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1,634,507 | She then steamed for Boston via Bermuda. Upon completion of repairs at Boston Navy Yard, she was directed to conduct Atlantic coast antisubmarine warfare (ASW) patrols, commencing 25 March 1943. At 09.03 hours on 3 April 1943, the unescorted "Gulfstate" (Master James Frank Harrell, lost) was hit by two torpedoes from U... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2470153 | 1,633,584 |
655,705 | Other challenges to the design of the facilities were presented by the museum’s sustainability initiatives. The use of natural light whenever possible challenged exhibit designers relying on carefully controlled light levels; this was solved by using curtains and glare-reducing paint colors. Other conflicts between con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22990622 | 655,361 |
400,844 | During the Apollo 1 fire, Slayton was in the Cape Canaveral LC-34 blockhouse. He was a close friend of fellow astronaut Gus Grissom and had considered working inside the capsule to determine communications problems and would have worked under the footrests, where the fire would later begin. After the fire, Slayton call... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=331454 | 400,645 |
515,109 | Military uniforms are influenced by the politics of the time, along with culture, ideology, and the economy. Examining the story of uniforms helps one understand the thinking of a certain era. Within the Bundeswehr Military History Museum, the display of uniforms is considered one of the most meaningful exhibitions. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9306991 | 514,843 |
1,368,881 | Practically all PCs and some laptops are built from readily interchangeable standard parts. Even in the more specialized laptop market, a considerable degree of standardization exists in the basic design, although it may not be easily accessible to end-users. Although motherboards are specialized to work only with eith... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2030760 | 1,368,125 |
279,734 | This engine was the basis of the Curtiss-Wright XLR25-CW-1 two-chamber, 15,000-pound variable-thrust engine that powered the Bell X-2 research rocket plane. After World War II, Goddard's team and some patents went to Curtiss-Wright Corporation. "Although his death in August 1945 prevented him from participating in the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=210597 | 279,584 |
1,133,330 | Milner was born in Yealmpton, near Plymouth, England into a military family. He gained a King's Scholarship to Eton College in 1947, and was awarded the Tomline Prize (the highest prize in Mathematics at Eton) in 1952. Subsequently, he served in the Royal Engineers, attaining the rank of Second Lieutenant. He then enro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=93547 | 1,132,737 |
1,586,083 | PROMIS takes advantage of developments in technology, as well as advances in the sciences of psychometric, qualitative, cognitive, and health survey research, to create new models and methods for collecting PROs for use in clinical research and evaluation of medical care. PROMIS incorporates and translates cutting-edge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38719870 | 1,585,192 |
1,166,259 | The "da capo" aspects of the movement are manifested in the first and last sections in A minor, which frame the middle section, comprising bars 13–40, that starts with new musical material in the relative major key of C major. In the movement the seven bar fugal melody segment (bars 1–7, 21–27, 41–47) that forms the ri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51501355 | 1,165,642 |
597,015 | Housings for bicycle brakes need not be quite so compressionless, but need to be stronger, and items currently sold for this purpose use a close-wound spiral support wire. One end of a brake housing is tight-terminated in an end cap or ferrule that makes a loose fit within a barrel adjuster, and the other in any of a v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=295477 | 596,710 |
1,136,341 | In the early twentieth century, purchasing and the function that it served and represented did not enjoy the full support of management, which was typically indifferent to it or unaware of its potential. Prior to 1915, local purchasing associations had formed in at least 10 major cities in the U.S., including one of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68036 | 1,135,748 |
608,311 | The largest external and ergonomic difference in marker bodies is in the trigger and barrel position. Designers of expensive models attempt to position the trigger frame forward towards the center, or slightly forward of center of the body on speed-ball-oriented markers. This allows the HPA tank to be mounted in a posi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2725902 | 608,000 |
199,642 | Although the mathematical basis of quantum chemistry had been laid by Schrödinger in 1926, it is generally accepted that the first true calculation in quantum chemistry was that of the German physicists Walter Heitler and Fritz London on the hydrogen (H) molecule in 1927. Heitler and London's method was extended by the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25211 | 199,539 |
2,105,011 | The organization's official newsletter is "NMSR Reports". In April 1998, an article appeared in NMSR Reports stating that the state of Alabama intended to change the definition of pi to three, supposedly to bring it in line with the Christian Bible"'s" statements on the matter. The article, which was satirical, was ori... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44743174 | 2,103,798 |
