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551,176 | As early as 1895, Professor William H. (later Sir William) Bragg was working on wireless telegraphy, though public lectures and demonstrations focussed on his X-ray research which would later lead to his Nobel Prize. In a hurried visit by Rutherford, he was reported as working on a Hertzian oscillator. There were many ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=396459 | 550,888 |
1,578,757 | The observatory was established due to the efforts of William Petrie, an amateur astronomer who had a small private observatory at Egmore in Madras. Petrie's original observatory was established in 1786 and was made of iron and timber. In 1789, Petrie gifted his instruments to the Madras Government before retiring to E... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6433541 | 1,577,867 |
471,115 | The glucose-alanine cycle may also be of significant clinical relevance in oncological (cancer) pathogenesis. A recent study explored the role of the glucose-alanine cycle in the metabolic reprogramming of Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC). HCC is the most common form of liver cancer and the third most common cause of can... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3945314 | 470,879 |
1,338,629 | Technological analysis is concerned with the examination of the production of knapped-stone artifacts. The study of the attributes of waste products (debitage) and tools are the most important methods for the study of knapped-stone technology, backed up with experimental production. One such method of experimentation i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=147620 | 1,337,896 |
383,019 | Borderline elevated metanephrines present a diagnostic challenge to the physician - the first step is to repeat the labs, taking extra precautions to follow the gold standard diagnosis described above, including the conditions of collection, pharmaceutical interference, and any potential diet and lifestyle habits that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=277088 | 382,824 |
1,285,694 | Malawi's soil is depleted, like that of other local countries. Many of its farmers could not afford fertilizer at the then-current market prices. Bingu wa Mutharika declared he did not get elected to rule a nation of beggars. After initially failing to persuade the World Bank and other donors to help subsidize green re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14543243 | 1,284,993 |
1,908,563 | The 1965 Long Beach Sculpture Symposium was not only the United States’ first international sculpture symposium but the first to occur at a university. It was also the first to partner with industrial partners to create technologically advanced works. Such industrial partners include Bethlehem Steel, Fellows and Stewar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=439256 | 1,907,466 |
624,952 | In 1800, Alessandro Volta invented the electric battery (known of the voltaic pile) and thus improved the way electric currents could also be studied. A year later, Thomas Young demonstrated the wave nature of light—which received strong experimental support from the work of Augustin-Jean Fresnel—and the principle of i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56661172 | 624,619 |
382,474 | Electronic limitations to invasive BCIs have been an active area of research in recent decades. While intracellular recordings of neurons reveal action potential voltages on the scale of hundreds of millivolts, chronic invasive BCIs rely on recording extracellular voltages which typically are three orders of magnitude ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=623686 | 382,279 |
643,991 | The close relationship between bibliometrics and commercial vendors of citation data and indicators has become more strained since the 1990s. Leading scientific publishers have diversified their activities beyond publishing and moved "from a content-provision to a data analytics business." By 2019, Elsevier has either ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1223245 | 643,651 |
1,243,094 | The microbial safety and stability of food are based on an application of preservative factors called hurdles. The delicate texture and flavor of seafood are very sensitive to the decontamination technologies such as cooking, and more recent mild technologies such as pulsed light, high pressure, ozone, and ultrasound. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31196402 | 1,242,421 |
1,894,288 | The use of weather charts in a modern sense began in the middle portion of the 19th century. Weather map pioneers include William Charles Redfield, William Reid, Elias Loomis, and Sir Francis Galton, who created the first weather maps in order to devise a theory on storm systems. The invention of the telegraph in 1837 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11165739 | 1,893,204 |
1,651,114 | Shifting cultivation is a mode of production involving the low intensity production of plant-based foods; this mode is also known as horticulture or ‘slash and burn agriculture’ in some texts. Horticultural societies are generally situated in semi-sedentary villages of a few hundred that clear a field and burn the clea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17200325 | 1,650,182 |
1,368,580 | Some updates included features promised as part of the long-term release plan. as the competitive mode that was added in June 2016, and potential changes to how the Play of the Game is selected to showcase non-attacking-based Heroes. Other updates will come from monitoring the game and adjusting various attributes of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55762533 | 1,367,824 |
