. Among the early writings, besides the book of Curtis, there was a publication by Pohl and Kollar, entitled "Insects Injurious to Gardeners, Foresters and Farmers", published in 1837, and Taschenberg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3966878 | 1,712,594 |
832,718 | Work on scalable oversight largely occurs within formalisms such as POMDPs. Existing formalisms assume that the agent's algorithm is executed outside the environment (i.e. not physically embedded in it). Embedded agency is another major strand of research which attempts to solve problems arising from the mismatch betwe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50785023 | 832,269 |
1,016,272 | The Multispectral Scanner (MSS) onboard Landsat missions 1 through 5 was originally built with an engineering solution that allowed the United States to develop Landsat-1 at least five years ahead of the French SPOT. The original MSS had a fused silica dinner-plate mirror epoxy bonded to three invar tangent bars mounte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=387175 | 1,015,749 |
438,748 | The psychologist Harry Guntrip wrote that its publication "greatly stimulated the discussion of the nature of scientific knowledge", including by philosophers who did not completely agree with Popper, such as Thomas Kuhn and Horace Romano Harré. The psychiatrist Carl Jung, founder of analytical psychology, valued the w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=157720 | 438,534 |
1,399,248 | After the end of World War I, the OCO was reorganized into four major parts in 1919 to accommodate for peacetime operations requirements: the General Office, the Manufacturing Service, the Field Service, and the Technical Staff. In 1935, the Research Division was created at Aberdeen Proving Ground and placed under the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30865936 | 1,398,473 |
515,582 | The habit of some plants to move in the direction of the Sun, a form of tropism, was already known by the Ancient Greeks. They named one of those plants after that property "Heliotropium", meaning "sun turn". The Greeks assumed it to be a passive effect, presumably the loss of fluid on the illuminated side, that did no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1213674 | 515,316 |
1,437,263 | The facility was built as a memorial to Kentuckians who had died during World War I, World War II and the Korean War. Later, the names of all Kentuckians who died in the Vietnam War were added. Originally, it had an official capacity of 12,000, making it the largest arena in the South at the time. However, the Coliseum... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2358427 | 1,436,454 |
950,472 | In the 17th century, as at the present time, the question of scientific priority was of great importance to scientists. However, during this period, scientific journals had just begun to appear, and the generally accepted mechanism for fixing priority by publishing information about the discovery had not yet been forme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3671687 | 949,968 |
1,092,547 | Initial power output was quoted as 110 horsepower -- a little higher than the target figure -- at 3,900 rpm, a rather high power peak for those days. The torque curve was quite flat, however, with at least 180 pounds/feet available from 3,500 rpm all the way down to 400 rpm, which made for incredible top-gear performan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6610374 | 1,091,987 |
1,975,342 | A key tool in evidence-based medicine that holds promise for EBT is the systematic review. Historically, authors of reviews assessing the results of toxicological studies on a particular topic have searched, selected, and weighed the scientific evidence in a non-systematic and non-transparent way. Due to their narrativ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40419859 | 1,974,205 |
1,423,697 | "Voyager 1" was first of the two probes to encounter the Jupiter system in March 1979. On approach to Jupiter in late February and early March 1979, "Voyager" imaging scientists noticed that Io appeared distinct from the other Galilean satellites. Its surface was orange in color and marked by dark spots, which were ini... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26237277 | 1,422,896 |
2,117,872 | Humankind's closest ancestors, the great apes, have evolved a number of specialized behaviors: orangutans are specialists at climbing trees, while chimpanzees and gorillas have evolved to walk on their knuckles. However, in considering non-behavioral specializations, Penn et al. (2008) argue that the "profound continui... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3286366 | 2,116,654 |
730,215 | In the early 19th century Jean Baptiste Lamarck used fossils to argue for his theory of the transmutation of species. Fossil finds, and the emerging evidence that life had changed over time, fueled speculation on this topic during the next few decades. Robert Chambers used fossil evidence in his 1844 popular science bo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7991116 | 729,830 |
538,342 | In October 1666 two fishermen caught a huge female shark near the town of Livorno, and Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, ordered its head to be sent to Steensen. Steensen dissected the head and published his findings in 1667. He noted that the shark's teeth bore a striking resemblance to certain stony ob... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69641 | 538,063 |