1,406,822 | Traditionally, PPII has been considered to be relatively rigid and used as a "molecular ruler" in structural biology, e.g., to calibrate FRET efficiency measurements. However, subsequent experimental and theoretical studies have called into question this picture of a polyproline peptide as a "rigid rod". Further studie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5176951 | 1,406,032 |
1,583,224 | The adaptability of any force's force structure is usually tested in wartime to reflect changing nature of warfare, and therefore military doctrine, it usually entails for the participants. Force structure is also often shaped by forces of necessity when there is a lack of trained personnel, experience or appropriate e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19588196 | 1,582,334 |
249,126 | Most powder coatings have a particle size in the range of 2 to 50 μm, a softening temperature Tg around 80 °C, a melting temperature around 150 °C, and are cured at around 200 °C for a minimum of 10 minutes to 15 minutes (exact temperatures and times may depend on the thickness of the item being coated). For such powde... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2889448 | 248,998 |
803,932 | This phenomenon is based on the assumption that reducing or diverting the amount of attention paid to material being encoded and stored will reduce the quality and quantity of the later retrieval of that material in a form that is explicit and reportable. So, if a well learned skill is stored as a procedural memory, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21312313 | 803,503 |
2,245,368 | The Louis and Beatrice Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology (Laufer Center) is a multidisciplinary venue where research from such fields as biology, biochemistry, chemistry, computer science, engineering, genetics, mathematics, and physics can come together and target medical and biological problems usin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29499913 | 2,244,096 |
1,048,271 | In the same paper, he assumed like Ottaviano Fabrizio Mossotti and Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner that the attraction of opposite charged particles is stronger than the repulsion of equal charged particles. The resulting net force is exactly what is known as universal gravitation, in which the speed of gravity is that o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2299454 | 1,047,726 |
1,768,442 | The primary design factors of a high efficiency glandless circulating pump include an electronically commutated synchronous motor, a permanent magnet rotor, and canned rotor technology. An electronically commutated synchronous motor is used to convert the energy current from a DC energy source into an AC current which ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37215299 | 1,767,448 |
946,725 | After Charles Pascal's report in 2009, the Canadian province of Ontario's Ministry of Education decided to implement a full day kindergarten program that focuses on inquiry and play-based learning, called The Early Learning Kindergarten Program. As of September 2014, all primary schools in Ontario started the program. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10129706 | 946,222 |
721,116 | The mixed gas closed circuit rebreather can provide an optimised gas mixture for any given depth and duration, and does this with great precision and efficiency of gas usage until it fails, and there are several ways it can fail. Many of the failure modes are not easily identified by the diver without the use of sensor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39194607 | 720,736 |
1,163,646 | The disease, which affects about 1/30,000 infants of both genders, may become clinically evident at any time from infancy through early adulthood. The age of onset of Wilson's disease ranges from 3 to 50 years of age. Initial symptoms include hepatic, neurologic, or psychiatric disorders and, rarely, kidney, skeletal, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29275214 | 1,163,029 |
1,356,918 | Apart from the improvement of the TFTs themselves, the successful application of LTPS to graphic display also depends on innovative circuits. One recent technique involves a pixel circuit in which the outgoing current from the transistor is independent of the threshold voltage, thus producing uniform brightness. LTPS-T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45704063 | 1,356,168 |
675,409 | The Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering is a newly established department, that was instituted in 2015 with the efforts of Dr. Sujoy Kumar Samanta, faculty of IIT Patna. It is located in the Block-6 of the campus. The department accepted the first batch of undergraduate students in 2016 and presently has... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19478554 | 675,056 |
1,237,193 | "Lilium martagon", like many in the genus, is highly toxic to cats and ingestion often leads to fatal kidney failure; households and gardens which are visited by cats are strongly advised against keeping this plant or placing dried flowers where a cat may brush against them and become dusted with pollen which they then... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3086180 | 1,236,529 |
1,878,491 | The school insists on opening schools and extensively carries out international educational exchanges and cooperation. At present, it has established cooperative relations with 94 colleges and institutions in 42 countries and regions including the United States, France, the United Kingdom, and Russia. In October 2017, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31465347 | 1,877,411 |