789,563 | In Rome in 1864, Pope Pius IX in his "Syllabus of Errors" decreed that it was an "error" that "reason is the ultimate standard by which man can and ought to arrive at knowledge" and an "error" that "divine revelation is imperfect" in the Bible – and anyone maintaining those errors was to be "anathematized" – and in 188... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=256310 | 789,138 |
447,128 | Carbon nanotubes are also a promising material as building blocks in hierarchical composite materials given their exceptional mechanical properties (~1 TPa in modulus, and ~100 GPa in strength). Initial attempts to incorporate CNTs into hierarchical structures (such as yarns, fibres or films) has led to mechanical prop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7452926 | 446,911 |
1,583,408 | Publius declared that he had successfully finished the purpose with his work. To the best of his knowledge, he had explained and defended the proposed government from every inquiry and objection set forth against it and succinctly dissected the reasons and purposes for its ratification. The argument then turned to the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2654114 | 1,582,518 |
1,183,859 | The "Hot and Energetic Universe" science theme revolves around two fundamental questions in astrophysics: How does ordinary matter assemble into the large-scale structures that we see today? And how do black holes grow and shape the Universe? Both questions can only be answered using a sensitive X-ray space observatory... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23423743 | 1,183,232 |
1,145,498 | The nervous system and immune system require the appropriate degrees of cellular differentiation, organizational integrity, and neural network connectivity. These operational features of the brain and nervous system may make signaling difficult to duplicate in severely diseased scenarios. There are currently three clas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4052447 | 1,144,897 |
1,875,268 | Clore's recent work has focused on developing new NMR methods (such as paramagnetic relaxation enhancement, dark state exchange saturation transfer spectroscopy and lifetime line broadening) to detect, characterize and visualize the structure and dynamics of sparsely-populated states of macromolecules, which are import... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45449941 | 1,874,191 |
643,979 | The emerging computing technologies were immediately considered as a potential solution to make a larger amount of scientific output readable and searchable. During the 1950s and 1960s, an uncoordinated wave of experiments in indexing technologies resulted in the rapid development of key concepts of computing research ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1223245 | 643,639 |
2,106,282 | Irving Kaplan (1913–1997) was a chemist and a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor, who was among the founders of the Department of Nuclear Engineering at the institution. Kaplan received a BA from Columbia University in 1933, an MA in 1934 and a PhD in chemistry in 1937. Before coming to MIT, he was a resea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8530659 | 2,105,069 |
1,395,266 | Staats began studies to analyze cases of important human behaviors in basic and applied ways in 1954. In 1958 he analyzed dyslexia and introduced his token reinforcer system (later called the token economy) along with his teaching method and materials for treating the disorder. When his daughter Jenny was born in 1960 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24006408 | 1,394,495 |
230,870 | In 1920 she attended the sixth congress of the International Psychoanalytical Association in The Hague, where she gave a talk on the origins of language in childhood. The audience included Sigmund Freud, his daughter Anna Freud, Melanie Klein and Sandor Ferenczi. She also announced her intention to join the staff of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2425513 | 230,752 |
592,168 | Researchers argue that analyses "[...] of the environmental impacts of miscanthus cultivation on a range of factors, including greenhouse gas mitigation, show that the benefits outweigh the costs in most cases." Others argue that although there is room for more research, "[...] clear indications of environmental sustai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8202316 | 591,866 |
2,181,309 | In early 1949, Salmon went from the Dominion Museum to Victoria University College; he would lecture in zoology for nearly three decades. During that time, he became a world authority on collembola. He was president of the Entomological Society of New Zealand from 1955 to 1957. In 1966, he became the head of the zoolog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70816676 | 2,180,063 |
138,115 | One of the primary postwar users of the Avenger was the Royal Canadian Navy, which obtained 125 former US Navy TBM-3E Avengers from 1950 to 1952 to replace their venerable Fairey Fireflies. By the time the Avengers were delivered, the RCN was shifting its primary focus to anti-submarine warfare (ASW), and the aircraft ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=507536 | 138,059 |
122,559 | Around £10 million of Brimstones from the RAF stock were sold to the Royal Saudi Air Force for use on its Tornados. In April 2011, the RAF's Assistant Chief of the Air Staff Air Vice-Marshal Baz North reported that the missiles were "being sought by both the United States of America and the French" in the light of Brim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780295 | 122,510 |
43,210 | Y2K was also exploited by some fundamentalist and charismatic Christian leaders throughout the Western world, particularly in North America and Australia. Their promotion of the perceived risks of Y2K was combined with end times thinking and apocalyptic prophecies in an attempt to influence followers. The "New York Tim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25739013 | 43,194 |