2,147,277 | The China–Brazil Earth Resources Satellites (CBERS) programme embraces a family of remote-sensing satellites built jointly by Brazil and China which provide coverage of the world's land areas. CBERS-1 functioned from October 1999 to July 2003, CBERS-2 from October 2003 to June 2008 and CBERS-2B from September 2007 to M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53042476 | 2,146,046 |
73,695 | Wiles worked on that task for six years in near-total secrecy, covering up his efforts by releasing prior work in small segments as separate papers and confiding only in his wife. His initial study suggested proof by induction, and he based his initial work and first significant breakthrough on Galois theory before swi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19021953 | 73,668 |
379,847 | In March 1945, Operation Starvation began in earnest, using 160 of LeMay's B-29 Superfortress bombers to attack Japan's inner zone. Almost half of the mines were the US-built Mark 25 model, carrying of explosives and weighing about . Other mines used included the smaller Mark 26. Fifteen B-29s were lost while 293 Japan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22102 | 379,652 |
1,066,977 | In simplest terms, a potential energy surface or PES is a mathematical or graphical representation of the relation between energy of a molecule and its geometry. The methods for describing the potential energy are broken down into a classical mechanics interpretation (molecular mechanics) and a quantum mechanical inter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14149235 | 1,066,423 |
1,155,351 | Effective bone substitute materials should exhibit good mechanical strength along with adequate bioactivity. Bioactivity, which is often gauged in terms of dissolution rates and the formation of a mineral layer on the implant surface in-vivo, can be enhanced in biomaterials, in particular hydroxyapatite, by modifying t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23035006 | 1,154,741 |
220,448 | In the early 19th century, uranium ore was recovered as a byproduct of mining in Saxony, Bohemia, and Cornwall. The first deliberate mining of radioactive ores took place in Joachimsthal, a silver-mining city now in the Czech Republic and origin of the word T(h)aler and from there dollar. Marie Skłodowska-Curie used pi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4913827 | 220,339 |
1,727,158 | The Voltec drivetrain was initially demonstrated as E-Flex in the 2007 Chevrolet Volt concept vehicle that appeared in the North American International Auto Show which introduced the E-Flex drive system as an attempt to standardize many components of possible future electrically propelled vehicles, and to allow multipl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15112871 | 1,726,184 |
942,666 | When electric motors started to become common in the early 20th century, many cone-head lathes were converted to electric power. At the same time the state of the art in gear and bearing practice was advancing to the point that manufacturers began to make fully geared headstocks, using gearboxes analogous to automobile... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2551777 | 942,164 |
1,838,118 | The Society of the Natural Sciences was established in 1850, under the patronage of Prince Henry, the newly appointed Governor of Luxembourg representing Grand Duke William III. The society's primary aim was the promotion of the natural sciences and natural history to the general population. To achieve this, the govern... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8593995 | 1,837,069 |
804,587 | For last few years NewSpace Research & Technologies already started developing systems such as CATS Infinity. In 2017, Boeing helped in validating the UAV and was impressed by the design and technological advancement of Infinity in the field of aerospace engineering. The first flight of the system designed for high alt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66820762 | 804,158 |
973,460 | LEGO Mindstorms was released on 1 September 1998 at a retail price of $199. The entire production run (of between 60-100 thousand units) sold out within 3 months. Despite being aimed towards children, the kit quickly found an audience with adults and hackers of all ages; Lego company surveys had determined that seventy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=198856 | 972,950 |
1,193,706 | The rapid progress made by Pakistan in the IT and telecom sector during 2000–2002, under Professor Atta-ur-Rahman as Federal Minister, led to the spread of internet from 29 cities in the year 2000 to 1,000 cities, towns and villages by 2002, and the spread of fiber from 40 cities to 400 cities in this period. The first... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20722416 | 1,193,066 |
798,164 | Fiberglass (glass-reinforced plastic or GRP) is typically used for production boats because of its ability to reuse a female mould as the foundation for the shape of the boat. The resulting structure is strong in tension but often needs to be either laid up with many heavy layers of resin-saturated fiberglass or reinfo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=499365 | 797,739 |
830,635 | The ultraviolet light from an excimer laser is well absorbed by biological matter and organic compounds. Rather than burning or cutting material, the excimer laser adds enough energy to disrupt the molecular bonds of the surface tissue, which effectively disintegrates into the air in a tightly controlled manner through... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=581704 | 830,187 |