765,306 | International humanitarian law is inspired by considerations of humanity and the mitigation of human suffering. It comprises a set of rules, which is established by treaty or custom and that seeks to protect persons and property/objects that are or may be affected by armed conflict, and it limits the rights of parties ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1093604 | 764,896 |
808,315 | Hopi time is non-dimensional and cannot be counted or measured in typical SAE language measurement, i.e. the Hopi will not say "I stayed six days," but "I left on the sixth day." In the Hopi perception of time, it is crucial to determine whether an event can be warranted to have occurred, to be occurring, or to be expe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=915027 | 807,885 |
573,483 | On 2 July 2002 the Austrian government announced its decision to buy the Typhoon as its new air defence aircraft, it having beaten the General Dynamics F-16 and the Saab JAS 39 Gripen in competition. The purchase of 18 Typhoons was agreed on 1 July 2003, and included training, logistics, maintenance and a simulator. On... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59468861 | 573,189 |
1,715,197 | Late in 1973 a pair of researchers in Australia, Rolf Zinkernagel and Peter Doherty made a revelatory discovery that altered the thinking of immunologists forever. The pair was doing research on viral infections in mice and noticed that T-cells that prevented viral infections in some mice wouldn't always prevent the sa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18877437 | 1,714,230 |
100,138 | However, Rhinovirus can pose a life threatening risk to those that have immunocompromising conditions, such as those with asthma who appear to be at greater risk of severe infections from Rhinovirus, as it poses to exacerbate symptoms of asthma. Treatments for those with asthma have been progressed as IFN-, a cytokine ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=104066 | 100,093 |
91,236 | Survey work has many benefits if performed as a preliminary exercise to, or even in place of, excavation. It requires relatively little time and expense, because it does not require processing large volumes of soil to search out artifacts. (Nevertheless, surveying a large region or site can be expensive, so archaeologi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18951655 | 91,196 |
693,760 | In pure central sleep apnea, the brain's respiratory control centers, located in the region of the human brain known as the pre-Botzinger complex, are imbalanced during sleep and fail to give the signal to inhale, causing the individual to miss one or more cycles of breathing. The neurological feedback mechanism that m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27118911 | 693,397 |
2,198,831 | The Wikipedia page Metabolic pathway defines a pathway as "a metabolic pathway is a linked series of chemical reactions occurring within a cell". This means that any sequence of reactions can be labeled a metabolic pathway. However, as metabolism was being uncovered, groups of reactions were assigned specific labels, s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71428073 | 2,197,579 |
259,952 | Materials from the II–VI compounds, such as HgCdTe, are used for high-performing infrared light-sensing cameras. In 2017 the US Army Research Labs in collaboration with Stony Brook University developed an alternative within the . InAsSb, a III–V compound, is commonly used commercially for opto-electronics in items such... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=313114 | 259,818 |
2,190,970 | Nathan Solomon founded PGL in late 2011. Philadelphia Game Lab compared itself to diverse initiatives, including Boston's MassDiGi, Toronto's Hand Eye Society, New York University's Game Center, and creative facilitators/organizations such as The Wild Rumpus, Babycastles, and Juegosrancheros. Solomon said of the Philad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36747915 | 2,189,721 |
731,978 | FreeFAB Wax, invented by James B Gardiner and Steven Janssen at Laing O'Rourke, has been in development since March 2013. The technique uses construction scale 3D-printing to produce high volumes of engineered wax (up to 400L/hr) to fabricate a 'fast and dirty' 3D-printed mould for precast concrete, glass fibre-reinfor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38673321 | 731,591 |
1,917,085 | NIOSH has undertaken a risk assessment based on available studies to determine appropriate recommendations of exposure levels. Their review found that while human health effects had not been directly observed, there were animal studies that showed potential for health effects that could reasonably be expected in humans... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51069172 | 1,915,986 |
605,627 | In 1991 SmithKline Beecham launched Seroxat/Paxil (paroxetine hydrochloride). In June 1993 Imperial Chemical Industries demerged its pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals businesses, forming Zeneca Group plc. In 1995 Glaxo opened a major research and development facility in Stevenage, constructed at a cost of £700 million.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29375681 | 605,317 |
1,123,115 | In the late 1960s through the 1980s, typesetting moved from metal to photo composition. During this time, type design made a similar transition from physical matrixes to hand drawn letters on vellum or mylar and then the precise cutting of "rubyliths". Rubylith was a common material in the printing trade, in which a re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64087 | 1,122,541 |
886,810 | Urban facilitation can occur in many different ways, but most of the mechanisms include bringing previously separated species into contact, either directly or indirectly. Altering a habitat through urbanization will cause habitat fragmentation, but could also potentially disrupt barriers and create a pathway, or corrid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=327061 | 886,346 |