355,899 | Although prostheses in general supplement lost or damaged body parts with the integration of a mechanical artifice, bionic implants in medicine allow model organs or body parts to mimic the original function more closely. Michael Chorost wrote a memoir of his experience with cochlear implants, or bionic ears, titled "R... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20756967 | 355,716 |
458,968 | The PowerPC 601 was the first generation of microprocessors to support the basic 32-bit PowerPC instruction set. The design effort started in earnest in mid-1991 and the first prototype chips were available in October 1992. The first 601 processors were introduced in an IBM RS/6000 workstation in October 1993 (alongsid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8632684 | 458,744 |
533,733 | Many people do not have a Heating, Ventilation, and Air Condition (HVAC) system in their homes because it is too expensive. However according to this article "Save Money Through Energy Efficiency", HVAC is not as expensive as one may think it is. This article "Save Money Through Energy Efficiency" tells us that the mai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=396508 | 533,454 |
148,560 | The inhibition of protein synthesis is mediated through aminoglycosides' energy-dependent, sometimes irreversible binding, to the cytosolic, membrane-associated bacterial ribosome (image at right). (Aminoglycosides first cross bacterial cell walls—lipopolysaccharide in gram-negative bacteria—and cell membranes, where t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=617210 | 148,499 |
1,651,965 | Tropical peatlands extensively occur in Southeast Asia, mainland East Asia, the Caribbean and Central America, South America and southern Africa. Often located in lowlands, tropical peatlands are uniquely identified by rapid rates of peat soil formation, under high precipitation and high temperature regimes. In contras... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54076293 | 1,651,033 |
305,909 | The distinctive four-flippered body-shape has caused considerable speculation about what kind of stroke plesiosaurs used. The only modern group with four flippers are the sea turtles, which only use the front pair for propulsion. Conybeare and Buckland had already compared the flippers with bird wings. However, such a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1398078 | 305,745 |
1,513,985 | In 1946, The Arctic Research Laboratory was established under the contract of the Office of Naval Research in Point Barrow, Alaska for the purpose of investigating the physical and biological phenomena unique to the Arctic. In 1948, Dr. Laurence Irving was appointed as the Scientific Director of the Arctic Research Lab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11180149 | 1,513,134 |
1,399,969 | Pleural plaques are the most common manifestation of asbestos exposure, affecting up to 58% of asbestos-exposed workers. The prevalence among the general population exposed environmentally ranges from 0.53 to 8%. Pleural plaques are discrete circumscribed areas of hyaline fibrosis (patches of thickening) of the parieta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37923694 | 1,399,184 |
1,516,803 | Blessed José Gregorio Hernández (Isnotu, 1858-Caracas, 1919). Graduated as a medical doctor at "Universidad Central de Venezuela", in Caracas. The Venezuelan government awarded him a grant to continue his studies in Europe. Hernández traveled to Paris, France, where he studied other fields of medicine such as: bacterio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29302481 | 1,515,951 |
346,466 | Glyphosate has four ionizable sites, with pKa values of 2.0, 2.6, 5.6 and 10.6. Therefore, it is a zwitterion in aqueous solutions and is expected to exist almost entirely in zwitterionic forms in the environment. Zwitterions generally adsorb more strongly to soils containing organic carbon and clay than their neutral ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=294295 | 346,285 |
1,857,485 | Ulm joined MIT in January 1999, where he specialized in experimental nano- and micromechanics of cement-based materials, shales and bones. With his research group, he developed statistical nanoindentation techniques for hydrated nanocomposites; an indentation technique that permits via statistical analysis to link chem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59593534 | 1,856,417 |
1,398,326 | In humans, spatial cognition is closely related to how people talk about their environment, find their way in new surroundings, and plan routes. Thus a wide range of studies is based on participants reports, performance measures and similar, for example in order to determine cognitive reference frames that allow subjec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33429851 | 1,397,553 |
97,915 | Two researchers, S. Christopher Bennett in 1996, and paleoartist David Peters in 2000, published analyses finding pterosaurs to be protorosaurs or closely related to them. However, Peters gathered novel anatomical data using an unverified technique called "Digital Graphic Segregation" (DGS), which involves digitally tr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24824 | 97,874 |
98,319 | The series’ creator Gene Roddenberry had first proposed a "Star Trek" feature at the 1968 World Science Fiction Convention. The movie was to have been set before the television series, showing how the crew of the "Enterprise" met. The popularity of the syndicated "Star Trek" caused Paramount and Roddenberry to begin de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=277006 | 98,278 |