481,017 | Since then, the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) has been working with a range of stakeholders on V2X. In 2012, a pre-deployment project was implemented in Ann Arbor, Michigan. 2800 vehicles covering cars, motorcycles, buses and HGV of different brands took part using equipment by different manufactur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6206730 | 480,773 |
2,001,612 | In the 1950s described an operation using the gracilis muscle from the inner thigh and wrapping it around the anus to function as a new anal sphincter (neosphincter). Non dynamic graciloplasty was not particularly successful because the gracilis is mostly composed of type II, fast-twitch, fatiguable muscle fibres, wher... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38075591 | 2,000,465 |
786,870 | In September 2009, the "Army Times" and "Marine Corps Times" published reports that US Army researchers have begun the process of designing a version of the Abrams that will carry the M1A3 label. According to the reports, the Army is seeking to reduce the weight of the vehicle to approximately 60 tons from its current ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25079265 | 786,447 |
504,929 | Developed from 2020 to 2021 by a team of US Air Force development groups and industry partners, Rapid Dragon has all of its capabilities self-contained on its disposable drop pallet; allowing a standard military cargo plane to be used at any time as a standoff strategic bomber before reverting back to regular transport... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71379304 | 504,667 |
1,505,647 | As genome sequencing costs dropped steeply over the 2000s, acquiring enough markers on enough subjects for reliable estimates using very distantly related individuals became possible. An early application of the method to humans came with Visscher et al. 2006/2007, which used SNP markers to estimate the actual relatedn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50613151 | 1,504,801 |
1,178,033 | In 2009 North Korea announced its intention to build an indigenous experimental light water reactor (LWR) and the uranium enrichment technology to provide its nuclear fuel. In 2010 a 2,000 gas centrifuge uranium enrichment plant to produce low enriched uranium (LEU) fuel began operating, and construction started on the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=507777 | 1,177,409 |
992,846 | Nutting ordered an initial production run of 1,500 units of "Computer Space", an optimistic decision given that a hit arcade game at the time would sell around 2,000 units, though a handful had reached 10,000. Reception to the game from distributors was mixed. While some were excited by the game, others felt it confusi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=292879 | 992,329 |
147,985 | Nanoparticles present possible dangers, both medically and environmentally. Most of these are due to the high surface to volume ratio, which can make the particles very reactive or catalytic. They are also thought to aggregate on phospholipid bilayers and pass through cell membranes in organisms, and their interactions... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1234517 | 147,926 |
310,343 | The first shipment of Panzer I's was brought under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma in "Gruppe Thoma" (also referred to as "Panzergruppe Drohne"). Gruppe Thoma formed part of Gruppe Imker, the ground formations of the German Condor Legion, who fought on the side of Franco's Nationalists. Betwe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29073044 | 310,175 |
835,921 | The NASA Authorization Act of 2010 allocated US$1.3 billion for an expansion of the existing Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) program over three years. While the program's first round of competition in 2010 focused on funding development of various human spaceflight technologies in the private sector as part of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64072812 | 835,472 |
1,258,926 | In a location where the imbalancing effects of adiabatic advection are acting to drive upward motion (where formula_47 in Eq. 1), the inertia of the geostrophic wind field (that is, its propensity to carry on forward) is creating a demand for decreasing thickness formula_48 in order for thermal wind balance to continue... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15618376 | 1,258,239 |
584,657 | The window of economic advantage in metal injection molded parts lies in complexity and volume for small-size parts. MIM materials are comparable to metal formed by competing methods, and final products are used in a broad range of industrial, commercial, medical, dental, firearms, aerospace, and automotive application... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2793738 | 584,357 |
1,764,341 | The EAT was developed for a study examining possible sociocultural factors contributing to the increased prevalence of anorexia nervosa and other milder variants of the disorder. This original study examined groups of highly competitive dance students and fashion models, who by career choice must focus increased attent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10920058 | 1,763,348 |
1,370,729 | From 1937 Burnet was involved in a variety of scientific and public policy bodies, starting with a position on a government advisory council on polio. After he became the director of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in 1944, he was considered a public figure and overcame shyness to become a good public speaker. He r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=417493 | 1,369,973 |