2,014,865 | Amyloid beta (Aβ) is composed of a family of peptides produced by proteolytic cleavage of the type I transmembrane spanning glycoprotein amyloid-beta precursor protein (APP). Amyloid plaque Aβ protein species ends in residue 40 or 42, but it is suspected that Aβ42 form is crucial in the pathogenesis of AD. Although Aβ4... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29850197 | 2,013,706 |
585,878 | Midline shift measurements and imaging has multiple applications. The severity of brain damage is determined by the magnitude of the change in symmetry. Another use is secondary screening to determine deviations in brain trauma at different times after a traumatic injury as well as initial shifts immediately after. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20130418 | 585,578 |
269,856 | Until recently, real-time monitoring of BOD was unattainable owing to its complex nature. Recent research by a leading UK university has discovered the link between multiple water quality parameters including electrical conductivity, turbidity, TLF and CDOM. These parameters are all capable of being monitored in real-t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=420598 | 269,709 |
1,474,021 | For Thailand – renamed from Siam in 1939 – the Second World War involved both the bilateral struggle between the Axis and Allied forces in the region and the regional struggle across Southeast Asia between historic rivals. Like other regional actors, Thailand – under military rule following the coup of 1932 and led by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2938344 | 1,473,190 |
1,447,412 | Field effects can arise from the electric dipole field of a bond containing an electronegative atom or electron-withdrawing substituent, as well as from an atom or substituent bearing a formal charge. The directionality of a dipole, and concentration of charge, can both define the shape of a molecule's electric field w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56824574 | 1,446,596 |
577,442 | Non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) directly ligates DNA from either side of a double-strand break where there is very little or no sequence overlap for annealing. This repair mechanism induces errors in the genome via indels (insertion or deletion), or chromosomal rearrangement; any such errors may render the gene produ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31001884 | 577,146 |
2,105,375 | The founding of the Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica in 1939, under the decisive influence of Francesco Severi, had important consequences on the "Rendiconti del Seminario Matematico". On 23 November 1939, during its first meeting, the Scientific Council of the then newborn institute, considering the need of a mea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51097313 | 2,104,162 |
685,941 | After collecting the relevant data, market segmentation is the key to market-based pricing and revenue maximization. Airlines, for example, employed this tactic in differentiating between price-sensitive leisure customers and price-insensitive business customers. Leisure customers tend to book earlier and are flexible ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8976534 | 685,584 |
1,831,998 | After this war Clowes returned to London, and on 18 July 1588 was admitted an assistant on the court of the Barber-Surgeons' Company, and immediately after served in the fleet which defeated the Spanish Armada. He kept his military surgical chest by him, with the bear and ragged staff of his old commander on the lid, b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24845411 | 1,830,951 |
1,510,460 | The University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Medicine, established 1971, is one of three medical schools located near downtown Kansas City. The school offers an accelerated combined Bachelor/MD program based on a six-year curriculum. The school of medicine admits students into the program directly from high school ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3336394 | 1,509,610 |
180,107 | A 2009 review article identified over 50 genetic polymorphisms that have been reported to be associated with cognitive ability in various studies, but noted that the discovery of small effect sizes and lack of replication have characterized this research so far. Another study attempted to replicate 12 reported associat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4868935 | 180,013 |
1,081,510 | NeuN was first described in 1992 by Mullen et al., who raised a series of monoclonal antibodies to mouse antigens with the original intent of finding mouse species specific immunological markers for use in transplantation experiments. In the event they isolated a hybridoma line which produced a monoclonal antibody call... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32096214 | 1,080,954 |
1,572,488 | Built in 1965, Mesa Court was the first housing complex established at UCI. Middle Earth started out with seven halls: Hobbiton, Isengard, Lorien, Mirkwood, Misty Mountain, Rivendell, and The Shire. Phase II later opened in 1989-1990 with additional thirteen halls: Balin, Harrowdale, Whispering Wood, Woodhall, Calmindo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6874779 | 1,571,600 |
998,549 | Any two human genomes differ in millions of different ways. There are small variations in the individual nucleotides of the genomes (SNPs) as well as many larger variations, such as deletions, insertions and copy number variations. Any of these may cause alterations in an individual's traits, or phenotype, which can be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11808249 | 998,031 |