706,890 | While the defects were not prohibitive and the Mark 33 remained in production until fairly late in World War II, the Bureau started the development of an improved director in 1936, only 2 years after the first installation of a Mark 33. The objective of weight reduction was not met, since the resulting director system ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21169396 | 706,521 |
929,504 | Since its construction, the telescope was upgraded several times, following the facility's oversight from the DoD to the National Science Foundation on October 1, 1969, and subsequent renaming of the AIO to the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center (NAIC) in September 1971. Initially, when the maximum expected opera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9013135 | 929,013 |
1,435,338 | In 1941-45 during the battles at the Eastern Front of World War II, all research work of the Institute was focused on the development of the arms industry, the assistance to arms production, including to evacuated industrial enterprises in Tomsk. All research work of universities was coordinated by the Scientists’ Comm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4563685 | 1,434,532 |
32,118 | His research into weather systems and meteorological prediction led him to propose manipulating the environment by spreading colorants on the polar ice caps to enhance absorption of solar radiation (by reducing the albedo), thereby inducing global warming. Von Neumann proposed a theory of global warming as a result of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15942 | 32,106 |
818,592 | Hypogammaglobulinemia can be caused by either a primary or secondary immunodeficiency. Primary immunodeficiencies are caused by a mutation or series of mutations to the genome. For example, a study from 2012 found that a compound heterozygous deleterious mutation in the CD21 gene is associated with hypogammaglobulinemi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2801308 | 818,153 |
1,591,629 | The scientific purpose of the Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) mission is focused on the study of polar mesospheric clouds (PMCs) that form about above the surface of Earth in summer and mostly in the polar regions of Earth. The overall goal is to resolve why PMCs form and why they vary. AIM expected lifetime wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5306982 | 1,590,733 |
469,440 | There are two main sources of new research projects, namely ideas originating from the researchers themselves ("supply push") and those coming from customers ("demand pull"). Ideas for new processes typically originate from researchers, ideas for new products from customers, respectively customer contacts. Particularly... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3694845 | 469,204 |
1,029,435 | Mapping of the outcrop, as well as core hole data and samples taken during the bench-making process, are taken into account to best project the panels that the highwall miner will cut. Obstacles that could be potentially damaged by subsidence and the natural contour of the highwall mine are taken into account, and a su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1702997 | 1,028,901 |
1,559,780 | Poliomyelitis is a crippling disease which attacks the body's motor neurons. In the early 20th century, epidemics of polio began to hit the United States and other industrialized countries. As hospitals filled with patients in iron lungs, and tens of thousands were left crippled, fear of contracting polio grew rampant ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13999007 | 1,558,894 |
295,391 | Though still largely based on pre-industrial era materials and designs, ships greatly improved during the early Industrial Revolution period (1760 to 1825), as "the risk of being wrecked for Atlantic shipping fell by one-third, and of foundering by two thirds, reflecting improvements in seaworthiness and navigation res... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=187377 | 295,231 |
1,513,990 | The Rapid cooling the earliest inhabitants felt signaled an early onset of the Little Ice Age of the 1300s. This caused the sea ice to expand making traveling through Greenland and Iceland impossible to manage. This trapped the people in their homes and settlements which made trading come to a stop (National Snow and I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11180149 | 1,513,139 |
484,066 | In fault detection and diagnosis, mathematical classification models which in fact belong to supervised learning methods, are trained on the training set of a labeled dataset to accurately identify the redundancies, faults and anomalous samples. During the past decades, there are different classification and preprocess... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21017316 | 483,817 |
1,645,309 | Chemaxon's desktop-based, cheminformatics product portfolio maturated in late 2000s. GlaxoSmithKline contracted with them in late 2009. The company started to experiment with agile software development approach in 2010, eventually adopting scrum methodology in the following year. Chemaxon encourages an agile office env... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10526566 | 1,644,381 |
87,323 | Smallpox was eradicated by a massive international search for outbreaks, backed up with a vaccination program, starting in 1967. It was organised and co-ordinated by a World Health Organization (WHO) unit, set up and headed by Donald Henderson. The last case in the Americas occurred in 1971 (Brazil), south-east Asia (I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61088 | 87,288 |