1,238,239 | The earliest provisions for seismic resistance were the requirement to design for a lateral force equal to a proportion of the building weight (applied at each floor level). This approach was adopted in the appendix of the 1927 Uniform Building Code (UBC), which was used on the west coast of the United States. It later... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1800557 | 1,237,573 |
2,074,353 | "Mycobacterium tuberculosis" (Mtb) is the etiologic agent of the disease tuberculosis, which kills approximately 1.4 million people each year. Mtb's arduous treatment regimen and the recent emergence of increasingly drug-resistant Mtb strains have given rise to an urgent need for the development of new anti-tubercular ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50781211 | 2,073,157 |
72,813 | Robert Sedgewick's PhD thesis in 1975 is considered a milestone in the study of Quicksort where he resolved many open problems related to the analysis of various pivot selection schemes including Samplesort, adaptive partitioning by Van Emden as well as derivation of expected number of comparisons and swaps. Jon Bentle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3268249 | 72,786 |
1,244,485 | Five pumping stations kept the mains pressurised, assisted by accumulators. The original station was at Falcon Wharf, Bankside, but this was replaced by four stations at Wapping, Rotherhithe, Grosvenor Road in Pimlico and City Road in Clerkenwell. A fifth station at East India Docks was originally operated by the Port ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4488634 | 1,243,812 |
1,342,964 | Gramicidin S was discovered by Russian microbiologist Georgyi Frantsevitch Gause and his wife Maria Brazhnikova in 1942. Within the year Gramicidin S was being used in Soviet military hospitals to treat infection and eventually found usage at the front lines of combat by 1946. Gause was awarded the Stalin Prize for Med... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2747566 | 1,342,228 |
1,962,451 | Using funds secured by Mohl, Botta conducted extensive excavations at Nineveh. Because the ruins of the ancient city were hidden very deep below layers upon layers of later settlement and agricultural activities, Botta never reached them. At the same time as the excavation project at Nineveh failed to conjure up anythi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70245846 | 1,961,323 |
746,543 | The tight limitations of the "Washington Naval Treaty" raised many challenges and required difficult compromises if they were to be met. To avoid the class being outgunned by the new ships of foreign navies, especially as by the mid-1930s the Treaty had been renounced by Japan and Italy, Churchill wrote to the First Lo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=485616 | 746,148 |
109,709 | As per the latest official notification released by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, AIIMS, JIPMER -Puducherry, PGIMER -Chandigarh & all INIs (Institutes of National Importance) were directed to not to conduct any Undergraduate entrance exams from 2020 onwards. Government has said that from 2020 session onwar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61795854 | 109,664 |
986,698 | More than 50,000 students have graduated since its first class of 9 students in 1885 and about 300 of today's active duty admirals, and generals and senior executive service leaders are alumni. The college's joint professional military education (JPME) programs prepare leaders for the challenges of operational and stra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=534468 | 986,183 |
772,488 | The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has published a list of yearly technical system targets for on-board hydrogen storage for light-duty fuel cell vehicles which guide researchers in the field (5.5 wt %/40 g L by 2017; 7.5 wt %/70 g L ultimate). Materials with high porosity and high surface area such as MOFs have been ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9821563 | 772,073 |
992,841 | In January 1971, Bushnell and Dabney founded Syzygy Engineering as an official company, now with a cash amount of US$350 each. They approached Ampex and a prior manager of Dabney's with their prototype, but found no interest. The major arcade game manufacturers were based out of Chicago at the time, limiting their abil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=292879 | 992,324 |
1,685,848 | Provenance (from the French provenir, "to come from"), is the place of origin or earliest known history of something. In geology (specifically, in sedimentary petrology), the term provenance deals with the question where sediments originate from. The purpose of sedimentary provenance studies is to reconstruct and to in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44007076 | 1,684,902 |
1,210,388 | Despite their effectiveness, chemical fire extinguishing agents are not without disadvantages. In the early 20th century, carbon tetrachloride was extensively used as a dry cleaning solvent, a refrigerant and as a fire extinguishing agent. In time, it was found carbon tetrachloride could lead to severe health effects. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16292798 | 1,209,741 |
1,007,521 | As previously mentioned, chronic alcoholism is known to be associated with significant brain damage. The pronounced shrinkage in the frontal lobes and cerebellum of alcoholics correlates with serious impairments in executive and psychomotor functions. However, longitudinal studies suggest that some of these brain damag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1732125 | 1,007,001 |