216,616 | Concerning the relationship of immune function and development of inflammation, mucosal surface barriers are subject to environmental risks and must rapidly repair to maintain homeostasis. Compromised host or microbiota resiliency also reduce resistance to malignancy, possibly inducing inflammation and cancer. Once bar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=205464 | 216,508 |
1,303,220 | Distributed-element filters are composed of lengths of transmission line that are at least a significant fraction of a wavelength long. The earliest non-electrical filters were all of this type. William Herschel (1738–1822), for instance, constructed an apparatus with two tubes of different lengths which attenuated som... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23431648 | 1,302,504 |
318,215 | Vesta is thought to be the second-largest asteroid, both by mass and by volume, after the dwarf planet Ceres, though in volume it overlaps with the uncertainty in the measurements of 2 Pallas. Measurements give it a nominal volume only slightly larger than that of Pallas (about 5% greater, which is the magnitude of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47200 | 318,044 |
887,969 | Also known as arresting cables or wires, cross-deck pendants are flexible steel cables which are spanned across the landing area to be engaged by the arresting hook of an incoming aircraft. On aircraft carriers there are either three or four cables, numbered 1–4 from aft to forward. Pendants are made of wire rope with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2771881 | 887,501 |
575,413 | The fuselage of the P.24 possessed an oval all-metal structure, the forward section of which comprising built-up girder sections and the rear using a combination of transverse duralumin bulkheads and smooth stressed skin construction. The tail unit, which shared similar construction to the wings, was fitted with a cant... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1139061 | 575,119 |
679,301 | Aware of the lack of a navy in the Confederacy, Maury advocated for one. Partly for this reason, partly because of his international reputation, and partly due to jealousy of superior officers who wanted him placed at some distance, in September 1862 he was ordered on special service to England. There he sought to purc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=362089 | 678,947 |
1,218,753 | The International HapMap Project is a collaboration among researchers at academic centers, non-profit biomedical research groups and private companies in Canada, China (including Hong Kong), Japan, Nigeria, the United Kingdom, and the United States. It officially started with a meeting on October 27 to 29, 2002, and wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=813041 | 1,218,099 |
2,764 | As a military and public policy advisor, Oppenheimer was a technocratic leader in a shift in the interactions between science and the military and the emergence of "Big Science". During World War II, scientists became involved in military research to an unprecedented degree. Because of the threat fascism posed to Weste... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39034 | 2,764 |
1,199,931 | In November 2009, Agre made the first of six trips to Cuba when he led a group of scientists from AAAS to Havana. Two years later, Agre led an extensive series of visits to the Cuban Academy of Sciences and leading Cuban scientific institutions including the institutes for biotechnology, pharmaceutical and vaccine deve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1044010 | 1,199,290 |
927,922 | The M278 is derived from the company's previous M273 V8 engine, sharing its bore pitch, aluminium engine block, and Silitec aluminium/silicon low-friction cylinder liners. In contrast to the port-injected M273, the M278 features gasoline direct injection, with piezo-electrically actuated fuel injectors for more precise... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28670064 | 927,434 |
1,702,017 | Monitoring the activity's progress ensures that updated information is used to perform the analysis. During the course of the project, the probability and time of the events can be recalculated based on actual data. The main reason for performance tracking is forecasting an activity's duration and cost if an activity i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10061279 | 1,701,062 |
252,815 | In any operational sense, the "Komet" was a failure. Although it shot down sixteen aircraft, mainly four-engined bombers, it did not warrant the effort put into the project. Due to fuel shortages late in the war, few went into combat, and it took an experienced pilot with excellent shooting skills to achieve kills. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20486 | 252,682 |
1,318,994 | Venereal campylobacteriosis is more commonly found in herds where natural mating is allowed. Infected bulls are typically removed from the herd or culled as treatment can be difficult and may result in persistent carriers. Antibiotic treatment of infected bulls and cows with Cfv is considered impractical. Artificial in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4302332 | 1,318,268 |
567,091 | During his work at Wright-Patterson, Ohain continued his own personal work on various topics. In the early 1960s he did a fair amount of work on the design of gas core reactor rockets which would retain the nuclear fuel while allowing the working mass to be used as exhaust. The engineering needed for this role was also... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=259389 | 566,801 |