2,203,381 | Organic livestock are not immune to diseases, and are likely to share the same overall disease statues with regard to contagious diseases at the national herd level. At all stages of the life cycle, animals may be exposed to diseases and in the case of organic swine, without the availability of normal industry drugs an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41194738 | 2,202,127 |
989,035 | Buddhism rejects the concept of substance. Complex structures are comprehended as an aggregate of components without any essence. Just as the junction of parts is called cart, so the collections of elements are called things. All formations are unstable ("aniccā") and lacking any constant core or “self” ("anattā"). Phy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27568 | 988,519 |
1,515,623 | The USA based Chromebook programs may have shown changes in the economics of 1:1 programs. Although 1:1 programs require better WiFi than previous programs, they use ChromeOS which automatically updates and patches in the background (lowering the maintenance costs). The purchasing prices of Chromebooks were substantial... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6357454 | 1,514,771 |
116,215 | Radioactive materials contained in RTGs are dangerous and can even be used for malicious purposes. They are barely useful for a genuine nuclear weapon, but still can serve in a "dirty bomb". The Soviet Union constructed many uncrewed lighthouses and navigation beacons powered by RTGs using strontium-90 (Sr). They are v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=211485 | 116,170 |
420,667 | An alternative is to enclose the electrostatic elements and operate them as "monopoles." This avoids the many disadvantages of dipole operation, most importantly a great reduction in room reflections and thus also in adulteration of the recorded ambiance. Since there's no attempt at making the speaker visually "see-thr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=196048 | 420,462 |
321,393 | A portion of the "Bacillus thuringiensis" genome was incorporated into corn (and cotton) crops. The resulting GMOs are resistant to some insect pests. "Bacillus subtilis" (natto) is the key microbial participant in the ongoing production of the soya-based traditional natto fermentation, and some "Bacillus" species are ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4751 | 321,221 |
2,214,871 | The acquisition process of the first electron microscope of the Graz University of Technology was started by a donation from industry in 1949. The next year a research group, headed by , was established. Finally, the first electron microscope (“Übermikroskop UEM100” by Siemens & Halske) was bought in 1951 and the openi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67190786 | 2,213,611 |
1,907,764 | In 1991, George Kollias' group was first to provide "in vivo", proof of principle studies, on deregulated TNF production being causal to the development of chronic polyarthritis in a transgenic animal model, and for showing originally that anti-huTNF antibody treatment was efficacious in treating the modeled disease (p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13272704 | 1,906,668 |
332,123 | In mid-2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the US supplied AGM-88 HARM missiles to Ukraine. It was only disclosed after Russian forces showed footage of a tail fin from one of these missiles in early August 2022. U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Colin Kahl said in recent aid packages they had includ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3149 | 331,946 |
939,819 | Currently, speciation by vicariance is widely regarded as the most common form of speciation; and is the primary model of allopatric speciation. Vicariance is a process by which the geographical range of an individual taxon, or a whole biota, is split into discontinuous populations (disjunct distributions) by the forma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=334986 | 939,318 |
1,392,715 | For some emerging contaminants, several advanced technologies—sonolysis, photocatalysis, Fenton-based oxidation and ozonation—have treated pollutants in laboratory experiments. Another technology is "enhanced coagulation" in which the treatment entity would work to optimize filtration by removing precursors to contamin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53082558 | 1,391,944 |
1,320,040 | Patrick Manson was a son of Alexander Manson and Elizabeth Livingstone Blaikie, born at Oldmeldrum, eighteen miles north of Aberdeen. His father was manager of the local branch of the British Linen Bank and Laird of Fingask. His mother was distant relative of the famed Christian missionary-explorer David Livingstone. H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2995870 | 1,319,314 |
301,365 | Determining the thermodynamic state of the stagnation point is more difficult under an equilibrium gas model than a perfect gas model. Under a perfect gas model, the "ratio of specific heats" (also called "isentropic exponent", adiabatic index, "gamma", or "kappa") is assumed to be constant along with the gas constant.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45294 | 301,204 |
201,007 | Samuel Pufendorf (1632–1694) was a notable jurist and philosopher known for his natural law theories, influencing Adam Smith as well as Thomas Jefferson. Olof von Dalin (1708–1763) was an influential Swedish writer and historian of the late enlightenment era. Peter Wieselgren (1800–1877) was a Swedish priest, literatur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17843 | 200,904 |
27,818 | Tolosani may have criticized the Copernican theory as scientifically unproven and unfounded, but the theory also conflicted with the theology of the time, as can be seen in a sample of the works of John Calvin. In his "Commentary on Genesis" he said that "We indeed are not ignorant that the circuit of the heavens is fi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=323592 | 27,808 |