1,204,103 | "S. pneumoniae" is normally found in the nose and throat of 5–10% of healthy adults and 20–40% of healthy children. It can be found in higher amounts in certain environments, especially those where people are spending a great deal of time in close proximity to each other (day-care centers, military barracks). It attach... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20246683 | 1,203,458 |
128,683 | From the 1930s to the late 1950s, works by Vening-Meinesz, Holmes, Umbgrove, and numerous others outlined concepts that were close or nearly identical to modern plate tectonics theory. In particular, the English geologist Arthur Holmes proposed in 1920 that plate junctions might lie beneath the sea, and in 1928 that co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6056 | 128,631 |
260,689 | The player administers a space program operated by Kerbals, a species of small green humanoids, who have constructed a spaceport called the Kerbal Space Center (KSC) on their home planet, Kerbin. From this space center players can create rockets, aircraft, spaceplanes, rovers, and other craft from a provided set of com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33134040 | 260,554 |
670,192 | The Bible names some half-dozen star groups, but authorities differ widely as to their identity. In a striking passage, the Prophet Amos glorifies the Creator as "Him that made Kimah and Kesil", rendered in the Vulgate as Arcturus and Orion. Now Kimah certainly does not mean Arcturus. The word, which occurs twice in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47321321 | 669,842 |
157,872 | The development of the APCI interface for LC-MS started with Horning and collaborators in the early 1973. However, its commercial application was introduced at the beginning of the 1990s after Henion and collaborators improved the LC-APCI-MS interface in 1986. The APCI ion source/ interface can be used to analyze small... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2378378 | 157,800 |
926,516 | Bussard's study also attracted the attention of John von Neumann, who formed an ad hoc committee for nuclear propulsion of missiles. Mark Mills, the assistant director at Livermore was its chairman, and its other members were Norris Bradbury from LASL; Edward Teller and Herbert York from Livermore; Abe Silverstein, the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=712716 | 926,030 |
1,828,777 | FDTD modeling has helped establish the fundamental physics foundation of Prof. Backman's spectroscopic microscopy technique for early detection of human cancers. Work has progressed from the early FDTD studies reported in Dec. 2008 in "Proc. National Academy of Sciences USA" to the analytical and FDTD modeling advances... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6071706 | 1,827,737 |
532,702 | Star trackers, which require high sensitivity, may become confused by sunlight reflected from the spacecraft, or by exhaust gas plumes from the spacecraft thrusters (either sunlight reflection or contamination of the star tracker window). Star trackers are also susceptible to a variety of errors (low spatial frequency,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3472310 | 532,423 |
292,985 | A small PV system is capable of providing enough AC electricity to power a single home, or an isolated device in the form of AC or DC electric. Military and civilian Earth observation satellites, street lights, construction and traffic signs, electric cars, solar-powered tents, and electric aircraft may contain integra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15677755 | 292,827 |
1,486,671 | Lt Dolores "Dee" O'Hara (born 1935) and Lt Shirley Sineath were the first nurses assigned to work with the seven Project Mercury astronauts. Lieutenant O'Hara was the official staff nurse while Lieutenant Sineath was assigned as a surgical nurse on the recovery team.[5] Before her career with NASA, O’Hara worked as a r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33958232 | 1,485,833 |
124,125 | Popper was interested in the overall learning process in science, to quasi-induction, which he also called the "path of science". However, Popper did not show much interest in these reasoning patterns, which he globally referred to as psychologism. He did not deny the possibility of some kind of psychological explanati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11283 | 124,074 |
1,449,731 | Together with the Royal Australian Army Dental Corps and the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps, the RAAMC is responsible for providing the Australian Army's health capability. The corps is tasked with providing the Army with a range of medical services, ranging from pre hospital care including emergency battlefield c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1880461 | 1,448,915 |
500,506 | In July 2012, several media outlets reported Flynn as saying that women had, for the first time in a century, surpassed men on IQ tests based on a study he conducted in 2010. However, Flynn announced that the media had seriously distorted his results and went beyond his findings, revealing that he had instead discovere... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16573 | 500,249 |
290,268 | Another potential devastating effect of nuclear war is termed nuclear winter. The idea become popularized in mainstream culture during the 1980s, when Richard P. Turco, Owen Toon, Thomas P. Ackerman, James B. Pollack and Carl Sagan collaborated and produced a scientific study which suggested the Earth's weather and cli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4380587 | 290,111 |
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