1,666,375 | CSC-recommended curricula benefits from special status at number of religious schools. Biola University and Oklahoma Baptist University are listed on the Access Research Network website as "ID Colleges." In addition, the Intelligent Design and Evolution Awareness Center (IDEA), which began as a student organization at ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1138207 | 1,665,436 |
1,927,293 | NASA did not get a chance to deliberate long on the study results, due to the pressure placed on America's space program by the Soviet's launching of the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin, on April 12, 1961. On May 25, one week after presentation of the study results, President John F. Kennedy proposed the Moon landing ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36082139 | 1,926,189 |
223,945 | This basic batch culture growth model draws out and emphasizes aspects of bacterial growth which may differ from the growth of macrofauna. It emphasizes clonality, asexual binary division, the short development time relative to replication itself, the seemingly low death rate, the need to move from a dormant state to a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40138 | 223,831 |
2,702 | During the 1920s, Oppenheimer remained uninformed on worldly matters. He claimed that he did not read newspapers or listen to the radio and had only learned of the Wall Street crash of 1929 while he was on a walk with Ernest Lawrence some six months after the crash occurred. He once remarked that he never cast a vote u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39034 | 2,702 |
926,533 | Project Rover became a joint NASA–AEC project. Silverstein, whom Glennan had brought to Washington, DC, to organise NASA's spaceflight program, appointed Harold Finger to oversee the nuclear rocket development as head of NASA's Office of Space Reactors. Senator Anderson had doubts about Finger's suitability for the job... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=712716 | 926,047 |
335,309 | Performing on bass can be physically demanding, because the strings are under relatively high tension. Also, the space between notes on the fingerboard is large, due to scale length and string spacing, so players must hold their fingers apart for the notes in the lower positions and shift positions frequently to play b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8816 | 335,131 |
1,082,974 | Speleothems, deposits formed in caves through the dissolution and redeposition of dolomite and limestone, can store isotope signatures associated with tropical cyclones, especially in fast growing speleothems, areas with thin soils and speleothems which have undergone little alteration. Such deposits have a high tempor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60705059 | 1,082,417 |
1,363,820 | Zinc oxide nanoparticles are nanoparticles of zinc oxide (ZnO) that have diameters less than 100 nanometers. They have a large surface area relative to their size and high catalytic activity. The exact physical and chemical properties of zinc oxide nanoparticles depend on the different ways they are synthesized. Some p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60229082 | 1,363,064 |
743,261 | Such theories are also connected with the idea that the Mycenaean language constituted a type of a special koine representing the official language of the palace records and the ruling aristocracy. When the 'Mycenaean linguistic koine' fell into disuse after the fall of the palaces because the script was no longer used... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=704006 | 742,867 |
1,179,198 | A light-collection system often accompanies the basic LArTPC as a means of extracting more information from an event by scintillation light. It can also play an important role in triggering, because it collects scintillation light only nanoseconds after the particle passes through the detector. This is comparatively (o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1381856 | 1,178,574 |
317,503 | Albert was deeply interested in astronomy, as has been articulated by scholars such as Paola Zambelli and Scott Hendrix. Throughout the Middle Ages –and well into the early modern period– astrology was widely accepted by scientists and intellectuals who held the view that life on earth is effectively a microcosm within... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1573 | 317,333 |
15,959 | In 2005, while being interviewed for a Science Channel documentary titled "First on the Moon: The Untold Story", Aldrin told an interviewer they had seen an unidentified flying object (UFO). The documentary makers omitted the crew's conclusion that they probably saw one of the four detached spacecraft adapter panels fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65777 | 15,954 |
2,096,507 | In January, 1668, Chamillart, now acting as chief of the academy, obtained the personal recognition of the academy by Louis XIV as a royal institution, as well as the agreement of the Académie des Sciences in Paris for cooperation, and the promise of royal funding. The combination of royal recognition and funding, as w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31093370 | 2,095,299 |
444,859 | The side-chain of the nucleophilic residue performs covalent catalysis on the substrate. The lone pair of electrons present on the oxygen or sulfur attacks the electropositive carbonyl carbon. The 20 naturally occurring biological amino acids do not contain any sufficiently nucleophilic functional groups for many diffi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2533237 | 444,644 |
908,933 | Animal and lab studies suggest that Relenza (zanamivir), which is in the same class of drugs as Tamiflu, may also be effective against H5N1. In a study performed on mice in 2000, "zanamivir was shown to be efficacious in treating avian influenza viruses H9N2, H6N1, and H5N1 transmissible to mammals". In addition, mice ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1019908 | 908,454 |