1,002,900 | Dawn redwoods thrive over a large, crescent-shaped region that encompasses the eastern and southern United States, as well as on the West Coast. Many institutions, such as the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, have fine specimens. The H. H. Hunnewell estate in Wellesley, Massachusetts, has two specimens (numbers ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=334782 | 1,002,382 |
1,905,395 | Pahlavan received his BS/MS degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tehran in 1975, and his PhD degree from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts in 1979. He began his academic career as an assistant Professor at the Northeastern University, Boston, MA in 1979, then he joined the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10617186 | 1,904,300 |
870,498 | Observations from testing the FPA10 confirmed that applications such as Resultz and PipeDream 4—both Colton Software products—and other spreadsheets, whilst ostensibly standing to benefit as number processing applications, exhibited "no noticeable speed improvements", this being attributed to these applications' avoida... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63145 | 870,038 |
1,426,419 | Budding's mower was designed primarily to cut the lawn on sports grounds and extensive gardens, as a superior alternative to the scythe, and was granted a British patent on 31 August 1830. It took ten more years and further innovations to create a machine that could be worked by animals, and sixty years before a steam-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43704 | 1,425,616 |
37,443 | The T44 was tested in a competitive service rifle competition conducted by the Infantry Board at Fort Benning, Georgia against the Springfield T47 (a modified T25) and the T48, a variant of Fabrique Nationale's FN FAL (from "Fusil Automatique Leger", French for "light automatic rifle"). The T47, which did not have a bo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=319543 | 37,430 |
754,580 | Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929), who came from rural midwestern America and worked at the University of Chicago is one of the best-known early critics of the "American Way". In "The Theory of the Leisure Class" (1899) he scorned materialistic culture and wealthy people who conspicuously consumed their riches as a way of d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7881361 | 754,177 |
1,243,089 | Bacteriophages (Greek for 'bacteria eater'), or simply phages, are viruses which infect bacteria. The majority of all bacteriophages known exhibit a double-stranded DNA genome inside the virion capsid and belong to the order of tailed phages, Caudovirales. The tailed phages can be further separated into three families:... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31196402 | 1,242,416 |
1,270,377 | STS-81 (January 12–22, 1997) was a 10-day mission, the fifth to dock with Russia's Mir space station, and the second to exchange U.S. astronauts. The mission also carried the Spacehab double module providing additional middeck locker space for secondary experiments. In five days of docked operations more than three ton... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=598981 | 1,269,686 |
303,798 | Understanding the importance of Germany's radar sites, the Allies directed attacks against these installations and introduced new technology to counteract the effects of radar-directed AAA, including CARPET (US) and WINDOW (UK). A change in tactics saw bomber formations flying higher and more spread out to avoid the ef... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=573491 | 303,636 |
1,598,765 | Amaza Lee Meredith's educational journey started with her attending the Lynchburg elementary public schools. After that she attended Jackson High School from which she graduated top of her class in 1912. Determined to gain her teaching credentials she attended Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute (Now Virginia Stat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48314474 | 1,597,865 |
1,075,260 | It is important to realize that EIT is only one of many diverse mechanisms which can produce slow light. The Kramers–Kronig relations dictate that a change in absorption (or gain) over a narrow spectral range must be accompanied by a change in refractive index over a similarly narrow region. This rapid and "positive" c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1244292 | 1,074,706 |
544,653 | Double cohort brought challenges to the teaching, study and residence spaces at the campus due to increase in first-year enrollment. In response, the Academic Research Centre (ARC) and Joan Foley Hall were constructed. The ARC was built in 2003 as an extension of the Bladen Building with a copper finish. It allowed for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=333619 | 544,371 |
487,358 | Gifford said that Widlar and Talbert were actually the founders of National Semiconductor, and that Sporck joined them later. The duo started by setting up the epitaxial process at Santa Clara. Once the technology was in place, Widlar concentrated on voltage regulators and by the end of 1966 produced the industry's fir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3483624 | 487,108 |
916,679 | However, the battle was one-sided almost from the beginning. The reasons for this are the subject of continuing study by military strategists and academics. There is general agreement that US technological superiority was a crucial factor but the speed and scale of the Iraqi collapse has also been attributed to poor st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=161323 | 916,196 |