534,265 | Taking full advantage of her national team status, Jacoby competed in the 2021 FINA Swimming World Cup stop in Berlin, Germany on October 1, swimming personal best times in multiple short course meters events including a 2:24.99 in the 200-meter breaststroke. Jacoby had a breakthrough in the short course 100-meter brea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67608890 | 533,986 |
110,536 | In May 1983, British airline Dan-Air became the first carrier to launch services using British Aerospace's new 146; the first revenue-earning service was flown between London Gatwick Airport and Bern Airport. On 1 July 1984, the first of 20 BAe 146s ordered by Pacific Southwest Airlines was officially delivered. Air Wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=363213 | 110,491 |
1,080,056 | "Reason magazine's" science correspondent Ronald Bailey describes the "destructive character" of the Stern Review's policy proposals, saying that "Surely it is reasonable to argue that if one wants to help future generations deal with climate change, the best policies would be those that encouraged economic growth. Thi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7694290 | 1,079,501 |
1,483,107 | Botulinum toxin injection is commonly used for small and moderate degrees of infantile "esotropia", acquired adult strabismus, and where it is a consequence of retinal detachment surgery, that is, in cases where there is good potential for binocular vision, so that the corrected alignment can be stabilized by motor fus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48107460 | 1,482,271 |
1,692,131 | On January 6, 2001, Cox declared ELKS "basically dead". Nonetheless, release 0.0.84 came along on June 17, 2001, Charilaos (Harry) Kalogirou added TCP/IP networking support seven days later, and in the same year ELKS reached 0.0.90 on November 17. On April 20, 2002, Kalogirou added memory management with disk swapping ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7962372 | 1,691,180 |
628,297 | In most inhabited areas, common timbers can be made into high-quality self bows. The pieces must be long enough (approximately the height of the archer), and the grain must be sufficiently straight. Denser timbers normally store energy better and can be made into narrower bows with less effort – high-quality yew allows... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10069202 | 627,962 |
1,743,265 | SIP provides the basis for the "WeldPrint" system, which consists of a front-end interface and software based on the SIP engine and relies on electrical signals alone. It is designed to be non-intrusive and sufficiently robust to withstand harsh industrial welding environments. The first major purchaser of the technolo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13182827 | 1,742,281 |
497,869 | "Corythoraptor" was described by Chinese paleontologist Lü Junchang and colleagues in 2017. The holotype, JPM-2015-001, is a nearly complete skeleton of an individual at least seven or eight years old, lacking distal caudal vertebrae but including the skull and lower jaw (JPM-2015-001). It is one of better preserved ov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54675994 | 497,612 |
663,166 | The vast majority of bacteria in lakes and ponds obtain their energy by decomposing vegetation and animal matter. In the pelagic zone, dead fish and the occasional allochthonous input of litterfall are examples of coarse particulate organic matter (CPOM>1 mm). Bacteria degrade these into fine particulate organic matter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4479734 | 662,821 |
329,277 | Several different families of liquid crystals are used in liquid crystal displays. The molecules used have to be anisotropic, and to exhibit mutual attraction. Polarizable rod-shaped molecules (biphenyls, terphenyls, etc.) are common. A common form is a pair of aromatic benzene rings, with a nonpolar moiety (pentyl, he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17932 | 329,102 |
1,904,284 | B.E. Saunders of the Medical University of South Carolina has described the institute as "one of the most highly respected research organizations in the world dedicated to research on violence and traumatic stress. Since its inception, it has conducted a series of highly sophisticated studies focusing on a wide array o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20124803 | 1,903,190 |
1,713,026 | The Medical University of Varna carries the name of Prof. Dr. Paraskev Stoyanov famous for his pioneer and enlightening role not only in Bulgarian medicine and science. He established the first Bulgarian school of surgery, started the training in anatomy in Bulgaria, gave the first lecture in medicine in Bulgaria (1918... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10873202 | 1,712,061 |
1,167,758 | Since 1993, sodium ethyl xanthate is classified as a Priority Existing Chemical in Australia, meaning that its manufacture, handling, storage, use or disposal may result in adverse health or environment effects. This decision was justified by the widespread use of the chemical in industry and its decomposition to the t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30977268 | 1,167,140 |
400,035 | Although initially developed by the military, FMEA methodology is now extensively used in a variety of industries including semiconductor processing, food service, plastics, software, and healthcare. Toyota has taken this one step further with its design review based on failure mode (DRBFM) approach. The method is now ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=981631 | 399,836 |
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