1,184,567 | In October, the southern trade winds decreased the heat, and clear weather only favored astronomical observations. Besides Bellingshausen, Simonov, Lazarev, and Zavadovsky, no one on the board had skills for navigation and for working with the sextant. Thus, taking into consideration the abundance of instruments on boa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40880361 | 1,183,940 |
890,032 | Nietzsche was frequently associated with the Romantic movement. The assumption is correct inasmuch as many motives of Romantic anti-capitalism — e.g., the struggle against the capitalist division of labour and its consequences for bourgeois culture and morals — played a considerable part in his thinking. The setting up... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=176051 | 889,563 |
32,011 | During World War II, von Neumann worked on the Manhattan Project with theoretical physicist Edward Teller, mathematician Stanislaw Ulam and others, problem-solving key steps in the nuclear physics involved in thermonuclear reactions and the hydrogen bomb. He developed the mathematical models behind the explosive lenses... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15942 | 32,000 |
595,452 | Biomineralization evolved multiple times, independently, and most animal lineages first expressed biomineralized components in the Cambrian period. Many of the same processes are used in unrelated lineages, which suggests that biomineralization machinery was assembled from pre-existing "off-the-shelf" components alread... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1984187 | 595,147 |
1,569,569 | Diagnosis is based on observation of behavior and development. Many, especially girls and those who have fewer social difficulties, may have been misdiagnosed with other conditions. Males are diagnosed with ASD four to five times more often than females. The reasons for this remain predominantly unclear, but current hy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35773166 | 1,568,681 |
1,655,053 | Frankland's analyses were both chemical and bacteriological, and his dissatisfaction with the processes in vogue for the former at the time of his appointment caused him to spend two years in devising new and more accurate methods. In 1859 Frankland passed a night on the very top of Mont Blanc in company with John Tynd... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=940583 | 1,654,121 |
1,788,163 | The Fenians, a secret Irish Catholic militant organization, recruited heavily among Civil War veterans in preparation to invade Canada. The group's goal was to force Britain to grant Ireland its independence. The Fenians counted thousands of members, but they had a confused command structure, competing factions, unfami... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61305749 | 1,787,157 |
1,516,814 | Rene Sotelo (Caracas 1961) is one of the most experienced laparoscopic/robotic surgeons in the world. He received his medical degree from Central University of Venezuela and has been in practice for more than 20 years from prestigious hospitals of Venezuela and Mexico, he is a pioneer in robotic surgery for complex uri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29302481 | 1,515,962 |
133,314 | Over the first half of the 19th century, geologists such as Charles Lyell, Adam Sedgwick, and Roderick Murchison applied the new technique to rocks throughout Europe and eastern North America, setting the stage for more detailed, government-funded mapping projects in later decades. Midway through the 19th century, the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14400 | 133,261 |
1,945,427 | Albeit it being now used frequently by the scientific community, genomic phylostratigraphy has also received some criticism for being too inaccurate for its measurements to be trustworthy. First of all, according to some authors precision lacks in the assumptions. It is erroneous to assume for example that all species ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13106733 | 1,944,315 |
217,411 | Research began in 1922 in western Montana, in the Bitterroot Valley around Hamilton, Montana, after the Governor's daughter and his son-in-law died of the fever. However, prior to that, in 1917, Dr. Lumford Fricks introduced herds of sheep into the Bitterroot Valley. His hypothesis was that the sheep would eat the tall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=83461 | 217,303 |
1,010,617 | Jeffreys's DNA method was first put to use in 1985 when he was asked to help in a disputed immigration case to confirm the identity of a British boy whose family was originally from Ghana. The case was resolved when the DNA results proved that the boy was closely related to the other members of the family, and Jeffreys... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44292 | 1,010,096 |
1,042,484 | Dr Theodor Stiebel founded the "ELTRON Dr. Theodor Stiebel" company at Reichenberger Strasse 143 in Berlin's Kreuzberg district with a base capital of 20,000 Reichsmark on 5 May 1924. According to the Commercial Register, the company began operating on the very same day. Dr Stiebel was loaned the capital for this by hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7497784 | 1,041,941 |
860,500 | The technologies referred to as Solid Freeform Fabrication are what we recognize today as rapid prototyping, 3D printing or additive manufacturing: Swainson (1977), Schwerzel (1984) worked on polymerization of a photosensitive polymer at the intersection of two computer controlled laser beams. Ciraud (1972) considered ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10579736 | 860,042 |
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